Obtaining Links from Forums?

[applesofgold]

How good is a link from a forum? Do you guys know of any forums in the shopping, jewelry, wedding, or fashion industry that accepts links within their signature or within the post?

I know some forums are very strict about this and others allow you to add your link as an incentive to post on their forums.

Generally, how effective is this in your opinion and any good recommendations of quality forums?

[Boodreaux]

Very good for traffic if you can find excellent forums to link to in your industry.  If you can add valuable content to the forum I would Highly recommend it. I believe it should be part of a well diversified SEO strategy.

Utah Tiger

[NakulGoyal]

I agree. Think of those forums as part of the overall strategy and not look at them as just providing link value. Provide value to the user's of that forum/community and then you get both the visibility/brand awareness/citations as well as the SEO value.

[jtay123]

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