I've hardly gotten traffic from signature links. I think people just ignore them automatically kind of like most people ignore google ads. But then again, I'm not on forums with signature links all day long... its better to bring attention to a site you want traffic to with the start of a thread; give the thread an interesting title with good content and make sure not to sound very promotional at all.
Im on a few different gaming forums, and there i have a footer link which is in the forum of a advertisement image (DP only allows for footer text links?). As the site relates specifically to those users i believe those links generate approx 50 visitors per month. (which is good considering the low post count and low visitors that those sites have) I have footer links on both DP and on WHT, and even though there are thousands of visitors, I think everyone just ignores them, and or, are themselves in a hurry to post, and move onto the next thread.
personally I have had many of my signature links appear in backlink reports. However, I don't think these are powerful links but diversity is always good. If I had to choose one way or another, it would be that they don't work for ranking (SEO)
Sounds great. so sig links at least can generate more hits that is helpful. I'm wondering how to submit a site to DMOZ. That really worths something.
yes but each forum usually requires a minimum postcount to do a signature link. This is why people from DP (and other forums) sell their forum signature space.
I posted on here yesterday asking about linking procedures and within 1 hour it was indexed in google i know this site is now no-follow and i know these can help but how do they do just that?
Depending on the forum and their decision on dofollow and nofollow links, website links in signatures can help boost traffic based on your current post/topic and can also boost your pr rating.
follow and nofollow have no effect on the traffic of a signature, as the people clicking them generally don't give a rats hind end as to what bots do... unless you count bots as traffic, in which case I suspect you also value alexa rank As for them effecting your PR, I am willing to wager some cash that google knows the difference between what is above and below this line _______________
well people will do ignore the signatures, but that does not mean it only happens on forums, it happens anywhere