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[chris hopkins Contribution Level: 2]

i just set up new advertising forums at the cash community. You can create backlinks by posting here.

[Dream Team Contribution Level: 1]

Go look up yahoo site explorer to track your back links.

[Raymond Fellers Contribution Level: 1]

Backlinks from forums can help improve your ranking with the search engines. There is one thing to remember about backlinks from any source. Search engines rank pages and sites. Because some forum pages can actually have a higher PR than the home page. You can gain "link juice" from forum pages as well as blog pages.

[Raymond Fellers Contribution Level: 1]

I've been doing a lot of backlinking stuff recently, and I've got a question when it comes to forums and blog commenting. Are you credited with a backlink for each post? For instance, if I posted to the same forum 10 times in 1 day, would I get credit for 10 backlinks, or just 1? Just curious.

Posting to the same URL can actually hurt you. Backlinks are a way to build your site's ranking, as I'm sure you already know. But what you may not know is how backlinks are counted in the process. Let's say that you post on a forum page that has a PR 3 (yes there are some around). If you are the only one commenting on that page, you will receive the full benefit of the backlink.

However, if you post 1 time on a page with 9 other comments, you share the page rank juice with 9 others. You get 1/10th the value. So, if you post 11 times, you have effectively diluted the PR value. You don't gain much by doing that.

[Darrin K Contribution Level: 2]

As far as credit goes you need to take into account if the forum is a dofollow or nofollow forum. Meaning do they allow the links to be crawled to your site. Google won't necessarily give you credit if they are nofollow links. The other thing you need to remember is how relevant is the link relative to the content on the forum. The less relevant the less link juice you will get.

The other thing you need to remember is forums have tons of links usually through them and you won't get as much link juice from them as you would blog commenting, or with article back links, or if someone links to you on their website. It is good to do it though but just know that what you gain won't be as powerful if it were a link from say a news article.

If you want to see what links yahoo sees then use yahoo site explorer to check your backlinks. If you are adding links to a site that rarely gets crawled then it will take some time to show up if it ever does.

[Gregory McGuire Company: Global Domains International, Inc Contribution Level: 2]

@Raymond-I did not know that, but it does make sense. Thanks for the heads up.

@DRK-So you're saying that forum commenting pretty much gives you less link juice than anything else?

[Shirland Carrington Contribution Level: 2]

Back links are definitely appreciated from forums, but knowledge gained is my main objective. The forum itself have to be forum that the link juice ranks high in the search engines. I believe that not all Forums are created equal. A back links that is not a quality one is a waste of your time so pick your forums wisely. I personally only participate in 4 forums that are high quality and i am posting this on one of them now.

[David Villa8 Contribution Level: 1]

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[Samuel Samuel13 Contribution Level: 1]

Hi Friend How are you.!!!!
You mean does Google raise your rankings as a result of multiple back links from one forum,
the answer is No. If you are using anchor text in your back links that will further your SEO efforts.At the very least, it encourages you.

[Sabrina Gage Contribution Level: 2]

Nice post, useful information here! I've never tracked the backlinks before. In my experience, building backlinks by forum posting has a positive effect on email marketing， but you need to change your url in signature in a regular cycle.