.. for the keyword "targeted backlinks"! I'm just elated seeing a lot of hard work paying off

Our directory used to be #1 for "targeted links backs" but had second thoughts and instead wanted to rank number 1 on the other keyword which is more likely to be searched

This proves that forum sigs and forum posts have value in SERP.

Cheers!

Congrats Mr cat

Woc

Only in your datacentre and, actually it proves very little.



http://www.webmaster-talk.com/miscel...tml#post525925

Actually I was just experimenting on how forum posts affect SERP, particularly on titles of forum posts. Some forum post I made use to have the key phrase "targeted link backs" in the title - during the time we held the top position for that key phrase. I decided to change future title posts with "targeted backlinks" (which we never ranked for before) on the title to see if it will affect SERP. After a month, I saw that we were ranking #1 (sometimes #2) for the latter key phrase and lost ranking for the former.

So definitely, these are factors that affect SERP.

Good job....