I used to be a member of a gaming forum that had a inbound link contest, basically the Admin had people get as many back links to his site, and whoever got the most won a Wii, obviously I wanted to win, so I signed up for 250+ Forums, and put the URL in my profile 1-2 times (home page and bio usually). I do not visit this forum anymore, but since I have the list compiled of all the sites I registered and added the link, I was considering switching all those over to my new site? Would this help me out in anyway, or would it just be a waste of time?
Forum SIGs bring direct traffic if you are actively taking part in discussions. But they will get you very little SERP benefit (or PR benefit) because each page on which your signature exists would basically have atleast 50-60 other links.. The juice passed to your site would be very low.. I don't think it's worth the effort.. I am open to hear other's opinion about this though
Then don't expect any traffic. As for the PR, these will not be of much help. If you're looking for links from member list even then it depends on your username. Again, PR and SERP wise it won't do much help but everything counts. If those pages are crawled, cached regularly then you may consider doing it. By they way, you won that contest??
that kid'll be a great spammer, won't he.. I've always believed in quality over quantity, and that applies to back links. For example, one backlink from a very important website like, say, Forbes.com, is worth more than 50 links from useless websites. So since you're not participating in these forums and I assume that most of them do not have high PR, it'll be a waste of time converting them. Besides, most forums employ nofollow tags on the links. Backlinks from these forums won't help your site.
if only he knew how to monetize this skill, give up wasting time on gaming forums and start promoting viagra...
Links from forum backlinks do no good to seo. I have this site which has links only from forums signatures. I never post at those forums anymore. All those backlinks did not even give my site a PR1 and it's PR 0 + I get no traffic from the clicks in the sig obviously because I am not active in all those forums.
It totally depends on the forums... If the sub-forms have high PR, then post pages might get high PR. If the topic of the forum posts matches the topics of the site you're linking, and there aren't too many outbound links on the page, a lot of that PR could get passed on to your site. I would go ahead and change it... 250 links? Even if they are just 2% links that is as good as 5 100% links. Depends how long it takes, what else you could be doing instead, and how the individual pages of the forums are optimized and carrying pagerank.
I see links to my old sites from forums I have not participated in in years so they do work. A link is a link and you really should take advantage of as many as you can, especially since the work is already done basically. In the grand scheme of things, if you are still adding links to your domain and you have a backbone of 250 links, then they will do some good. Scot
I have more than 800 back links from forum posting to one site but i am not expecting any profit to my Pr from it. Why? One need links from high PR sites/pages to his/her site to benefit from it. If you see the Pr of this page it will be ZERO so thus none is going to benefit from it except getting some traffic.
Quality is more important than quantity with backlinks. Those 600 links will probably all be spam on forums.
i found tool to check other site links 1. i checked competitors sites links with linkdiagnosis.com (works only after toolbar uploading) 2. Submitted in all PR6 or PR5 directories so i have useful & ranked back links only