Hello Webmasters,

I have created a forum on pharmacy related discussions. This forum is running since two years now. It is indexed and crawled by Google several times. But the problem is that it is not providing a single backlink to the other linked websites in this forum. Users have profile homepages and signatures too. But my forum is not giving any backlink to them. This forum has been created with phpbb. Is there anything missing like any setting in ACP?

This very problem is causing my forum users leaving my forum. Hopefully I will get help from my co webmasters. Thanks in advance for your valuable responses.

External links may be set to "no follow", meaning aren't taking any notice of the sites you're linking to. Also, check that the profile pages are visible to bots.

 

There's more to using forums for SEO than just back links. Posting useful information and helping people builds authority for community members, which in turn increases the chances visitors are going to click links.

 

Here's a good article on the subject – http://forums.seochat.com/search-engine-optimization-28/how-use-forums-search-engine-optimization-411594.html

yep, it's a matter of huge concern you should ask your developer to fix this issue, people may leave if you won't provide back-links to them,your traffic would be decreased if backliinks are not allowed

frankly, most people is expecting backlinks when joining forums.

You can give backlinks but make sure that they are nofollow. You dont want to get spammed for link farming. There is a possibility of this happening if you do not do this.