Who says signature links are worthless..!!

i think that sig links can help a lot (of course depends much the forum where it's used)

 

I think it depends more on the rank of the forum

 

Looking at the poll results, it seems to agree with what many of us have known as a fact.

 

signature links are useful!

 

I agree with you that signatur backlinks are very good for the site SEO....

That is not only for DOfollow forums Nofollow forums are good too both of them will do a high quality search engines ranking......

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dofollow isn't a real term
might as well call it
PRfollow

makes just as much sense

 

If you look at the three auto related sig links I have you'll notice that they are all top three in SERP. While I am not sure what their placement was before I added them, I do know NONE of them were on the first page. Three months later, and they are doing VERY well!

Though, I must say that none of them get a lot of human traffic clicking through them here at Digital Point, as 99.999% of the people here are not looking to get their car fixed. Had the link been webmaster related, then they would also have the perk of getting human traffic to click through them.

There are also some PR perks that can be had through the use of signatures and forum posts... the trick is to get on the first page of a sticky thread within a forum that has decent PR. Later pages may help, but tend to get even less traffic as the later pages are generally filled with "great thread" type posts by people trying to increase their post counts.

A few useful threads about link development through signatures:
Forum Link Building tips (it's not just your signiture!)
Buying sig links? Read this first!
How to get backlinks from forums and blogs and not be labeled as a spammer

I found this thread through your link in another​

 

Thanks a ton for these links Qryztufre. signature seem to be important if used correctly

 

Well its a pretty old post but let me put my 2 cents -

Yes, the signature links do make difference but not a lot. They are only effective when kept for long time, 3+ months. Also there are way too many factors in a site/page to rank that's why many of us sees the results and some don't.

 

So does every time you post count as 1 backlink if you have a sig. Or is it just 1 back link per forum?

 

yup, I often use sigs just to let Google know about the areas I want to rank well, but don’t rely on them at all for 'quality' inbound links.

Forum inner pages often have low prs (and relevance, depending on the forum), but they're by no means worthless

 

sig links are ueful

 

I think signature link in dp bring much traffic to the site and also page views

 

I agree with you Loco.

Sigs are one of the best ways to advertise your blog and get a +ve impression from G that you are reliable.

I too do not observe any point when people say that placing links in Sig do not provide any postive effect.

 

Signature links are of lot of worth , If you are posting in a niche forum It would increase RELEVANT traffic on your website . It helps you in increasing visibility of the site in your target audience

 

It seems to help out even if the forum isn't related as well, in terms of SERP's

 

I have given 4 different sites in my signature, that why it show at Google

 

Sig links are not completely worthless...even if they only bring you one visitor, thats better then no traffic at all. Secondly, if you use the right anchor text and have enough posts on DP, they can help you to gain higher rankings in the SERPs.

 

I hope they mean something as I try to comment on related sites.

 

link sig are very useful so long as the domain is niche related and you post good threads/responses youll almost always get traffic