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Basic backlink question

by amunt
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A couple of basic questions for you experts if you don't mind:

1. Do backlinks added to the comments bit of a web page/blog count for anything?
2. When you put a backlink in your signature in a forum profile, e.g. via the type provided by Angela's Backlinks, do you have to post something for it to work or is the act of adding it to profile enough?

Many thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    What a load of spammy crap.



    Originally Posted by seowebmaster123 View Post

    Backlinks are incoming link to a site. Inbound links were originally important (prior to the emergence of search engines) as a primary means of web navigation; today their significance lies in (SEO). The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (for example, this is use by Google to determine the pagerank of a webpage). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.
    In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node from another web node. Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.



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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    1. Depends. If the comment links are followed and as long as there are not about 3 million spammy comments on the page, then yes they count more than nothing.

    2. You can increase the chance of the link not getting deleted and increase the contextual relevance by adding other relevant text to the profile.

    Originally Posted by amunt View Post

    A couple of basic questions for you experts if you don't mind:

    1. Do backlinks added to the comments bit of a web page/blog count for anything?
    2. When you put a backlink in your signature in a forum profile, e.g. via the type provided by Angela's Backlinks, do you have to post something for it to work or is the act of adding it to profile enough?

    Many thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Buyseech
    Originally Posted by amunt View Post

    A couple of basic questions for you experts if you don't mind:

    1. Do backlinks added to the comments bit of a web page/blog count for anything?
    2. When you put a backlink in your signature in a forum profile, e.g. via the type provided by Angela's Backlinks, do you have to post something for it to work or is the act of adding it to profile enough?

    Many thanks
    Hi Amunt,

    1. They count if the Blog/Forum settings are set on DO FOLLOW. That means that Google will go through the links to your page and connect the 2 together ( you will get a backlink ). If it is NO Follow you will not get a backlink and it is (almost) useless. You can still get organic traffic through the link.

    2. In forums posts in general it is neccesary to post comment that either ADD Value or present a valuable question. Just writing "Hi love your blog" and have a name of "Dental practices in Denver" or something will not get approved.

    Hope it helped.

    Sincerely, Buyseech
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    • Profile picture of the author amunt
      OK, thanks guys, nicely explained(apart from the spammy one).
      Cheers
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    • Profile picture of the author Laura B
      Originally Posted by Buyseech View Post

      They count if the Blog/Forum settings are set on DO FOLLOW. That means that Google will go through the links to your page and connect the 2 together ( you will get a backlink ). If it is NO Follow you will not get a backlink and it is (almost) useless. You can still get organic traffic through the link.
      It's still a backlink - just isn't as valuable as a dofollow.
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