Is this website good for ranking?

[Shayna27]

I understand that building your link popularity will higher your ranking for search engines. But if you have your links on websites like this one, in the threads, will it higher your ranking?

[builderscut.com]

I think if your linked to the forum it will drive people to your site If thats what you mean It can't hurt

[spanishproperty]

It won't hurt your rankings, it's not an exchange, it's a oneway link.

Oneway links are what you should be looking for, but you need to spend them round a bit. Go on other forums, forums of interest as well as real estate as it is something that you can contibute to with knowledge. Also start a blog, post on your blog leaving your signature, submit links to directories, build free sites linking to your site (long and hard process as you need to get those sites noticed !). Write and submit articles with your signature.

The harder the oneway link is to get the better the value...

[waynelong]

I think all one way links are good and the forum signature qualifies. Many feel that signature links do not carry as much value as some other forms of links. It would be better if you used your keyword and linked it to the site rather than just your url.

Wayne

[spanishproperty]

I agree Wayne what you said about signature links not carrying much value but it's a start.

The harder it is to get a one way link that better value it holds, forum links are easy to get and build up but the hard ones take a long time to find and hold.

[vamoosevarmint]

from what i understand that some forums are now adding a nofollow tag and your text links are not seen. It is not on all forums but on some takes a long time to find the one with a nofollow. I have plenty of links comming from forums.
Dan

[fsbo-man]

I agree Wayne, links from forums are not so inportant for google

[VicBilson]

from what i understand that some forums are now adding a nofollow tag and your text links are not seen. It is not on all forums but on some takes a long time to find the one with a nofollow. I have plenty of links comming from forums.
Dan

The nofollow tag will mean that no page rank will be passed along with your link. Search engines will still follow the link so backlinks with nofollow tags do have some value. Of course, it's better where there the nofollow tag is not used.

- Vic Bilson

[waynelong]

I have seen some pretty good evidence that sig links do carry weight although just less that some other forms of text links. I like sig links because I follow them to find out more if I think the writer has some interesting ideas.

[Monkeyleg]

People over on webmasterworld.com seem to agree that, while forum sig line links have value, they diminish in value as the number of posts increases.

There's one forum where I have over 4,000 posts. I sincerely doubt that my sig line in 4,000 posts is the equivalent of 4,000 individual links to my site.

The same goes for Wiki's, directories that allow for multiple submissions, etc.

[netrambler]

I hope it is. I don't want all my posts here to be in vain ;). I still haven't got to the point where they will show my sig yet!

[waynelong]

They are good for you but you will get far more from being involved in the community than just sig links. The sig links are just a by product. :)

[backgammonnn123]

I understand that building your link popularity will higher your ranking for search engines. But if you have your links on websites like this one, in the threads, will it higher your ranking?

Shayna, I dont see any metatag data for that page. Is it a one page landing site? If so it wont rank well for google. Its a nice looking page for sure:D, but you need other content rich pages behind the landing page for googles liking.

[GringoBob]

BackGammon hit the nail on the head Shayna - no meta tag description and no meta tag keywords will stop the crawlers from even looking at your site - you need to fix those first and then see if traffic improves

[BSGCORP]

bottom line yes posting a link in your sig helps. and if you put it with sites that have alot of relevency to your site it gives you even more credit. At least this is what i have been told

[MAAOnline]

People over on webmasterworld.com seem to agree that, while forum sig line links have value, they diminish in value as the number of posts increases.

There's one forum where I have over 4,000 posts. I sincerely doubt that my sig line in 4,000 posts is the equivalent of 4,000 individual links to my site.

The same goes for Wiki's, directories that allow for multiple submissions, etc.

That is interesting. So it will help to a point, it depends upon how many times you post. I wonder if there is a specific number that's too much.

[Jim B]

yes as long as they do not put nofollow tags on the signature links here they have some value.

I read someplace that if more than 20% of your links are coming from one site, then you need to diversify more. In other words more than 1 in 5 links coming form the same site is to much.

