Join a lot of forums?

[Shawn Gossman]

Honestly I usually only join admin/webmaster forums, or communities that help me grow my own. I often post on forums for backlinks using my signature if they have do-follow links.

Be careful with building links. Google has been pretty obvious about the needs to build links on relevant websites.

I understand why you join forums for why you do it but personally, I join them for the community. I'd rather make a friend than earn a backlink. I get better friendship from a forum than I do on a social media group.

I'll always see your posts on a forum but if we were on social, I might see you posts or might not, pending on the algorithm.

To me, as old school as I am, a forum is the real social network.