Are Forum Profiles still effective for SEO?

[cyrilrask37]

After several Google Penguin and Panda updates. Are Forum Profiles still effective for doing SEO? And, today, what are the best practices to rank on SERPs? I need some new ideas..

[danielthomas]

Not links from forums, all links from sites which are relevant to our sites's niche are valuable and effective.

[radivoj]

they may consider as spamy links and they not as nearly affective as used to be but you can use it a bit for link's diversity as long as you use unique content, you should be more focus on social signals...regarding rank on serps is still very effective social bookmarks that you create manually, web 2.0 properties as well article directories but with unique content...

[khurramseo]

SEM is the best practice to rank up.

[Local Search]

If your main purpose is to create only profiles in forum sites. Then I would like to say that you are wasting your time. And if you are active and do regular post in forum sites, then its beneficial to take links from forum sites.

[cyrilrask37]

From this, maybe I'll try some other new things. Maybe a combination of what you guys have said, Social Bookmarks, Web2.0 as well as Article directories and be active on forums.

Thanks a lot for spending time and giving me ideas.

[n0tr3v3]

I just wanted to let you know that yes there still work but it is best to avoid getting these types of links in large or just getting them period when you're on page 1-4 of google....

I have send 100+ Senukex Web 2.0 profile links to my websites that were on page 1 (the websites have disappeared) and now I have to be manually removing these links and then I will have to write articles and make a broken link web or pyramid to get them ranking higher again (and I was trying to avoid doing this)...

Well all the best and remember that web 2.0 links rule.....

[Nicky Papers]

Forum profile links are not as effective as they once were. I've built millions of forum profile links in my day and it's sometimes hard coming to the realization that certain strategies don't work as well as they once did.

I've used them direct to site and had success in the past. Then I used them to back up social bookmarks, web 2.0's, etc. when social bookmarks were all the rage.

You should still keep forum profiles in your tool box of links to "get the job done" but you'll probably be using them less frequently as time goes on.

[igl0w]

foru mprofiles without extra links are abandoned places google may never find

[hilarious89]

If those forum profiles are built by human they are very effective cause natural link building can't be harm with those algorithm update.

[radivoj]

Profile backlinks are also very hard to index it would usually take month's to Google index them even if you ping them the best way to index those type of links is using Baclinkbooster or Backlinkindexer they are two best tools to index any type of links...

[timpears]

Originally Posted by khurramseo

SEM is the best practice to rank up.

What is SEM? Can you provide a link to them for us/me?

[paulgl]

Forum profiles links can be golden. If the forum:

Has decent PR.
Gets crawled all the time.
Is very active.
Has a militant admin.
Has numerous threads, if not all, indexed.
And has you as an active member.

I can tell you that if a forum has a decent admin,
mods, etc., then your piddly forum profile will be
nipped in the bud if it smells of spam and you have no
posts. Good forums clean house, especially dumping
the trash of non-active members.

Do not just go and create a whole bunch of worthless
profiles on a bunch of worthless forums.

A lot of nonsense in this thread. Why it would take google
any time to index a profile is way beyond me. If google
does not index the profile, or a thread you start, then
the forum is junk. I'd hate to be a member of a forum and
have google index stuff once a month.

Anyone who says they have built millions of forum profile links,
seriously, is completely bonkers and needs a saliva test.

Paul

[ericfox]

According to me Forums are a way for people to discuss topics in public with both friends, strangers and experts.With forums it is very important to be genuine, if forum members and moderators feel that you are only trying to build links to your website., they will delete the links or even worse delete your post and all your forum link building efforts will be in vain.

[seoexpertsolution]

Yes Forum is still effective for SEO, to improve traffic do social media marketing for your site, it gives instant traffic to your website.

[ours]

I was discussing the "Forum profile" aspect in other thread of WF and members stated that forum links are not effective if you are not using those forums properly. So, you can have lots of forums profile links but you need to contribute in those forums then those links will have more value. Hope this make some sense.

[david4weaver]

we can use forum profile link as 2nd tier link

[Vivers]

I don't believe the actual profile link will do much good however if your posting often with your signature you will get a little juice.

[chandragrego]

I think they are still effective but not as powerful as some of the available linking methods out there because most of profile Links nowadays are nofollow links.

[samual james]

If you just want to create backlinks through forum posting then according to me its not advisable thing to do. Forum is an effective method to generate traffic, if you are doing forums on relevant forums .

[fmnely1]

BETTER TO ADOPT MORE FROM WEB 2.0

[retsek]

The great thread of link drops and bad advice.

