Signature links

[Captain Tycoon]

If you take a look at my sig, you'd see that I'm linking to the different pages on my site, will each link count as a back-link to the page it is linking to or will search engines only index the first link?

 

[angilina]

All links in your signature are considered as backlinks and Google and other search engines will count them all.

There is no rule to just consider first link in the signature

And only thing to note here is that: links from signatures are not much relevant and are not high quality links.

 

[Captain Tycoon]

Great, thanks

+Rep!

 

[pithu7]

But, I think not all forum posts are count as backlinks

 

[iceshards]

Even you don't see them when using the link:yoursite.com

on Google. It is considered as backlinks. Specially if the forum allows the sigs to be dofollow.

 

[laukpauk]

not all forum will give backlinks.

 

[IdeaGuy]

it also matters whether or not the site/forum has a no follow tag (like Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia) in those cases you dont get page rank juice from those sites because they use the no follow tag.

Hope this help,
Andrew
Internet Business Ideas - Domain Names

 

[jingwen]

But i have a question,if my sig is not related with thr forum,could it promotion my site?

 

[MrCat]

But i have a question,if my sig is not related with thr forum,could it promotion my site?

It still has value but it is more preferable to participate in similar themed forums of your website.

 

[Litgen]

It's very nice, that you're linking to different pages to your site. Tht's much better to do this, than make links to only main page

 

[-MGS-]

All links have value but you need to ensure you get some relation o your content.

 

[longtail]

If you take a look at my sig, you'd see that I'm linking to the different pages on my site, will each link count as a back-link to the page it is linking to or will search engines only index the first link?

I think you're confusing having multiple links in a document or signature to the SAME page with different anchor text, as to associate that pages with multiple keywords and phrases. In a case like that, Google only counts the first link and keyword phrases as being relevant to that page. The remaining links to the SAME page are discounted.

 

[GameFriends.com]

Even you don't see them when using the link:yoursite.com

on Google. It is considered as backlinks. Specially if the forum allows the sigs to be dofollow.

This is not always the case...some threads are not indexed within Google...mostly random offtopic forum threads but if you take an obscure thread and copy and paste some text from it sometimes you see you get 0 results in major search engines. 90% of the time these sig links will show up however and yes you can have multiple links pointing to multiple landing pages and still all "count" if the page gets crawled.

 

[link seller]

signature also counted as backlinks..and it's good for seo

 

[Hafsoh]

not all forum will give backlinks.

Except if the forum is nofollow, its counted as backlinks use your google webmaster tools or yahoo explorer to check.
Though signature links are not considered as quality link because many links are on a page that shares the link juice, its more better for promotion...

 

[Captain Tycoon]

Except if the forum is nofollow, its counted as backlinks use your google webmaster tools or yahoo explorer to check.
Though signature links are not considered as quality link because many links are on a page that shares the link juice, its more better for promotion...

I've got alot of back-links and most of which are from signatures and non-related sites (non-quality); and out of all that, I only got PR1 :/ Its for sure I'm going to mainly concentrate on quality links; but I guess sig links are great for mainly traffic rather than SEO.

 

[ashu.pixelsmedia]

Even you don't see them when using the link:yoursite.com

on Google. It is considered as backlinks. Specially if the forum allows the sigs to be dofollow.

I totally agree with you. do follow links are not supported by all forums..

 

[Rumait]

Great information, its very useful

 

[basmin]

yes, not all forums support dofollow tag, use seoquake tool firefox to see dofollow or nofollow

 

[Rumait]

All links will be considered as back links