Sunday, August 2, 2009

Building Links through Dofollow Forum Signatures

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/J2xqk)



Forums are where social networks can start. So, here are a few things to take note:

How Forums Work to Boost Your Site’s Position in the Search Engines



  1. Make sure you get links as votes to your site.

  2. Establish links from respected sites.

  3. Comment on a blog that uses dofollow to get one link back from that post.

  4. Submit an article to an article directory to also earn a link.

  5. Create forums so that you add a post to a forum thread.


Detecting if the Forum Will Pass Rank to Your Site





    1. Prevent spam and make sure you create a "nofollow" tag.

    2. A normal link in html looks like this: <a href="http://www.website.com">This is your link text</a> and a "nofollow" link looks like this: <a ref="http://www.website.com" rel="nofollow">This is your link text</a> . That rel="nofollow" does a lot.

    3. If there is a rel="nofollow" around your link, note that it is worthless for building your rank in the search engine results.

    4. Browse to a thread in the forum of your choice and make sure there are some signatures showing.

    5. To detect if a forum is using nofollow tags, first right click in the middle of your browser’s window. On a Mac, this would be Control and your normal mouse click.

    6. Depending on your browser, you should see something like "View Page Source" or just "View Source". Click that.

    7. Determine if a forum is dofollow is just search the whole page for "nofollow". Ctrl+F.  This usually brings up a search menu on most browsers and you can do this with source code.

    8. Push Control and F at the same time, type "nofollow" and hit enter. If nothing comes up, you are at a dofollow forum.

    9. If your search does turn up a "nofollow", check it to see if it is around one of the signature links.

    10. To make that a bit easier, go back to the real page, copying one of the signature links, search for that on the html source (the page we got by right clicking) and determine if the signature link itself has a nofollow tag.




Creating Your Forum Signature



  1. Research for the best ways to edit your forum profile.

  2. Sign up.

  3. Click on the link so your forum membership will be activated.

  4. Add your signature and flesh out your profile.

  5. Look around on that top bar for something that says "Edit Signature", "Edit Profile", "Control Panel" or something similar.

  6. Fill out your whole profile so that you will get some traffic from other forum users.

  7. In your signature, put your links and a small blurb.

  8. Use good judgement when creating your signature to avoid spam links.

  9. The basics of your link are : <a href=”http://ping.fm/Qyh2e” Title=”

  10. This pops up when you mouse over the link and should have important keywords, if allowed by forum”>This is your anchor text and should have important keywords</a>


Finding Forums



  1. Find forums related to your niche. These will give your most valuable backlinks because the content is related.

  2. If you find that this limits the amount of forums you can be active on, branch out.

  3. You can also go to unrelated forums and add your signature.

  4. The members of these forums still talk about webmaster things, but their signatures point to unrelated sites.

  5. One of the easiest ways to find forums is to use a keyword related to your niche and add forum to the end of it.

  6. Another way is to use a forum search site.

  7. Here are a couple:



Some DoFollow Forum Lists


Here are forums have already been checked for dofollow links:


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