I cannot imagine linking here would cause any harm in fact i thought it would be good for link building considering the traffic and ranking for this website!
The article you mentioned talks about linking to DP is bad. I personally find that to be untrue. DP was a high PR and pages from DP index in quick time and they rank high up in the search results. Also, backlinks from DP or any other sites cannot hurt as if backlinks should hurt a site, then competitors will start to build thousands of backlinks from bad sites for their competitors.
Firstly, the article does not specifically focus on forums.digitalpoint.com, but rather on the tools. Secondly, it doesn't have a single valid point. End of story. Oh, and another one: linking to and linking from are two completely different things.
I think 90% forum users post to build backlinks. If this was true Digitalpoint would have been deserted forum !
I think it is far from true that link from digitalpoint is bad. The link are quiet good and a good sources of link building.
I say who cares. I get more traffic from people (semi targeted) actually clicking my signature below than any page rank improvement that one or two sig links can do anyhow.
kbeus21 wrote "Forum sigs are not super valuable since the majority are not relevant,..." You are wrong. Forum signatures are valuable if make good relevant thread/replied. If you make short irrelevant replies just to make more posts, nobody will click your links in the signature. I get about 1,000 hits/month, including 500 from DP because I always post relevant replies. There are many big internet marketers making posts here because they don't think forum signatures "are not super valuable".
that work out my question. linking from dg is good for Pr, but bad for ranging, i mean in SE. am i right?
i agree. a darn good backlink. and i think it might well be considered pretty much 'an authority site' in its field.
If DP is so bad, then why do I find links to post here on so many searches I preform on Google? Just because someone considers themselves an expert in the SEO field does not make them one. I learned a long time ago to just do what you would normally do when writing a story or blog post and everything eventually works out fine. If adding a link to a DP page fits what you are writing about, then why not add that link? Right now, there are too many people that claim to know what to do to build a high quality Google listed site. I have always asked myself this question. If these guys are so good, why are they selling their knowledge for pennies when they could be making a fortune promoting their own web site?