My question is: If you want to get backlinks via forum signature does the forum has to be related to the niche of your site? Do you get backlinks even if the forum is no-follow or it has to be strictly do follow? Any suggestions!
I would think it needs to be in you niche because along with links people will click on you link if they think you post show you know something about the subject
Why bother chasing after forums for ranking purposes? There are far, far better ways to get real links to your site than forum profiles and signatures. And no, I don't mean blog comments, Angela's "Links", directory submissions or social media spam either.
every link helps even a bit. start by forum form your niche which is a do follow. if you can find them than try other related forum prefrable do follow ones.
Ya, if the forum is related to your niche, even if it is nofollow, I will use it, becasue, it is being counted as a vote - but the major reason is, that will give me more REFERAL TRAFFIC rather than search engine traffic
No-follow links will not pass link juice. And i do not thing there is much important for relevant links..
I only post on forums that are related to my niches, but they are excellent for link building in my opt. I dont do too much with sigs, but when the option presents itself to post my url in a post I do (Dont spam) but there is always a chance to post a URL in a post. I think those links do better than sig links INMO
comment on forum help at backlink make sure you type your keyword as anchored text. not have a high value but if you comment a thousand or mybe million comment on different forum it will help you a lot at backlink.
Only the do-follow forums gives you the backlinks and I does not think so that the forum should be related niche to the site.
Someone mentioned link relevance to the forum topic. OK, this is SEO forum, but what if I post to general forums where are a lot of different subjects. Topics ranging from religion to space flights. Does google count that I might like several topics? My signature would be shown in all those topics, which are not necessarily relevant to my web site. This question bothers me so I would like to get a good answer. Thank you.
forum links are good for link building but they can be a good source of traffic if you are using forums in your niche then you will find relevant traffic.
Forums should only be used if you are posting useful helpful content and you should benifit from being a user and the signiture should just be a bonus otherwise you are simply diluting the forums for other users.
Well, I look at signatures as a way to introduce my self to people I have contact with. I admit, I use it also to get backlinks, but I used signatures before I even knew about SEO, and I used them to let people know me better and present my self. It just happened in some moment in my life that I realized that my web site can benefit from it (signature). But now I would like to know if it really can get harmed (as it could when placed at suspicious sites etc...) Does Google see signatures as withhindsight sees them, or the way I see them?