Quote from: SirJohnVonSlotty on January 03, 2025, 07:59:42 AM

Tracking is a Headache: Forum users are smart and often bypass tracking links. Performance might appear low at first, but I’ll explain tracking strategies later.
SEO Value: BitcoinTalk has significant SEO power. Work ethically with your SEO team to leverage this for your brand.
VPN Traffic: Over 75% of the forum’s traffic comes from VPN users. Be ready to handle this, or don’t bother.
Scammers vs. Defenders: Expect scammy messages when people know you’re an operator, but build trust and the community will defend you against false claims.
Don’t Be a Dick: Respect the community. If you accept VPN traffic, honor winnings. Pulling a bait-and-switch will get you publicly shamed.

These are exceptionally good values that are often left without attention. I and many other customers don't click on affiliate URLs, I manually type the URL of the website because I don't want to get affiliated with someone, I prefer more privacy.

SEO value is also huge. During Covid, I tried and put my own website in my signature instead of participating a signature campaign and I discovered how greatly can Bitcointalk affect website's SEO. My website was a brand new website without backlinks, I put it in my signature and Alexa Rank became significantly better within days, I also noticed more traffic from Google. The most benefit effect I got was from a few ANN threads where I had made a post on the first page. One thread even had a Page Rank 6.

Quote from: Zwei on Today at 08:33:46 AM

Quote from: SirJohnVonSlotty on Today at 06:44:57 AM

Though, the beauty of signature campaigns is that a lot of the ad blockers don't notice them, so when you're working with an educated crowd like us, you can still penetrate through us even if we have ad blockers installed.

from what i have noticed, only crappy ad block extensions don't block signatures.
a good one like ublock origin (i believe is the most popular one used by forum member) does block signatures.

How is that possible? Do they have bots that manually check Bitcointalk signature campaigns and block the signature code? Or do they block any 3rd party URL that's on the website? Does anyone know how it works?