Yes, they does work. I have seen many guys whos rankings are only due to forums. I have also read from a website that a guy did a test on DP forum. He was having a amazon.com web page as test subject. That page was in 13 before having it in his signature, and after having it in his signature, he achieved page 1. This is the proof.
Absolutely. As long as the forum is do follow in my experience forum participation does not only increase backlinks, but builds a brand image while learning and teaching to a community with similar interests.
Yep, no doubt about it, they help alot. I don't really care about PR, but I get loads of hits from DP forums via my sig link.
Do you mean signature links or links from the footer or somewhere on a forum? I've had marginal luck from signature links, especially coming from an irrelevant forum or a forum that doesn't have to do with my site. However, I've had some footer links in forums that worked out great.
I'm finding most success with blog commenting at the moment but I need to expand my forum posting side of things
Any page that links to your website works. Forums are not any different than any other page on the internet.
Glad to hear this info. I prefer to write in forums than submit to directories or search for link exchange
Yes it does, also it will generate some traffic. The people who look in your signature link will maybe click on your link It's nice if everyone do that
Do follow forum does not work for the google but it will be work for the yahoo and msn . Try to find do follow forums and it really works great .
great useful information. I wonder how really it makes difference. but when so many people are putting forth their own experience, it must be really working . I will also pay attention to this aspect so that my proposed site may come up in ranking. Thanks for sharing such a valuable information to all respondents to this thread.