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If you are doing niche related forum posting then it useful for you as it will bring referral traffic, such visitors are willingly coming to your site because of your discussion in forum posts. That's why such visitors can be easily turned into successful sales leads. As a backlink it will add value to your site, as its coming from niche related forum.

I could not agree more with what gittar has said, signing up to multiple forums and using your website in your signature is always a great idea !

I only join forums that I have an interest in, but I always use the signature filed if it's open.

This is good for getting some high quality relevancy backlinks as well as traffic too.

Cool. Thanks guys, that was exactly what I was looking to hear. Good to know that I am doing the right thing.

I've never really looked at profiles as a primary way of getting backlinks. (Though they do help.) Instead, I've always looked for niche related forums that I can post at. You'll get a fair amount of traffic from your signature alone. Plus, it's one of my favorite ways to build a list at no cost.

Based on my own experience forum posting back-links seem to be very effective. I dedicate my time doing it in a regular basis. I get one of my site in the 4th position in Google for a highly competitive keywords in a matter of 3 months by using only two link building methods article marketing and forum posting.

To answer your question the way it helps you as far as seo is concerned is every time you post something with your signature in the bottom of your post and that link get indexed you get credit for it which will improve your ranking in the long run.

But what if i am posting on a forum that isnt relevant to the link?

yes fporum posting is really a great source of backlinks and site traffic, if you have to participate in relevant forum, it gives you more benifit then other niche forum sites

forum signatures do help with ranking. I have never been able to determine it was of high quality but I have had good experiences with forum signatures. I also enjoy reading and participating so make sure to join forums you actually enjoy!

This is really nice. By posting in forum gather more information. Gained more knowledge and help us a lots for doing other activities for SEO.

Forum helps a lot for backlinks

It all depends on the niche and current level of competition, but in general they will give very little value for anything that would be considered even remotely competitive.

Now that is simply a SEO point of view for SERP placement,

If your looking at niche forum posting and the benefits of brand / site awareness and relationship building that's a different animal all together.

forum posting have very much importance as creating good backlinking. if you post on do follow forum then google will love your site. thus your site rank will be much higher.

thanks

If you are doing niche related forum posting then it useful for you as it will bring referral traffic, such visitors are willingly coming to your site because of your discussion in forum posts. That's why such visitors can be easily turned into successful sales leads

When you create your profile with signature backlinks, ping, submit or bookmark it. Google will find and index your link, this will count backlinks.
If you post a lot this will contribute to your building link value, but it has very small value, you must have hundreds post and this equal than few quality backlinks.
So if you want building by profile link, build it at different sites, you can make it index by two ways:
a)- Ping the links
- Combine to RSS
- Submit this RSS
- Bookmark this RSS
b) Post about 5-10 post at these forum.

And with your method, post 3 or 4 post per day at a forum, it will attract readers to your website only. If you have 1000 post, it will be a big change to your site rank. My few cents.

I get 30% of backlinks from forums and google also crawl forums very fast.

forums post very good to get more backlinks.. warriorforum is the best to get more traffic

I read that most forums are 'nofollow' by default.
How will backlinking in such forums help with SERP in this case?
Thanks in advance.

Forum Posting is really very helpful for back links. Build links from different forums as Google give preference to links coming from different sources/IP.

Since you put your website link here so forum posting is one the best way to build a quality back link for your site.

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Forum posting is good technique for creating back link but now a days forum posting is not much good for SEO purpose.

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Are automatic posters any good?
Or would any of you advise hiring someone from Odesk, etc. to do some posting?

Forum posting can be good if done correctly!

I think better to start discussion with someone on forum that would be high quality backlink considered. i think so.

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It always consider as a good backlink

The forum backlinks are great..

Because along with providing free link juice it also provide you targeted visitors in your niche......

That depends on the PR of the domain, and whether or not the backlink is dofollow. Google counts backlinks on the same domain 1 time. Hope that helps.

Forums work really great- however a lot of forums don't allow you to have signatures to prevent spammers from taking over. I find that posting links in RELEVANT threads work the best. I have #1 spots because of savvy forum posting, for really competitive keywords.

Forum is the good way to get quality backlinks. In each of your post, you can add the signature with link. So, whenever you make a new post on any forum, you'll get one new quality backlinks, But mare sure the forum must be relevant to your niche. For example if your blog is related to technology then the forum also must be related to technology. Do Follow signature links are even better.

I'm fairly new to forum posting as a means for generating backlinks, but I'll be anxious to see the results. At the very least, it's worth spending time on good forums for the sheer knowledge you gain.

It is also depends on the quality of your post. It would be much better if you will leave helpful comments or replies so that you can get traffic and backlinks.

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The thing with forum posts as with other backlinks, if you are posting 3 to 4 times a day in the same topic, they all wouldn't be counted individually

Forum posting is one of the effective way of link building. It is one type of discussion. The main purpose of doing Forum posting is getting backlinks for your site. It is one of the important way of getting traffic.

For me nice forums and niche blogs I get great results. I enjoy the forums and participate a lot. The blogs, I look for something in my niche but interesting to me. That way I don't get bored! High PR blogs tend to pass on more link juice than the forums.

Yes Forum sigs are one one of the effective backlinking method that can get you ranked quicker.

I only prefer forum sig links from forums that are dofollow and are with high PR. I usually spend my time collecting forums PR3+ (which helps our links to get crawled quickly).

Forum posting is useful. Atleast it works for me. You can get backlinks plus fast indexing plus targeted visitors at once.

That's enough to say :-)

For this question I'm going to give you a previous answer of mine here.

Forum posting is the best resource for your website popularity

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I am sure the forums posting still helps (Even after Panda) specially in SERP improvement - That is indeed very helpful if you are in niche forums and that forum is giving back you a dofollow link.

surely forum posting will bring high quality back link....

Forum helps a lot for backlinks

yes forum posting is good ,

but i like blog comment

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