Do forums backlinks work?

Depends what forums you choose and how you build your backlinks-I mean how and which anchor text you use.

have to agree - depends on the forum, trusted, highly moderated forums still bring more value. Search for authority forums, put your link in the signature and get your side trusted to.

Forum profiles have become a huge waste of time and resource since the old panda updates.

While forum post is good and still valuable but there are a number of factors that make it worthwhile such as:

> are the forums high pr

> are they do follow

> the quantity of quality post you make is important. You need a huge amount of back links to get good impact.

The question is very general, as other people have pointed out. Another thing to note is that most forums these days are not do-follow and so they are not of as much benefit as many people think.

That is not to say that all forum links are useless. If they are non-spammy links, they will definitely bring you benefit. I prefer to use forums to get leads and generate interest in my products and websites rather than for SEO related purposes. This is a great way to attract relevant, interested traffic from non-search engine sources.

IMO, less and less effectively.

I agree with the point made in this article by Pat over at smartpassive income- that forum profile backlinks will be the next point of attack by Google against off-site SEO.

Also, the volume you need to submit in order to get a) enough to stick and b) any amount of value from them makes the effort and resources needed not worth it as far as I'm concerned.

Yes.

"On-the-board" forum backlinks in relevant forums appear to have SEO value. (For targeted traffic, as well as for SEO, if your posts genuinely add value - just as with blog commenting, in other words).

Forum profile backlinks typically have no value at all, and these days mass forum profile links are much more likely to do harm than good, I think: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6021235

To me, page-ranks and no/do-follow are completely irrelevant: I don't even check them.

We can all see for ourselves the regularity with which lower-PR pages with far fewer (but relevant!) incoming backlinks outrank higher-PR pages with far more incoming backlinks in Google's SERP's.

Link-juice is all about relevance and quality, these days - exactly as Google said it would be.

I know from my own little bits of keyword research, when I'm "assessing the SEO-quality of the competition" by checking out the backlinks of the first few sites in Google's SERP's that if I find one with something like 100 backlinks all from decent-looking relevant sites, and almost nothing else, that may be a pretty tall order for me to beat, whereas I can typically overtake sites with "obvious automated, mass-backlinking" (of the "forum profile"/"article directory" type of backlinks) very quickly indeed, even if they have tens of thousands of backlinks.

I've stopped looking at page ranks altogether.

For me, they're a complete waste of time.

It seems to me that the only people who think otherwise are those with either a financial or an emotional attachment to them.

I also don't now check any more whether or not they're no-follow, because I get great benefits from "no-follow" backlinks anyway.

Many search engines seem to ignore "NoDoFollow".

Many people believe that Google doesn't discount "no-follow" nearly as much as it sometimes claims: it's ambiguous at best.

People who have already decided that "no-follow" backlinks are no good for SEO won't be interested, but those like yourself who are a little more open-minded will find many threads here explaining/discussing interesting things about no-follow links: this one might start you off, and then there's more here, here, here, here, here, and so on.

Depends on the forums you are building links on. If you choose good quality forums which allow signature do follow links, you can create signatures linking back to you website and place GENUINE suggestions.

Make sure to put relevant postings helping other people out. If you don't do that you run the risk of being removed from the forum, and you are less likely to be visited from any of the other members.

As just about everyone else has said- don't focus on forums.

They can still help, but not nearly as much as they used to.

Actually I think it will be wrong if you use forum only for backlinks building. You have to actively use forum for help others & also for learn from others.

most of the low quality forum are dead but forum those really help people find their answer raises popularity like Google Support Forum, forums.cnet.com, seochat.com, wordpress.org/support, http://warriorforum.com & few others.

check out this article that explained "Backlinks that valued by Google after Panda 3.3 update"

I agree with Yasiryar. Forums are a great way to get opt-ins, sell products, or drive traffic. For SEO purposes you need to post so many times that it is almost a waste of time. You can find software to easily automate this process or post on higher PR sites (which is better for SEO anyways).

Make sure to check if they have dofollow though or else your backlink means nothing. Also, put the link your signature not in the comment.

Agree with everyone on quality of links. Even .edu or .gov links lose their value if they are beaten down with spam.

Kind of depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

If you are posting links on forums for SEO backlinking purposes, maybe not the most effective way to do so.

If you are doing so to introduce potential customers to your service, then sure.

