The SEO power of forum back links experiment

[NiyazK]

Today I was wondering just how powerful a forum back link is especially with recent indication of a reduction in the power of back links from forums. Its something that is rather difficult to measure, especially with established websites.

The only way to find out is to do a little SEO experiment. To test this I have created a very simple blog with which I have performed 0 off page SEO. The blog currently has 0 back links and was created about an hour ago.

I have added the blog to my forum sig. The normal idea behind forum back links applies, where every forum post will provide 1 link to the blog.

The first test is to see how long it takes for the blog to become indexed within google/yahoo/msn, and eventually if any PR or SERP advancements can be obtained.

Remember that this is a forum backlink experiment only so please try to restrain yourself from linking to the blog from any other sources. If you would like to take part in the experiment you can add a link in your forum sig. The more people that take part he sooner we should see results.

You can use the anchor: The Business Nerd
url: businessnerd (dot) blogspot.com


Im predicting the blog to be indexed within 4 days. We can get a little competition to guess the time it takes to become indexed if anyone is interested. Just post your guess.

I think forum links still have quite a lot of power, especially from established forums such as DP.