SEO Tycoon

**pealo86** · 03-24-2009, 09:33 AM

I once read somewhere that forum signitures are a great way to get backlinks, is this true? I have nearly 500 posts so does that mean my websites have nearly 500 backlinks each??

Im thinking it surely cant work that way, otherwise what would be the point in submitting your url to business directories etc when you could just post on forums?

**zappanet** · 03-24-2009, 09:54 AM

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I once read somewhere that forum signitures are a great way to get backlinks, is this true? I have nearly 500 posts so does that mean my websites have nearly 500 backlinks each??

You possibly !!!!! have ONLY one link from WM-T for the SE.

**wayfarer07** · 10:41 AM

Forum links are usually very low-quality links, though it can be an alright way to promote certain anchor text to search-engines.

The reason I suspect that they are so low quality, is that forums are archived linearly. In other words, the links go back and back and back, making much of the content buried very deeply, so that it often does not get indexed, or is un-indexed once it gets buried. This means, to me, that the amount of links are only a fraction of the actual posts you make.

Also, these pages have a ton of other links on them, and a lot of content that is repeated over and over throughout the forum, which seems to me would lower the relevance. Still, if you don't over-do the amount of links that you stuff into your signature, you can promote what you have in places like this.

I get about 200-300 times more traffic from only a handful of well-placed links in other parts of the web than I do from forums. Out of 300 visits to my website yesterday, only 1 of them was from here. Only 55 of them were from search-engines.

Anyone still think rankings are king?

**Paul_Adman** · 03-26-2009, 03:15 AM

It is may be possible.I have no idea about that.

**IsThatJose** · 03-26-2009, 03:25 AM

I have a personal blog which contains about or more then 350 backlinks that came from only sig posts. I think adding your site to your sig is a good idea to gain a good amount of backlinks. At some point the SE will burry them but as long as you are active on the communities your links would usually stay the same or perhaps gain a few. Posting in directories is usually just for PR rates, well that's the only reason why I use it.

**youtubemarket** · 03-26-2009, 09:41 AM

For Anchor Text - yes. Remember 5 Quality backlinks is better than 1000 bad ones.

**Junebug2009** · 03-26-2009, 12:53 PM

heres a nice tool i found a while back u might have use for take a look really easy to use Search status | firefox seo toolbar extension hopefully helps

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**jabo** · 03-27-2009, 01:05 AM

I don't really see forums as a source of backlinks anymore, I see them as a good source of traffic and knowledge.. of course, one would need to be in a related forum to get traffic and since people do interact in forums, they can exchange ideas and give out questions and answers to each other about how they can get more for their websites.

**saineys** · 03-27-2009, 01:20 PM

Use AllTheWeb's backlink search as it does not limit results by PR.
Also you can search on Google for "YourWebSite.com"
as this will return far more results than a link: command search.

**tchoppy** · 03-27-2009, 03:56 PM

Hi, thanks for the tips. I wasn't aware that forum links get buried, so you have to keep updating them.

**wayfarer07** · 03-27-2009, 04:57 PM

Well, they're not all going to be buried. I think threads with a lot of content on them will stay alive, at least the top-level of the thread. You'll see, if you look at this forum, it is programmed to try to prevent the burying effect.

The numbers on the threaded navigation of the SEO forum currently read: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 51, last. The 11 and 51 seem designed to make it easier to access the mid-level of buried thread so that they may still be reached with minimal clicks, and also minimal action by the search-spider. This is, I suppose, the best that may be done with simple page-numbers in a way that still makes sense for users.

If WT employed tags on posts, it might be a good way to give further access to the posts with keyword phrases, but we don't do that for some reason.

**reganstar** · 03-27-2009, 11:22 PM

Hi there
Forum Signature links can do better for keywords ranking, but in top forums, where traffic are maximum, could create some traffic flow.

**hbl** · 03-28-2009, 09:08 AM

To get great back links you need great content. Great content will generate back links automatically. Get other great sites with content that is related to your content to link and you are in business and on your way up link chain.

**Monicakidman** · 03-28-2009, 10:01 AM

From you get backlink from same address and by submitting your site in directories you get backink from other IP addresses also. So it is also more useful to get backlinks from other IP addresses.

**shakir** · 03-29-2009, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by wayfarer07

Forum links are usually very low-quality links, though it can be an alright way to promote certain anchor text to search-engines.

The reason I suspect that they are so low quality, is that forums are archived linearly. In other words, the links go back and back and back, making much of the content buried very deeply, so that it often does not get indexed, or is un-indexed once it gets buried. This means, to me, that the amount of links are only a fraction of the actual posts you make.

Also, these pages have a ton of other links on them, and a lot of content that is repeated over and over throughout the forum, which seems to me would lower the relevance. Still, if you don't over-do the amount of links that you stuff into your signature, you can promote what you have in places like this.

I get about 200-300 times more traffic from only a handful of well-placed links in other parts of the web than I do from forums. Out of 300 visits to my website yesterday, only 1 of them was from here. Only 55 of them were from search-engines.

Anyone still think rankings are king?

OK once we succeded in SE.. get get traffic in kilo...suppose the site in top on webmaster forum keyword.. will be in some ................

**Trexle** · 03-29-2009, 01:41 PM

having couple of sig backlinks at diff forums is better than having lots of posts only at 1 site... so try expanding through ur niche

**willcode4beer** · 03-29-2009, 03:48 PM

Instead of following the forum/blog advice (sic). Stop for a moment and think, how would you get traffic if there were no search engines?

**Carl Broom** · 03-31-2009, 09:06 AM

it may be possible that you have 500 backlinks but it is depends upon search engines algorithms.all search engines following different algorithms.so i can't say surely.

**kristianw** · 04-01-2009, 04:01 AM

500 Posts will probably provide you with 10 or less actual backlinks.

**jj1** · 09:29 AM

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In other words, the links go back and back and back, making much of the content buried very deeply, so that it often does not get indexed, or is un-indexed once it gets buried

This can be true - a backlink I added to a thread in a different forum got dropped by Google. When I searched Google by copying and pasting chunks from different posts within the thread, only the first post was indexed - all the rest were a waste of time as far as backlinks go - although I think from memory I still do get backlinks from the forum signatures there.

Certainly, I would use different methods of link building and forum posts should - I believe - just be one aspect of a link building campaign.

I also noticed that a few months ago our site went down from pr2 to pr1. It may just be a coincidence that most of our links were - at that time - from forum signatures and that I had read that Google had devalued forum signatures.