Suggestion: Disable sigs on here for guests.
 

I've already tagged a few spammers in the last week, and right now this is the only forum that has sigs on for guests that my URL is actually linked in. Since the bots seem to be going nuts lately, and targeting vB, it might be a good idea to disable them for guests on here.

My site is brand new - I'm pretty sure that the ones that hit my site (didn't get past moderation, but that's not the point) got the URL from my signature here.

.2c

I've found the bots generally go crazy on my forums after a day of good directory submissions :D

And i vote no disabling, all my wonderful links!!!!

If you don't want the links in your profile to be spidered, don't put a link in it.

You're completely ignoring the point of my post. You should do something about your site, since your site, Marco, is becoming a haven for spammers to farm links for their bots. I speak from the standpoint of an admin who's run sites with 50,000 more active members than the one you have, so I'd appreciate it if you'd be a tad less dismissive. I'm not talking about links being spidered, I'm talking about scripts that are tailored to crawl this website to farm links for vB-targeted spam bots. They are two very different things.

Take your URL off your signature here. I don't want mine to go away.

PS, I'm from Missouri, Show me these 50K+ forums you run please.

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If you want to check my credentials noppid, by all means search on posts by me, or hunt around to see sites I've sold. I'm making a friendly suggestion. If you need the SEO from guest views on your signature here, you have a long way to go SEO wise anyway. If you've been here since 2003 you've probably seen sites I've run in the past. My quip to Marco was to him only.

Once again, I was suggesting that they are turned off for guests, to help with the spam problem people are constantly posting about recently because the only place my URL has been nested has been here and I'm seeing bots. That's it. The sky is not falling.

It's amazing how different this place is from when I first signed up here years ago (this is a different username, since I sold the other site I was associated with and couldn't transfer the account). :rolleyes:

PS: I'm not from Missouri, but your sites need a lot of work.

So thats not it in this signature: http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/sit...ownership.html

Up until two days ago, when I actually decided to go public with my new site, my sig on there was a listing of features that that forum. I'm not trying to grandstand so please save yourself the sleuthy inquisition, champ.

Not really. They work fine. I choose to have them, I don't need them to be anything. Hey, they even make a few pennies. ;)

But if you have a particular mess you can point out, feel free. I'd love to hear your opinion articulated rather than insinuated.

thanks

If you want some SEO tips, I'd be glad to help you dude. I'm not trying to be a jerk in this post, it's just that when a suggestion is met with smugness and jabs, I'm inclined to present some "credentials" that's all. ;) Ask Nexialys, I'm a lovable guy. Even Boofo loves me.