Comments on: Are Forum Signature Links Good For SEO?

By: Jayadi Hendra

Jayadi Hendra — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:55:10 +0000

oh this is great info.. i will apply this trick for my website.

By: ThomasT

ThomasT — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:56:31 +0000

Thanks for the response Andy. The reason I asked was that I wanted to see if you had left the link in the profile and it then discounted them for some reason and moved you down in the rankings.

You saying that you removed them from your sig just adds to the proof that forum sig links DO work, because you put them in your sig, your site moved up; you took them out of your sig, your site moved down.

Thanks again!

By: ThomasT

ThomasT — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:44:02 +0000

Hi Andy.. I just checked google uk, and you where #10 for that term. Did you remove the link from your signature on the forum you where talking about, or is it still there?

*** Note from Andy ***

Hi Thomas. I removed it a long time ago. It was purely to show the power of signature links when you have enough posts in an active forum. It was to dispell the myth that many believe. Basically that one link from any one site is all you need. That’s not true. I’ve seen sites obtain no.1 ranking in Google for highly competitive terms due to having hundreds of unique articles in Ezinearticles etc. Every link counts to some degree, although there are rules to apply there also.

By: Kelvin Article Writer

Kelvin Article Writer — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:52:50 +0000

thanks again Andy for the great information.

As you know, I am rated in the middle of doing some promoting via back links. And this just helps solidify it in my mind, what I’m supposed to be doing. Your help is been greatly appreciated.

Kelvin

By: Commodity Broker

Commodity Broker — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:24:30 +0000

I do forum sigs but shortly after I start adding them, I go up in Bing and down in Google. Hopefully it is just temporary!

** Note from Andy **

With Google your rankings will often dance around alot and fluctuate, especially whilst you are active with link building. If you are a member of a popular forum and have several hundred posts on there that have dofollow links in your signature, you will notice a jump in your rankings if you add a medium to longtailed keyword in there. Even after removing a link I still found that my rankings stayed the same for a considerable time before it dipped again. In the meantime you can add another link. It all depends on your strategy. This method is particularly good with upcoming product launches etc when you are wanting to push a particular sales page or product within a specific time period.

By: Yachts Combson

Yachts Combson — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:51:32 +0000

Fantastic results indeed…I’ll be doing some more forums promotion in the next few months

By: Karmadir

Karmadir — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:33:00 +0000

The best thing about forum is that they not only help in increasing back links, but also bring traffic to your website.

By: vikash

vikash — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:53:12 +0000

Hey..that was a really useful article..Shall try implementing it and check out my SEO rankings..Thank you!

By: IT Comany Dubai

IT Comany Dubai — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:01:30 +0000

Hi Andy,

I am actually thinking of telling my colleagues to put signatures on forums that they usually visit since I am sure that this will help us increases our back links as rankings.

Thanks for the post.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:31:44 +0000

I have always noticed that sometimes experimenting on some of the search engine optimization techniques provides good results and clears many doubts one has in using these techniques to optimize websites for search engines. This experiment might have cleared the doubts if someone had those doubts with regards to the value of signature links for search engine optimization. Great work Andy, keep it up!!