The person reviewing your answer can click on your signature to learn more about you. Advocates of this method state that it generates faster links and requires less time than the creating of articles. They also state that it attracts huge referral traffic and that some webmasters can effectively use forum links as a legitimate referral traffic method. An opposing viewpoint states that many times the forums have follow policies where there is no way your answer is going to create a back link to your site. One person stated that obtaining links in a forum is no worse than handing out business cards in real life. I would take this to mean that it is probably not a very effective process.

If you are able to find a forum that does not have a no follow policy, then when you are attempting to obtain links to your site, be sure to not just place a link to your site in the forum. This will serve no purpose and will only annoy those who are following the forum.

You should be astute enough to answer the question being posed. If you give a good enough answer, those following the forum will be interested in finding out who you are. Finding quality forums is another problem when attempting to create links via a forum. You will probably need to do your homework and make sure that there is not a no follow rule within the forum. One site I found that lists the different forums available is found at http://www.strongestlinks.com/forums.php. You may want to check out the different forums found at this site.