How important is forum signature in SEO?

[burling]

Hi guys,
How important is forum signature in SEO? Will it hurt or benefit to your website?

[davidweb09]

We add site URL in Forum signature to increase website backlinks. http://gsisol.com/

[WoodsPainting]

With forum posting you can easily increase traffic for your site and also you can get back-links for your site which is very necessary for your website to get ranked in Google.

[yuva12]

Most of top Forums provide NoFollow tag with outer links, which does not pass link juice to any NoFollow links. And, if you are looking for traffic through Forums, probably you have more better options instead of Forum posting.

[RH-Calvin]

Forum signatures help to build backlinks for your website and generate traffic for your website from various external webpages.

[chetna]

it can help you drive traffic ,

[amarnathsmm]

Don't expect referral traffic from forum signatures you can only get backlinks

[manishah]

Forums are important for getting quality traffic if done in relevant forums.

[rafiakhan]

Forum isignatures are good for SEO purpose too as it helps in generating website traffic and improvement in website rank.

[sarita670]

if you are doing forum for getting the link then signature is important

[kajol]

Helps in increasing Website Backlinks

[himanshu]

It is important because it gives you a backlink

[Lukedawn]

Yes its imp. because keywords improve ranking and also increase traffic to website.

[Mithzi Rai]

Forum signature links use to be a great source for backlink building.

Yes. It is the best way to drive the traffic on your website...

[Rohit12]

It is important to get it backlink

[tradingstacks]

Forums are the off page activity in seo. The forums signature is help to create a link for generate the traffic.

[itznehamali]

Forum Signature is the opportunity provided by the forum community to get backlink for your website. Very Inmportant part.

[jackanderson]

Forum signatures are usually messages or text that seem below every single post a user creates on a forum. These posts are also called thread.

2497

Users will place something they like during this field, and it'd seem on all of their posts. like user can write some keyword here whatever which he wants. While they don’t hold any real utility outside of appearing a post, they were traditionally abused to quickly add links backlinks for the website to boost up SEO. That technique is after all now not effective, however, most forum owners still frequently get users that spam and plan to build backlinks this way.