Many says forums links has been devalued by search engines, but i see many great information links posted as recommended readings on some forums which are really outstanding, and i can say these can be mostly found out on forums/blogs only rather than link pages. How Search engines can distinguish between the signature and normal links or they will simply treat them as same.
tedster
6:04 pm on Jul 11, 2007 (gmt 0)
I've read some of this same talk. Although I wouldn't say off-hand that Google couldn't discover signature links (they do have a huge collection of very smart people), I don't know that this is exactly what they're doing. I think Google's recent "change in the way backlinks are weighted" may well have taken some of the punch out of all forum links -- but I've never made that link tactic a part of website marketing, so I don't have the data to form a solid observation.
What does seem clear to me is that Google wants to give weight to links that are independently given, not links that a website owner can place on their own whenever they choose.
