How foum posting is related to SEO?

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Why forum sites offer a signature? How it is related to SEO?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    It has nothing to do with SEO.
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    • Profile picture of the author 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.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by tkhassan View Post

        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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        • Profile picture of the author tkhassan
          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          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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    • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Forum posting is a good way to get traffic but it doesn't effect SEO what so ever.
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    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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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    India spammer.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by TotalWebsiteControl View Post

      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.

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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        Yukon, you are just mean.
        If someone would moderate the forum I wouldn't have to be captain obvious.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Originally Posted by hrishivardhan View Post

    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.

    What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author Hemanth Malli
    Originally Posted by hrishivardhan View Post

    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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    • Profile picture of the author worldprime
      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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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by Hemanth Malli View Post

        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 View Post

        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.
        Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

        What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author th3technician
    It has nothing to do with SEO ,Signature in forum can help you to drive targeted traffic to your blog
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  • Profile picture of the author bryan2015
    Yes forum posting is an important technique use in off page seo to get website ranking in search engines.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by bryan2015 View Post

      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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      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.

      What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author mrhmamun
    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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  • Profile picture of the author Abe Archer
    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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  • Profile picture of the author rohitsharma09
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  • Profile picture of the author minddigital
    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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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by Ryan1234 View Post

      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 View Post

      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.

      What's your excuse?
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    • Profile picture of the author stevenwatson011
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      Forums are originally for discussing and sharing new ideas, but can be useful for seo if used in good way.
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  • Profile picture of the author bryan2015
    Forum posting is an important off page seo technique to get website ranking and website promotion.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by bryan2015 View Post

      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.
      Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

      What's your excuse?
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      • Forum posts are extremely effective and more popular way of increasing the page ranking of websites & blogs.
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  • Profile picture of the author josephcaron
    hello Friends,

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