Getting backlinks to sites is important if a web site is to rank well in search engines. There are many strategies and many recommendations on the best way to go about this. One way recommended is to start posting in forums and have a link to your website in the signature. When the search engines index the thread on the forum that you posted in then you theoretically have a backlink to your website. This assumes that the owner of the forum has not enabled the nofollow function which prevents the signature link from passing any value or link juice. It also assumes that the forum is set up in such a way that the search engines can see the signatures, as some forum signatures are only visible to logged in users, which does not include the search engines.
How good is the advice that these links help a website? Go to any forum thread or discussion on any forum. Check the Google PageRank (PR) of that forum thread. Almost always the PR of a forum thread is 0. In other words Google places very little importance to the page. Next count the number of links on the page. There is probably at least a 100 links. The links on the page include site navigation links, thread tag links, header and footer links, thread function links, profile links, signature links, etc. When a pages passes link juice through a link, the Google PR is shared by all the links on the page. So the value of anyone link on that page is a PR of 0 divided by at least 100, which means signature links in forums are not much use for getting backlinks to a website that have any value. This does not mean that they are not useful to generate traffic.
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