Does a link in signature considered as a back link?

Think it counts but dont think it will improve your ranking dramatically.

Does however bring in some traffic and could get you some links from webmasters with similar websites.

 

no dude its a minimum of 10 posts i guess anyways check out the faq's

 

is there a downside to using a signature in a forum? Just wondering

 

No. You get traffic and you get backlinks. Its all good.

 

No , you will not see the signature for all those people if there is a down side .And actually this is one good source for people to visit your web site before you have good ranking on the kw you want .

 

I don't know how forum sig links effect pr, but lots of my forum posts show up in google when searched under site: seethisitem.com. Usually only one item per forum I post in. you will see dp on the first page of my results here

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:+seethisitem.com

Forums also show up when I do a backlink check on

http://www.555webtemplates.com/backlinks-tool.asp

I do know for sure that I get lots of click throughs from my forum sigs.

 

Janet you are using the wrong query.

To find all the pages indexed from your site use
site:seethisitem.com
(notice there is no space after site

To find all the links to your site
link:http://www.seethisitem.com
(again no space)

Also I notice your non www page has one link so you need to 301 redirect from this page to the www version.

 

Thanks, I will look into this.

 

Search for my signature "SEO Tools, SEO Software and a few free php scripts"
google won't show any results!

 

I see signature links from this forum when I look at one of my sites using the link: command in google. Thats proof enough for me.

 

They may not hold huge weight but they are a link. Another way for a SE to find you. Can't be bad if the site is legit.