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Links in profiles after Penguin.. ineffective?

by jsalcedo00
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Hi everyone,

do you still think profiles are well considered by Google after Penguin?


I guess these were/are the best way to get high quality backlinks (and they stay live for a long time) but.. Google can find they're links in profiles easily (url contains always "users" or "profiles" for example), and they say they are doing a job to do ineffective some linking techniques and I had some site hit where I was doing nice high quality profiles (and getting excellent results!).

Any experience, what do you think?



Thanks
#ineffective #links #penguin #profiles
  • Profile picture of the author Dinospider
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    Personally haven't seen any positive effects of using profile links anymore. Mainly using web 2.0 with unique content and added videos. This is your way forward.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    First of all, there is no such thing as high quality profile links. They are trash.

    Secondly, they haven't been effective for a long time before Penguin ever came out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dinospider
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    ^^^ There's your answer. can't argue with that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Elion Makkink
    Just stick with high quality and unique content. These will always help improving your ranking and will get quality backlinks by itself.
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  • Profile picture of the author discuss4u
    In fact, I am now trying to remove the profile links built. Better not to do it if you really want to brand your site because it looks spammy anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
    profile links have had zero value for quite a while. They are complete junk and cause your backlink profile to look spammy and unnatural. How people manage to sell these links i'll never know.
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  • Profile picture of the author ExcellentLinks
    Contextual backlinks would be great.. You should try it rather than profile links.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Williamson
    As Mike said above, profile links have been ineffective for quite some time, and are considered a negative blow by some.
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Profiles haven't worked well in awhile, IMO.

    And I've always been annoyed at people passing them off as "high PR" backlinks. A backlink on a PR N/A profile page is NOT a high PR backlink, even if the domain is PR5, PR6, etc.

    It's called "pagerank" and not "domainrank," "siterank," etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author hadsek
      I think they have always been ineffective.
      They dont add any value to the end user.
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      • Profile picture of the author sonic74
        I always diversify my backlinking methods and my anchor texts......however the majority of my backlinks are forum profiles and they're doing well
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  • Profile picture of the author Theeban
    I don't think that is ineffective when your link building strategy contains other methods of link building to get more links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Watch Store
    i sgree. Profile use d to work very well before Panda and Penguin, but they have lost a lot of value since then.
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  • Profile picture of the author mosthost
    Everybody is probably guessing at this point
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  • Profile picture of the author rizoalbert
    Profile backlinks are not effective after penguin.You can try other methods.
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  • Profile picture of the author RevSEO
    Hell no, don't waste your time manually building profile links.

    They are a waste of time, and the work required to index them is ridiculous. That time could be spent creating valuable content for your site, guest blogging or a number of other crazy effective methods for driving traffic and getting links.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jay Campbell
      Profile links have been mostly dead for over a year now at least as in comparison to how effective they were in the past. Prior to some of the tweaks in recent years, sites were regularly ranked with just profile links, but the general consensus from SEO forums and experts is that they are of low if any value now.

      As tier 3 or 4 links or for building IP link diversity they could be tried, but don't blast direct to your main site with them.
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