Hello friends,please tell me Are forum signatures play role in making permanent back links? I have recently checked inlinks coming to my website and found signature links from DP.But if I remove URL that i am promoting in forums signature,As you can see now i changed my signature and there is no URL of website in my signature. Now is It means that my back links will be vanished from google search engine after some days ?please tell me i m confused ...
Forum signatures can be provide good number of links and can potentially confuse competitors trying to find your backlinks ;-) I love this part of forum links. They hide your 'good links' from competitors. You are right, you will soon see that backlinks from forum will be removed as Google/Yahoo re-index those forum pages.
Hi People will always argue how usefull sig links are. I personally think they are useful but no where near as useful as backlinks from web pages with a high page rank. Remember though, you should check the value of the page which your link is on and not the homepage of the particular site. I see people spending a lot of money for a link on a site just because the homepage has a high PR when this actually means very little, what is important is the page rank of the page where your link is and not the homepage of the site.
I think signature link is only as good as a way to increase traffic not PR..unless the URL that shows your signature link has PR
Concerning Traffic: I think if you are posting in forums with relevancy to your niche along with sig links, you will certainly see a visible change in the traffic to your site. But if you are posting in irrelevant forums, with sig links in your posts, you won't be seeing much of traffic from these forums. Concerning Backlink/PR: If you post in forums not having the nofollow attribute, whether relevant or irrelevant ones, you will get the backlinks from these forum sigs. If you post in forums with nofollow attribute, in relevant ones, will give you traffic, but no backlinks If in irrelevant forums having nofollow attribute, will give you nothing except teeny weeny traffic.
To me, a link is a link regardless if its dofollow or nofollow. Dofollow of course is better for pr especially if its placed on a high pr site. Sig links are important because they can drive traffic to your site especially if you are adding value to a forum post. Even nofollow links can have value for driving traffic. It depends how active you are in the membership of the site that has nofollow.