Who says signature links are worthless..!!

really? my yahoo and msn searches are much lower then google
good thing google is big

 

not worthless it helps

 

anyone know how to get good ranking in yahoo using sig links?

 

Sig links are helpful, you need to get different types of links to increase your rankings.

 

Sorry - I'm a newbie here - can someone give me code that I need to write in the Edit Signature box so that it doesn't have http:// etc at the beginning? Thx.

 

(url="http://yoursite.com")click here(/url)

Code (markup):

 

change "(" become "[" and ")" become "]"
I need to do this to prevent it become real link..

 

not worthless it helps in indexing quickly

 

especially if they are from high pr forums

 

When you choose the forum,you must consider it is do follow or no follow.
If it is do follow,it more worth than no follow.

 

I have one question, does a person having 5000 posts on a forum with a signature link, means 5000 backlinks to his/her site?

 

Yes it does and those 5000 links are not worthless.

 

I agree. Definitely not worthless.

 

Signature links are not worthless. It is not very useful but a good source of back links.

 

yup, as long as all those post are in public forums..

altho, that being said, they are 5,000 links from the same URL and IP address..

 

I choose NO. You can get lot of traffic from them and many backlinks, when you search link:http://url at Yahoo You will see. Yahoo count your link on each post.

 

So when are they worth paying for? How many posts for how much?

 

Signature links r not worthless. But it's just not very efficient if you are the only person posting them. However, if enough people like your website to post links (signature or body) then it starts to snowball.

 

I would say something like 1$ per 200 post

 

Sure, they help.
Remember to modify your signature links over time to hit other keywords. I think Google is looking for some variety on the subject matter.