Forum posting
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I would like to ask i have found on blog: "Forum posting is an important effective SEO Link Building Method to getting quality traffic and quality back links to your website. Learn here about forum posting basics, advices and guidelines."
Is it true? Forum posting with backlink to my website can help me to rank better?
I mean posting on the related forum website?
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An additional point worth bearing in mind is that many sites actually designate links on their site generated through user generated content as 'no follow' meaning that the link does not pass any page rank from that site to yours. Of course you would still potentially get referral traffic to your site via the links you have posted and that is no bad thing, but in terms of SEO benefit it would be negligible if the links are no followed.
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Tom is dead on - we recently began to do this ourselves, letting one employee devote half a day (at least!) to monitoring forums and relevant articles to our company for digital outreach efforts.
We're using OSE's Just-Discovered beta, Chartbeat, and SEOMoz's Fresh Web Explorer to track where the conversations are taking place. We've only been doing this for a week or so, and are using some utm_parameters to track traffic from the efforts. We're hoping to see some solid engagement and, for a bonus, create some online evangelists.
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Forum posting and blog posting are surely some quick form of getting backlinks. Participating in communities is always good but in what communities you are participating is key.Surely I agree with Tom that its not a good and recommended linkbuilding method as there are 70%+ communities that have spam on it.
Do it but do it with real care.For more details I recommend you read this post.
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Hey there
In terms of a link building tactic, I wouldn't recommend spending too much time on this. If done sparingly and on relevant sites with good content/discussion, it could give you a slight ranking increase - but the effect is likely to be small and attempting to scale it could look quite spammy.
I would much rather approach forum posting as a relationship and a traffic builder. If you can engage on forum communities, help out people where you can and really add worth there with help, tutorials, resources etc., you could very well build positive enforcement for your brand, as well as driving qualified traffic to your site that already trusts you, thus may be more likely to convert.
If you can do that, I think forum posting can be great. As a side-effect, having a few forum links won't be so bad. But don't approach it with the mindset of building links - build the relationships first and a few sparingly used links to your site can be a nice added benefit.
If you go and forum post just to build link, you'll see little to no value whatsoever.
Hope this helps.
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