You might not be aware of how powerful your signature in community forums can be for SEO, networking and promotion. Not only might they entice someone to visit your website if they click, but they’ll entice search engines as well.
When you sign up for membership to community forums, you generally have a specific amount of signature space that you can add to each forum posting. Some sites will have rules and regulations about number of links as well as how many posts you need to have before you’re allowed to utilise this feature. The great thing is that for every post you make, your signature attaches and forum posts do get indexed by search engines.
Writing a Great Forum Signature
Keyword anchoring can definitely help the SEO for your website or blog. For instance, if you sell computer parts, you might choose to link that word to your site in your signature. Not only will you get visits from interested people who find your posts interesting or who happen to need computer parts but if you get a high number of posts on that forum, each post with your signature link in it contributes to your site’s page rank and your search engine placement for keywords. Don’t write anything misleading in the signature but trying to write an eye-catching signature can help you get clicks.
Should I Change My Forum Signature Regularly?
Some who are looking for the forum signature merely to entice visitors would suggest changing your signature often but others would say that this isn’t as wise from an SEO standpoint because you could lose rankings for your old search terms as the forum may change the posts in archives to represent your new signature.
Whatever you choose to do, it’s worthwhile to know that networking and promoting yourself in community forums online can work for you in multiple ways.
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
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Hi Sean,
I haven’t used a forum signature as yet. I am a member of a couple of forums but I feel like I’m still trying to build relationships with the other members. I want to add something of value before I try to get anything out of being there. How do I know when is the right time to start using a forum signature, assuming I’m not in a forum where I can automatically start using one after a specific number of posts?
Also, using some keyword anchor text in my forum signature is an excellent idea.
Personally, I would have no hesitation to add your signature straight away Jazz, if you have a respectable site you have nothing to hide.