It is a question that is asked by many people on the internet who are seeking ways to get some backlinks for their site, so that they can increase their site’s PR or to improve their search results rankings.
Many people only join forums for this very purpose only. This is a total waste of time.
Joining forums is a good thing to do, but joining them, Only to get backlinks is not good.
Yes, links from forums do count as backlinks (If nofollow tag is not used), but these backlinks are not relevant and are not quality links.
In order to improve your site’s PR or to improve your search results ranking, you need to get high quality and relevant backlinks.
Also note that PR is only One Factor that Only Google uses in their search engine Algo: Google uses a total of 200+ factors for determining ranking.
The number of links on a page where you have a backlink, matters. You can see hundreds of links on every page in forums. This degrades the quality of these links.
If you really want to build some good backlinks, then I suggest you join different forums and spend some time reading and if possible, reply to threads with useful information.
Search for SEO forums, or forums with SEO section. This will help you a lot.
Forums are great place to learn SEO. You will learn how you can get quality and relevant backlinks. But for this, you need to spend some time everyday at few forums.
The best forum to join will be Google Webmaster Tools forum. Read Google Employee’s answers and also answers by other members. In this forum, you can learn a lot about SEO.
Then here are two Official articles about Building backlinks: Google and Bing
Do links from forums helps in any thing at all? Some people think that if you add your site’s link in your signature, then it will help your site to be crawled and indexed faster. If you have a new site, then just add its link in your signature and search engines will index it in no time.
The most simplest and legit and natural way to get backlinks is to write excellent content and add it in your site. People who will find this content useful, will link to your site. This is what we call as natural link building.
