Link Building with Forum Signature - Is it worth it ?
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After the death of direct link selling openly and now when most of the link brokers are doing business underground, people are coming with all kind of ways to get any kind of link and in the process, this desperation gave birth to “Back Links from signature in forums”.
Now the question is, is it even worth it ? I mean making posts after posts in forums in the hope that it may give you some link juice may not be the smartest things to do given that fact that its very difficult to justify it even works. I have seen results showing it works (provided the link remains in signature for 3-6 months as signature which makes sense because to this factor) and I have examples where it didn’t worked. One thing is for sure, google do not give enough (very little is a better word) value to these forum links since they are very easy to get which validates my point that The Value of the Link is directly proportional to how hard it is to get.
To summarize the whole post in points, Here is the relation between signature links and Forum Signatures -
1. Signature Links in forums, though get counted as backlinks may (certainly do) not carry weight as say incontent links. It is very easy for search engines to find footprints of forum softwares and to find signature links.
2. They are only worth your time if you have too much time in hand or unless you are getting something more from it, say traffic. If you have a real estate site, its not a bad idea to hang out in property related web forums of your country.
3. You have better changes of seeing Long term signature links are important
4. Be careful with Nofollow - Lot of forums keep signature links as nofollow so before start signing up madly in any web forum, just to drop a link, make sure its nofollow.
In any case, if you are involved in a forum community and they allow to have signature links, then why not have it ? just make sure your link building DO NOT revolve around these signature links.
If you have seen some kind of results with these signature backlinks or have something to share then please tell me in comments.
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SEO and Link Building Techniques said:
Well, based from my experience links in forums has high effect on rankings especially when the forums was frequently crawled by search engine. Before I stop forums posting for two weeks then after checking the rankings of my keyword it drops, and every time I do this, my rankings fluctuate.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 am