Hi guys, I need advice from you: basically I was thinking of opening forum on my Blog, and I want it to be Signatures dofollow only forum, where people can come, register and leave their html signature and comercials without any problem. Now, my question is - can this harm my page or my future rank? And what do you think about this plan?
I think you’re asking for your forum to become a spam magnet.
Forums are a lot of work, especially ones that are going to become spam targets right away.
I don’t think that making a forum on your blog would be a problem instead it will drive traffic to your blog.
No it doesn’t harm. I think that will boost up your rank because it can gets more links.
I think it would help boost the forum in terms of content, especially in the beginning. It’ll help generate a higher level of engagement and conversation, which essentially is what forums are all about.
It would take careful management to ensure it wasn’t full of spam comments. You’d need to communicate your stance on spamming and comments very clearly and have the ability to quicky and easily delete entries that you thought were blatant spam.
Yes it can hurt you.
Google are tired of their SERP being polluted by useless one line wonder spam forums and have written an algorithm that actually looks at posts and tries to figure out if they’re just link drop useless posts by searching for keyword in the short posts like ‘thanks for the info’. If they’re determined to be spammy, the forum itself gets the punishment.
iam aggre with you…
i think forum is useful to increase and drive traffic and do promotion for youre’ blog …
Thanks