Would Website Forum Signature Links help with SEO?

[harryden01]

Mine question is that " Google Says don't take backlinks as a signatures in forums " Is it right?? Because I want to also make signature in communities but Will it beneficial for us??? Share your opinion guys??

 

[webgeek]

Does anyone else have any input on this?

Thanks,

High traffic/volume sites with frequent updates are crawled and indexed much faster than those which aren't. This is true of html sites, blogs and forums.

Keep in mind that a busy forum will get more threads, more conversations and comments than a busy blog.

If you're unsure, have a look at the various posts which get indexed in Google in hours (if not minutes). Put a unique phrase in a post and see how long it takes to get indexed by testing for yourself.

In short, for once I'm agreeing with Ali...

 

[webstore]

There's a school of thought that sig links are paid-for-links and for paid-for backlinks that pass Google Page Rank then that's a serious breach of Google T&Cs and can hurt you in SERPs.

That's why I use rel="nofollow" in my sig links as below but ironically a post I made here a day or two ago came up in a Google search I was doing on one of my URLs as used in my sig link below. As such Google has ignored my rel="nofollow"

Having said that I have seen some sites put rel="nofollow" first in a link eg <a rel="nofollow" "http://www.[domain].co.uk"> so is that what one needs to do rather than rel="nofollow" after the URL ?

Also I am having a problem with my sig-links inasmuch using the URLNO tags - there's seemingly no way to add target="_blank"

Any input appreciated.

 

[webgeek]

@webstore - I believe the current Gooogle school of thought is that sig links passing page rank, and anchor text, are specifically named as a link scheme and should be avoided, just as you've indicated.

You can get dofollow links without passing anchor text or looking like you're manipulating keyword rankings by linking, and still get that bonus quick index/crawl.

Some say that just a clear positive brand mention, without a URL is gaining in effectiveness and is the savvy route to go.

I'll stick with posts for building trust/geo proximity links/niche relevance, and leave the sigs for anchor text desaturation via brand and/or URL anchors.

 

[Ali-v-8]

If you want to know what a paid link is take a look here - www sape ru.
These link have now been penalised by Google for being exactly that.
They dont even hide the fact on the home paid Blatantly admitting it.

 

[Suzuki]

Not sure what your point is - Sape is a paid link and so is footer link spam on paid forums. They're obviously nowhere close to as problematic for google as each other, they're at opposite ends of the spectrum. But they're both paid links.

 

[Ali-v-8]

NO they are not - You are paying for membership which allows you access to parts of this website that non members have not got access to. The signature link is only a perk to use or not to use by choice - some members dont even use them.

There is no sliding scale of cost involved with purchasing any links on this website unlike websites that the sole purpose is to monetise the links.

Not sure what your point is - Sape is a paid link and so is footer link spam on paid forums. They're obviously nowhere close to as problematic for google as each other, they're at opposite ends of the spectrum. But they're both paid links.

 

[ITsoldUK]

Yes, forum signature is helpful for SEO. It generate good traffic for a webpage.

Care to elaborate on this guff?

Will help you reach 15 in no time...

 

[lunarmachine]

I would be careful with this one - Google are pretty sharp to most tricks and it could be regarded as black hat tactics which could get your site penalised in the rankings or worse blacklisted from Google which is not what you want - if it can happen to BMW's website it can happen to you!

 

[Ali-v-8]

I am well aware of the BMW issue and its totally different - BMW was ill advised to gain rank in the used car market - they created multiple pages to gain more than one listing on page one of Google (nothing to do with links at all)
Search gateway or doorway pages so you know the difference.
The spammed the hell out of every conceivable word/phrase to get ranked and saturate the pages.
NDA's are a pain or i would give you more info

I would be careful with this one - Google are pretty sharp to most tricks and it could be regarded as black hat tactics which could get your site penalised in the rankings or worse blacklisted from Google which is not what you want - if it can happen to BMW's website it can happen to you!