Need Assistance with what are good Backlinks

Hi Jeff,

They're unconnected. (Unless he's using at least one of these expressions with a very different meaning from everyone else, and even then I can't imagine what it might be?)

A "profile link" is a way of getting a backlink to your site by filling in (sometimes with automated link-spamming software) the "profile" on joining a forum, membership site or whatever. There's normally a space on those forms to fill in "your website", sometimes just with its url, and sometimes even with a keyword. Those links are called "profile links". Collectively, they're terrible. Most of the places in which they're readily available are defunct or semi-defunct off-topic forums which may or may not ever get indexed anyway, and even if they do, the backlink's going to be almost worthless. And if you're not contributing to the forum, filling in a profile there just for the sake on a link is really "spamming" anyway, and if the forum owner sees it (i.e. if the forum is active) he's quite likely to remove it, so most of them are only temporary anyway. Useless, undesirable, hopeless stuff. You can buy thousands of them at fiverr.com for $5 and that's because they're worthless.

Blog commenting, in complete contrast, gets your backlink on a current, active page of a current, active, context-relevant site. As long as the blog on which you're commenting is connected with "your niche" and is an active one. These are, by comparison, "high-class backlinks". They can be really good. The ones I do (by making suitable comments on relevant blogs, that add value to the page so that people welcome them and don't mind leaving my link there) are each worth - in "linkjuice equivalents" - several thousand article directory backlinks (those are in turn worth a little bit more than "profile links" but not a whole lot more). The thing to do with blog commenting is to imagine you're the owner of the blog concerned, and ask yourself "What sort of comment would I be really pleased to see here, that would really add value to my site?". If you approach it in that sort of "contributory" way, you'll have a high success-rate with them.