[tina.anderson]

So if you have links on 1,000 different websites that will help you much more than loading a bunch of them onto a few dozen sites?

[ExtraArm]

no meta tag description and no meta tag keywords will stop the crawlers from even looking at your siteA bit off topic, but META data for Google is optional. META description is important in that it can increase SERP CTR; META keyword tag is ignored by Google and MSN, and the SEO benefits are marginal for Yahoo. It's not a bad thing to use META keywords for misspellings, but not having META data will certainly not stop crawlers from looking at your site.

Back on topic, I have seen several sites that rank well with forum sig links as their primary source of backlinks, so though I don't believe forum links are all that powerful (Google tends to devalue any user-generated backlinks), they can help round out your link profile.

[waynelong]

Not sure I agree. The testing I have seen suggests that descriptions and Titles still carry a lot of value with all three search engines. Can't see where meta tags make much difference. I may be wrong but this is my take. :)

[ExtraArm]

The testing I have seen suggests that descriptions and Titles still carry a lot of value with all three search engines.

I didn't say anything about the TITLE element. You don't need to agree. It's a fact and I've also done plenty of testing. META descriptions have no effect on ranking.

[cobs]

yes, any backlink will definitely help you in your ranking
But how much it helps you in boosting depends, on the website from where it is linked to and how good it is on the niche and how well it is related to your niche

[cobs]

yes definitely the signatures here also help in building backlinks and further help in rankings in search engines

But how much it helps is a contentious issue

[alex aguilar]

Forums links are nice but content is king, i think that people get to caught up with links when the user wont find any good information when they get to your site. There is a fine line and balance between the two.

[waynelong]

Links to get you there and then content to keep them interested and to convert them to a client. Unique useful content is still the only way to convert clients.

[toto]

Yes, that's how it works. when quality sites point to your site it will improve your rank. the rank of this site is 4. Not too bad.

[u474755]

I guess a one-way link can't hurt.

[marcosll]

Links from this forum will give you VERY LITTLE boost.

Factors that affect links:

How many links on a page.

How relative the pages (linking from and to) are with the text on the page.

Amount of text on the page compared with the links.

Pagernak of the page with the link

Place on page of the link (high = more benefit, lower = less benefit).

[OceanView Properties]

As I am a new Website Designer, I would have to agree. I built my first one about six weeks ago and I have been building free ones through google and yahoo redirecting to my site. I am also creating banners on other sites and reciprocating links. OceanView Properties:DIt won't hurt your rankings, it's not an exchange, it's a oneway link.

Oneway links are what you should be looking for, but you need to spend them round a bit. Go on other forums, forums of interest as well as real estate as it is something that you can contibute to with knowledge. Also start a blog, post on your blog leaving your signature, submit links to directories, build free sites linking to your site (long and hard process as you need to get those sites noticed !). Write and submit articles with your signature.

The harder the oneway link is to get the better the value...

[OceanView Properties]

What do you mean by a one-way link. Alot of sites will not let you advertise on their site unless you do a reciprocal link. ???:confused:

[marcosll]

Hi Ocean View welcome to the world of website design and optimisation!

For a second there I thought you were Ocean View Properties in Spain (a competitor of mine).

By One-Way link he means a link like the one you can place on this same forum you're reading.

That constitutes a 1 way link from realestateforum.com to my website.

Since they are forum post links they hold very little value, but are great to get noticed by google and if you post often they can yield big results. It's a tough way to advertise but at least it's cheap (not free since you're investing time).

Welcome and good luck!

[ruthrbns]

There is no problem in adding a one way link to your site if the moderator permits. It will be even better if we add the link in the signature section rather than adding it with our post.


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[lyka27]

Yes, that helps your ranking, but it depends also the popularity of the web site that are linking for. Because high ranking web sites, helps you in promoting your web sites as well.

[rainier]

posting your sig i forums will definitely increased your backlink and it won't hurt your site but it helps in boosting traffic....