Which of these back link methods do you think is more effective? I tend to think posting in forums for traffic reasons. Cause I find myself more than not looking at someones sig when they post and if it's interesting or if the poster seems to know what he is talking about I fidnd myself looking at their web page. In this case I am talking about which is more effective for traffic AND page rank.
well these days all the blogs are no follow ad would not be counted as a backlink by the search engines but forum signatures work very well
I think that do follow links on blogs and forums has the same effect. Of course it depend of PR of the page, relevant content and anchor text.
Yeah I would think they are pretty close in terms of effectiveness. In general I think you would have greater exposure with forum links.
Both are very helpful tool. However, blog commenting can speed up the backlinks earning faster than forum posting.
I think there is a more chance of getting traffic in to your blog by forum posting. It will help you in two ways. 1. direct traffic coming through your signature 2. Since most of the forum sigs are do-follow, it will help in indexing in search engines faster. Which will ultimately bring traffic in to your blog. If we consider the direct traffic coming through the links posting by us in forums or blogs, I think forums will bring more traffic. If you post something interesting or give a good answer for a question posted and if people who are using the forum find its interesting they will tend to visit your site. But I don't think that will happen in blog commenting since not many people are interested in reading comments in a blog post. But if the blog is do-follow then it will help your site in indexing in search engines.
I make use both and they both provide me with great traffic. I love how a lot of blogs now use comment love, and forums like DP make sure of displaying users latest blog posts.
By keywords. If much people like topic on forum or ariticle on blog. They will bring very much visitor.
I only post on two dofollow blogs but many dofollow forums. The thing many people are worrying about is that some dofollow blogs have outgoing backlinks to sites that are RED or bad neighborhoods. So really a lot of these places give no value to your link.
I feel forums are more effective for traffic. I don't have any Page Rank so I can't help you out there
I think post in the niche forum is great ,if you post a good content then not only the links comes but also the traffics.