Do search engines see links on forum signatures?
Forum marketing would seem to be one of the best ways to get backlinks to your website. Problem is most forums external links have the no follow attribute added to them. Forum threads also have no page rank plus with all the outgoing links the link juice is diluted. These factors make signature links from forums almost worthless. I say almost because your links can still be found by people interested in what you have to say on the forum. If you contribute worthwhile posts folks will click on your link to find out what else you have to say. Other than that forum marketing may not be the ultimate way of getting backlinks. But some forums do not use the no follow tag which is a good thing for you when you are building backlinks. You can check to see if the links are no follow by viewing source and then looking for <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.nameofsite.coml”>linked text</a> if the “nofollow” is not there then the link is followed.
