Do High PR Forum Profile Links Work?

[Si_P]

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,
Si_P

[stumblerum]

They work ok. It's certainly worth doing a run now and then. But it's boring as hell.

[jazbo]

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.

[clickwise]

What's wrong with making it the only strategy?

[jazbo]

Hi

Better to have a natural-looking link profile, than to put all your eggs in one basket.

Originally Posted by clickwise

What's wrong with making it the only strategy?

[Si_P]

Has anyone got a list of high PR forums to get started with?

[TrafficMystic]

Originally Posted by Si_P

Has anyone got a list of high PR forums to get started with?

you may want to check out terry kyles / tom goodwins WSO or KKChoons WSO for a good list of these..

[billy_the_sound]

they really works, especially for a new website, to be indexed in google. try sitepont, digital point forum, v7n, and webmaster talk , it give so many information about seo and website building too.

[bannor32]

I've found them useful for building page rank, but not that helpful in improving SERPs ranking.

[ron.the.bull]

Originally Posted by clickwise

What's wrong with making it the only strategy?

That would be SPAM. But I'm guessing that does not matter to some.

[tdpubs]

Originally Posted by clickwise

What's wrong with making it the only strategy?

The effort of one type of strategy can backfire with Google. If the SEs change their algorithms and start looking at relevancy of links you'd better be sure that your forum links are all relevant to your keyword. If you diversify, you have a better shot at staying on top.

Dennis

[rkurata]

Yea, submitting to Profiles is boring and time consuming, is it worth it? I usually do a few, but have a hard time getting them to show up as links. I usually ping them. Is there a better way to get profiles indexed?

[InternetMarketingIQ]

Page Rank is not Site Rank. People lose track of this.

If you want to know if they "work" find another persons profile on the site you want to link from. Search for the URL in Google and see if it is indexed and ranked. If it is... then it works.

And as a rule of thumb use a profile that is at least 3 months old.

[stumblerum]

Originally Posted by bannor32

I've found them useful for building page rank, but not that helpful in improving SERPs ranking.

I have found the opposite!

[TaroA]

Yes, HIGH PR forums links worked for me. But, you cannot still stick only with that, You have to get some other kinds of links too (As you told, bookmarks, blogging and etc). If you apply a MIXTURE of all the methods only, you will be able to come forward

[Si_P]

Thanks everyone for your responses. I always find that my WF signatures are picked up by the search engines but then again this forum is completely relevant to the niche i am promoting in and I love this forum. I suppose a few other forum profiles wouldn't hurt.

[jazbo]

Pinging works for me. I also paste the URL's into a blogger post, and also submit that to a few social bookmarking sites as well.

Originally Posted by rkurata

Yea, submitting to Profiles is boring and time consuming, is it worth it? I usually do a few, but have a hard time getting them to show up as links. I usually ping them. Is there a better way to get profiles indexed?

[HCLee]

Angela's profile backlinks work. I've been using it and promoting it for more than 6 months and am thoroughly pleased with the results. The key is to make your backlinks count i.e. get them indexed by Google.

[abs007]

Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ

And as a rule of thumb use a profile that is at least 3 months old.

Hi - Do you mean set up the profile page then 3 months later add the backlink?

any chance of an explanation please - I think i have misunderstood

[MarkAse]

Generally speaking you want to make sure to create the profile and fill in all the info including a picture. Come back at some later date (different people have different suggestions) to fill in your links once you are out of the new members list.

It's an easy link building task, but can be tedious to say the least. Angela and Paul have nice monthly packets, while Terry has a GREAT one, if there is space available.

[Mike Anthony]

Originally Posted by clickwise

What's wrong with making it the only strategy?

Forum backlinks still work and I still use them but to me they are the most likely of all backlinking talked about on this forum to be discounted in the future.

A) Future upgrades by the software developer can release updates to their software that can make all signature and profile links nofollow as the default.

B) Forum signatures and profile links are extremely easy to spot by distinct footprints. If google makes the decision to discount themn it would take less than a day for their programmers to develop an easy means of achieving it.

Always diversify and look for backlink sites where you can leave backlinks in content that your are allowed to supply.

[vagabondette]

Yes, they work but no one should have only 1 backlinking methodology. Mix it up. It not only looks more natural but you're less likely to have a batch of BLs wiped out at once. I get links from blog commenting, forum profiles, article marketing, social networking sites, forum posting, social bookmarking, RSS feeds and more.

[Tom Goodwin]

Originally Posted by rkurata

Yea, submitting to Profiles is boring and time consuming, is it worth it? I usually do a few, but have a hard time getting them to show up as links. I usually ping them. Is there a better way to get profiles indexed?

I use sean donahue's backlink booster and a majority of my profiles get indexed by google within a couple days. As for boring and time consuming, no one should be doing these by hand. At a very minimum, one should be using SEO link dominator or roboform. I have started to have outsourcers do a majority of them for me as they can do them much cheaper than my time is worth.

Tom

[Tom Goodwin]

Originally Posted by abs007

Hi - Do you mean set up the profile page then 3 months later add the backlink?

any chance of an explanation please - I think i have misunderstood

wow, that gives a whole new idea to coming back to put the backlinks

[Donatello]

always mix for building backlink to strengthen the value of backlink.
I'm mixing with social bookmarking, creating dummy web 2.0 blog, comment spammer, etc

[jmarkel]

Originally Posted by clickwise

What's wrong with making it the only strategy?

The two primary reasons you don't want to make it your primary strategy is below.

