question about link building

[confusedone]

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Hi learning the ropes, or trying to. I believe a massive part of internet marketing is link buliding, so here I am. Looked at the first few posts on another site, massive lists of sites that offer dofollow links (i'm guessing these are the good ones that actually point back to your site?) and some links to various individual sites to put links on.
My question, the link to my site. Are they put in a forum, or if on a blog am i putting it in my signature, or bio? For every post i were to make in a forum, is that a link? or just one per site? And obviously it would be better for me if the site is actually related to my site, but does it matter that much in terms of the other site owners? These links offered i'e "pr5 links back to your site", if they are about babies and mine subject is racing cars, is there any point? Wouldnt the site owner say thanks but no thanks? or Do people just go ahead to these sites and make up a bio and link from there?

Many thanks

Alan.

[accelerator]

Try these resources:

Link Building Tips

Search Engine Optimisation

Links from a forum signature can be helpful in providing backlinks to your site. One problem on sites like this one is that your competitors can see your links, so if you're just starting out you might want to hold off with the sig on affiliate forums until you are more established. The SitePoint forums will give you a sig, as will AcornDomains UK, but as ever, don't spam.

Rgds

[chris12]

These are great resources and i will have to look into these resources as they look very important.