Forum links generally pass very little value from the forum to your web site. They are quantity not quality. So i was thinking today why don't we try and harvest some quality links out of a forum. You may ask how do we do this? we start a thread for everyone one intersted we all make one post in the thread. WE add a perma link to that thread in our signatures passing value to the thread and creating a higher quality link to our web sites. What do you guys think of this idea?

Wouldn't work out to well, the reason they are devalued is inside of the algorithm itself. Search engines can detect forums and where signature links are placed.

yes but they do pass some page rank. It would create a new internal link structure passing page rank from the other pages in the forum to thread you are linking to. what if that page gets 20,000 thousand forum signature links to it? That would increase the value of that page exponentially. Then you might be getting a few quality links from the forum.

YEAH

this is called indirect income!

Originally Posted by walkingbird

yes but they do pass some page rank. It would create a new internal link structure passing page rank from the other pages in the forum to thread you are linking to. what if that page gets 20,000 thousand forum signature links to it? That would increase the value of that page exponentially. Then you might be getting a few quality links from the forum.

If 20,000 forum backlinks don't give large value to a regular website what makes you think they will to another forum thread? Not to mention the link dilution from all those posters inside the thread who contributed to this idea.

Wouldn't work out to well, the reason they are devalued is inside of the algorithm itself. Search engines can detect forums and where signature links are placed.

Thanks for Vbulletin for making it easier for Google

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Originally Posted by toronto-seo

Thanks for Vbulletin for making it easier for Google

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I'm sure they use a little more advanced techniques than that