My DP signature links draw a small amount of traffic (37 visitors last month). That's not much, but it does make it worthwhile to use the links instead of leaving the signature area blank.
That's a low number of referrals. I'm thinking it's because of the link relevance. To the OP, no you will not get penalized for using a DP signature link.
I think that forum signature is important in link building Just make sure that you are not using just one forum
PR isnt it all. If you get good strong traffic from DP then i dont see why you should remove them. You should just make up for it in other ways i think
I assume Google provide them an importance excluding it strength survive especially low down.!!!!!!!!
I don't believe it would hurt your site, but at the same time I think the only benifit you get out of them is extra traffic. --thanks!
i will stick for the sig of dp for sure at least the spiders of google will recognize your site better if you leave footprint at pr6 or 7 quality site...
You shouldn't count on any real ranking power from DP signature links. But they have other benefits. Traffic is one, if the links are relevant to users in here. Help with indexing new sites is another feature of signature links on DP. A popular forum is crawled very often, and if you link in your sig to new sites, it can help them be indexed fairly quickly.
dp links simply means some traffic and nothing else to do with PR , and moreover google knows that webmaster forums links are often purcahsed links or own links.....so no value at all for them...
Yes this is what i heard about. thts y i remove my website links from the sig.. i guess google is nothing to do with DP signature links.. i will put my links back soon