The power of forum signature links

[kajal.pillai22]

The power of forum signature links
Forum Signature Links are one of the quickest and most effective ways of getting your site either listed or increased in link value by the major search engines Many forum webmasters are happy for you to use this service provided you create useful posts on their forums

The forums should be checked that they allow forum signature links and that those signature links are proven to show in Google and or Yahoo as backlinks (and we can then assume )other major search engines

Many forums allow other types of website promotion which could be worth the small amount of time and effort to get involved and check the potential. Also don't forget the value of a profile page, forums which allow signature spidering, often also allow profiles to be indexed by search engines, this is particularly true of VBulletin Forums

Webmasters can change rules very quickly, so you may find you will have to do a certain number of posts to get a signature ( most common)

There are also technical reasons why some forums will show more backlinks from a post signature
(bearing in mind as links can take a long time to show up as links in the Search Engines) than another post or forum. A good rule of thumb is to post regularly in popular threads on popular forum categories where possible

The benefits of a well ranked forum signature are particularly useful for new domains or websites as search robots index many of these forums on a daily basis and will pick links up to your site or domain very quickly , back links in Google ( for instance ) may take months to show , but the effect of them should be in evidence in a short time

Forum signature links will have a short useful life unless regular posting is maintained ( the value of receiving traffic just from forum users can also be valuable)The best strategy is to also register the site link with other useful sources ( particularly well search engine valued directories)

My own testing has found that MSN and Yahoo will index and add a Forum signature URL to their listings far quicker than Google , which seems to like to find several sources of linking before it will be added for good

There are hundreds of forums you could join and add you signature to and perhaps become part of, best to find a number that suit your needs and make useful posts on a regular basis

[Jim Gillum]

This is a copied article.......if you did not write it you should give the original author credit....

And ....do not post copied articles in this forum...

[Shweta]

Originally Posted by Jim Gillum

This is a copied article.......if you did not write it you should give the original author credit....

And ....do not post copied articles in this forum...

Hehe, well I wish people would understand
Its annoying to see the same stuff, when you google it

[littledan]

Another option. If this is information you have found and it was helpful to you, and want to pass it on to others, then instead of copying and pasting it here (or anywhere else for that matter), state why you think it is useful and leave a link to the original source.

[bravoman2]

I agree with Jim, I have seen that article too, and when you copy material from other sources to post into a forum, it would be appropriate to retract and give credit where credit due. Forums have the first benefit of learning from others or giving to others that want to learn and a secondary benefit is you may get signatures, again it is only a secondary benefit.

[happygarg]

Forum posting is a best way to build quality backlinks and increase the traffic of your website but it is more effective, if you post your links in Signature part of Forum website and follow all the rules of Forum website. After then Forum moderator approve your links. Google count Signature links as quality backlinks for increase the ranking, traffic and Page rank of your website.

[shantel]

I think forum signature links is one of the best way to do link building and for me I found it creative and can enhance our forum post to make it more attractive. It become part of forum sites in able for a member to to share more information to the researchers by giving a specific link.

[Janvi]

Forum Signature Links are one of the quickest and most effective ways of getting your site either listed or increased in link value by the major search engines.
But again, Signature links are self promotional links and are easy to get. They are not the sorts of links that are editorially given, so are likely to be valued very low, if at all, by search engines anyway. If you were a search engine, how much value would you give these easily gained self-promotional links?

[Jim Gillum]

Enough to place one of my sites at #3 in Google with exclusively forum links......
Hmmmmm?

[Shweta_Gurur]

Hello,
I’ve heard over recent years that forum signature links do not hold much value with regards to SEO and getting ranked in the search engines. But only if you can do it well and do it correctly.
It gives you a link popularity in front of the Google as well. So keep doing forum postings as much as you can to make your link popular but keep this thing in mind don't set up your mind make that forum posting is only for getting back links, its basically for healthy discussions otherwise you may start low quality posting that is to be avoided.