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I’m tired of all of these “copycat” information that goes around on the internet. The majority of people lack the authority to write original content. Which is why they just grab information from other internet marketers who copy other internet marketers.

In this article I wanted to take out some garbage about building backlinks. In almost every backlink building article you’ll find “post on forums.” I’ll discuss in detail why that’s the worst advice that you’ve ever been given.

The link graph as I understand it is a graph of all the links on the internet that count. I have a single rule when it comes to the link graph. If a webpage isn’t in Google’s index then it’s not in the link graph. Which mean’s it doesn’t count for your Seo right? Absolutely. Take a look at some facts I found out.

Digitalpoint Forums
Pages Indexed: 219,000
Total Pages: 701,930
Percent: 31.2%

The way that total pages was arrived it was by adding all of the posts on every forum. The post then were divided by twenty. I divided by twenty for a few reasons. The first reason is that looking at a “Cached” page of a post Google crawls the content with twenty posts on a page. Since twenty posts can only exist on a single page it would make sense that their could only by a maximum of 701,930 pages with 20 posts on them.

This number was extremely generous for a few reasons. The first reason is that it doesn’t count pages that show the threads like page 1,2,3, infinite. That’s assuming that Google index those pages.

These numbers basically mean that 31.2% of your backlinks on a forum would “count.” That’s assuming that your website is related to the topics on the forum. Keep in mind that you’re dividing the pagerank with nineteen other posts. Of course, that’s if everyone has a link in their signature. Some people even include two links.

Notes: If you want a maximum of 31.2% of your links to count and then have the pagerank of that page be divided amongst 20-40 other links post on forums for backlinks. (This doesn’t take into consideration any other reason’s people might post on forums)