Is forum signature considerd as a backlink?

[marketraisecorp]

Yes it is a backlink rather an incoming link to be more specific.It can be searched by link:website dot com in Google.

[c4cyber]

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.

[Red_Virus]

Yes It is a backlink, that can be explained by the fact that on other forums even sig links are also sold.

[Grounded]

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.

[chrishirst]

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.

[addy123]

Yes forum signature as always considered as backlink.

[admin]

You just have to make sure that the forum links do not have the "no follow" attribute.
Google ignores these links.

[netridge]

I thought forum links are valid as long as the content is similar to your own.

[build-a-host]

No, it does not. I sure wish it did though! If it did I would have hundreds of thousands of backlinks!

[yogesh]

Originally Posted by MrCat

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.