Backlinks from A1 business forums

[restorian]

hey guys (and Gals), its the old man here with a silly question. Do the links back to our individual websites (like the one in my signature below), do they stay as backlinks, or do they (as I have been told with some forums) not count I apreciate your answers

[Indizine]

Only Yahoo counts them.

[restorian]

Only Yahoo counts them.

thanks indi, so that means it doesnt improve my google ranking then?
BTW I like the new hairdo !

[Indizine]

errr, it's not new that photo I suppose I should sort out an new one.
....but I did get my hair done this week!

well, they never did me any harm

[RedEvo]

One way to evaluate links in general is to imagine you are Google and you trust people based on their links.

Would you trust a link you knew they had created themselves and had absolute control over?

d

[Find Accountants]

Good answer RedEvo! I never thought of it like that!

I guess having the links in our signature can't have a bad effect on our rankings, so there's no harm in having them!

They might generate some more traffic if not better rankings!

[mobile_marketer]

Strange but i have different points of view talking about this idea, Google checks IPs where you link and what you link with. If you link to a trusted website it is good but if they link to you and they have different class c ip as you have its better ..

[Alvin]

One way to evaluate links in general is to imagine you are Google and you trust people based on their links.

Would you trust a link you knew they had created themselves and had absolute control over?

d

I probably would not,but if I was as stupid as google I might.

Alvin

[1stUniqueGifts]

I'm sure they don't do any harm. And people click on them, bringing more visitors, which can't do any harm either.

[Find Accountants]

My sentiments exactly 1stUniqueGifts : )