That's right. You can expect the people who visit your site from relevant forum links to be very targeted, provided your link is to a relevant site!

Ok now i would like to throw some more light on posting on various forums and PR. Yes ofcource your PR will go high as all post you created will link back to your site.

We all miss one thing to understand here. IN forums your post or signature every day goes down and in most forums they get purged after certain time. Lets say today you are active and posted on 5 forums around 50 post, all these 50 will point to your site. Now you stop posting it for some time slowly all your 50 post will go at the back and again your back links will fail and so will your PR.

So just dont depend on forums, yes i agree its one of the great thing for link building but at the same time take your time on other link building plans as well. Also keep positing as it just not increases your link backs but it will also be help full to others.

Einfo - You're right! There has to be an integrated approach to link building. You cannot rely soley on one method, as you wouldn't put all your eggs in one basket right? Forum posting is beneficial in that it generates some traffic, and builds brand awareness. However, there are numerous other tasks that would do these same things and more efficiently. Forum posting is most beneficial I think for learning, not link building.

So, the more we post in our own forum/s the more PR are we going to get?

Nop. If that was the case Dani would have her forum on PR10

eeinfoway, I'm not sure what you mean by losing backlinks / forum signatures getting purged?

These are indeed good tricks to have thanks.

Dear Dani,

What I meant was, after some time, as many guys keep posting, your post is on back pages and not on front pages of the forum so the back link from PR will fall. As you can see in almost all forums first few pages have good PR compared to deep links.

More over many forums Purge/delete the very old threads to keep database small and to make forum faster. In that case your old back links are gone.

So if you want to take advantage be active.

The first few forum pages are always going to rank the best because the others can only be accessed via the page navigation.

However, older forum threads are often ranked very highly because they've had the longest opportunity to build up a lot of backlinks ... especially if the discussion is not time sensitive.

Very few forums purge threads / posts nowadays. Most web hosts provide ample hard drive space that it's not as necessary ... it's bandwidth you gotta keep an eye on.

Dear dani,

Purging is very important activity of any database. I agree that you get tons of space on servers for just few $$. But as your database grows, it slows down as now it has to search within tons of data.

Also check out many forums you will see good PR on first few pages and then it goes down. This is new way google is doing to forums and directories. It has cut the PR of all forums and directories inner pages. just check it