[seoerpro]

So is there any good advice for forum profile?

[aadi144]

Forum profiles is surely going to bring in quality backlinks if one has their signatures on quality sites.

[zylun]

Originally Posted by cyrilrask37

After several Google Penguin and Panda updates. Are Forum Profiles still effective for doing SEO? And, today, what are the best practices to rank on SERPs? I need some new ideas..

Panda has nothing to do with it. forum profiles are of no use today unless you are active with that community that would count.

[MaryPabelate]

Forum profiles would be effective if they are built naturally, I have seen this kind of work done automatically which won't give you any benefit.

Instead, you can go for forum posts, but it should be in relevant forums, for better result.

[synch@123]

Yup i am still getting my maximum numbers of back links from forum posting only..Its great.

[vutshuvo]

based on my experience ,,, forum profile links is not effective last couple of days...
but relevant forum post is effective for all time

[Eugeanne]

Forum posting gives me a lot of benefits. Aside from i got to learn new things..it also contribute to the backlinks of my site.

[Weedy92]

Yes.

They aren't as powerful as they used to be. But they still can do wonders when done right. The best way to use them is make the profile, fill out all of the about me details, etc. And make a few forum posts with the account, drop a link in your signature, etc. Make it look legit.

[needu12]

They are still effective if you create links around your Tier sites and not your money sites...Only post quality High PR links to your money site

[soniamit]

quality contents and more back links from forum only.

Forum backlinks never dead for seo.

[Jerome Y]

This is one question that no one can agree on, frankly I think that profile backlinks DO work, but only if their from high quality sites. Having a bunch of forum profile backlinks from low quality sites just wont do you any good.

[subzer0]

if its normal , it will be good for seo

[rank90]

Avoid this type of link, don't waste your valuable time.

[mrsvirtualassistant]

Forum profiles still are useful for SEO, even though they don't work as well as they once did. Participate in forums related to your niche, provide relevant answers, start new threads, and participate actively in the community. Fill your profile page with compelling information.

[RyanLB]

As others have said, I don't use them unless it is on the 2nd tier. It's just too risky to use them pointing toward the money site, although I did use them to try to recover a few sites from the penguin update with anchor diversity.

[johnnixon84]

Forum posting still holds the key in getting higher ranking. We have to participate actively and complete the thread with useful information.

[rankitup1001]

I have been looking for effective SEO methods to take to be able to achieve not just good traffic but as well as long lasting rankings on search engines. Thanks for all the infos above, it helps. Especially for the backlinkbooster site i tried it and it works. I just needed to create more relevant and original content and go on with all the necessary methods. Thank you!

[andishm]

I think forum profile links not work anymore as they were in past, however forum posting with signature link still works I think if you are posing to related niche forum of your website.

[seowonder56]

Forum profile links are not as effective as they once were. I've built millions of forum profile links in my day and it's sometimes hard coming to the realization that certain strategies don't work as well as they once was

[Berkinb]

Forum profile links only worked when done in high volumes (like 1,000s) and doing such a thing after the latest updates is like suicide.

You can use them as Tier 2 pointing to your first layer of links, but I suspect Google will be going after the pyramid structure sometime soon.

[twilightofidols]

Short answer is yes. Long answer is, it depends.

[kayfrank]

Personally I would not use them. However if you sign up with just a few related forums and actually post threads in them and be active then these backlinks will work. Also you will be getting exposure to your site and people will start getting to know you from your posts.

[awj888]

profiles not really, posts can do - if related to your site,
xrumer blasts - stay away

[twilightofidols]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Monroe

Forum profiles are useless since the last few pandas, anyone who would say otherwise simply don't know what they're talking about.

At this point of the game google values the following.

Contextual links
Home Page links

Google puts almost 0 weight on:

blogroll links,
forum profiles links.
footer links

Many tmes people get penalized for footer links.

I respectfully disagree, but there is one thing you forget my friend.... Link diversity! You WANT to build links ESPECIALLY the kind that Google gives 0 weight to. Only building links to sites that pass a lot of link juice... suspicious much don't you think?

[collantjay]

I always use forum site to make backlinks and get rank from google search result. Still this method is very helpful in ranking your site.

[sheldonlobo]

If you making only forum profile than it would be bad idea.. like you need to participate on the forum, connect social media, post thread, discussion etc.. the best effective way for increasing serps is none other than SEO + SMO.. social media now a need of web optimization

[successpaving]

Only forum profile wouldn't work, you have to adopt several methods of link building so that you can build natural links.

[JoeUK]

I'd say it was a pretty useless technique for me, doing me more harm than good if anything.