Websites that may hurt SEO

I have not heard about that.

I would ask him where he read that so you can read it also or is it just a rumor that people are passing around just for conversation.

Proof is nice to see these days with so much nonsense floating around.

My website has only ranked higher since posting on these pressure washing bbs's.
 
I heard that is better to participate in forums related to your niche rather than any forum.

I had a bad experience with this. For my carpet cleaning site i decided to include my link in my profile of a carpet cleaning forum. With like 600 posts all updated with a link in my sig, it made my site disappear in rankings. I guess it was too many links at a time what went wrong. Now i deleted the sig and my site came back a little bit not as it used to be.
 
I have over 6000 posts on a couple sites and over 1000 on a couple more I think and it has not hurt my ranking, maybe it is something else or maybe the other companies out there are doing more for their sites to rank their sites higher.
 
Once again, it comes down to diversity of link types. If all you have is forum links then it will not hurt you but they value is discounted. For blogs, it depends on the blog. If it looks spammy or all you have is blog comments then those would be discounted. It is not that you are penalized more than it is a matter of diminished value of the links.
 
Posting on forums with your link is considered natural back linking by google. It shouldn't affect your rankings at all. Same with forums that are not related. It's an SEO myth that links on unrelated sites hurt SEO. Higher PR pages linking to you is good. It takes a lot more low PR pages linking to you to make up one high PR back link.
 
That's crazy, because back links are a huge part of how google determines site rank. Again, just another SEO myth:

[h=3]Bad Linking and Paid Links will Hurt Your Organic Placement[/h]Incoming links from reputable sites is maybe the best thing you can do for your site’s placement. So it would seem logical that links from spammy horrible sites would be bad juju. Pay for links and the Thriller zombies will come get you! Foolishness. If either of these things were true: 1. Anyone could sabotage your site by launching a spammy linking campaign and 2. There wouldn’t be a lot of websites left on the web.
 
Thanks for all the information everyone. I haven't been able to talk to my web designer yet about his reasoning for making that statement. Since I started posting on these boards, my site went from page 10 or 11 to page 1 for in my service area.

Ron - I used the links to check my page rank and it is a measly 1. What does that mean for sites in our industry?
 
A ones not bad, pwi has only ever been a three.

It's really not anything to do with industry as it is your own site matching up to what googles looking for.

Keep in mind site traffic and rating are two different animals.


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