Best forums for signature backlinks?

[ChasRE]

A lot of SEO companies actually create their own forums and then post on them for their clients. If you look hard enough I'm sure you'll find them, as a matter of fact just try googling the phrase high pr do follow forum and see what comes up (once again google rules the search world haha)

[ChasRE]

Although personally I do not usually keep necroposting (for publication in the discussions that have been buried for some time), many of these threads to rank well for certain terms and phrases. I think it's true nature when there is a lot of forum posts are indexed, and an investment that will happen.

I have never heard of necroposting. I assume that is when you take a really old post and bump it? lol that actually does a good job of describing what a bump does, now that I think about it.

[MillerREALTOR]

agentsonline dot com is a good one but I try and stay away form the trash talking that seems to go one.

[www.eric3.com]

That sounds all warm and fuzzy, doing it for the good of the world and all (sarcasm), but i like to have a few that matter to me, like this one. But have others that i really only care about link value. Like the real estate furum, they only require 10 posts to become do follow. Their content isn't good like this one, maybe because of the low limit for do follow?

Errrr - I never advocate participating in forums strictly for links - instead, try to make a short list of forums where you can actually either learn something, or build true relationships (These can be local sites, real estate sites, niche specific sites for something you are interested in etc) - there needs to be a lot more in it for you than a link if you are going to dedicate the time to make contributing to any forum worth it.

A good real life example would be the local forum we run for our city Nanaimo, British Columbia. http://www.nanaimoinformation.com/forum/

Here a local Realtor could get in front of a very relevant and local audience, and perhaps even get more than just business out of it (Friendships, or maybe they are an outdoors buff, or a photography fan etc) there are lots of things that make our local forum great.

Now our city is not huge - but we have over 3% of the total population as members at the forum, and if you were to figure out how many of our population are actually home buyers, the % would go up because obviously our stats count children and the very elderly, which were not be home buyers AND would likely not be members at the forum.

The Realtor could have a signature link, and would get link juice from it BUT this is probably the least important reason for that Realtor to be there.

[www.eric3.com]

I think agentsonline(dot)com is being sold or something, it's just sponsored links now and looks like it's for sale.

[ozsubasi]

As has been suggested earlier, some of the SEO forums provide good backlinks and as its something I'm interested in and can make contributions to, it works well for me.

[century21gka]

Jim -

IMO, city-data.com is a good place to participate & get backlinks - but you can't control your anchor text. You just get a "my website" link for every post. I have picked up clients in the past who saw my posts on city-data & looked me up.

The moderators over there are horrible, though.

Another one that is decent for the links is realestateforum.com, but the conversation usually isn't that great.

I agree. Most of the people over there are just looking for links. They don't even care about learning or socializing.


Anyways, I think that having your links on real estate relevant forums adds a little more than non real estate related forums.

[joehayes101]

I just think it's cool you're into MotoGP & Superbike Racing

[SeldaK]

I tested it from first hand that some forum postings may damage your rankings. Be very careful on those postings.

[ozsubasi]

I tested it from first hand that some forum postings may damage your rankings. Be very careful on those postings.

It would be useful to know which forums caused you problems.