Signature and Home Page URL Links

I participate in a number of vBulletin forums. Here is my question: the home page URL field in the user profile; does filling out this boost search engines ratings? What about anchored links in forum signatures on high volume websites? These are good, right?

 

All these links will help a bit.

 

Sure they do, here's a list of people that have built websites, put links to them in their vbulletin and myspace profiles, then posted the sites for sale:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=56

 

Thanks for the link... will take a look

 

putting links does help. Links on the forum also count towards the number of backlinks for your website.

So be active on the forums and enjoy the benefit.

 

I definatly get some traffic from signature links. Try posting on forums related to you site, much more targeted

 

I would say the links you mention are better for traffic rather than for SE rankings. However, long term every little bit helps.

 

Depend on different forum. Some forum put no follow tag in sig link

 

I believe forum signature links and the profile link can help a site to rank a little better. One thing I noticed recently that those links seem to pas PR.