Yes, Forum Signature is really helpful seo technique Forum posting Include signature in do follow website in do follow website is best seo technique to get backlinks and imporve ranking on target keywords.
Forum links are useful for increasing your website backlinks. It is more useful for visibility of your website
It does. Go to your webmaster account. You will find the links there. If it did not matter, Google would not bother to list them.
Besides the referral traffic it is a backlink which will help your SEO efforts. Not the best quality link but one none the less.
It's amusing that people just carry on answering after the definitive answer was presented a while back
Nope, a search engine will never see your signature (or your profile). Try viewing either when you aren't logged in.
yes, but you need to do on some high weight ones. I have tested for it, it really have benefit on SEO.
Forum signatures are very good for seo optimization. The main thing with any kind of backlink is staying away from creating link farms and link wheels. Treat the sites on which you are posting information through is good content that is useful to that site. Remember, webmasters can boot you for a number of reasons. ie Bad and useless content, profanity, and the like. Forum, article, and directory sites are nice enough to let you advertise your site, so you will want to show the same respect by contributing useful information to that particular site. Also a few hyertext links and manually created backlinks are also good as some forums do not have a signature option.
More than Seo, Forums serve two purposes It bring traffic to your site. Good place to advertise your product or service. Sometimes you will get clients too.