How to Get the Most from Forum Links

jeffnova · 03-11-2008, 05:56 AM

I'm trying to increase the SERPs for our music website through stronger links. As suggested in this forum, one way is to use links in forum posts.

There is a music forum that I already post to 3-5 times daily, and the links do not have the nofollow in them, which I believe makes them a good candidate for linking.

So I'm looking to understand the best strategy to use links in my signature on the music forum - should I:

1. Use the same signature link in all my posts for a month or so, so that the forum accumulates 90 or so of the same link (same keyword linked to same page)

or

2. Does just one link per forum gain all the SERP benefit you're going to get, and it's better to change the signature link with each post, to get more keywords linked to more pages.

zeruel · 03-11-2008, 06:01 AM

Use your targeted keywords as an Anchor Text in your sig... Just like what I have in mine..

Build quality and relevant links with your keywords as your anchor text...

jeffnova · 03-11-2008, 06:09 AM

zeruel, thanks, but what about my question?

corlock · 03-11-2008, 07:18 AM

I believe zeruel already answered your question. just use your keywords in putting up forum sigs so you will gain the benefit of a one-way link which can improve SERP ranking...changing it from time to time will do you no good. if you want to rank other keywords, just add up some more links but be sure to read the forum guidelines about the number of forum sigs your capable with or you can join with other related forum and put your other keywords there...

jeffnova · 03-11-2008, 08:21 AM

Corlock, I'm trying to understand if just one link per forum gains all the SERP benefit you're going to get, or does Google rank it higher if it sees the same link repeated over and over within the same forum domain.

corlock · 03-11-2008, 08:29 AM

to gain the benefit you obviously want, its per post, not per forum. so, the more you post, the more beneficial it will get.

~DaRk-EyE~ · 03-11-2008, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by jeffnova

Corlock, I'm trying to understand if just one link per forum gains all the SERP benefit you're going to get, or does Google rank it higher if it sees the same link repeated over and over within the same forum domain.

It is OK to use the same link repeated over and over within the same forum domain...
Through this you can focus on particular keyword that you want to optimize...
Try to observe if there are improvements in your rankings and by the time that its in a stable position you can already move on to another keyword that you want to optimize next...

tdd1984 · 03-11-2008, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jeffnova

I'm trying to increase the SERPs for our music website through stronger links. As suggested in this forum, one way is to use links in forum posts.

There is a music forum that I already post to 3-5 times daily, and the links do not have the nofollow in them, which I believe makes them a good candidate for linking.

So I'm looking to understand the best strategy to use links in my signature on the music forum - should I:

1. Use the same signature link in all my posts for a month or so, so that the forum accumulates 90 or so of the same link (same keyword linked to same page)

or

2. Does just one link per forum gain all the SERP benefit you're going to get, and it's better to change the signature link with each post, to get more keywords linked to more pages.

You won't get nothing from forum links, nothing at all maybe a nibble of link juice and site wide links help no more then 1 link coming from one website. The idea is to get one way unique links for example we have clients we work with that are ranking for keyword such as printer ink, printers, online printing, inkjet cartridges..

in the uk search engines and the US search engines we have even ranked many other terms such as dating related terms and was all done through one way link building.

bogs · 03-11-2008, 06:48 PM

forum links also count as backlinks... but like what they said you should more post..

jeffnova · 03-11-2008, 07:39 PM

OK I think I get it - thanks guys!

tdd1984 · 03-11-2008, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by bogs

forum links also count as backlinks... but like what they said you should more post..

Forum links don't give no credit...

Once you get a link from a site it has no more effect having 2 more you want unique 1 way links and forum links are not going to build your rankings specially if your wanting a profitable business.

vilelink · 03-11-2008, 09:31 PM

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Forum links don't give no credit...

Once you get a link from a site it has no more effect having 2 more you want unique 1 way links and forum links are not going to build your rankings specially if your wanting a profitable business.

How about dofollow forum. Won' they pass PR and help to increase the linked website?
Also signature links in related forum and active participation will help in bringing good amount of traffic. Isn't it true?

regards

tdd1984 · 03-11-2008, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by vilelink

How about dofollow forum. Won' they pass PR and help to increase the linked website?
Also signature links in related forum and active participation will help in bringing good amount of traffic. Isn't it true?

regards

Do follow links will pass link juice the idea is to get volume of links through uniques sites, but out of all honesty forum links do nothing for you they might draw you a few leads or bring a bit of direct traffic and things similar to that, but over all the highest converting traffic will come from search engines.

Keyword targeted traffic is the best traffic to have and how you get that is through building links from multiple websites for example if you had 900 links coming from v7n in your forum signatures it would do nothing different then what one link would do from a search engine perspective, but if you was to get 900 links from 900 different websites it would give you major impact speaking there good links..

arcel · 03-12-2008, 05:33 AM

forum links are one way of gaining traffic. specially if you place interesting sigs on it.

jeffnova · 03-12-2008, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tdd1984

if you had 900 links coming from v7n in your forum signatures it would do nothing different then what one link would do from a search engine perspective,.

That's what I was looking for. So a V7N sig link is good for one "link" and the best strategy would be to change the link keywords often in the signature.

Resonate · 03-12-2008, 04:45 PM

I totally agree with tdd1984, once you gain a link from a specific website all other links on top of that are worth nothing more. It goes the same with websites hosted on the same IP addresses with shared web hosts.

bogs · 03-12-2008, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by tdd1984

Forum links don't give no credit...

Once you get a link from a site it has no more effect having 2 more you want unique 1 way links and forum links are not going to build your rankings specially if your wanting a profitable business.

I disagree... i have some backlinks from some forum...
According to google and quote..

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Your site's ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards your rating. The sites that link to you can provide context about the subject matter of your site, and can indicate its quality and popularity.
google.com

jeffnova · 03-12-2008, 05:43 PM

I think when Google says the quantity of links matter, they are referring to links from different sites, not the quantity from within one site.

MrCat · 03-12-2008, 08:02 PM

Guys, another important aspect of participating in forums are the potential direct visitors - aside from learning from and being able to helpout your co-members.

And in the context of SEO - it does help in boosting on your ranking in SERP's.

oldstocks · 03-22-2008, 06:32 PM

I think using as many SEO link tricks is the best method to spread out the type and frequency of links so toom many/too fast is not a problem.

My method is to manually log (yes, paper!) and plan my SEO efforts. All take a little time so there is some time management involved. It also helps with budgeting money spent.