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Profile Back Links (Do they carry any value ?)

by kithara
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After all this changes in seo all these months i would like to see what are your thoughts about profile back links as a form of sending some juice to the linking site.
#back #carry #links #profile
  • Profile picture of the author Punit12
    Originally Posted by kithara View Post

    After all this changes in seo all these months i would like to see what are your thoughts about profile back links as a form of sending some juice to the linking site.
    Yes, Profile backlinks are of great value.
    The more no. of big websites know your site, certainly its something of big value.
    It also help your site improve its crawl rate.
    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author The SEO
    Profiles links has a great value if you do it manually as well as with new strategy. Try to use just authority and High PR websites for profile creation.
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Profile backlinks have almost zero value.

    Why not, instead, join a handful of high traffic, niche related forums and become a daily poster? You'll start to drive incredibly targeted traffic that tends to convert REALLY well.
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    • Profile picture of the author chrisv24
      Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

      Profile backlinks have almost zero value.

      Why not, instead, join a handful of high traffic, niche related forums and become a daily poster? You'll start to drive incredibly targeted traffic that tends to convert REALLY well.
      100% agree. I think profile links are a bit spammy and in most cases, the easier it is to get the link, the spammier it is.

      Post on forums and build up a decent reputation, then drop a few links. Don't post links too often as mods have really started to crack down on this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Web Hosting
    I do not recommend using spam tactics or anything questionable such as profile backlinks. They could possibly work for a while, but it is not a good part of the formula of a recipe for long term success.

    I would focus on getting higher quality related links to your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Profile backlinks make shitty backlinks look like a good option.

    Anyone who says they are good for SEO is either an idiot or selling profile backlinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author ChevyCam
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Profile backlinks make shitty backlinks look like a good option.

      Anyone who says they are good for SEO is either an idiot or selling profile backlinks.

      Totally agree. Profiles backlinks has a very small value, same as forum backlinks, because of so many OBL number etc...
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    • Profile picture of the author options
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Profile backlinks make shitty backlinks look like a good option.

      Anyone who says they are good for SEO is either an idiot or selling profile backlinks.
      I love reading your thoughts on these types of topics, straight to the point.
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    • Profile picture of the author kaytav
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Profile backlinks make shitty backlinks look like a good option.

      Anyone who says they are good for SEO is either an idiot or selling profile backlinks.
      I agree with Mike. Profile backlinks is a way of collecting spam links. Most people use softwares to carry out these process.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by johnnyd77 View Post

      Honestly, HIGH PR relevant profile backlinks can help you.

      Aim for quality and not quantity.

      JD77
      Originally Posted by analogTime View Post

      I have to agree with you, there's value if is relevant and not spammed.
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Anyone who says they are good for SEO is either an idiot or selling profile backlinks.

      So which one are you?
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  • Profile picture of the author kithara
    Does Google crawls user profiles on forums ? if it does then there is a possibility that it will index them.
    do follow or not they might have some value still on them especially if thy are coming from very hight pr websites
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by kithara View Post

      Does Google crawls user profiles on forums ? if it does then there is a possibility that it will index them.
      do follow or not they might have some value still on them especially if thy are coming from very hight pr websites
      They are PR n/a and PR 0 links. Does not matter what the PR of the main domain is.

      Profile links have been harming rankings on sites for about 2 years now. There was a time when you could rank for very uncompetitive terms with just profile links. That time is gone.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Nguyen
    Waste of time and you'll mostly likely get your profile deleted anyway. Don't even bother with the "double pass" method.
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  • Profile picture of the author 100KAffiliateManager
    Originally Posted by kithara View Post

    After all this changes in seo all these months i would like to see what are your thoughts about profile back links as a form of sending some juice to the linking site.
    Don't waste your time creating or outsourcing profile links for the purpose of trying to boost rankings, PR etc - you can get anywhere for 30 to a few thousand profile links for $5 on Fiverr - that should give you some idea of how valuable they are.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnnyd77
    Honestly, HIGH PR relevant profile backlinks can help you.

    Aim for quality and not quantity.

    JD77
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    • Profile picture of the author analogTime
      Originally Posted by johnnyd77 View Post

      Honestly, HIGH PR relevant profile backlinks can help you.

      Aim for quality and not quantity.

      JD77
      I have to agree with you, there's value if is relevant and not spammed.
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  • Profile picture of the author icykalimu
    usually profile backlinks are nofollow. If dofollow usually have pagerank 0.
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    • Profile picture of the author twisters
      Originally Posted by icykalimu View Post

      usually profile backlinks are nofollow. If dofollow usually have pagerank 0.
      I would like to add a correction to your comment if you don't mind. Warrior (PR5) forum's profile link is do-follow and webicy (PR0) forum's profile link is no-follow.

      It totally depends on forum owners...........
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  • Profile picture of the author tarunsarien
    Profile back link have similar value equal to your profile on that site.
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  • Profile picture of the author asimbawany
    profile backlinks have their place in tiered link building but I wouldnt recommend pointing them to you main money sites
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  • Profile picture of the author molsted
    Forum profiles (the automated ones) are just like autmoated Blog Comments imho. You don't use them directly to your money site, but you can use them as additional links to your third tier links for instance.

    ...and it should not be your only source of backlinks. Nowadays you need diversity and quality more than anything else.

    Do like the previous posts suggest; go and find some high pr, and preferable niche related forums, and post manually. Maybe you can even drive some targeted traffic and get some sales in the process!
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    • Profile picture of the author michealburns
      Originally Posted by molsted View Post

      Forum profiles (the automated ones) are just like autmoated Blog Comments imho. You don't use them directly to your money site, but you can use them as additional links to your third tier links for instance.

      ...and it should not be your only source of backlinks. Nowadays you need diversity and quality more than anything else.

      Do like the previous posts suggest; go and find some high pr, and preferable niche related forums, and post manually. Maybe you can even drive some targeted traffic and get some sales in the process!
      what if the sites are not niche related and having more than 3 PR, will the Google penguin algorithm affect ranking??
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  • Profile picture of the author michealburns
    Profile link only values if the link is indexed in your WMT tool.
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