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Forum Link Building: Any SEO Benefit?

By: Morris Renner

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Lot of people wonder whether forum link building works or not. Some opportunists are even engaged in full time trade of selling forum backlinks preying on unsuspecting link builders that are new to the industry. Save your time and/or money on such ineffective link building approach as it purely doesn’t work.

It might come to a shock to some as it is somewhat of a widespread belief that it is possible to drive a boat full of backlinks to a web site or a weblog with forum link building approach. If we look at few key particulars on link building and how Google prices the backlinks, we will agree that such system is nothing but pure waste of time.

A forum post generally has 20 comments per page on average with some forums having as much as 40 comments. Where some forums impose limitation on signature links by allowing only 2 links or so, others don’t impose any such restriction on signature links meaning you can have as many links as you desire on your signature.

We know by now that the quality of the backlinks is more crucial than the sheer number of link. There are several elements in determining the importance of the links but one most eminent factor is that more outgoing links a page has, less value per link is transferred. If a forum page has on average 20 comments with each member having 4 signature links, then each individual thread page has about 80 outgoing links just form the signatures. Not to point out the advertisements forum owners plant on the web site to monetize the forum which could be as much as 20+ external links per page.

An additional point to take into account is that a new thread page only stays on the front page of the forum for a brief period of time. It is usually not possible for Google to index that specific page and then crawl each and every single link found on that pages within this small window which means lot of your links will not even be counted by Google!

So as you can imagine, forum link building has barely any bearing in getting your site’s link popularity improved. So the question is, out of all the link building methods available out there that can benefit your site rank well, why would you use a system that will give no outcome?

When it comes to using the forum backlinks as a promotional method, it is vital to obtain related forums that are reputable and very active. More people visit a certain forum, more chance for you to promote your site, and higher your probability are for visits. Do not just stay engaged with one single forum but find several and split your time between all. This way you are presenting your site to a broader audience having a variety of different mindset. You can assemble the referral data to see which forum sending you how much traffic based on a given number of posts, you then can figure out where to spend most of your time.

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