Backlinks in Forums - Google Value

Hi,

Are backlinks in forums important and good to have. I almost have a thousand new backlinks in forums and I did not see any gains in my major keywords in Google.

I know that a thousand backinks is not much but before I only had a few.

Thanks for your time,

Intravino

If those thousand backlinks were from relevant, quality sites and using the right anchor text you'd be top of the pops right now.

Change your link building strategy!

Are the links "nofollowed" in the forums you're talking about?
Are the forums in any way relevant to your subject matter?

Even if both answers are "yes" there's still not much value for Google (which is why I don't use mine)!

This was tested recently - here.

Are the links "nofollowed" in the forums you're talking about?

Not sure, I would have to check to code on the forums I guess. I never thought of that.

Are the forums in any way relevant to your subject matter?
Very much relevant.

Thanks,

Hi,

check for nofollow first.

what results you are getting for this in google; link:www.domainname.com (no space before and after colon)

According to back link tool you might have many back links but not according to Google. Just check it out.

My point of view is that forum back links are of small value to google. why i think so:

1. not only anchor text, but also surrounding text (and amount of it) is important for google.

2. Low pr of forum's pages, or zero pr

3. no doubt the page must be relevant.

Still i understand why people use links in their signatures - if forum is visited by a great number or people, at least 3% of them click your link. And of course you need to be active on forums to gain more clicks ;)

Yeah I have above 1000 back links from webmasters tool but according to this (link:www.domainname.com) i got only 13,

Why google does like this while webmasters tools offers itself then result differ..????

Hi Sally,

The problem with the Google link operator is that it only shows a random sample of your backlinks...
The problem with Google Webmaster Tools is that it shows every backlink (including "nofollows"), so neither way is conclusive

I would just check for "nofollow" tags and then leave it to fate... If the link exists Google will find it and "count it" but - how much "credit" they give is another matter entirely... which is why it was tested (see my previous post).

All relevant links are useful...But these links cost a lot!

yup! links in forums gives value to google. But it need to be proper. Make sure the forum is dofollow, the anchor text you use and also relevant.

i need support for Blog Submission that means how will generate traffic on our blog..

I have a whopping 6, count them six links when I do:

link:www.domain.com

In google wow.

In Yahoo : 326.

That is not really Dandy

Most forum signature links are nofollows and nearly all post links are nofollow.

Check this first.

If you don't want to go View-> Source then download Firefox and its SEO Add on that highlights nofollow links for you.

Its a fundamental issue to answer your question.

1000 links from relevant forums with relevant links with a NOFOLLOW attribute = SQUAT or SFA

1000 links from relevant forums with relevant links with OUT a NOFOLLOW attribute = useful to a small extent.

All of the coments about relevance and passing PR all assume that the links don;t have the nofollow attribute.

Check it out and the answers are above relative to each outcome.

Thanks for the infos,

This has been very interesting.

I did not know that most forums are NoFollow for the links.

I will download the seo tool for firefox.


Intravino

Is it the Link Checker Function of the SEO toolbar for Firefox that checks for the nofollow?