seo question

Most forums use rel=”nofollow” on outbound links so if this is the case then there is no value to the link other than traffic it may send to the site. If it is a clean link you may receive a little link equity.

Thanks for the reply. But what I meant by my question- is it better to remove my signature when U chat in threads? if I am interesting of understanding something and I go into threads for answers, isnt the signatures with links considers in google as spam? Its not about the link, its about my sites staying clean and of quality.

If however you send two bots to talk to eachother, both with links to your sites and they post 1,000 times per day in 10 forums… you might find yourself in trouble.

Thanks for the reply. But what I meant by my question- is it better to remove my signature when U chat in threads? if I am interesting of understanding something and I go into threads for answers, isnt the signatures with links considers in google as spam? Its not about the link, its about my sites staying clean and of quality.

Perhpas I’m wrong, but I thought I noticed that that when I change my sig. it also changes it in older topic replies. So if you removed it to make a bunch of posts and then added it back in a later post all your posts would have it.

perhaps admin can verify that this is actually the case.

I doubt one link one do that, so I have to conclude that Google counts anchor text from signatures.

It might be cool to have someone with a few thousand posts do something similar.

As for multiple links on one site, there is a degrading effect. One link gives you most of the juice that Google will pass from one site to another, but you can squeeze a little bit more juice out of a website with a second and third link. Eventually there is no more juice to be had from a single domain. Of course if a forum topic becomes popular enough that other websites link directly to it, that page with your link on it will gain more juice and make your link even stronger.