Hopefuly some of you guys can clarify some doubts I have. 1. When you submit a story to digg, reddit or any social bookmarking, does that count as a backlink and thus contribute to PR? 2. When you post a comment over TechCrunch and you sign with your website, does that count as a backlink and thus contribute to PR? 3. Same question for the link we put in our signatures in forums? 4. What about links between different sites hosted on the same account (same ip therefore) That is it.
A buddy of mine did a test on forum links. He had like 1500+ posts on a SEO forum and put a link to a new site in his sig... he didn't give the site any other links... just the 1500 or so he got from this one PR6 forum. Anyway... the site was indexed in Google very quickly but over the past couple of PR updates it never received any PR.
1. It'll be counted as a Back Link 2. No Idea 3. Depends on the Board's Setting where your links are on 4. They won't counted backlinks in google, but yahoo, it will be counted.