Profile Forum Links, Worth It?

That's a valid point and while my most recent test was from a WSO with many glowing reviews, I do think the .edu backlinks I'm working on myself will give me much better results than any mass linking service...if I can just be patient enough to get them in place and see them start working for me.

When creating profile forum links all the links will have a pagerank of N/A or 0 anyway, so quality will be same for every site I think or am I missing something here?

Quality will be at minimum as they all will be pagerank 0, however I think it depends on what you do yourself to increase the quality of those links.

And I personally think increasing the quality is the difficult part.

sometimes it will work but sometimes it wont.

for me i try to use blog or create lots of blog. Because you can tweak on the on page seo and have a better search engine result too and

copy each rss link and submit to rss directories.

I have a client who recently discovered he had a website he did not know about. Someone built it for him to prove they could do SEO, but then disappeared. I found the site when I was doing keyword research, it was on the first page of google (7th position) for his keyword (local, but still pretty competitive) and the backlinks - 53 were all forum profile links and blog comments. I would love to know more about the index/spider/cache issues I am reading about here. I am a designer moving more into SEO as a request from my clients and am in the process of developing my strategy and purchasing software for semi-automation. I do not understand the entire ping, RSS, cache cycle and I am trying to not waste time or money! Pinging my backlinks seems like a time eater.

Oke,

Well, 1 week ago I had 4000 profile links created for 2 of my sites and then used pingdevice.com to ping all of my profile links.

So far, for both of the sites I can only see 8 backlinks from profile links. for both of the sites?

is there a way to get these profile links indexed faster? Or do I just let google crawl these pages in a natural way.

I'm not saying this to be mean, but are you really from florida? Is your english really that bad?

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For those that don't know, double pass is creating a profile, and waiting at least a week before adding your link.

You want to wait until your name drops from the 'new members' list so less people get a chance to see your spammy profile of evilness

I would recommend letting google find your links naturally. Do not ping them as it could raise alarm bells with google

I've not really found profile links that affective. I had over 5000 pointing to a site that didn't have that much competition. Links didn't make any difference at all and that was over 2 months ago.

Just adding my .02. Am not an SEO guru.

Think forum post(links) can work well ... or not work at all. Depending on the person using them. If you post in forums related to your niche. Add useful and interesting comments then it could pay off for you. Even if it's just some good traffic to your site.

Would also say ... A person needs to be selective. Getting 10,000 trash links is going to waste your time. It's nothing but spam. The admins of those forums wont appreciate it. The users won't either and the mighty google algo wont as well.

Google's definitely not stupid. They recognize widespread automated trash links. They've made it pretty plain they don't like people who think they're slick and jam up their indexes with trash and spam attempts.

Think link building should be a well thought out and natural looking process, if you expect to get anything out of it. Link spam = trash in/trash out ( trash results ).

Google wants content that's relevant. They want the people searching with them to find what they want. To find quality results. The whole user experience thing you keep hearing about. 20,000 random forum links doesn't make you relevant. Makes you a spammer, at best likely to be ignored in terms of giving any benefit. At worst could get you the dreaded google slap.

Google has a license to print $$$. That's of course why they're so big about protecting user experience and weeding out the irrelevant results for users as much as poss.

Back in the day ... Believe this kind of wide spread linking worked. 30,000 links = must be a high status site we better note in our index for XYZ. But the search engines algo's have evolved to be smart enough to recognize link spam for what it is nowadays.


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