3 secrets of effective forum signatures

Do you often visit forums? Do you think that forums just provide you interesting and useful information? Let me surprise you – most of forums are also able to get targeted traffic to your website and boost it`s search engines rankings at the same time, when you just having fascinating conversation within their community.

Thus, forums can give us two benefits:

• SEO benefit. When your signature anchor text contains the targeted keyword for the linked page, it has positive impact on search rankings. Although the influence of one signature link is rather small, the overall amount of such links (considering every forum post you have) is able to make a notable contribution to the overall external link weight of your website.
• Traffic benefit. When the other forum visitors see your signature slogan, they may become interested and follow the signature link. Thus forums can give us free targeted visitors, and more targeted visitors means more potential customers of your website product (or service), so I think you agree about the special value of this benefit.

However not any forum signature provides the aforecited benefits. There are several simple rules have to be followed to create really useful signatures. I call them 3 secrets of effective signatures. So here they are:

1. Use your keywords in the beginning of signature text. For the best SEO effect you should put keywords in the beginning of the signature text. In such way you tell search engines, that the linked page is really relevant for these terms. Besides, to be sure the signature links will boost your SE rankings, check the link code to contain no redirects, Javascript or nofollow attribute.

2. Create the attractive signature slogan. Remember, that your signature slogan must be really attractive, intriguing, interesting, original etc. Only in this case people will follow the signature link. The creating of attractive signature slogans is very similar to creating effective blogpost titles.

3. Post into the right place. Just imagine that your signature text is “Buy cheap bricks in Florida” and you use it inside the webmasters forum. Do you believe to find many webmasters, who are interested in bricks (even if they are very very cheap)? As you may already guess, bricks offer is better for building forum signatures. And if you post inside the webmasters forums, better use signatures like this: «Buy cheapest domains at Godaddy» or «Make your forum signature most effective»

Now I`d like you to show me your most effective signatures. You may leave them in the comments below the post. By the way, what do you think about the idea of Best Signature Contest with 50$ prize for winner?

Tags: forum signatures, Free traffic

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