Yes Signatures are helpful in improving seo, it helps in generating traffic to your site. i am using signatures in different forums with the link to my site.
Yes, I use signature too, but I have doubts the benefits as "backlink" just after panda. I honestly did not expect forum members to click my link, but I hope the benefits of seo.
I'm talking about the benefits of seo (as backlinks), I honestly did not expect forum members to click my signature link, I just need a backlink / seo.
Links from most of forum signatures will not help much in improving PR or in improving ranking of a site. However, these links can help a site crawl faster: which can make indexing faster.
Forum signature links are still working. It has great potential. Choose such forums which are in the same niche as your site. Try to marketing your product or service directly in forums. By the way, if your forum signature be DoFollow then you will get useful link juice from it.
This is the good answer! everything what you do if you not put your barain a little to work is useless!
Forum signature still work for me , I find my website back link which is from forum signature as well.
Forum links still works. It is effected by Panda, but still helps my clients to get top ranking. I have used forum posting for some of present clients and they got top ranking.
Forums Give you two advantages as far as i think One is a Backlink that is in your signature and second is making your brand name in discussion forums
You can get targeted traffic to your website if you post in niche related forums. It could be either useful or useless depending on how you work on it. It is one of the best methods to get backlink. However, most of the forums have Nofollow links in signatures. These Nofollow links might not help in SEO but only to get few visitors to your site!
I don't believe on this it total depends upon you if you maintain a reputation in your threads people will definitely love to visit on your website . Or if your share information through your threads means keep interact with your threads you will get traffic , so it is not possible that an activity is useless unless we make that count among it
For me in my past i have used forum profiles for creating backlinks and still at times i create them and they do get index and are counted as Backlinks!