can anyone explain about back links from signature. 1. like we can only link to a single page(mostly home) from signature. 2. if we edit our signature, our signature on old posts also also gets updated. that time what search engines count? 3. and most importantly how long this back links works? i'm asking this because once i had almost 1000 backlinks for my web site from this forums signature. but i'm totally inactive for last 6-8 months, and now my web site has only the links that are on other web site's post.i.e 30-40 only.
Forum signature backlinks are very, very low grade links. Use them for promotion and concentrate on getting links from other methods.
Remember that most forum signature links will be appearing on pages which are not relevant to your site, so they aren't much use when it comes to SEO benefit. Useful for providing traffic though and getting new pages indexed more quickly.
Do-follow blog commenting on high PR blogs that relavant to your page's content. Do an article submitting with your link as a resource(never tried this personally, but one of my client have good result from this method).
It's easy to outsource forum posting for the cheap and if the forum sig links had any value, outsourcing wouldn't be so cheap. Sig links are garbage in terms of SEO and do-follow blog commenting is become more and more difficult, but it's still possible.
If your account was inactive for a month or two, then these signature links are of no use. And above all as commented earlier these links have a very low grade because that particular page where you have posted your comment with a signature link does not have any page rank. So if you are looking for genuine back links try contacting higher pagerank sites/blogs of your niche. Cheers !!!
Still, what matters is you give out relevant and valuable information in any do-follow online community that you participate in. That way, every effort can count on generating traffic once someone gets interested to check your performance or even your product out.
From my own experience,signature links do little good to backlinks.But it will surely bring you some traffic.
As far as I am concern, I believe in Forum Link Building because I have successfully completed some of my freelancing projects only through forum posting.
forum signature links are low rent , but they have their uses.. If you want to get your site , page or blog comment indexed just stick it in your DP sig link and as sure as eggs are eggs it will be crawled..
signature link will be helpful to your site once u have given proper answer of post, so people will click on your signature