Are Profile links still effective?

What used to work, was to find a site where you could make a profile and then build a link on that site to your profile. This might still work to a certain extent today, but it's tedious, the links are weak, and it's not really a good strategy.

So say find a forum where the profile links were followed, make sure the posts in the forum are also followed. Make an account, make some posts, ask a question about your profile and link to it. Something like "hey I'm having an issue editing <my profile> can somebody help?" Wait a little while, then update your profile to have a link to your site and add some relevant content. Then build some links to the profile.

People usually purchased "backlink packets" that described how to do this, but most forum profiles are all nofollow now and you're really vulnerable to having the admin delete your account. Also the link to your profile will get buried in the forum and will become worthless.

I'm pretty sure this is why people are still confused about profiles to date, as it used to work.

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yukon

Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by irawr

What used to work, was to find a site where you could make a profile and then build a link on that site to your profile. This might still work to a certain extent today, but it's tedious, the links are weak, and it's not really a good strategy.

So say find a forum where the profile links were followed, make sure the posts in the forum are also followed. Make an account, make some posts, ask a question about your profile and link to it. Something like "hey I'm having an issue editing <my profile> can somebody help?" Wait a little while, then update your profile to have a link to your site and add some relevant content. Then build some links to the profile.

People usually purchased "backlink packets" that described how to do this, but most forum profiles are all nofollow now and you're really vulnerable to having the admin delete your account. Also the link to your profile will get buried in the forum and will become worthless.

I'm pretty sure this is why people are still confused about profiles to date, as it used to work.

99.99% of the profile link clowns never did that. They bought profile link blast & that was it.

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floydarthur

8 years ago

Check the link juice, make it pass the juice to your profile, index and promote it. Most of the time, people tried to set and forget. Do something on your link, help the page. If your profile are all the same content, no quality then it's useless.

Floyd Arthur

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seotifycom

8 years ago

It depends on your goals. My moz profile drives like-minded people to my website for example..
And you can diversify your anchor profile easly.

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irawr Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by seotifycom

It depends on your goals. My moz profile drives like-minded people to my website for example..
And you can diversify your anchor profile easly.

Those links are nofollow, no SEO value.
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designandplace

8 years ago

nofollow does not mean no seo value.

Come on people, this forum used to be good, wake up.

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TotalWebsiteControl 8 years ago

Originally Posted by designandplace

nofollow does not mean no seo value.

Come on people, this forum used to be good, wake up.

Actually yes, Nofollow = no seo value.

wake up
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- designandplace 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TotalWebsiteControl
  
  Actually yes, Nofollow = no seo value.
  
  wake up
  
  I meant as the whole picture (whole link profile)
  
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designandplace

8 years ago

no follow is still counted in the google algo, just in a different way, you simply do not understand multi dimensional calculations.

WAKE UP yourself

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cbpayne 8 years ago

Originally Posted by designandplace

no follow is still counted in the google algo, just in a different way, you simply do not understand multi dimensional calculations.

Care to show us authoritative source for that or share the results of your testing for that?
Google have said they don't count.
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- yukon Banned 8 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by cbpayne
  
  Care to show us authoritative source for that or share the results of your testing for that?
  Google have said they don't count.
  
  It's complicated. It's multi dimensional.
  
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irawr

Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by designandplace

no follow is still counted in the google algo, just in a different way, you simply do not understand multi dimensional calculations.

WAKE UP yourself

I actually made a post about the math behind this calculation, it's not as complicated as you think.

http://www.warriorforum.com/search-e...e-ranking.html

Trust me, this calculation works every time.

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cbpayne

8 years ago

Originally Posted by irawr

I actually made a post about the math behind this calculation, it's not as complicated as you think.

http://www.warriorforum.com/search-e...e-ranking.html

Trust me, this calculation works every time.

The only problem with your formula, is that there should be on IQ test before any one is allowed to reply to that thread ;-)

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irawr Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by cbpayne

The only problem with your formula, is that there should be on IQ test before any one is allowed to reply to that thread ;-)

I was thinking about turning that thread into my own product. I'm pretty sure I could get one of these guys to buy it.

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- nettiapina 8 years ago
  
  There's also one thing that makes profile link worthless. The profile pages are inherently weak. Your profile page is not going to be a strong page on a normal forum. Even if the link is "followed" it's not going to help much.
  
  AFAIK Google has also hinted to the direction that they consider forum links to be poor. I suppose this includes both footer and profile links.
  
