In this paper we describe a combination of ideas to improve incremental signature-based Gröbner basis algorithms having a big impact on their performance. Besides explaining how to combine already known optimizations to achieve more efficient algorithms, we show how to improve them even more. Although our idea has a positive affect on all kinds of incremental signature-based algorithms, the way this impact is achieved can be quite different. Based on the two best-known algorithms in this area, F5 and G2V, we explain our idea, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view.