Is linkbuilding in terms of buying forum profiles dead?

[sabina24]

Hi!

I've started to investigate forum profile link building SEO method and reading various posts from experienced people and combining them with my own personal experience, I wonder, if buying links from companies, using Rank Builder, Auto Backlink Bomb, Magic Submitter etc. is still worth?

Personaly I've been using the last mentioned three software and I am not sure about their effectivenes. Eg. I've just had a domain I opened about a week ago that climbed to no.4 or no.7 spot on the first page right away for my keyword (longtail keyword domain, about 950.000 competative pages). Today it vanished (eventhough the pages are still indexed). I was conducting a slow (30-50 links per day) linkbuilding campaign thourghout the week.

Am I just being impatient? Should I still wait? Is this method a recipe for a long term success? I am confused to be completely honest because I don't know if I am on the right track or not.

I also have to mention that I have several other domains that are 3-7 months old and all of them started doing really good and then most of them all of the sudden dropped. Now I barely have any traffic with them. It's the same niche market as previously mentioned "new" domain, but different angles. This "no traffic" has been going on for about 4 weeks now. Should I expect to bounce back into the game? I haven't done any linkbuilding campaigns for those domains though. Is the fact that I am hosting all these domains on a single reseller server connected anyhow to my problem?

Anyway, confused as he** right now. Would like to hear your response, experiences etc.

Thanks!

[bigcat1967]

I personally never got wrapped up w/ any type of auto backlinking software and seriously advice you to perhaps stay away from it. Search engines usually do not like this.

[sagajagads]

nice information

[mattjay]

i used the softwares you mentioned extensively some time ago and the results were somewhat simlilar. i agree that using software is probably not the super best way to go. i had sites that did the same thing, shot up really quickly then eventually fell off over time. it also seems the more agressive you are, google eventually catches on and penalizes you for it. at least, that's my thoughts.

[DireStraits]

Originally Posted by sabina24

Is this method a recipe for a long term success? I am confused to be completely honest because I don't know if I am on the right track or not.

To be perfectly honest, it's not a recipe for long-term success. Not in anything but the weakest of weak niches, anyway, and even there it'd be questionable.

Profile backlinks are very, very weak. They're new profiles on new pages that start out with little or no measurable PageRank. Just because a site's homepage might be a PR-x, it doesn't mean your backlinks are. They're not, because your backlinks aren't on the homepage. The profile/site itself also won't typically represent a context-relevant backlinking opportunity.

Blog commenting on relevant dofollow blogs - if you can get your comments approved - is a better way of acquiring context-relevant backlinks, and ones that sometimes have a high PageRank, too ... which just makes the backlink all the more powerful.

Other than that, article marketing (syndication) is another a good way of acquiring permanent, context-relevant backlinks (and pre-targeted referral-traffic, of course!). And depending on what sort of sites you syndicate to, your article-pages will typically have better odds of amassing PageRank, as those sites grow/mature, which will result in a gradual increase in the strength of your backlinks over time.

[chinmokuyuuki]

Getting backlinks of whatever kind is never 'dead'. They might get less effective over time, but a backlinks is still a backlink at the end of the day. People stating otherwise should try to wake up for once and stop listening to those self proclaimed gurus.

In my 4 years backlinking experience, creating forum profiles is still a valid method to gain some nice quantities of backlinks. The problem with forum profile links is that they were devaluated in the latest algorithm change and they tend to deprecate fairly quickly.

Personally I tend to mix up my backlinking methods and throw in some blog comments, article links, bookmark links and link wheels.

[sabina24]

I really appritiate all the replies... I am surrprised to get such a feedback... Finally, do you think having all my sites on a reseller account affects the SERPs? Is this the key to my fall-out?

It does sound logical that one-way backlinks shouldn't hurt so I guess I should continue with them. However, it might be a waste of money to pay for a software on a monthly basis that does not deliver the results.

[ARVolund]

Well you should never rely on any one type of backlink and forum profiles while still useful do seem to have been somewhat depreciated.

Are you just adding in your links to the profiles or are you burying them in text? Are you adding in multiple links in each profile or just one?

Since you are automating them try adding just one link to each profile and bury it in some related text. With most platforms you are going to be able to get 3-4 sentences in the profiles so use it. Spin them a bit and go to town on building them. Also try backlinking your profiles with another layer (or two) and bookmark all of them.

Is seems like more work but since you are automating the process it really is not. Takes a bit more time but it will help them work better. Really if you already own the tools you may as well use them as you have already paid the price.

[sabina24]

Thanks, that make more sense... Will try this angle and see what happens. I am just so dissapointed because I thought this method will work long-term and stay that way. Did not expect to drop and who knows when to rebound, if at all.

[masterjani]

When creating backlinks diversify it.Like forum profile,article submission,blog commenting like that.And mix dofollow and no follow links to look natural to search engines.

This will help in steady increase.These days it is hard to gain placement for new domains because of various updates from google.But building continuous backlinks is the only way to solve this.

[sabina24]

So masterjani, you think there is hope for my problem? You think placing and creating diversity of backlinks to my pages will bring fruit?