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Thanks Travis, that's exactly what I wanted to know!  The links are definitely gone from my forum posts so I assumed it was a crawl issue but wasn't 100% sure.  Thanks again for all your help!!!

Thanks Travis!  That's kind of what I was thinking but wanted to make sure.

I have one other question.  When I run site explorer on my website, those backlinks from the forum still show up even though I deleted the signature link about 10 days ago.  Will these eventually go away on their own?  Or do I need to actively remove them?

There's a forum I used to participate in that allows you to include a link to your website in your signature block.  I have over 500 posts in the forum so that provides a lot of backlinks to my website.

However, I recently decided to remove my website link from my signature for two reasons:

1. The forum is 95-99% dead.  Hardly anyone uses it anymore.  BTW, the website that houses the forum is still popular within is niche (articles, etc).  Just the forum appears to be dead.

2. The website and its forum really have no connection whatsoever to my business.  I'm in a completely different niche.

However, I have no idea if I've made the right decision. Will removing my signature and the backlinks hurt my site?  Or will it help it since the other site really isn't related to mine?

Thanks for any thoughts on this!