Show Signatures to Guests On/Off good for Google etc or no?

[surfsup]

My concern is, if I have it OFF - will Google and other search engines still be able to track our backlinks or No?

 

[DBA]

If you have it off for visitors nothing will be shown, links and/or text.

 

[MagnusB]

Google won't track the backlinks any way, cause xF adds nofollow on all links, except those posted by staff.

 

[3rd AnGle]

Google won't track the backlinks any way, cause xF adds nofollow on all links, except those posted by staff.

does this mean those links posted in comments will not be tracked...? or is it just for the signatures?

 

[MagnusB]

All links that are not posted by staff will get a nofollow tag on them. Yorick has a resource out that removes this for certain user groups: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/user-group-based-dofollow-urls.803/

Check out the nofollow tag: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

Basically it tells search engines that the link should not be recognized as a backlink to the target.