Forum Posting Still Effective For Link Building OR Not?

[lapunluyang]

When i started my blogging career i spend a lot of time in forums, just to build a few links for my blogs. In forums i read different threads about forum posting, every one was saying that forum posting is not helpful for link building. I was still busy in building links through forum posting. Now i am happy that thanks god i did not stopped forum posting, because i got benefits.

[jakson0100]

In my opinion forums can provide you with a lot of links, but most are of no value since the PR of most forum threads should be 0.

[Ben Stones]

In my opinion forums can provide you with a lot of links, but most are of no value since the Page Ranking of most forum threads should be 0.

I think forum posting with links in your signature is in my experience effective Search Engine Optimization because they are essentially backlinks and even if webstes are not highly ranked in terms of importance they are still backlinks which can help. I remember owning a website in 2005 and I never really advertised it except in forum signatures and it turned out to have PR2 (Google PageRank) in 2006.

[BritishFlag]

I agree. Forum posting is still a rather effective way to drive traffic. Sure, most forums don't have a high page rank, but a backlink is a backlink and crawlers will consider it important when indexing it.