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OK I have a question regarding back links on your own site. I have a free business advertising forum which I have recently launched, and I am trying to get my PR up. However my signature on this forum has a link pointing back to this same forum. Obviously as the owner you post a lot of messages on your own forum.

Will Google penalize me for having so many back links to my site on the same site?

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Short answer for : internal links from your own forum are normal site navigation and by themselves are not the same as an attempt to manipulate external backlinks. The real risk is creating or buying links to manipulate ranking across other sites — that can trigger manual action. As and were getting at, context matters; as noted, links from genuinely high-authority pages are far more valuable than many low-value, repetitive links.

Practical steps to reduce risk and get more SEO value:

  • Treat signature links as user-generated: add a rel attribute such as rel="nofollow ugc" so they won’t be treated as deliberate ranking manipulation. Example:
    <a href="https://yourforum.example/" rel="nofollow ugc">Your Forum</a>
  • Avoid identical keyword-rich anchors repeated everywhere. Use your brand name or a profile page URL instead of exact-match sales copy in every signature.
  • Make sure important pages are linked from your site navigation, footer, or topic-feature blocks so internal link equity flows naturally.
  • Invest time in creating shareable content and outreach to earn external links from topical, authoritative sites — those links move the needle much more than internal signature links.

Monitor and verify: use Google Search Console to watch for Manual Actions and to inspect your link reports; use Analytics to measure whether signature traffic converts. If there’s concern about an unnatural-link manual action, follow Google’s link-schemes guidance for remediation: .

Caveat: public "PR" metrics are not a reliable target today. Focus on real traffic, rankings for target queries, and authoritative external links rather than trying to inflate an internal backlink count.

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Member Avatar for jay 11

No google gives very little weight (if any) to signature links. Furthermore, I don't think they will penalize your site if you are self-promoting from within your forum signature.

Member Avatar for InsightsDigital

Isn't promoting your own site within your own site considered an inbound link?

Member Avatar for beearcade

no way man...google understand these situation.

Member Avatar for davesmith101

OK I have a question regarding back links on your own site. I have a free business advertising forum which I have recently launched, and I am trying to get my PR up. However my signature on this forum has a link pointing back to this same forum. Obviously as the owner you post a lot of messages on your own forum.

Will Google penalize me for having so many back links to my site on the same site?

Heclava we always need highly ranked pages backlinks.
you need to post on highly ranked forums with your backlinks. and does not matter if you are posting on same forum but it is not valued if page you are posting is not highly ranked in search engines.

Member Avatar for bettsnirvana

definitely not, if that's the case maybe many forum signature are ban now.

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