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05-08-2012, 05:07 AM #1Disabled
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Forum Posting for SEO
suppose you have website about Car related. so do you think your website will get rank high if you are add your car related site as a signature of webmaster forum? or you will be looking for Car related forum for add signature? share your experience.
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05-08-2012, 05:28 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Seeing that cars have nothing to do with a webmaster forum I would suspect that it would not lead to any increased traffic.
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05-08-2012, 05:34 AM #3Disabled
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05-08-2012, 06:15 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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I think you are misguided if you think that is the case.
Building back links on a webmaster forum for a site about cars is 1) not going to be of intrest to anyone on that forum 2) not going to translate into a quality backlink.
If you just go put your link on everything under the sun your probably more likely to get down ranked.0
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05-08-2012, 08:57 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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You may be better off participating in a forum about cars in the hopes that you provide something of value to car enthusiasts.
SE's have long wised-up to mass forum posting with signatures attached. Many forums won't even show sigs unless the viewer is a registered member (which SE bots would not be).0
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05-08-2012, 11:57 AM #6Newbie
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It depends on the way of using forums and most of the time its a spam to only use forums for having signatures and getting signatures in every forum wont give you traffic. So it depends on your choice of forums. There are other strategies for getting traffic as well, forums may give you good back links but not good traffic.
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05-08-2012, 02:03 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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To get the best out of both worlds (traffic and relevant backlinks) it will always be favorable to find your niche (car) related forums or web directories to promote your site.
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05-09-2012, 01:29 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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Adding car related site as a signature in car forums will provide better results in terms of backlinks and traffic. As relevancy does matter in serp ranking.
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05-10-2012, 08:13 AM #9Newbie
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Don't know why many say that this method doesn't have much effect. I've seen a decent flow of traffic to one of my websites I created for testing the waters.
To be honest, it did help me. But not just posting a link on sig and sitting back there. I tried that on one forum where I was highly active. That might also be a point.
But I'm not sure if it'll help with rankings, though.0
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05-10-2012, 08:23 AM #10Newbie
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I gave a link about blog commenting here http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpo...14&postcount=8
You can find there information about ways of using forums for SEO too.0
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05-10-2012, 09:54 AM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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I think you can gain both traffic and ranking from forum posting , but I don`t advice to have it in your signature , It will be much better If you can do it in related forums by posting anchor text linking to your site .So in this case you will gain the targeted traffic and have better chance to higher your rank using different anchor texts.
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05-10-2012, 01:49 PM #12Junior Guru
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Forum posting shall be good way to get more higher rankings but
1. It shall not be the only SEO you follow as link diversity is important you shall take backlinks from different kind of sites.
2. You shall prefer to have Automobile or Car related forum itself preferred for posting of car related forum posts.0
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05-11-2012, 02:33 AM #13Newbie
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I am really puzzle to read the discussion as i have seen on many of the forums that people are participating actively in the forums having links in their signatures not related to the discussion's point of view like one is participating in web development forum having signatures about a travel agency. I usually check their traffic stats as well and found many of the times that they are getting handy traffic as well. So is there any possibility that these kind of practices are useful for getting traffic towards a site?
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05-18-2012, 06:07 AM #16Web Hosting Guru
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Ok I would like to take issue with this assumption, i.e. that everyone who is on a webmaster/SEO forum has no interests other than the forum subjects.
People here have lives outside of webmaster/SEO and they buy cars, houses, and other things and if they read postings by someone who makes valuable contributions to an unrelated forum, might they not follow their link if they could be interested?
I've had quite a few hits from sites such as this one, admittedly some are just curious from an SEO point of view after reading a post and it ends in a bounce but some have visited different pages and stayed a while.
If you are in business then it would be silly to not take advantage of a possible opportunity, regardless of what it may do for SERP.
The whole end purpose of SEO is to drive quality traffic, which could lead to conversion.
In fact ı would like to turn the whole point around. If you are on a forum to do with cars, and everyone else on that forum is trying to sell the same kind of thing as you, how much business are you going to get from those you are competing against?
In other words, which of them is going to buy from you? It is one business talking to another, the customer potential has to be very low.
But if you are somewhere else, establishing yourself as someone who makes a sensible and valuable contribution, aren't there perhaps new opportunities?0
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05-19-2012, 01:35 PM #17New Member
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Don't chase pagerank... I have a site that ranks #1 for a competitive term in my market and the site has a lower pagerank than the other sites that rank below me. Those sites chased pagerank and look it didn't even pay off. According to SEMRush I get more search engine rankings and traffic than them as well.
Relevancy is more important than PageRank.0
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05-21-2012, 12:33 AM #18WHT Addict
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With the new update, you will have to be carefully with forum posting; post but don't spam.
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05-31-2012, 05:18 AM #19Junior Guru Wannabe
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Forum signature links can help drive traffic through direct referrals in addition to SEO. That's why it helps to write thoughtful, intelligent comments that add value to the discussion.
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05-31-2012, 05:38 AM #21Junior Guru
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06-03-2012, 04:30 PM #24Newbie
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it's not nearly as useful as it used to be.
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