Forums are a popular way to get backlinks for a new website and introduce your site to a community related to the niche, but some promoters and SEOs get so caught up in the potential benefits that they end up annoying the forum community and creating a negative image for their brand. The first key to successful promoting a website through forums is to review the rules and regulations of the forum, particularly as it related to links and signatures. Some forums don't even allow signature links, so don't waste your time here if your only purpose is to establish a link profile. Even if they do allow signature links, there may be limitations on what types of sites can be linked to, or there may be minimum posting requirements before such links are accepted. Paying close attention to the forum rules and following those guidelines is the essential first step. Next, it is important to be familiar with the culture of the forum community in question. This can be achieved by spending even more time reading: not just the rules, but the actual threads where the membership interacts. Learn to spot common themes and inside jokes - and keep an eye out for the types of behavior and types of comments that create negative reactions from other posters. If certain topics (usually religion or politics) create a lot of frustration and arguments, try to avoid these topics with your own posts. Lastly, try to keep links in the signature field provided. The only exception is when the forum thread specifically deals with a topic you've posted on. In that case, it could be acceptable to leave a link to your specific article or page that deals with the exact question raised in the forum thread. Excessively dropping unrelated links in the content of your forum post is a sure-fire way to get banned from most online communities. Now, forum signature backlinks aren't exactly the most powerful for SEO purposes, but if you can establish yourself as a valued member of the forum community you're less likely to make enemies and more likely to build up a reputation as an expert in the niche. Be active, polite, and helpful, and you'll find that the benefits do exist. Discover more amazing tips, secrets and techniques at my website.
Nice Post! It's definitely important to spend time at the forum and read the rules. I just wish I had some more time . I read that post about wearing a different t-shirt everyday next year which I thought was pretty cool too!
what if you stumble on a list of hundreds of thousands of forgotten, old and unmanaged forums where you can freely and deliberately drop your links, use anchor txt and post your advertisements? What would it mean to your starting business or site if you can have the exposure it needs? I noticed myself only being hardworking on SEO in the beginning, all is done manual, I spend hours finding and building links. Now, i just outsource it and voila, SERPing in just weeks of little work. Some call it blackhat, I call it making money Its always nice to freely post your links and ads to places that can help you better your ranking. Some people tries it so hard to compete, but for me, I have discovered the secret. You choose, the easy way or the hard way which both leads to the same ending? Happy New Year
A lot of great points there. Nice post! Many times it's easy for people to skip the rules, but it's always very important to read them.
Nice to read also try to post on the latest thread and mange to stay ur post in the first pages to get indexed fast
This is a great article that is very useful to anyone thinking of building many link from forums. sometimes people are just careless that they never care if they had step on someone while answering some hreads.
Hello, Nice post.mostly forum not give signature link dofollow so how it possible to get back link from forum ?