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Old 01-14-2012, 06:55 AM   #101
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I have heard that it is great to sign up for high pr forums so that the profile contains a link to your blog.

Is this a good way to get backlinks, i mean are they of value?

Or should i stick to social bookmarking, directory submissions, etc?

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Forum profiles are a very good source for backlinks. The high the PR of the forum, the better.

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Everything works.

Don't listen to the complete rubbish you hear around here.

I have ranked #1 in a number of highly competitive niches with over 300,000,000 competing websites with PR 0 links alone. The key to success with SEO is link diversity and that is all.

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Everything works.

Don't listen to the complete rubbish you hear around here.

I have ranked #1 in a number of highly competitive niches with over 300,000,000 competing websites with PR 0 links alone. The key to success with SEO is link diversity and that is all.
Speaking of rubbish, you didn't have 300,000,000 competing pages. Just because Google gives a certain number of results from their index, does not mean any of those sites are actively "competing" for your keyword.


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yes they work but alwayz check the page rank of a particular page before leaving backlink.

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Speaking of rubbish, you didn't have 300,000,000 competing pages. Just because Google gives a certain number of results from their index, does not mean any of those sites are actively "competing" for your keyword.
Sorry, an example keyword was seeing 1.5 million searches a month, is that better for you?

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Hi,

I have heard that it is great to sign up for high pr forums so that the profile contains a link to your blog.

Is this a good way to get backlinks, i mean are they of value?

Or should i stick to social bookmarking, directory submissions, etc?

Thanks,
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Hi,

I have heard that it is great to sign up for high pr forums so that the profile contains a link to your blog.

Is this a good way to get backlinks, i mean are they of value?

Or should i stick to social bookmarking, directory submissions, etc?

Thanks,
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Old 01-16-2012, 11:44 AM   #107
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Sorry, an example keyword was seeing 1.5 million searches a month, is that better for you?
That is better, but I also doubt that you ranked a site #1 for a keyword getting 1.5 million EXACT searches a month with nothing but PR 0 backlinks.


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high PR forums can provide index and more traffic

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Yes they work. But as I say to my own clients, you must make them PART of a linkbuilding strategy, and not the whole strategy.

I will have to agree with you here!
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I have found them a useful additional way to improve my SERPs, but fairly low value. If you find yourself with a bit of free time try it out but definitely do not focus on it. The problem is that the forums you really want your link on are generally the most heavily moderated.
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That is better, but I also doubt that you ranked a site #1 for a keyword getting 1.5 million EXACT searches a month with nothing but PR 0 backlinks.
They were exact, 45 million broad.

I do agree with you on Google +1's impact on SEO, though.

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They were exact, 45 million broad.
I would love to see that backlink profile. No offense, but I find it really hard to believe.


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Old 01-16-2012, 06:06 PM   #113
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I've found them useful for building page rank, but not that helpful in improving SERPs ranking.
I know they works, But as the recent changes by Google, I'm scared to use those irrelevant backlinks for my website.

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Old 01-16-2012, 07:27 PM   #115
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I have found them a useful additional way to improve my SERPs, but fairly low value. If you find yourself with a bit of free time try it out but definitely do not focus on it. The problem is that the forums you really want your link on are generally the most heavily moderated.
And finally there is a great chance to get removed from that forum after a period. That means most of these links aren't permanent. This is a fact!

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It would still work if you create an account that would not look spam because most of the Forums moderators were very strict and they delete new accounts with links right away.

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I would love to see that backlink profile. No offense, but I find it really hard to believe.
None taken, the less that believe it, the better for me!

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Old 01-19-2012, 08:34 AM   #118
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It works well. But always remember that diversifying is very important.

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It is good to have forum profile links in your backclick profile, but just as a part, and not the main backlinking strategy.
First of all even if you have a profile on high PR forum, you actually have link on your profile page with PR0.
Some forums will delete profile without any posts.

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They do have SOME value, but's only when you combine them with other seo strategies.

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They really work! registering in forum and put your link their. In this way we can get direct beck link for our website and help us to get no 1 position in google.

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Old 02-01-2012, 10:59 PM   #122
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got useful information? what is the difference between forum profile links and forum signatures? Do forum signatures actually help? thanks

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Yes, but just a profile link alone usually isn't enough. In order to get the full effect, you need to post frequently.

Also, you need to make sure that your target website has a balanced incoming link portfolio - it can't just be made of up forum links. You have to have other types of links in there too.

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yes they really work as high pr forum links really helps to get the better PR for your website.

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High pr and dofollow fourms sites help our sites. I observe that you also try this
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It most of the cases it works but it is very time consuming task. Its better to do blog commenting instead.

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Profile backlinks have a great SEO impact. If you create your profiles with wisdom (i.e fill in all the fields, upload an avatar, put your links one week later than the creation date) then you can be sure that your links will stick and remain for a very long time. Note, that not all the profile links will work. They must belong to extremely high quality and high PR websites, they must be public and above all they must be dofollow.
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yup....
It's useful. you have to first find high forum, then high page rank and do follow is next to this...
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I would love to see that backlink profile. No offense, but I find it really hard to believe.
One of my competitors is ranking 1st page 60,000,000 exact using only forum links.
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High pr fourm profiles working fine for me.

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forums participation is also very important some forums give a dofollow link in signature
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Definitely it is a part of the big total. It's a good part to have more traffic when you are active and you can advertise for free (it only costs time to post on the forum), and you will always be able to change your advertising text.

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Yes, They Do Work! You Can Also Try Forums Signature! They Give A DoFollow Link Too!
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high PR forum profile dofollow links building helps lot to increase your PR in SERPs. Directory submission is also good to increase backlinks and for faster indexing through search engines, social bookmarking is the best.



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I found that 'relevant' links from industry forms seem to work quite well.

Doing some post-penguin/panda testing this week. Should still work as it'd be pretty hard for the big G to discredit relevant/intitle links.

Just don't want to go overboard on any one type of link building activity.

What I'm seeing so far, through some data scraping and analysis, is that the mantra of link diversity and anchor text diversity is key.

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Forum profiles are a very good source for backlinks. The high the PR of the forum, the better.
Just because a forum is PR4, PR5, PR6, etc, doesn't mean your backlink will be. A forum profile backlink is going to be a PR N/A backlink lost in the mix of potentially thousands of other profile backlinks on the forum.

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High page rank forum profile do-follow links buildings helps lot to enhance your page rank in search engine result page.

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There are lots of Do follow forum available over internet. Just find out effective forums and starts work on them

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Profile backlinks works, dont as much power as use to have, but remember:
- 2.0 profiles are better than normal forums
- Mix of anchortext, and do/nofollow
- Make your profiles look natural, submit as much content as you can, it will have more value for google, and probably admin wont delete it, search for angela profiles on fiverr, look for blboss, he does a greate job.
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Yes high pr profile back links really helps....

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High PR forum profile links helps to get link juice.
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If yes, how do we get links from such high PR site?
Would be great to get some help
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