  Originally Posted by designandplace
  
  no follow is still counted in the google algo, just in a different way, you simply do not understand multi dimensional calculations.
  
  Sure. They count those links on multiple levels, for example the link juice that would go to a no follow links just vanishes. It's still part of the calculation: juice divided by total number of links. And yes, Google follows those links and probably stores the info somewhere.
  
  There's just no evidence that nofollow links would actually help your rankings. And this matches the purpose of nofollow, and what Google themselves has to say on the matter.
  
  Originally Posted by designandplace
  
  Plus, if you only have dofollow links, don't you think search engine will be suspicious?
  
  This is the hypothesis that some people believe in, but I haven't seen convincing evidence of this either. Sure, if you're doing some kind of spam you might want to mind how your backlink profile looks, but Google is getting better and better at this game.
  
  Some sites have way more "followed" links than nofollow. It doesn't seem to matter as long as the links themselves are not spammy.
  
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  Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
  Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.
  
  What's your excuse?
  
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designandplace

8 years ago

https://moz.com/blog/the-hidden-power-of-nofollow-links

Plus, if you only have dofollow links, don't you think search engine will be suspicious?

We all knew that years ago.

Sigh.

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yukon

Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by designandplace

https://moz.com/blog/the-hidden-power-of-nofollow-links

Plus, if you only have dofollow links, don't you think search engine will be suspicious?

We all knew that years ago.

Sigh.

You'll eventually have nofollow links regardless If you personally ever build a link yourself. It happens.

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designandplace

8 years ago

I meant in the bigger picture (overall) because some people think only dofollow links and zero nofollow is the way to go, it is not.

Anyway, have a nice day. Sorry for the mood, very bad day.

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8 years ago

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onehalf

8 years ago

Angela's Profile link building method are no longer effective for improving the SEO rank of your website.

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8 years ago

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mrhabu2015

8 years ago

Profile links are still working...I create a huge number of profile backlinks for event niched blog. But, if you want to do Profile backlinks for your regular niched blog...Then, you should go with Do follow profile backlinks.

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cbpayne

8 years ago

Originally Posted by mrhabu2015

Profile links are still working...I create a huge number of profile backlinks for event niched blog. But, if you want to do Profile backlinks for your regular niched blog...Then, you should go with Do follow profile backlinks.

They won't be working if you do them on any of the forums that I manage. We now go and post negative one star reviews on the Google + page of the business. We report that they spam and abuse other peoples web properties to get backlinks. We have pissed of a lot of people. A lot of "SEOs" from India have some very angry clients now. But I guess they now know how pissed off forums owners have become with their web properties have been abused to try and get backlinks.

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DABK

8 years ago

You know wrong.

No, it won't work to get your site ranking. In theory, doing social media will get you traffic. In practice, as in your particular case, it probably won't.

I say that because of the questions you asked and how you asked.

Social media works on curiosity... and strategy.

Posting crappy content on social media doesn't work. Even if you do it 10 thousand times a second.

Originally Posted by kimtomato

I know 70-80% of the links on Google have no-follow keyword. What I need to know is if link building by using guest posting and a combination of no-follow links through social media is still effective ?

You can moved a ton of sand one grain at a time, it works, but you get done a lot faster if you use a truck.

Originally Posted by rosario1990

I think profile links still works if it is do follow.

Originally Posted by mrhabu2015

Profile links are still working...I create a huge number of profile backlinks for event niched blog. But, if you want to do Profile backlinks for your regular niched blog...Then, you should go with Do follow profile backlinks.

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Hien Nguyen

8 years ago

Originally Posted by mrhabu2015

Profile links are still working...I create a huge number of profile backlinks for event niched blog. But, if you want to do Profile backlinks for your regular niched blog...Then, you should go with Do follow profile backlinks.

I still paid for Angela and Paul's back link before reading this topic. But still not receive any responding from them.
Does them stop to provide service?

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Myonlinejourny

8 years ago

Forum backlinks still works . Participate on relevant doffollow forums and leave your website URL as signature .Don't make any spam comments but try to contribute on this forum . You will get relevant backlinks from relevant forum .

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8 years ago

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apollo gabriel

8 years ago

I think that no longer works, try to renovate and see more effective way , you can promote your links in different ways that is really picking up in the market right now, but in the end it's still up to you whatever you think is more comfortable with and your expertise that would work

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mninimo

8 years ago

I've seen that profile links still help, as long as they are dofollow and on domains with some authority.

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