Benefits of Forum Posting

Forums, online communities are very popular on the web. If you search something on search engines such as Google and Yahoo, you will probably find forum result links within top 10 results.

Forums can be considered as great, fun and easy link building method. There are 3 ways you can build links from forums.

1. Create a signature. Create a thread or reply to a thread with attached signature. Your signature will be displayed below your post.

2. Create a profile. Make sure profiles are cached by search engines.

(i)Create a signature
Most forums have signature section where you can place your links. You can use BBCode or HTML code or any other format offered by the forum to create a signature.

Example: BBCode

[URL="Your Url"]Your Anchor Text[/URL]

Example: HTML Code
<a href="Your%20URL">Your Anchor Text</a>

(ii)Create Bio field with your links
This process is same as creating signature. But only few forums will allow bio fields.

(iii)Enter website title/Website URL.
Few forums have option to enter website title and URL.

3. You can insert URL's on the post or reply.
Some forums may not allow you to create a signature. So you can use this method to add links. Here you will directly add links to posts.

What are the benefits of forum posting?

Well established forums such as DP, Sitepoint, Namepros have huge number of members. You have a great opportunity to build relationship with these members if you honestly participate in these forums. You can get direct referrals and leads from these forums.

Also you can receive referral traffic from your posting through your signature. If you post count is high, you will be blessed with high traffic.

Forum links helps you to increase your link popularity. Hence your search engine rank will increase and brings more organic traffic.

Why forum links are powerful as a link building method:

1. Forums are well cached by search engines.
2. You can control Anchor Text/URL factor effectively.
3. You can use deep links without any issue.

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