Something came up today that I would like to draw your attention to.

Linking to a youtube or other video site in your signature block (in your profile) is bad voodoo for the forum, but ok in a forum post.

Google and Bing (Bing being the worst search engine in the world) crawl through our forum and website looking for new information and lists it in their database. The more common things you post in threads, the more important Google recognizes us as a valuable information source and ranks mySandman higher in search results. (Are you still with me, or have you lost interest?)

For example go to www.google and type these following search words;

Holden Sandman
centre console sandman
hood lining panel van

As you can see we rank 1st (barring sales websites who pay to be on top).


Anyway - when someone creates a signature in the forum to another site, or more specifically youtube. Google is smart enough to know that this referral link occurs many times in this forum and starts to think we are creating spam or fake ranking points... in turn Google starts to penalize mySandman for search results moving us down the search results page (bad).


If I have kept your attention long enough through this nerd rant, I appreciate it... go forth and post.