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If you want backlinks to your forum, consider a forum directory like the Forum Finder. There are many others that you can submit your forum to in order to get a backlinks. You can try the list of forum directory’s at ForumDr as a good place to start.

Every webmaster knows that getting links to a website are crucial to help the ranking for their websites. For that reason, many webmasters like to check and monitor the backlinks they have to their site. Some use the Google link: operator and then get dismayed as they see so few links to their sites and think that Google has not found all the links to their sites and start to panic and think that is the reason their site is not ranking as well as it should. The problem is that the Google link: operator has never shown all the links to a site and only ever shows a small random sample. If you want to check your backlinks, do not use the Google link: operator and use more reliable services.

It has no value! I hate to think how many times you see in webmaster forums people asking advice as to how they can improve their Alexa ranking. I can never understand why they would want to. A good or bad Alexa ranking counts for nothing.

Alexa rank websites based on the number of visitors to a site with the Alexa toolbar installed in their browser. They claim over a million users, which is impressive, but the pool of user is probably a more technically orientated group of users, so the Alexa rankings are obviously going to be biased towards the sorts of sites that more technically orientated people visit. It is also so easy to fake an Alexa ranking, simply by visiting your own site every day (and get a few friends to do it as well). Even if your Alexa ranking improves, it does not mean anything. The search engines do not use the Alexa data.

Perhaps the only advantage to a good Alexa ranking is that if you want to sell a site, you can increase the Alexa ranking to impress a future purchaser about your traffic. Too bad most buyers are wise to this sort of manipulation. What do you think will happen to the Alexa ranking after the sale?

As part of search engine optimization (SEO), link building or building backlinks to a site is one the key principles of help a site rank well in the search engines. For a forum, this is just as important as any other website. The best way to get links for a forum is to make sure the quality of the content and activity is so good that other forums, blogs and website link to the content. Even some newspaper website can link to a forum in the context of a news story if the forum discussion is newsworthy. These are the valuable links that every webmaster coverts. However, most forums and other websites will need an active link building campaign to supplement the promotion of the forum. There has been some discussion of using private blog networks, such as Linkvana to build deep link to forum threads to help them rank well for the long tail searches in the search engines. This does make a lot of sense, especially to help get all the threads indexed in the search engines, so they are searchable and can be returned. At the lower end of the quality continuum of links are things like article and directory submission.