Is forum signature considerd as a backlink?

[MrCat]

Originally Posted by yogesh

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.

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.

Somehow I find this portion somewhat in contradiction

[chrishirst]

actually there is no such thing as a nofollow tag

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by chrishirst

actually there is no such thing as a nofollow tag

Nofollow attributes...

[chrishirst]

Nope.

It's not even an attribute.

[chathura]

i have made over 20 posts. Some posts contains over 25 words. But still my signature not display below the post. although it is not display, will my each post count as backlink?
Please help me.

[chathura]

Ok i found that, my signature indicated after 25 posts. Thanks admin.

[chrishirst]

Something of a sad indictment of the only reason some people join forums there I think!

[SticKer]

yup it counts as a backlink and also helps in getting traffic to your site.

[ewisely]

Hi all,

I've read all the replies and most of you said that a forum sig is considered
a backlink by SE. If it's just a link back to your website, yes it is, but
if you're thinking that this "backlink" will improve your PR, then I beg to differ.

Somewhere last year Google has mentioned that the backlinks from forum
will not be used as a consideration for boosting PR, because over the years
too many people have abused this system and place their backlinks in
whatever forums they stumbled upon, and this greatly messed up the
page ranking system.

But indisputably the sig file in the forum does help you bring more traffic.

Hope this clears all your doubts.

If you want to really boost up your SE ranking and bring more "organic"
traffic to your website, you'll need to go by the genuine SEO strategy
that is legal and favored by all search engines especially Google and
Yahoo.

There's a place where you can download the search engine ebook for
free and you can learn some great tactics there.

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(Sorry dudes, as I'm a new passer-by, I can't make the link active
unless I've made 20 posts, so you'll have to copy and paste the
url into your browser to take a look.)

Hope that helps.

[banibhusan]

Yes signature is an easy way of getting traffic to your site.Most of the people who has forums that target a specific section or area,market their site mostly in their niche.So through signature you can get traffic that can be of interest to you.

It can also increase your domain ranking as it is considered as back links and simultaneously ur PR would also increase.