How foum posting is related to SEO?

MikeFriedman

11 years ago

It has nothing to do with SEO.

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tkhassan 11 years ago

In forum posting you can mention your website every now and then by using your targeted keywords as anchor text, it helps you to get valuable back links.
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- MikeFriedman 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by tkhassan
  
  In forum posting you can mention your website every now and then by using your targeted keywords as anchor text, it helps you to get valuable back links.
  
  No. That makes you a spammer.
  
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  tkhassan 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeFriedman
  
  No. That makes you a spammer.
  
  Keep it in a limit and not over do and I guess you will be fine, there are thousands of SEO people doing it wrong and they just want to do it to get backlinks and they surely are making lots of spam posts but there are also many SEO people who are doing it right and getting good results so not all forum posting is spamming.
  
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Ryan1234 11 years ago

Forum posting is a part of SEO. Once you're allowed for Signature and Forum Site is do follow, It can increase SEO value for your link entered in Signature. In addition, Due to link in forum posting you can get visitors who might increase your sales. The main purpose for SEO is to get visitor and sales. That's why Forum Posting is concerned to SEO.
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TotalWebsiteControl

11 years ago

Forum posting is a good way to get traffic but it doesn't effect SEO what so ever.

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alvinchua91

11 years ago

Forum posting by itself does not help SEO.

Assuming you have a signature of your URL or anchor text URL, and you make posts on forums with that, there are 2 things you might want to note:
i) People notice your website and link to it because it's awesome or whatever (though possible, this is extremely indirect and unlikely and you should not see this as a SEO method)
ii) You improve your link diversity

Regarding point ii, it does nothing by itself to improve your SEO rankings (as most forums signatures are nofollow). However, assuming all other on page SEO and off page links that you build or earn are legitimate and good links from an SEO standpoint, then what forum links on relevant forums do for you is to improve your link diversity, to make your back link profile more natural looking and if you do it right, makes you significantly less likely to get penalised due to accidental over optimization.

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zara123 11 years ago

Forum posting improves traffic and your brand name that is a part of SEO .
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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

India spammer.

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paulgl

11 years ago

Originally Posted by TotalWebsiteControl

Forum posting is a good way to get traffic but it doesn't effect SEO what so ever.

That's where you are dead wrong. You don't think spamming affects google?

Additionally, creating links that weren't editorially placed or vouched for by the site's owner on a page, otherwise known as unnatural links, can be considered a violation of our guidelines. Here are a few common examples of unnatural links that may violate our guidelines:

Forum comments with optimized links in the post or signature, for example:
Thanks, that's great info!
- Paul
paul's pizza san diego pizza best pizza san diego

Paul is just a coincidence....just saying...

Does not matter if they are nofollow or not. Spam is spam, no matter
how you slice it.

Now, take a gander at some of the sigs floating around here...

I would imagine that google takes a hard look at any forum link.
Why on earth would I ever link to a money site in a forum?

India spammer.

Yukon, you are just mean.

Paul

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yukon Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

Yukon, you are just mean.

If someone would moderate the forum I wouldn't have to be captain obvious.
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nettiapina

11 years ago

Originally Posted by hrishivardhan

Why forum sites offer a signature? How it is related to SEO?

Asks the user with obvious spam links in his/her sig.

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Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

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Hemanth Malli

11 years ago

Originally Posted by hrishivardhan

Why forum sites offer a signature? How it is related to SEO?

Forums are good to increase brand popularity through signature links and also to share & increase knowledge about the subject.

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worldprime 11 years ago

Forum posts are becoming a more and more popular way of increasing the page ranking of company websites and individual blogs alike.
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- nettiapina 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Hemanth Malli
  
  Forums are good to increase brand popularity through signature links and also to share & increase knowledge about the subject.
  
  They're also a great way to shoot yourself in the foot. This forum is full of people who sport their company colours in their signatures, but post vacuous BS to every thread they touch.
  
  Originally Posted by worldprime
  
  Forum posts are becoming a more and more popular way of increasing the page ranking of company websites and individual blogs alike.
  
  That's true, but only among people who don't know any better. Most forums that would have PR to rank a site use nofollow links. As they should, because the links were posted by untrusted users.
  
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  Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
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th3technician

11 years ago

It has nothing to do with SEO ,Signature in forum can help you to drive targeted traffic to your blog

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bryan2015

11 years ago

Yes forum posting is an important technique use in off page seo to get website ranking in search engines.

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by bryan2015

Yes forum posting is an important technique use in off page seo to get website ranking in search engines.

No, it's not. I see you're in it to spam your signature links, but would it hurt you to read the thread? Maybe you'd learn some SEO 101.
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mrhmamun

11 years ago

Forums allow signature, for this reason visitors can know more about threads holder. Also it's an opportunity to know others about your brand.

Can you tell me which purpose you added signature on WF?

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Abe Archer

11 years ago

Forums adding a signature has nothing to do with SEO. It CAN have some (small) SEO benefits if you add a link to your site and post there. There's generally better ways to get backlinks, though.

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Banned 11 years ago

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Ashwaniseo 11 years ago

It is help to improve the site traffic.Forum posting is a good way to get traffic.
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minddigital

11 years ago

You improve your brand name and increase traffic on your web page through forum posting. It can't help in SEO.

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ankushkohli

11 years ago

Forum Posting is one of the best ways to make quality backlinks. Can get huge amount of visitors & help in increasing the page rank of your website. Do forum postings only in relevant industry else you’re attracting spam.

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nettiapina

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Ryan1234

Forum posting is a part of SEO. Once you're allowed for Signature and Forum Site is do follow, It can increase SEO value for your link entered in Signature. In addition, Due to link in forum posting you can get visitors who might increase your sales. The main purpose for SEO is to get visitor and sales. That's why Forum Posting is concerned to SEO.

Traffic generation is not the same as SEO. This should be obvious to everyone, but unfortunately it's fairly common to put everything internet marketing related under the topic of SEO.

Forum links are usually poor quality in any case. A serious forum with good reputation should use nofollow, and the kinds of forums that don't probably are both poor link sources, and spammed to death (dilution of the potential Google juice).

Originally Posted by ankushkohli

Forum Posting is one of the best ways to make quality backlinks. Can get huge amount of visitors & help in increasing the page rank of your website. Do forum postings only in relevant industry else you're attracting spam.

The backlinks are of poor quality. This has been explained several times in the thread.

Visitors don't increase your page rank, backlinks do.

Is it really this hard to read the thread? It also never stops puzzling me why people need to post some crap when they clearly have no idea what they're talking about.

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Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

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stevenwatson011 Banned 11 years ago

Forums are originally for discussing and sharing new ideas, but can be useful for seo if used in good way.
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bryan2015

11 years ago

Forum posting is an important off page seo technique to get website ranking and website promotion.

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by bryan2015

Forum posting is an important off page seo technique to get website ranking and website promotion.

Here's a good example of a signature spammer who obviously has no idea how SEO works, and why his silly links are useless. He would if he'd read the thread.

Here's the sig that has four links to the exact same address.
"Hospitality industry furniture | Custom hospitality industry furniture | Interior design | Contract furniture"
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Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
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- secondonlineincome 11 years ago
  
  Forum posts are extremely effective and more popular way of increasing the page ranking of websites & blogs.
  
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josephcaron

11 years ago

hello Friends,

Forum is best way of get more useful information sharing about different type SEO related information.

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