Forum Posting Good For SEO?

Only if it is in-context. Spammed forum blasts might be next on Google's hit list.

There are far too many factors involved when it comes to ranking to say that the only reason the site is ranking No1 is the backlinks pointing to it.

You say the keyword is a "relatively new" one. This implies that there may be very few pages trying to optimize for it yet. And the only page that is is going to get top stop.

Google indexes pages and pages hold page rank and authority too. Backlink posting on high authority threads can have great SEO benefit.
The difficulty sometimes lies in indexing such links. But again that has many variable factors too.

A big part of my SEO strategy.

I have a team of 5 employees who's sole objective is to create backlinks on forums.
Maybe not in this spammy way.
I have a 3 pronged approach.

I would have all 5 join the 5 leading forums related to the market (25 Accounts) I was targeting. And have become active, helpful and respected members of the community.

This has 3 major benefits.

Firstly I am going straight to my target audience and supplying them with relevant and helpful information regarding the subject (keyword).

Second I can use link recommendations that drive highly targeted traffic to my site.

And lastly, I can use the forum signatures for gaining backlinks from highly relevant websites to whatever the niche may be.

Hope this helps.
Kevin

Icodemachine,

As mentioned by David, forum posting can be a great way to both build backlinks (if the forum is do-follow) and increase traffic to your website. Spammy forum posting however is definitely not good for longevity on your website. Just be natural and helpful and it will work out.

Check out this post on the topic,

Good Forum Posts Drive SEO | Write Effects

Hope that helps,

Shawn

Definitely will help if the forum your posting on is high page ranked.

If you want to know how to do forum SEO / forum-based branding campaigns right, study the titles on this forum's threads. Then do a search on google. A pattern will quickly emerge.

That, my son, is your answer

It is best to diversify your baclinks from various sources not just from forums.

You can do well at forum posting, especially if it is on threads to do with your keywords. Not much hope finding dog clothes threads on this one - lol

Do-follow forum posting really will help you to get good backlinks. SEO is too wide. Even there are many options to do.

Good forum your posting on is high page ranked in the search en gin place.

There is no doubt forum posting is best.

it isn't good its f$$king great for all the reasons mentioned above, i just wanted to reinforce this idea!

do it more and do it often

yes, backlink from high authority forum is a safe backlink strategies.

Keep up offering value added and receive much target traffic,too

Forum posting is good for backlink.
You can get good page rank and some new tips by it.
Actually forum helps directly and indirectly.

If its a forum in your niche it's great!

Like Kevin has stated above, there are so many factors involved in ranking a site. We really even know what Google is thinking when it comes to sig links. But many SEOs believe that those kinds of links are of low quality.

But again, they think far different from what Google does.

Forum posting is really good seo strategy because this process help us to build quality links fast. we can easily get dofollow links from forums.

The main problem with finding a niche related forum is most likely it will be from a competitor.

Yes it will be good if you can do it in correct way.

To do forum posting safely just use signature links to promote your site. And in this forum avoid direct linking at any cost.

I only use it on popular websites like this one for indexing, not for SEO. Spamming forums is bad, real bad. I advise against blasting forums profiles.

If the forum is niche-related, it would be great and could be useful, you can also get some visitors that could be interested in your offers or your website!

Remember this though.

Just because it is working for them and they are ranking using that approach right not, doesn't mean they will be ranking with that approach in 4 weeks from now.

Also when you say its a forum link its not the traditional forum profile link from what I understand, but more like starting a post on a forum and publishing an article that includes a link correct?