DP forums or all forums sigurature? anyone want to do a test? i will put links ONLY on all high pr forums and to see if it affect ranking.
As mentioned above, if DP links are bad, then everyone could destroy their competitors by adding links to their site. For this reason, I can't see Google penalising you for this. Would love to know if signature links benefit you though!!
Sounds reasonable (although who knows if google is also tracking the importance of those pages...) Anyway, the key is that it can't penalize site. Otherwise competitors could buy a forum posters and make signatures link to competitor pages.
The more exposure the better. I think that applies to any business. Location, location and location. Trickle traffic adds up quickly.
I think it help a little bit. I added my site as signature link, now I got PR from my site....I think it is no harm to ads signature link
According to me Signature link adds something to the traffic, It is not harmful to add signature. It works as a backlink, so the traffic and the google rank should be improved. But if you think that the page rank of your website was reduced to 4 from 5 then there may be any other reason for it.
I believe that the signature does help. I've been noticing some of my posts showing up in Google and if Google is picking them up then they are being ranked. But it's also been mentioned that if you don't keep up you backlink work, trying to get quality relevant and related backlinks then the search engines are going to stop picking you up and your site will go stale. My 2-bits.
I am not sure what made my 3 sites loose their PR from PR3 to PR1 withing last fews months even on regular updates and promotions. They were there into my sig but I had removed them as a precaution, cause before they were not there into the sig and sites were doing good. As a SEO / SERP point of view I am investigating this issue. Does the sig effected them!
I agree. Anyone can just create fake id's and put a competitions link in siggy. Surely google won't put a site down for just that.
PR went down mainly for a lot of 5+ sites, and up for those with little to no PR. My site was a 6 for years and now it's a 3, yet SERP's, traffic, and (natural) backlinks are up. The fact is, toolbar PR means nothing and even Google knows that creating it was a mistake. Now I believe thay are trying to find a way to make it seem "important" again, but are having difficulty because it's such a mess. This is why they are demoting things like directory listings, signature links, etc.