Multiple posts at same forum=multiple backlinks?

[jengojengo]

If I post several times at the same forum with a link in my siggy, will it mean multiple backlinks to my site, or is it like, only counted once per site. (in terms of search engine marketing, I mean)

[999affiliates]

it depends....

The short answer is Yes, every post is a new backlink. however a lot of forums implement a robot.txt which excludes post, while others implement a rel="nofollow" tag in the href tag. Google will not index either of these attributes. Yahoo, doesn't care about a nofollow link (as far as I know)

so if the forum does not have these then it is a new link!

[jengojengo]

So my next question is, how do you know if a forum is "no follow"?

[999affiliates]

view the source code.

there is no rel="nofollow" tag in there. it would be by the target'_blank" tag

I am not sure if the robots read the post maybe Linda can chime in?

[999affiliates]

I found the robot.txt and the pages are not blocked.

[jcorkern]

You get credit for 1 link per page, so if the url string changes, it counts as another link if there are no nofollow tags or txt blocks.

And Yahoo implimented the nofollw tag last october. it was announced on yahoo ysearchblog.

[Linda Buquet]

Thanks guys, I wasn't 100% sure. Was hoping Jim,
our resident SEO expert would see this and weigh in too. Thanks Jim!

My FEELING about forums and I have TONS of backlinks in TONS of forums is this...
and it's only a feeling, nothing proven or scientific.

I think forum links add up cumulatively but count in a
watered down fashion when you have a bunch at one forum.

So for example if you had 100 links at 100 different sites, forums, blogs etc.
- it would count a lot more than 100 links from the same forum.
(Assumption in both cases being that they were all well targeted and do follow links.)

If every forum link I had carried full weight,
5 Star would be much higher than it is.

[jengojengo]

That all makes sense

[marketraise001]

Originally Posted by jengojengo

If I post several times at the same forum with a link in my siggy, will it mean multiple backlinks to my site, or is it like, only counted once per site. (in terms of search engine marketing, I mean)

Could be possible and at the same time might not be.What really matters is the page where your siggy link is placed.If the page is cached by Google and has a PR of it's own only then will you benefit by getting that extra backlink and PR.

[lovekissing]

yes but forum member must learn to post replies with sense not just for the sake to drop links...