Selling Forum Signatures?

[bbrian017]

Do you believe Forum users should generate a profit from selling their signature? Would you (if a forum owner) allow it to happen unless it got out of hand where the users signature is a big red flashing banner?

I strongly believe this would help s forum become more active as users would possibly leave other forums only because they can't generate one single penny from posting there. Could this potentially help produce more posts inside a forum?

Let me know your thoughts it would be greatly appreciated!

 

[and5rey]

I believe signature links not only bring some traffic to your sites, but it is also a good way to get more backlinks for your sites and possibly get indexed easier in search engines.

P.S. I'm willing to buy anyone's sig links and/or avatar in exchange of free logo/banner design. If anyone is interested, please PM me for details.

 

[bbrian017]

Glad to see so many are for the idea! I also see some very valid concerns along with some very positive ideas. Keep the replies coming

 

[bentong]

Go ahead as long as it abides the forum rules and regulations..

 

[htmlindex]

Absolutely it should be allowed. Why would you not want to allow selling of sigs?

 

[dgridley]

I've clicked on SIG links before and get quite a bit of traffic from my SIG as well.. I suspect I'd get little traffic otherwise!

 

[deleted984054565403]

I've done a little bit of signature advertising here at NamePros, and Google Analytics says namepros.com is my second biggest referrer. :tu: Even though the site only gets <10 uniques per day...

 

[dezinerite]

I would also allow it in my forum, it would get members to post a lot (in order to get customers & a bit of cash). If we're talking about flashing banners however, I would definitely have to limit that. I'd probably limit it to banners the size of userbars and would limit the number to 6. Oh! And it shouldn't be too flashy. I think userbar ads would help make the forum more interesting & colourful. But anyways, that's just my opinion.