Does posting your site on a relevant forum count as a backlink?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Gentile2, Mar 19, 2008.

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    If someone posts a link to your website and an article from your site on a competitors forum does that count as a backlink to your site just as if your url was posted on any other page of that site?
     
    Gentile2, Mar 19, 2008 IP
  2. Tom Thumb

    Tom Thumb Notable Member

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    #2
    It should do if its not a nofollow.
     
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  3. Gentile2

    Gentile2 Peon

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    #3
    what's a no follow?
     
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    tacosalad Peon

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    "nofollow" is an attribute of the anchor element that tells search engine spiders not to follow the link.

    Sites that use "nofollow" in their links are not of any value for backlinking. However, they do have value for providing traffic.
     
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  5. seo4china

    seo4china Well-Known Member

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    Yes it definitely counts. Even with the nofollow it counts for Yahoo and MSN.
     
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  6. Gentile2

    Gentile2 Peon

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    Is there anyway to tell which forums use nofollow tags?
     
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  7. favhost

    favhost Guest

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    Yes....Dump internet explorer, install firefox and grab the "SEO for Firefox" addon. Then you can set to highlight all links with "nofollow" attribute.

    Not going to link to them here...just google it if you want it.
     
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  8. tacosalad

    tacosalad Peon

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    Yup. If you install the plug-in for Firefox, you'd see that the links in this forum are not "nofollow"
     
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  9. Gentile2

    Gentile2 Peon

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    So the links highlighted in deep red are the no follow links? using soe now.
     
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  10. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    are you sure about that? from search engine journal regarding how Y! treats nofollow:

     
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  11. newtothegame

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    if you do a search, members here have compiled a list of the largest forums that allow link following in their signatures
     
    newtothegame, Mar 19, 2008 IP