back-links in forums signatures?

I am very much a new comer to webpage development and search engine optimization and have a query about back-linking. If a person has for example 2000 posts and the add a link to their signature, does this classify as 2000 back-links? or is there something I'm missing here. thanks. also if i was to post my link here like so http://www.parttimejobshq.com is that deemed a backlink or is that what's classified as spamming, liable to get one kicked off a forum? many thanks

 

So far what I have analyzed is the Google considers every signature(on a page) a backlink..

 

No, it will not be counted as 2000 backlinks as you add a signature after doing 2000 posts, which means your all postings before 2000 posts wouldn't show any signature. It is only after you have posted 2000 posts; and then you continue posting will your signature appear and serve as a backlink.

 

as far as i know not all forum posts are count as backlinks.. besides google don't show all BLs..

 

All of them count but they lose thir value after a few

 

In theory all can be counted as backlinks - in practice, if you're got loads from the same place, google will start ignoring after a few hundred. Plus, from the sort of forum that has loads of sig links, they're not very high value - their main use is getting a page indexed quickly if it's a frequently crawled site.
Whether or not it's spamming depends on the rules of the forum - on dp, as you've just demonstrated, new members can't post live links. After you've been a member for a while you can add a signature link.

 

I doubt you'll get high PR back links from this, but yeah, I try to always keep my website in my sig for this reason

 

Nope, not all are converted into relevant backlinks. some are just ignored by spiders.
I know some of the forums needs to have at least 20 post to have a sig in which you could make a keyword linked to your site but not all of your sig links are counted as backlinks.

 

Agree with this.. Only few forum posts are considered as backlinks by Google..

 

you can ue this tools http://www.backlinkwatch.com to check back your backlink,GOOGLE yet listed all the links you can find the link with site:yourdomain.com

 

Anyways, I thinks forum signature BLs is not efficient.

 

ya can also use yahoo site explorer..thats also gud for checkin backlinks..

 

yes every signature is consider back link
you can see in webmaster tools back links

 

Another hint if you're going to place your links on forums. Select Do-follow forums sites, .gov and .edu forums.
Good Luck on your SEO venture.

 

From my experience Google does seem to recognise most, if not all signature links. You would need a hell of a lot to improve your PR though. But every little helps!

 

Yes Google consider all backlinks from the signature link of Forums.

 

consider but inefficient

 

i agree this point

 

Hi

Google would consider those links but it would not help much as all the backlinks would be from the same place and this would not be of much value

thanks,
Ankur

 

If you have 1000s from a highly valued forum, would that improve things from Google's perspective? Or are they still devalued at some point?

Does google differentiate sig links and post content links?