Would I get a lot of backlinks and stuff if I paid a forum owner to put my link on the footer of his site, with my keyword as the alt/title? Would it also increase SEO?
More information is needed. It depends on how popular the site is and how it ranks in search engines (ie: pagerank or SERP). It also depends on how relevant the forum it is to your site. And are you talking about an ad or just a link? -Danielle
There are almost 30 thousand members on it; about 500 visit each day, and 11,000 pages catched on Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 11,800
Google would only count it as one backlink (even if it is site wide), but if it is a high quality backlink in Google's eyes it could have a great impact on your sites ranking Plus there is the possibility of getting traffic from the forum visitors What is the PR of the forum and is the forum relevant to your own site?
Well it's kinda related; it's a cheating forum, but my site is for "legit" people... I put my site's link in my signature a while ago, and I think I got a few counted as a backlink? (in webmasters it says [## links to your site] and most of them were from the forum)