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Does each forum signature link increase keyword link juice?

by Keep Trying
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Hi, I have a question. For each time you create a post in the forums with your keyword anchor text link in your signature, will the link juice increase every time afterwards?
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  • Profile picture of the author NRC1983
    Every time you create a post, it will create a new back link if you have anchor text in your sig, how much link juice depends on how high of a PR the forum has, also you have to wait for the back links to be indexed by Google, which for forums, they always do pretty fast.
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  • Profile picture of the author Keep Trying
    Thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author RevSEO
    You need to keep in mind that even though you could get hundreds of links from the same forum, the actual weight isn't passed along for each link. Since the forum is hosted on the same domain/IP there will only be so much linkjuice passed through.

    Otherwise people could dominate the search engines with one or two sitewide links from websites.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Originally Posted by RevSEO View Post

      You need to keep in mind that even though you could get hundreds of links from the same forum, the actual weight isn't passed along for each link. Since the forum is hosted on the same domain/IP there will only be so much linkjuice passed through.

      Otherwise people could dominate the search engines with one or two sitewide links from websites.
      Hi RevSEO,

      What you assert is partially correct. Where you go wrong, in my opinion is the assertion that the uniqueness of hosting, IP addresses, or the domain for that matter, has any direct bearing how much link juice is passed. That is classic Cargo Cult theory.

      Diversity in backlink sources are important for maximizing PR but it has everything to due with expanding your pool of potential traffic sources and little or nothing to do with IP addresses or domain names. For more information read up on the "Random Surfer Model" that PageRank is based upon.
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  • Profile picture of the author App Developers
    At first you get the full amount of juice and then every post thereafter you get a reduced amount of juice until you finally get nothing. Try it out and check your links.
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    • Profile picture of the author mazdak
      Originally Posted by App Developers View Post

      At first you get the full amount of juice and then every post thereafter you get a reduced amount of juice until you finally get nothing. Try it out and check your links.
      What's that supposed to mean?
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  • Profile picture of the author gtk29
    Yes you do get juice. But many SEO gurus say that repeated links from the same forum are not so good.
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    • Profile picture of the author Spyder77
      Originally Posted by gtk29 View Post

      Yes you do get juice. But many SEO gurus say that repeated links from the same forum are not so good.
      I'm still very much in the learning as I go phase, but my own interpretation is that forum link juice is only effective when its one of several places you're getting back links from. Therefore if you have a diversified network of back links already in place, it doesn't matter how many link backs you get from a forum (in the sense that you will get the juice and you won't get penalized). As others said, that doesn't make 500 backlinks from it any better than say 10. I don't know the number, but I think beyond a certain point you have as much link juice as you're going to get from that source.

      Even then you'll still get traffic if people are interested in your links, which is another reason to keep the link in your sig.

      As a footnote to that, there's nothing in my sig because having launched my own domain, I decided to move away from Blogger (my old sig link) entirely & pulled my content to host on my own domain and web host (which in turn are independent from each other as well). My backlink building is still too much in the early stages to be ready for the 100 or so surge in links from putting it in my sig here. I prefer to continue building it up first (with other back links, content, and tweaking) and link to it later in my sig.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick Vikus
    Forum posting is one of my usual task in SEO activities. If you know how to use this method it can give you quality backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author ankushkohli
    Yes but instead of active on one forum, you should try your hands in different forums. In this way, you could gather lots of links from different domains & IP's.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicktyler
    So the question is how many forums should you be regular on in comparison to how many posts/links you have on each forum?

    Like if you have 300 links should they be from 3 forums and 500 from 5 for example?
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    • Profile picture of the author stephencammeron
      People who think only about the links that they can get from the signature link is the reason why the real essence of forums is now decreasing, which is sharing of useful information.
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  • Profile picture of the author cellphonetips
    You each post diver more link value to your money website. You should focus more on quality of posts and number of post.

    If you have 100 post that mean that is enough good for getting good link value from that forum now you can try other forum too.
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  • Profile picture of the author maddyiipm
    Link juice depends upon several factors and one of them is relevancy of content is to Link.
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    Links from forum sigs have very, very little SEO value. You'll never build page rank that way if that is what you are interested in.

    At one point my sig from WF alone showed over 10,000 in Google Webmasters, but the links had almost no SEO value via observation on the backend.

    Think about it. Why would Google assign value to a metric so easily manipulated? They wouldn't.

    They do have some value if you use anchor text...which most people do, but again...very, very little.

    You would be better off turning your sig into a mini-squeeze page or well written ad and focus on converting its small number of viewers into customers.

    You have to ask yourself: What are people in this forum looking for? What needs do they have?
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