[Plumley]

I was clueless about that, too., and it's a tasty tidbit to know. When you think about it, it does make sense. And here I've been discounting sig lines as fluff. Oy.

[tshugo]

Originally Posted by deelip

I didnt know that before only signature can give pr2 for a site. I have a site with no backlink but lots of signature links.
I didnt expect any pr since i i didnt have any backlinks. But only forum signature bring my site in pr2. Isnt that great?

Thats kinda great

[andreww38]

i'm getting a ton of high PR backlinks with my sigs.

and a bunch of organic traffic too.

a lot of it depends on your post quality and the size of the board.

[wizkid]

has anyone noticed my sig? help me people i dont know what to do with it. im willing to let someone rent it for a couple months if thats what it will take for someone to explain in details how the sig links help increase PR.

[Hurgoll]

I never new sigs helped so much, maybe I better start.

[SageMother]

Originally Posted by deelip

Yeah.
I used to be wondered seeing people buying forum signature.
Once a guy asked for my forum signature in 5$ for 2 months. I only thought thats for traffic. I know that also can be usefull for pagerank also only after the last pagerank update.

Will you charge him more now that you know this, assuming he asks again?

[proson]

that's is true, a forum signature link is just a back link. perhaps the forum anchor text <a href ...> should be the same as the html format. so you've got backlinks.

it's a guess, since i was a computer engineer.

the method actually is called "link building" in SEO terms. there's a lot of ways to build your website backlinks beside forum signatures!

[proson]

hey andrew wee is here? is that your kid andrew? I read you through Joel Comm's or marketers website i can't remember!

[berlinlife06]

Originally Posted by triumph

One thing I might try is to go back and link to a new site in all my forum posts in all the forums I belong to. Over the years I have made a lot of posts. I wonder what would happen if all those posts turned to a new site right away.

If you do this, please let us know what results you get. I was wondering that myself! I guess I would be surprised of all the posts I made too.

[reviewer]

It really helps most to post on related forums. That way you're getting relevance in your backlinks, which boosts PR.