Having links in your forum signature can provide backlinks to your site, but a lot of people are not aware how effective this method can be as a linkbuilding tool. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to easily build thousands of backlinks through forum signatures.
1) First thing to do - choose your forums. You should look for forums that are related to your niche. It would be better if you can find a lot of forums.However, it is OK to look for forums that are beyond the scope of your niche, but only when your site has a general appeal i.e. it discusses lots of subjects.
DO a Google search, and start searching for terms related to your niche, followed by the keyword 'forum' . Choose the forums you'd probably be using and bookmark it.
2) Once you have all your forums bookmarked, you are going to need a seperate email address for all the emails you'll be getting. This is also to safeguard your primary email address from spammers who might trawl the forums, and from admins who may be suspicious about your intentions. I recommend using gmail for this, becuase it's fast and easy to use.
3) The next part of the process is designed to disguise your intentions, by making you appear like a genuine member. This step isn't entirely necessary, but i have found that the likelihood of being banned and having your posts removed to be far less if this step is employed.
You will need to find yourself a signature image of some sort (not all of the forums you've bookmarked will have them enabled but the majority will), and an avatar. The forum signature image in particular can be very effective at convincing others that you are a genuine member.
4) Right, this is the important bit. This is where you will need to register on all your bookmarked forums. This process can be time consuming, but i promise you it's worth it. It is important to remember that a lot of the forums will require confirmation. You can confirm each one right after registering, but i usually register on all first, then confirm all of them. I'd also recommend making up a username to use on all the forums - don't use the one you use elsewhere. Don't forget to use the email address that you created earlier! IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU
DO NOT ADD ANY LINKS INTO YOUR SIGNATURE AT THIS POINT!
5) Now that we've got all that out the way, we can start building some links! For this step, you will need to go through each forum you've registered on, and make about 10-20 posts (it can be more if you like, but that can take a while. More posts = more backlinks). It is VERY important to abide by the following rules:
- Make quality posts, that appear to be genuine, so you're trying to be part of the forum.
- Don't post in topics that are ongoing for long periods of time, e.g. Forum games, post your picture etc. Violating this rule means people may spot the links in your signature, which could result in all your posts being deleted.
If you want to be more thorough with your linkbuilding, you can even target the higher
PR forums with more posts, if you wish.
6) Ok, so this is the bit that's actually going to give you the backlinks, and it's also the most important. Now you have your 20 or so backlinks on 30-40 sites, we can start adding links by editing the signature in our profiles. Before you do this, you will need to leave it at least a week, so that all the threads you posted in have disappeared out of public view. This is VERY important because lots of forums do not allow signature links, which means if you don't leave it a little while, people will spot your posts with signature links. It doesn't matter if people can't find them, because Google will.
It is also important to remember that you do not have to use the same text across all the forums you registered on, you could even diversify your anchor text if you want to. It's very much dependant on what keywords you're targetting.
When adding the links, make sure to add them over time. Don't just go straight onto all your profiles and edit them in. This step isn't so important if you're doing this on a small scale, but if you've done say 100 or so posts on a lot of the forums, then this is important. Namely because Google will recognise the mass linkbuilding, and it will result in your site being penalised. I've had this happen on a few of my sites.
7) Now that it's all been explained to you, you can continue to build links this way for all your sites, as well as continuously building links for the same site. It's a very effective progressive linkbuilding technique, and highly recommended.
I hope this article was of some help to those of you who aren't particularly knowledgeable on linkbuilding, and i will be following it up with a more in depth and complicated method for building links, in the near future.
Here's a list of dofollow forums with corresponding page ranks. Some of these forums allow signatures with url. You can use this for linkbuilding for backlinks, but please only make quality posts so that your posts would not be marked as spam.
