I also think that blog commenting will NOT work well as compare to the signature Signature ads work well with your number of postings. As much the number of posts increase, your signature value also increases as well as impressions too
Both are helpful for sites especially if they are relevant to your site's theme, though I still prefer forum postings because you learn a lot in forum while posting and you also help your site provide with backlinks and traffic. However, in commenting on blogs, this may only provide your site with just a traffic and not backlinks because most of them have nofollow attribute...
I think blog commenting is more effective. Especially if there are only a few comment and it is on a relevant blog. When you leave your signature links on a page like this they are getting majorly diluted by all the other links.
when you talk about looking at the other post in a forum, you might take this same way for the blogs. ...Now if you don't like the blog posting you never visit their website...........so there is no diff in what you are talking about...... what these posting and bloging do is they provide with the links and you can barely expect any traffic from them.......
Its much advantageous to gain backlinks from forums rather than commenting in blogs. 1 post if forums might give you 2 or more BLs; unlike in blog comment that has 1:1 ratio.
Both are important for me Forum posting - brings traffic & back link to website Blog comment – brings traffic. If it is do-follow back link to website
Most of blogs are no-follow. So its easy to find do-follow forms. Forum signatures brings more referral traffic than blog commenting. Most of blogs have PR while forum posting gives very less PR links.
FORUMS... the can carry more PR within their site then the blogs... i.e. ppl with PR blogs tend to want you to buy links.... Forums are free...so long as they dont look too spammy... id say the forum post will be more beneficial... but do both anyway.... i dont like signatures... i dont agree they are that good.... i think the anchor text within a forum would carry more juice, with the signature theres a little chance that once the sig changes the spider will never look at it again...as the content above it has not changed... i.e dont just jump into forums n tag a sig n post any s**T in the thread... always add something to the space! dont just drop links.... peace x
From the research I've done regarding SEO, I have read in numerous places that both forum posting and blog commenting are great ways to get backlinks in addition, article directories and anchor text link partners will provide a well rounded campaign and will be sure to move you to the top quickly!
Both are really good but blog can boost quickly and it more depends on PR and relevant category, keywords and it should on dofollow blogs.
I have a hard time finding do-follow blogs that STAY do-follow. Niche forums seem to provide more consistant results.
For right now (until Google changes their algorithms again), forum posting is better than blog commenting. This may very well change in the future. But signatures have additional advantages. Even if the link itself doesn't help your search engine position, forum theads are read by real users.. You'll get clicks via the forum signature... So long as your forum posts are relevant and on topic. Readers will skim or skip posts that are irrelevant.
Forum posting because it allows you to put your keyword while putting your keyword on blog comment will make it look like spamming.