Using forum posts for seo links

There are many different ways to link build as has been made clear and explored in this blog. People use directory entries, they rent or buy links from private sellers on the internet, they make link exchanges. I would like to take a moment to comment on using forum posts as a link building method.

Forum post firstly are quite easy to do. If you go to a forum where you genuinely have an opinion to share, you can generally make posts quite quickly and easily. If it is in a forum where you understand what is being discussed and you genuinely want to comment, none of your posts will be flagged as spam because you really do have an opinion to share. So how does chatting about things you want to talk about help you build links?

Well, once you have made a certain amount of posts – and this does differ from forum to forum – you are allowed to add signatures. A signature is a sign off that automatically appears at the base of each and every post that you make, and you signature can contain live links. What this means is that you can have a signature that is a sentence containing several live links to sites that you would like to link to. For example, your signature may read “My pages include smart lipo, hair restoration and roller banners.”

What this means is that every time you make a post to a forum, you are in fact plugging your own website! This can work very well.

The main thing you have to watch out for is indexing. Some forum sections are not indexed, and others are indexed but do not stay in the engines for very long. So whilst the links are easy to build, they may not last long enough depending on how long it takes you to write each post.