How To Get Your Backlinks Indexed

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Here is a video showing a simple trick to get your profile page backlinks indexed. Very handy if you use a service link angelas backlink packet.

YouTube - Get Your Profile Links Indexed
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There are other ways to do this that are a bit quicker that involves registering for sites or purchasing software, but I prefer to use free and non opt in services for demonstrations.

If anyone is unclear how to upload and submit the RSS feed I will make another video.

Hope this helps.
#search engine optimization #backlinks #indexed
  • Great video and information. I still don't buy into those backlinks from profiles counting for anything but hey - this really is a useful video for many other reasons.
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    • Thanks. They do work, I have pages ranking now that just use them. Because they are so easy to get you can get loads of them quickly. To get the best use out of them though you need to spin content for them and blast backlinks at each profile page.
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    • You should buy into it, I have a few sites that moved up only using the profile links and they have quite a bit of daily searches and massive competition. I used only the profile links to see how they would work. I'm beginning to see more and more of them this month, they were submitted last month and no ping was used. This month I'm doing another site with just them, this time I'm bookmarking to two accounts and pinging to see if that helps.
  • Thanks for the video and yes backlinks in profiles do work.
  • I made a video recently where I ranked a site using just blog links where the actual page was pr0 which is pretty much the same principle.

    Google likes the anchor text coming from authority domains. You can build thousands of these links very easily. Perhaps you can show me one of your sites that didn't rank from these links and I can have a look and see if I can see why?
  • Ok cool. The site I did it on is one I've sold - but it never got the backlinks.
  • Thanks GuerillaIM,

    Looks like this can be used for deep-linking website pages also.
  • There is a way to make them permanent that involves a lot more work.

    It is only worth doing if you have a really big list of sites that take profile pages, but you can divide them into categories, then write an article/bio for each catgory.

    Do this and it wont get removed. To be honest my profile page links don't get removed ayway. I write a profile like:

    "Hi, Real enjoy this website and looking forward to helping out blah blah blah"

    I drop a single link in at the end and its all good. I have seen other profile pages where they drop 5 or 6 links and make it sound promotional. That is a sure fire way to get your link deleted.
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    • I agree with your method.

      I also would suggest taking it one step further and point the link to an unmonetized personal looking blog/site so that it looks even more innocent. Linking to 'makememoneynow.com?afflink=me' or 'cheapdiamondwatches.com' or even an article site might be enough to get some webmasters to delete you, especially if they've been hit hard by a lot of real spammers. You can funnel the link juice from the personal site to whatever money sites you want.

      Just to make it clear what I was saying earlier, even if these links survive scrutiny by the forum host, Google doesn't usually keep these pages in their index all that long. I've seen around 6-12 months for forum links before the page is deindexed. The way to prevent this or to revive a page that's no longer being counted is to ping it and do light social bookingmarking (using Bookmarking Demon or other social bookmarking tool).
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  • Hi GuerillaIM,
    this is something I've been looking for for quite some time now! It's really true that for some reason some profile URLs and hence the backlinks on there don't get indexed by google, even if you show engagement on the sites, where your member name gives a link to the profile URLs. This has really been baffling me but with your method this should be a thing of the past now. Though I'm not really sure I like this method because as we all know Profiles aren't "News".

    Unfortunately I don't understand that much about RSS. Where will these profiles URLs show up? Will only google see these or will they be public somewhere?

    My other worry is that when submitting all these profile URLs through RSS that google may start raising a spam flag? What's the maximum number of profiles you have submitted so far and did they all end up being indexed? Wouldn't google catch on the fact that your using a host where you aren't actually running a website?

    Btw, what do you mean with "spin content for them"?
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    • I generate content for the profile page so at the very least that page appears unique on that domain. When google find thousands of pages on the same domain that are all very similar they may not index them all. By adding some text to the profile page (using a content spinner if you want automation) you are increasing the chances of google indexing the page with your link.
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  • Could you name a few sites where one could publish their RSS instead of using a host? For free, if possible?
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    • I use icerocket, it's easy, and no need for hosting.
      h*tp://rss.icerocket.com

      I'm new here, that's why I can't post links... but I'm sure you've got it
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  • Good Video, thanks. I have a question, what if you created a free blog at WordPress and then added you're backlink profile urls to a post. Then submit the blog post to the rss directories
  • Cool stuff - like the video, we work with similar methods and they work
  • I just had another idea...would it be possible to use a facebook or squidoo page to post a few profile links? Would these be dofollow? I've never used any of these social sites yet.
  • Search engines are getting clever by the day. Google will already be recognizing your links as profile links ! So they will carry little if no importance....
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    • Uhm, sure. I want google to recognize them as profile links, thats what this is all about actually. As in recognize = index.

