The invention discloses a four-photon entangled W state-based super-dense coding method for quantum signaling. The problems of low signaling coding capacity, low efficiency and poor security in a quantum communication process are mainly solved. The method is implemented by a process comprising the following steps of preparing four-photon (A, B, C and D) entangled W state as the quantum signaling, and transmitting the photons C and D to a receiver by using a transmitter; performing unitary transformation on the photons A and B to obtain 16 new quantum states; forming an orthogonal basis by using the 16 new quantum states; coding the new quantum states respectively, and sequentially transmitting photons A' and B' obtained by the unitary transformation to the receiver; and after the receiver receives the photons A' and B', arbitrarily selecting a measurement basis from the orthogonal basis, and performing joint measurement on the photons A', B', C and D to measure a new quantum state to finish coding. The method has the advantages of high coding efficiency, high capacity and high security, and can be used for a signaling system for quantum mobile communication.