Dave

Do you want to use forums just for backlink purpose or do you want visitors as well, if you are looking for backlink purpose only than you have to find relevant forum for what you are promoting like warrior forum, if you are promoting any online business product or method than geting backlinks from warrior and digitalpoint forum is worth because they are relevant..

I don't look for PR or no-follow, I look for relevant and that's what quality involves, in my Google webmaster account no-follows are also showing in my account as well, so if I am targeting only Google to get ranked and it is showing in my google webmaster account than now you can understand no-follow is not so important.. Important is quality, relevant and consistency backlink.. I hope this helps..

Forum commenting is helpful if you are doing niche related and high traffic forum

It depends on the quality of the forum. If you choose for example WF, it is one of the best forums online that will help you rank great for your website. By the way it is better also to use related forums to your niche (the niche of the website you want to rank for!)

Forums with a high PR and that are in your niche are good to market your products and services. People will search Google and see your forum thread.

Yes if you are after negative SEO

Obviously, if it's dofollow and high pr

I find it funny how coclced up some people think, a forum is a community to share with like minded people on a topic as it's basis of being, yet reading 99% of the posts here the very first concern is what can I take, where is my link, what's my juice power.

Non of it is even related to the purpose of the forum and if people's only intention is me, me and more me then its best that they move on and do not join the forum in the first place, leading to a good and solid community's that are not filled full of useless junk posts where it's purpose is just to spam links.

forum baklinks used to work much better but google is clamping down on spammy forum links and it van cause your website to be penalised so be careful

Sure, forums attract people.
And people like to discuss something on forums.

Forum profiles have become a huge waste of time and resource since the old panda updates.

While forum post is good and still valuable but there are a number of factors that make it worthwhile such as:

1. are the forums high pr

2. are they do follow

Well yes posting on Do follow forums will help you to generate traffic and good thing about them is that they give Good quality of back links.And it also helps in increasing PR.

If you post on some high quality forums where posts are easily indexed then this will surely be helpful in your SEO. Also build links from other SEO sources to get fast and better results

do follow forums are useful but it depend on many factors like page rank of the forum, domain and page authority of forum.

For forum backlinks to be effective you should post or comment with quality and not spam.

Do follow and high pr forums rally helps....

and also your comment is relevant to the topic,,,,

use backlinksindexer for quality backlink. as i use this and no need to waste your time by doing yourself.

Yes forums backlinks count but you have to choose a good forum for this purpose.

Forum posting with signature link help you to increase the visibility of your website.

It will work if that forum is related with your service and trusted.
How to find out they are trusted?
Ans: They are on the web for so long. You can check their domain registration date also.

Do follow forum links from high PR relevant forums are no doubt help in improving SERP.but forum profile links are useless just creating link, which may or may not get index.

Finding active niche forums is easier said than done. I've only found a few in my field but am also on a number of SEO forums as there are more of them. For me it a good diversion from my daily tasks and if I get a link as well that's great. Most of the well moderated forums are nofollow but that has never been a consideration for me anyway.

yes they are still work, but on high pr and quality forums.

So I was searching for "Forum backlinks" on Google and I got here. Here's my case:

I got three new minisites now live. I've started making backlinks for the first site mainly from article submissions. I have around 15 indexed backlinks, one half of these are from AMR submissions.

Now, I am planning on taking a new set of backlinks from related forums. I have around a 100 of related forums and I have located the thread posts with PR. So I have myself now specific forum threads/pages that have the ff:

1. Relevancy to my site
2. PR 1+ (since my sites are still new so I'm happy of getting PR 1)
3. DoFollow

Do you think this is a good idea for minisites? The first site was just launched last March and I am putting the signature links this week to about a 50 since I made some quality comments last week. The basics of signature links they said is to make a comment, quality comment, then leave it for 7 days. After 7 days has passed, inject the signature links so the moderators will not flagged your account.

So is this method good enough for new minisites or should I focus more on quality article submissions and web 2.0 sites? What's the catch here?

TIA

they do work if the forum has a high pr and the backlinks are dofollow

Forum links do work but ugh, most of them are discounted. Don't bother wasting time on that.

Surely Do-follow backlinks will increase traffic..

Forum backlinks brings minimal link juice to your site. No point spamming the forum with useless junk replies and hoping to rank high in the search engines.