"You should choose a forum that is relevant to your website's topic, and that allows its users to post links without the rel=nofollow tag. (This tag tells Google to disregard the link, although in my experience Google follows the link anyway, and in some cases even gives it a lot of weight, boosting the ranking of the target page - Google PageRank is overrated. For best results the links should be contextual: that is, they should be a natural part of the text. Write good, substantial, useful posts with a few contextual links to high-ranking websites, including your own. Make sure that the anchor text of each link is totally relevant to the target page; never use "click here" as the anchor text!" Via:http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-get-back-links I completely agree with the statement that page rank is over rated. So far my PageRank stays at 0 and back links are 0 on google but I'm getting views that i wasn't getting before I had started posting. I think we give Google way to much authority over our success by focusing on their rules. Yahoo counts just about all my post and is updated on a daily bases. I know that yahoo is going out of business and google is the most used search engine but that's our fault. we care way to much about google when there are other companies out there that doesn't try to be completely enigmatic with their search engines indexing tactics. Does anybody aggree or disagree?