Draw People in with Your Forum Signature
Evaluate the Benefits of your Signature
...and choose one that will help you the most!
What's your Goal?So are you an avid purse collector, a photographer, an eBay store owner, or a casual seller? You want to choose what you would like to have your signature link to that would benefit you. For example, if you own an eBay store, you should link to your eBay store home page. Or, if you casually sell on eBay and you may not always have items available for users to view, you can link to your "about ME" page. You can also link to off-eBay sites! Be sure to read this eBay page for all of the rules on what is allowed for a signature. Choose a URL that you would like your readers to visit!
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Create an About Us Page for your Business
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eBay PowerSeller Secrets: Insider Tips from eBay's Most Successful Sellers
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A Good Logo...
..can be used not only in your forum signature, but in many other places, like your MySpace page, storefront banner, blog, MyWorld page, email signature, checkout page, PayPal packing slip and advertisements.
Photo Hosing Services
You will most likely want to use a photo host to upload your images online for your forum signature. There are plenty of free photo hosting websites, like Photobucket. Start a free account there, and you can quickly upload images from your PC.Getting Started
Log into your account to make your forum signature. Click on the "Community" tab, then click on the "Discussion Forums/Workshops" Link. From there, click on any discussion board you wish to visit. After entering the discussion board, click on the "settings" link on the far right. This page should have a blank box with the words "your signature" above the box.
Just Copy and Paste!
Paste the following code into the blank box:<a href="your_url_here"><img src="picture_url_from_your_photohosting_company_here" border="0" /></a>
Where it reads "Your URL here" place your URL (your website address) in between the quotation marks. Then, take a direct link from your image hosting account. This will be in .jpg format. Paste the link from the image in between the "your url from your photohosting company here" quotations. You can add any text after the code or before and it will show up in your signature. This is easy!
If the code requires BBcode, you can simply type in this code:
[url=http://www.yourdomain.com]Text Goes in Here[/url]
Just replace the http://www.yourdomain.com part with your actual domain that you are linking to, along with the text that you'd like to have displayed. To make it bold, add the [b] bold tag before everything and the [/b] end bold tag after the [/url]. You can learn more about bulletin board code here.
Photo Hosting Service Poll
There are many companies to choose from, which one have you had the best results with? Let everyone know who is the best by voting!
Do you use Google Base?
Google Base can increase your store sales by listing your items on Froogle. It's FREE! You can also use Google Base to promote CafePress items, Amazon, or your personal store. Read up here on how to download the Google Base Store Connector.
Photo Hosting Services
- Photobucket
- Upload all your photos, videos, and images for free. Make photo slide shows to share pics with friends.
- Shutterfly
- Voted #1 online photo service & free, unlimited picture storage.
- Flickr
- Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. See why here!
- PhotoLava
- Photolava.com is a photo and image hosting service that allows you to easily upload, link and share your photos and images on MySpace, eBay, Xanga, LiveJournal, blogs and message boards.
- SmugMug
- Securely backup your photos,enjoy unlimited storage, sleep well with backup DVDs, say goodbye to ads & spam, say hello to complete privacy and personalize with themes with SmugMug!
Test it Out

Test your forum signature by posting in a forum. If your signature does not come through, check to make sure you are copying the text right from the code above. Also check to make sure your image URL is correct. If you have any further questions, feel free to visit one of the discussion boards. Everyone is very helpful and will be quick to point out the problem!
Click here to test out your signature on eBay!
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Have you had some luck using your forum signature to create traffic to your site? Share your experience here!
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- kiwisoutback kiwisoutback Oct 7, 2009 @ 10:22 am | in reply to thewishpearl
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode
The wikipedia page above has some info on making your BB code colored. Basically, you're writing it like this:
[color=red]Red Text[/color]
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- thewishpearl thewishpearl Oct 7, 2009 @ 10:19 am
- Great lens as always, Bill. I have a question about the forum signature. How can we use different colors in the signature?
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- ABeautifulSecret ABeautifulSecret Aug 4, 2009 @ 8:17 am
- Thanks for sharing this information. I will be pointing this lens out to my forum members :) 5 stars.
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- imgettingfit imgettingfit Apr 8, 2009 @ 4:54 pm
- Awesome, I am new to this and you made it very simple. Love it
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- sisterra sisterra Jun 21, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
- great lens - saw you on the stores board.
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