It can vary. If you don't use forums often, you'll get dragged down and forgotton. I'm a member of a few forums and I have over 1000 posts on them. Best thing to do is become interesting, start discussions and be very opinionated. People will become more curious about you and want to check out your website! I'm sure everyone here has viewed someones website before out of sheer curiosity
I think this is quite debating topic. If you are generating link from forum then you should first make sure that you are not spamming on those forums. This is the simple way to get link from those forums. In return you have to post good content on that. If you check your backlinks after generating few link from forum signature you will find backlink checker tools shows you many link from that forums. Google and other search engine also follow such links. i think forum signature links still have that weight.
I disagree, I built sites from from forum signatures alone, but a LOT of posting, and a LOT of time it took.
Forum links still work for me, but not nearly what they use to be. They definelty lost a ton of power after the Panda updates
I agree with bottom after panda update it is become almost useless ... but link is a link and every link counts
I think you are already using some signatures in the forum, it means you are getting some benefits. Thery are useful but you need to utilize them on regular base and make sure that you are not doing anything which is really against of forum's guidelines.
As i think forum signature are important as we get link from it and we also change the link after 15 or more signature so it also provides different different links. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ [TABLE="width: 192"] [TR] [TD="width: 192"]used cars ireland[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]
If your contribution is useless as well your signature us meaningless since no one will click and visit on this.
Forum signatures are good for SEO when you get a direct link. There are few forums who give a redirect link, so that might not be very beneficial. But yes, if you are posting regularly, you can definitely benefit from traffic.
I think forum signature are important as we get link from it and discussion about relevant topic of signature link then we sure check the link and know about the link.
Forum signatures is not useless, its only useless if its not posted in your niche. Your niche can be about computers, and if you have 1000 profile links coming from computer sites, then google will see that and you will get boost in rankings.