I have been posting on this forum for a couple of weeks and so far none of the sites in my sig have been given backlinks from DP. surely google crawls this site at least daily! anybody else experienced this?
Just give it time. Also the links really wont do you any good since the sites in your signature are nothing related to a webmaster forum. It will help with PR but not SERPs.
yea true. i class backlinks from here as an added benefit anyway - not my main purpose for being a member.
DP links are very much valuable, For my every website, Google link command shows DP links as my valuable links. See examples. Click here Click here Click here These are few examples in which Google consider DP links as valuable Back links. I am having another 20 websites in all those i got the same result. So, wait till Google find your back link update one more time. You will come to know at that time, how much DP links are valuable for any website.
If you have noticed, Google does not show all backlinks to site. Try comparing it using Yahoo to search for backlink, you'll get more results in Yahoo.
Yes, patience is the key... i am lucky and I have a link development blog, and whenever I post in the link development section, it helps out for my SERPS and my PR. Also, DP is a great form of free advertising. if you add useful information and not just useless posts, then people can see you as an authority, and WANT to go to your site.