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Old 10-25-2007, 10:42 AM
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Yes it is a backlink rather an incoming link to be more specific.It can be searched by link:website dot com in Google.
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Old 11-26-2007, 03:42 AM
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well, what to confuse about.Having signature at different forum is good for your site. In case you have a quality number of posts, it's another way of promoting your website among people on that forums.
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Old 11-28-2007, 08:15 AM
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Yes It is a backlink, that can be explained by the fact that on other forums even sig links are also sold.
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Old 11-29-2007, 02:27 AM
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Yes forum signature links will help to generate traffic and will also help you to gain PR if those forum doesn't use no follow tags.
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it's another way of promoting your website among people on that forums.
Exactly!

Forget the dumb idea that sig links are some magic bullet for SE ranking because they aren't.
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Old 12-14-2007, 06:24 PM
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Yes forum signature as always considered as backlink.
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Old 12-15-2007, 04:48 AM
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You just have to make sure that the forum links do not have the "no follow" attribute.
Google ignores these links.
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Old 12-15-2007, 05:32 AM
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I thought forum links are valid as long as the content is similar to your own.
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No, it does not. I sure wish it did though! If it did I would have hundreds of thousands of backlinks!
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Your forum signature can be considered as a back link if the forum has disabled the "no follow tags" - in which case, SE bots are unable to jump to your site via your sig links
There is no such things as disabling nofollow tags, unless a forum administrator has made signature links nofollow by editing his/her board, you will get the back links.

However these back links normally don’t carry much weight, mainly due to the fact a forum thread has numerous outbound links and only a few have any PR.

But forum links are a good source of targeted traffic.
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