Forum signatures and blog comments are one of the most debated seo methods and in the same time, one of the most easy and accessible thing. Most of the seo experts say it’s useless and for sure when you have a blog with 5000 subscribers posting on forums just to get a few backlinks is a waste of time. After all, the question is not if forums signatures and blog comments are effective, but in what conditions they are effective. I mentioned the example of sites having 5000 subscribers. For big sites the subscribers represents the actual channel of creating backlinks. If 5000 people read a new post, maybe 5 of them have blogs and will generate backlinks, and other 10 people will find it interesting, share and bookmark it.

What to do if you have a new blog having 1 visitor and you are that visitor. The chances to get backlinks are approximately 0, and every new visitor is important. I think in this situation posting on forums and commenting on relevant blogs worth it. But you have to keep in mind that nobody likes the spammers(not even other spammers), so it’s better not to be one and to follow a few rules:

• post only useful information, relevant to the forum/post you’re using
• try to use forums/posts in your niche
• be polite and don’t judge other people. If they say crappy things, don’t attack them, just combat what they say.
• if you don’t have something relevant and useful to say then don’t post.

After all keep in mind you promote more than a link site, you promote the brand of a website, and an online profile and you don’t want people to associate it with some spam. 

Forums Signatures

You should never relay on the reputation(link juice) given by the forum backlinks, even if the links are dofollow. Search engines developed complex algorithms and forum links have a pattern that is easy to detect and forums signatures backlinks have a low value.

Forums are great to bring targeted visitors and is better to use them wisely. Don’t post on each thread, try to add useful and documented information. A good post in a forum thread if much better than 10 spammy ones, if it’s informative and clarifies some doubts. People will spend more time reading it instead of skipping and the chances to land on your page are higher. After all “The Value of the Link is directly proportional to how hard it is to get, as mentioned in a post about forum signatures from nbridges media.

Blog Comments Blog comments in most of the cases are nofollow. It’s hard to find important blogs having dofollow comments. You can use specialized tools like  Fast Blog Finder. A small demo of how to use it is here.

The most important fact about blog commenting is that you can get noticed by other bloggers with high established blogs. If your blog is interesting they subscribe to it and they can add backlinks to what you post.

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