Do most forums owners like people having their website on their Signutures? Or they don't like it? Somethings I go to different forums, and post a reply, usually good replys that answer that persons questions, and I notice most of the times, they remove my Signuture. Its not more than 1 line, just the name of the website.
Plugging a link to your homepage from your signature is a pretty common practice. Have you been using affiliate links? Sometimes that isn't allowed.
Yes, plugging your own site helps give exposure...especially in a forum with as much volume as this. And yes, chances are you had affiliate links in your sig.
A lot of other forums suffer from either stupidness or low/bad/insufficient brain capacity, as well as the poor capacity to offer something BACK to the community who writes content for them. I do not write in such forums simply because I find their lack of clear judgement stupid. If you will view the source of my post, you will figure it out for yourself, that we here at Digitalpoint don't like them either. (nofollow on the links pointing to some forums out there).
Seriously, all they can do is offer something back. Most of forums problem is people read, and they don't post, so when someone is actually taking their time to post, they should be allowed to have at least one url in their Signuture.
I agree with Expertu. When a site does not let you link back to your own site in a sig file, it is extremely short-sighted and is not the makings of a good community. Some sites have very stringent no-link policies (ie WMW), but most sites don't have those policies they are just not confident in their site and afraid all their members will flee to sites in signature links.
What you are failing to realize is the awesome advice you are receiving here. The key is to stick with a few forums that have something going on in them. Or just stay on DP and be informative. 6 times out of ten I bet that sig had some kind of affiliate link in it.
signature very important, might be its jus those odd forums, who dont allow, and they will suffer with lack of visitors if they dnt give proper attention to the users benifits. i own couple of forums , and i allow signatures, not a problem at all.
That's an even greater bullshit. How can you claim that you are a community when you do not trust URL's pointed by members ? If that's the case, Brett should turn WMW into a blog or an editor-only posting frenzy, and that's it. They brag that WMW is the most important forum out there. What they DO is steal information from people and proclaim as their own. They won't link to anyone, they won't give credit to anyone.
Yeah I agree that a forum should always allow sigs in the posts of members. Afterall it is the members that are keeping the forum alive. But I do see there needs to be some regulation, for example images in the sig may be going too far in some instances.
Yeah I hate those too. Usually anime and manga forums let their users post those huge images in their signaturea. It's freaking odd.
I'm not failing to realize the advice I'm receiving here, as I stated the sig was not a affiliate. I know affiliate links are not allowed in forums.
It's normally a give and take. It's the members who help make a forum great. Having a signature link is a nice sideeffect, no forum owner should have a problem with that. There is however a danger that some conversations will happen only for the sake of posting (and getting your signature seen). BTW, have you guys seen seochat lately? It's now a graveyard. I just went on there and the only other member was EGOL. The captain on the sinking ship. Sad indeed.
Some forums (eg talkfreelance) don't like it as they require their members to buy text links and banner spots to fund the forum. DP doesn't mind as they don't use those sorts of adverts and SitePoint doesn't mind as their advertisers are on large budgets.
If you are new to that forum then most probably they will remove your signature because of fear of spamming
yes we own a few forums as well and sigs are great. i think the ones that dont are just going to hurt themselves.