After a long break from backlinking and optimizing my website, it was sitting pretty on the second and third page of google Nigeria search for the keyword "web hosting". All of a sudden, i noticed that my website was hovering between the 4th, 5th and 6th page and i just overlooked it thinking maybe it's because i've not backlinked for quite some time. But recently i logged into my Google webmaster account to check the websites that are feeding me with cool backlinks only for Nairaland to be missing. I was flabagasted because Nairaland has always occupied the first position as my number one source of backlinks. I was even more dumbfounded because my nairaland signature link has been sitting pretty. Just today, i just logged out from my Nairaland accoun only to discover that signatures don't show when you're not logged in. Which means that google does not see your nairaland. I think this is unfair to webmaster that have given their all to this forum only to be repaid by Seun with wickedness and great contempt.

I want to use this opportunity to appeal to Seun to give us our link juice that he has stolen from us. At least give it to people that have a specific number os posts or have been on nairaland for a long time.

As far as I can remember, signatures dont show on nairaland even before the new design.

Then, when you say Seun's wickedness; how then do you expect him to address this? You think he did such to specifically reduce your backlinks??

Try a better appeal!

Wait o, signatures don't show when you are not logged in? WTF? Anyways I used nairaland and naijapals to gain traffic for my blog in the past and it really helped me then, but right now it has completely killed my pageranks, imagine a blog page rank from 2 to 0? Since then I just stopped posting on forums, and I am only here because its a very interesting community and sometimes its. Worth the time.

Good advice I always read is don't work for search engine rather work for users as there are so many external factors associate with search engines.

That's one of the reasons i dont over stress myself building backlinks. Just move on bro...

The days of backlinks are numbered, with the new Google panda and penguin SEO update, Google doesn't rank a site based on backlinks only now, quality contents are the key. I have some affiliate blogs ranking 1 on Google without a single backlink