Importance of Forum Signatures

[traveller65]

Ok, I'll offer a little explanation as to how it works.

First, the importance of the link depends on various factors. I will list these factors in order of importance:

1) The PageRank of the page on which the link is placed.
2) How many other links are on the page.
3) Where on the page the link is located (higher up = more value).
4) How related is the information on the page to the information on the page of the link.

Your average forum post has a very low pagerank therefore the link you add is worth very little based on that factor alone.

Multiple links from the same site definitely are not worth as much as multiple links from different sites (assuming all conditions are equal).

Having said all of this, there is an example where posting multiple times will yield tremedous benefit. This is when your forum profile has a link.

I have seen posters on some forums with thousands of posts and when you look at their profile page it has a high pagerank. Then there is just 1 link on their profile page - boom, huge benefit.

So you can actually get a good link from a forum even without signature links as long as the profiles are linked to and as long as you can have a link on your profile.

Another thing you have to be careful with these days is not to have all your links use the same tags. For example if all your links use "Best Seo Company" in the text of the link Google will pick up on this. Be sure to diversify.

Hope this helps clarify.

[jingwen]

I think if you writte a good article, the sign may usefull.or you should be a "sofa".

[Bill Engvall]

On of the way to increase Page Rank of your website is through building backlinks. There are several ways to build backlinks and adding signatures to your Forum posting is one of them. Forum signatures hyperlinked to your site serves as potential backlinks. SEs do give a lot of attention to forums and blogs which results in fast crawling of these kinds of websites and hence links on these site are indexed faster.

[Bill Engvall]

I think there is no harm in putting signatures, if its not done for spamming. I feel signatures makes your comments a legitimate one. As i feel they make you more responsible in replying to a thread, you just cant write something which is non relevant. Thanks

[Bill Engvall]

When you write a post to a message board, bulletin board or forum, most good systems allow you to have a signature on your every one of your posts. You can write a question, or answer a question on the forum and your signature appears just below what you added to the conversation.

There is one thing different about links in your forum signatures that sets them apart from links on other sites. It is not:

* Directly related to how the search engine sees the link
* The size of the link
* The text of the link

or any other linking technique. It comes down to the fact that forum signature links are editable.

[jacksan]

Offer many resources - If you list a lot of helpful URLs that you have nothing to gain from, you are showing the reader your care about sharing helpful resources. Accidentally slipping in a link to your own resource is also suggested.

Updating - Forums have a lot of repeat traffic and people get used to blocking out familiar forum signatures. Update your signature often and add a new creative label to let people know it changed.

Forums are among the salutary place to boost your sites. These forum signatures are automatically connected into the post created by the member. There are two prominent points why you should make the best of applying forum signatures. The fist point is the direct traffic you are able to acquire, and second, the search engine optimization advantage.

[alenbillo2346]

I don't think so that "20 will be considered as 1". I am sure its just rumor because each signature or back link should be considered & treated with separate identity.
So both ways are effective as to make many posts on single forum or make posts in different forums.

[calvinn]

NO i don't think forum signatures count too much in the eyes of search engines.

[musicworld1]

i think it is easy way to get high PR.

[josaphlewis]

The forum signature is a block of information repeatedly appended at the bottom of each forum post. Signature Post in forums and newsgroups with related topics and include your blog URL in your forum signature.

[nickelodon007]

Forum signatures are a very good way of promoting your business. And forums signature also acts as back links for your site, and back links are very important for every web site.

[seyma]

I think forum signature still have good SEO value. Other methods like article marketing and directory submission involves duplicate contents. That is the main reason for low seo effect. But forum posting has unique contents, so it gets better seo effect.

[EducationLeads]

This is an interesting thread I was curious as to the importance. However I always thought that every backlink counts. Especially if the content the link comes from is relevant to a website your trying to advertise..

[The Old Sarge]

A "no follow" link will do you no good with the search engines. It will not count because they will ignore it ... "no follow" it.

[shirelly]

so ,now im more and more confused about the importance of signature,different people has differnt ideas,who can give us a professional ideas!