      Oh wow, this actually works? Let's hope it has long-term value, either way thanks for clarifying! Maybe I don't need to work on a squidoo lens then...
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  • So I'm at icerocket.com and creating several profile URL entries for the RSS feed. When I create a channel then it asks me for "channel link". Is it ok to use the icrerocket url for this? Like I mentioned I don't want to start a new website or blog (let alone fill it with alibi content) in order to use it as the channel link.
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    • You can use whatever adress you want, it'll still be indexed (if you don't forget to ping)
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  • is the blog linking to the website where the feed is hosted or directly to the pages that are indexed? I use a plugin to add the feed as content and it embeds all the links inside the blog.
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    • The blog is linking directly to the RSS feed (http://rss.icerocket.com/xmlfeed?id=XXXXX) as opposed to the pages I want to be indexed. My experience suggests that having too many external links simply dillutes the PR. Also Google looks only at the first 150 external links and I have many more profiles than that

      What plugin do you use? What would you suggest that I do based on your results (link to the feed or link directly the the pages that I want to get indexed)?

      Finally, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to answer my question and sharing this valuable method with us, it is much appreciated
  • Making a blog just for the purpose of linking to a rss feed hosted on another server is pointless, as you want the profile pages to be indexed, not your RSS feed. If you are worried about having too many external links then make more than one blog (or create more content and split the links up between the content pages).

    The RSS addon I use is WP-o-Matic.

    In truth though there is a better way to do it (Dang, I am going to let everything out of the bag at this rate).

    I use a plugin called caffeinated content to generate content on the blog and drip feed it automatically. There is a links file with the plugin that you can drop all of your profile page links into it and it will randomly add a link to each auto generated post. This plugin isn't free however and I would think twice about buying it as the support is non-existent, but it does do the job.
  • Thanks for the contribution! I use RSSbot to submit all my profile feeds and also ping them to pingomatic with another automated pinging software. Also i make unique content on all my profile pages, and keep them crowded and informative. With all that, i get them indexed sometimes within a day to weeks. I update all those profiles once in a week and promote them "within" the community to get some PR juice from higher ranking profiles in the site. 50 profiles with PR3 linking back to you is gold! rather then 200 profiles with PR0 linking back you! Hope it helps ~Esh
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    • Yeah, if you are making a rss feed with your links then submit it to rss agregator. If you are including your links into blogs then actually include the link, not a link to the rss feed.
    • Yep - Content, variation and promotion within the community is more than likely the key. I'm coming to this conclusion too because most of my index attempts have failed. The only reason I can think of now is because google doesn't see the value in them (which makes sense since the majority of the profiles I try to get indexed have the same texts or just the links only). I actually was successful in getting my squidoo lens indexed where I dropped a few of my profile URLs but what do you know, those profile URLs didn't get picked up. I was successful however in getting a profile URL from months back indexed by using it as a user name link for a blog comment. So that method apparently works provided the blog is well crawled and dofollow. But how many blog comments can you make and how many blogs can you find for each single profile URL? We're talking hundreds of profiles here so this method is not practical at all. Oh well...

      Btw, I've also tried icerocket RSS feed but I guess it's not working for me as I don't have a blog I can/want to use as the channel link. I actually used the home domains of the community sites themselves, as this would look natural. But apparently that doesn't work....?

      I would very much appreciate being kept posted btw by those that are attempting to get their profile urls indexed by simple putting them on a free blog. I kinda have my doubts that this has long-term doability. But I'll be glad to stand corrected...
  • interesting concept but I think it will never give you any page rank juice for your blog posts or website! thanks anyways!
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    • Did you read this thread or watch the video? We are discussing how to get profile page links indexed.
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  • Hi Eswar,

    How are you checking whether the link is indexed or not? When the link gets de-indexed, is the profile page still there?
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    • I check the index status by directly putting the URL on google search box.

      I added 11 profiles on 11th Sep.

      5 were indexed on 12th sep. (Today's status-1 profile deleted. 4 were deindexed)

      Onle one profile is currently in index.
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  • Hi guys, is it possible that i should create a blog, put all the profile links there as my post and then, ping the blog's rss instead?
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    • You could do that, although, I do like to spread the links between different sites. You could even make comments on other peoples blogs with links back to your profile pages if you liked.
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    • Proof?