1. Many of those prodile links get removed, some within days after you put them there. Many will stick but others get routinely whacked by forum admins.
2. Google knows people are doing this bigtime so may devalue them or not count them in the future.

Combine backlink building with article marketing and you will have a good base.

[wearebacklinks]

They work and work wonders. I always finish off SEO campaigns with a solid 300 profile backlinks targeting the homepage.

It's always good to try and only create profiles on websites in which your public profile is located 2-3 folders down. (domain.com/folder1/folder2/profile)

Most of our campaigns are based maybe 75% profile backlinks and the rest some articles, press releases, blog commenting and hand-picked directories.

They work, and can definitely vouch for them.

[Shaun Lee]

Yes they work.

Heck, they even pass on some heavy juice!

[vnseo]

Join a forum you are very good that

[f4ll3rs]

they work all right... but you need a certain kind of forum to get the max result...

these are the kind of forums profile you want to search: PR 4 or above, dofollow backlinks, anchor text of your own choice, IP diversity, and you don’t need to login to see the backlinks.

[bryrho]

Profile links work very well, but you need quite a few of them. I'd suggest outsoucing this and focus your time on other tasks like building linkwheels etc.

[sixstring]

They sure do work. I am having much success in the SERPs by using them.

[kalios]

This way for obtaining backlinks works if you have built links also by other methods (article submissions, blog commenting etc)

[gabibeowulf]

Yes .. it does work pretty well. Of course, you can't just rely on one linking strategy

You have to vary your backlink sources.

[Glassjaw009]

Great question.

Profiles are a great and underused strategy. Everybody and their mother knows all about article marketing. You're competitors are doing it while you're doing it. Forum profiles can often be the "spark" if you will. They've done wonders for me thus far, often providing more firepower to your rankings and PR than just generating more article links, blog comments, etc.

[Yusuf]

They work, but you need to make sure they get indexed so that Google sees your backlinks in the first place.

To save time you can use an index checker such as this one and then use this profile link checker to also make sure that the links are still dofollow.

[adamv]

Originally Posted by Glassjaw009

Great question.

Profiles are a great and underused strategy. Everybody and their mother knows all about article marketing. You're competitors are doing it while you're doing it. Forum profiles can often be the "spark" if you will. They've done wonders for me thus far, often providing more firepower to your rankings and PR than just generating more article links, blog comments, etc.

I agree that profile links are great but "underused"??? Seriously??? They are one of the most used and abused linking methods today.

[moneymoguls]

I have used forum profiles as part of my backlink strategy but it's not good long term. The profiles will get removed after non-activity. I have lost many links because the profile was deleted by admin.

I don't use them anymore. They get removed too easily.

[kalios]

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.

[caredog]

They can work as long as they are part of your overall link strategy. If you are just counting on forum links you are in for some bad news.

[teatree]

I've found that forum signatures and forum profile links work well if you want to rank in Yahoo, but not so much for Google. But it's always nice to have a variety of links, so yes, build them.

[Jody_W]

Originally Posted by teatree

I've found that forum signatures and forum profile links work well if you want to rank in Yahoo, but not so much for Google. But it's always nice to have a variety of links, so yes, build them.

LOL, it seems that we're all having different experiences. Profile backlinks have worked for me in Google and Bing, but nothing is happening in Yahoo.

[Tom Goodwin]

Originally Posted by Jody_W

LOL, it seems that we're all having different experiences. Profile backlinks have worked for me in Google and Bing, but nothing is happening in Yahoo.

My experience is 100% the same re: Google & Bing vs. Yahoo

[teatree]

Originally Posted by Jody_W

LOL, it seems that we're all having different experiences. Profile backlinks have worked for me in Google and Bing, but nothing is happening in Yahoo.

Yahoo likes sheer volume. Google and Bing are more three dimentional and like variety in the links.

P.S. I posted the following in the profile building thread, but it might be applicable to this thread too:

Regarding the "I have put up 100 profile links, why are only 3 of them showing up in the backlink searches" question, I have a theory, and it's all to do with internal backlinking.

With most forums, the point is to post in the forum. And everytime you post, there is a link from the forum post back to your profile, via the name in the left hand sidebar.

Remember that forum threads get indexed as well as the forum profiles. So the more you post in the forum, the more internal backlinks are created to your profile, and the stronger the profile becomes. If you just set up a profile and don't post, then there is nothing supporting the profile, and it's unlikely to count for much.

So once you have set up your profiles, then pick a few of the forums and start posting to ensure the profile strengthens.

Yes it's time consuming, but it's your classic time spent v benefit gained scenario. If you spend 5 hours building 100 profiles and only 3 are recognised, you arn't doing as well as someone who spent 5 hours and built 10 profiles by hand (including posting in the forum) and got them all indexed

[Renzel32]

According to me, High PR forums is provide more backlinks compare to other normal forums and also get the more traffic.

[speaktalk10]

yes....It's useful....find high forum,high page rank and do follow...

[pnyxe]

when you query the backlink of the other's website in yahoo,often you can see the profile link. so it does work,too,just as the other links.

[socialbookmark]

U believe that using other methods is more effective if you only want to make a profile backlink on a forum and leave that forum for ever. If you want to do this, i suggest you to use other ways you know for building backlinks for your website.

[steve81kat]

I have seen some difference in the rankings of my web site but the majority of links came from forums relevant to our industry. Also,all the posts were really good and my profile almost complete. Certainly, it is not the best way to get links but it still helps. Pinging also might help to speed things up a little bit.

[Benjustin]

in my experience, it did work!