Link in Post’s Signature, Is this SEO - backlink?

Hi. Any of us have the option to add a text, link in our forum's signature.

My question is: Will this improve a website’s page rank. Does this count as a backlink ? Let say, I have made 300 posts and I have a link to my website in the signature. Will this be detected by Google and improve page rank?

read MY signature!

Hello,
Signature is very useful to geting back link. Forums user go to your signature and go to your site it will useful to increase traffic,visitor and PR also.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

read MY signature!

unfourntly your sig doesn't actually answer his question.. I see where your going, but it doesn't really help

Anyways, to answer your question, if your on a forum that doesn't have a nofollow attribute on the external sig links and they are seen by guest, they could help your ranking for your website.
I recently had a thread over at DP on if ppl thought sig links are worthless or not.

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...-backlink.html

and I'm closing this before it become ANOTHER thread full of sig link drop "me too" posts