The value in forum links comes from participating in the forum. As a backlink sigs are pretty low in quality. If you contribute to the forum and add something to the discussion you'll get direct traffic through them and probably find yourself with a few new friends who will help you promote your site.
Joining a forum just to get backlinks is rather useless. Chances are your posts will end up being deleted and even if they're not the value in the links isn't much.
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It's why we have a 50 post minimum for active links of any kind, sig or in post.. Saves the hassle of deleting and banning people
I know that my sig link has lead directly to sale at our jewelry store.. For that reason alone I tend to have some form of jewelry link most places I participate at..
Great list you got there, I have already signed up to some of those forums.. and I really enjoy participating in those specially webmaster-talk Thanks for the share and bookmarked it..
Which really does sum up your only reason for posting anywhere doesn't it!!!
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i hope this page will be useful to forum users for analysing the popularity of the top webmaster forums
More likely it will be used as fodder for the sig link dropping "optimisers"!
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Choose some forum that you can contribute consistently...
that's a good attitude. forum posting is a 2-way arrangement. members give time and share helpful knowledge and fun...etc and they can be rewarded with sig links which are very useful for yahoo seo, and quite useful in optimising for other engines; speaking from experience.
That's a useful list. But I would like to also see a list showing the forums / blogs without no follow tags in place. They do exist, but looking at source code before posting can get time consuming.