      1. you're not going to get 50 PR3 profile pages [ well 99% of the people wont ]

      2. How do you know 200 indexed and counted profile backlinks isnt as good or better than 50 PR3 page links?
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  • I didn't fully understand the video. I understood till making the RSS feed then I didn;'t follow what is to be done after that. Can anyone help me out?
  • This seems a nice resource. Thanks for the share.
  • Can this work for article sites like GoArticles and EzineArticles?
  • Of course. You can use anything that makes an rss feed. I use rssbot but in my videos I do not like to promote services that captcha your details or change any money if I can help it.

    Take the principles apply them to any tool you like.

    anwar - once you have the rss file you can upload this anywhere on the internet and then give the link to the file to the rss aggregators. If you use one of the tools that hosts the rss feed for you then this will be easier if you are not comfortable uploading files. Check the previous posts by other contributers to see some good places to go.
  • Interesting video thanks! I'm still not very sure how backlinks work but I'll give it a try.
  • im definitely going to have to take a swing at this and see if it works as well as you say
  • I dont know.......im trying your method based on the exact site from the youtube video.

    I made the rss file. I got about 100 links in it and saved the file out as an rss doc (myfile.rss)

    The format in the file is like this:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
    <rss version="0.91">
    <channel>

    <item>
    <title></title>
    <link>http://mysite.com</link>
    <description></description>
    </item>

    </channel>
    </rss>

    I put the file one my server. When I try to submit the rss file to the aggregator, im getting errors saying my file is not valid.

    Could you please help me out and tell me what exactly it is you think i may be doing wrong in regard to the file?
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    • Try this

      ============= this is mine, it's a ROR.XML file, but still acts as a RSS file that I add to the header tags of my site so it uses that as a sitemap, which picks up the links quicker and indexes pages faster. ==========

      Code:
      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:ror="http://rorweb.com/0.1/" >
<channel>
  <title>ROR Sitemap for http://somedomain.com/</title>
  <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
  <item>
    <title>ROR Sitemap for http://somedomain.com/</title>
    <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
    <ror:about>sitemap</ror:about>
    <ror:type>SiteMap</ror:type>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
</channel>
</rss>

  • make sure tht the file extension isn't hidden on you OS as you could have file.rss.txt instead of file.rss
  • im pretty sure i did that, still not valid
  • did you make it with the tool? If you like, PM me the rss link.
  • so is a profile backlink that isn't indexed useless?
  • Hey Guys, This conversation spawned in another thread but I thought it was much more useful here.

    For those of you wondering if your profiles have been found after all that work to get them indexed, just google the username.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Edge88
    Woah, after days of fretting over whether my profile pages were being indexed or not (backlinks not showing in backlink watch or SEO4FFX) I googled the username I had used and google had indexed ALL of them... I was excitede to see that all of my profiles were indexed, but the backlinks still aren't showing and my page has not been moving... not even in the top 100 positions for my keyword (not that competitive and I built well over 250 backlinks to it)

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mrizos
    Wow...I just googled my username + forum and found over 1000 of my profiles indexed yet when I use something like yahoo site explorer I only see 1 (yep, just 1) profile backlink with anchor text...annoying

    I've only been doing this for 2 months, so I suppose it takes awhile.

    So I'm guessing just getting the profile indexed still doesn't guarantee the backlinks on it will be picked up.

    Anyone has any idea whether that's the case or do we jut have to wait a little bit?? mrizos above me says it's been 2 months, with 1000 profiles indexed, why aren't they showing as backlinks?

    Thanks for any replies
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    • Simple answer: Because none of the backlink tools come close to showing all of the backlinks out there.

      The best I have found so far is program called SEO SpyGlass that I have been playing around with this week. It basically collects backlink lists from many different sources and combines it into one master list.
  • It depends how you are checking for the backlinks. Google won't show you, Yahoo is the most accurate database for indexed backlinks. The software tools that provide backlink analysis usually use Yahoo to gather data.
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    • I'm using yahoo. it's only showing 4 backlinks yet there are 100+ profiles indexed showing in a yahoo and a google search.

      google has crawled my backlinks for sure, now I'm guessing it's just a matter of time before they start causing some effect. What do you think?
  • If the page is indexed the the backlink should be registered. Either it takes some time to update or yahoo doesn't like the profile pages. Did you spin a bit of text onto each profile?
  • Easier just to ping the pages. honestly I just let it sit and wait for the G to pick it up. SEO takes time.
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    • That's what the RSS / XML feed is for

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