Posting in Forums - Do Forum Signatures Count As Backlinks?

Its a very common question and if you are a regular forum member then you might have already found similar threads on different forums about the same. as per my own personal experience, signature links does count as back-links and the rule of the thumb which applies when we talk about forum posting for getting back-links is; the more posts we have on the forum, the more back-links we will get. 

I have seen many people arguing that forum posting for getting back-links is useless and you won't get any back-links because most of the forums uses no-follow attribute these days with every outbound link, to answer these people, i would simply say that a link is a link and who said it hurts to get a no-follow back-link?

Experts even says that its better to get a combination of both no-follow and do-follow links to make the link building campaign looks more natural to search engine crawlers. between, if you only need links from do-follow forums then i would like to mention here that you will find a lot of resources on the world wide web for the same. yes, i mean do-follow forums list.

If you are posting on a do-follow forum then you will be 100% sure that you are not wasting your time and efforts in the hope to get a back-link in return. but again, based on my own personal experience i would recommend using a combination of both do-follow and no-follow forums for maximum benefits.

How the whole thing works?

the whole process flow is described with the help of following steps:

1: We register an account on the forum and after activating the account we keep posting valuable replies in threads.
2: Once a week has been passed we move on to forum's user control panel and add our websites link in the signature area.
3: We repeat step 1 again.

When we share something useful or when we suggest something useful, forum members gets curious to know about us and the best way they find is to visit our website (which we have already added into signature area during Step number 2) to see what business we are into.

In this way, forum posting is not only good for getting back-links but also for getting targeted traffic.

Why i used the term targeted traffic?

I would like to site an example to make my point clear:
Suppose you are taking part in a webmaster forum and you are a web services provider, the link in your signature area points to your website which is a virtual medium you use to advertise your offerings, don't you think you will find perfect audience in a webmasters forum? Yes, you will and that's why i used the term targeted traffic.

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Link Building Methods

Link Building:

Link building is too vast subject to explain in just a few paragraphs but, in this post you will read enough about it to kick start your very own link building business 

What’s link building?

As the name implies, it’s a process of building back links (links from other sites pointing back to your site) link building can be done in many ways but, I am not going to discuss all of them in fact I am just going to discuss the most relevant link building methods here

Link building methods:

1: Forum Posting

Forums get loads of traffic daily, big forums such as digitalpoint and warriorforum almost have 100’s of visitors online, you can create a free account on any popular forum and start posting in threads, once you reach adequate number of posts then you can set your signature(you can have your website link in your signature)

2: Blog posting:

Blog posting is another good method to get back links, popular blogging platforms are blogger and wordpress, both are free and easy to use, you just need a valid email address to create an account and then you are ready to post, both blogger and wordpress are designed by professionals and so they are highly optimized for search engines (you don’t even need to look at the coding part to make it seo friendly)

3: Social media marketing:

With the event of time social media has turned into a major source of viral traffic, facebook and twitter have got billions of users from all over the world, its relatively easy to create an account on these sites as well, all it needs is a valid email address, once you have an account you just need to add more and more friends to your network and finally you can create a facebook fan page and suggest it your friends to start getting free hits to your website

4: Article submission:

Articles are no doubt another good source for targeted traffic which ultimately converts into sales which is the dream of every internet money maker, famous article submission sites are ezinearticles, articlebase, squidoo etc… you can find tons of article directories all you need to do is search for it on Google and start submitting (make sure your article is unique and its copyscape passed for best results)

5:  Link directories:

Similar to article submission is link submission, there are many link directories which allows you to add your link in there link database, again I am only going to talk about the best in class here which is dmoz its kind of hard to get your link request accepted at dmoz but no doubt its one of the best source of targeted traffic so, you need to find your way by reading there submission guidelines carefully and believe me it pays off to get listed at dmoz

6: Blog commenting:

We have already talked about blog posting in point number 2 of this article, blog commenting is somewhat similar, you just need to find the blogs related to your niche and then you are ready to comment, just make sure that you are not spamming but giving something useful and talk to the point or else your comment will not be approved and all your effort will be waste.