They work ok. It's certainly worth doing a run now and then. But it's boring as hell.

Yes they work. But as I say to my own clients, you must make them PART of a linkbuilding strategy, and not the whole strategy.

What's wrong with making it the only strategy?

they really works, especially for a new website, to be indexed in google. try sitepont, digital point forum, v7n, and webmaster talk , it give so many information about seo and website building too.

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Page Rank is not Site Rank. People lose track of this.

If you want to know if they "work" find another persons profile on the site you want to link from. Search for the URL in Google and see if it is indexed and ranked. If it is... then it works.

And as a rule of thumb use a profile that is at least 3 months old.

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Yes, HIGH PR forums links worked for me. But, you cannot still stick only with that, You have to get some other kinds of links too (As you told, bookmarks, blogging and etc). If you apply a MIXTURE of all the methods only, you will be able to come forward

Thanks everyone for your responses. I always find that my WF signatures are picked up by the search engines but then again this forum is completely relevant to the niche i am promoting in and I love this forum. I suppose a few other forum profiles wouldn't hurt.

Generally speaking you want to make sure to create the profile and fill in all the info including a picture. Come back at some later date (different people have different suggestions) to fill in your links once you are out of the new members list.

It's an easy link building task, but can be tedious to say the least. Angela and Paul have nice monthly packets, while Terry has a GREAT one, if there is space available.

Yes, they work but no one should have only 1 backlinking methodology. Mix it up. It not only looks more natural but you're less likely to have a batch of BLs wiped out at once. I get links from blog commenting, forum profiles, article marketing, social networking sites, forum posting, social bookmarking, RSS feeds and more.

always mix for building backlink to strengthen the value of backlink.
I'm mixing with social bookmarking, creating dummy web 2.0 blog, comment spammer, etc

They work and work wonders. I always finish off SEO campaigns with a solid 300 profile backlinks targeting the homepage.

It's always good to try and only create profiles on websites in which your public profile is located 2-3 folders down. (domain.com/folder1/folder2/profile)

Most of our campaigns are based maybe 75% profile backlinks and the rest some articles, press releases, blog commenting and hand-picked directories.

They work, and can definitely vouch for them.

Yes they work.

Heck, they even pass on some heavy juice!

they work all right... but you need a certain kind of forum to get the max result...

these are the kind of forums profile you want to search:

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They sure do work. I am having much success in the SERPs by using them.

This way for obtaining backlinks works if you have built links also by other methods (article submissions, blog commenting etc)

Yes .. it does work pretty well. Of course, you can't just rely on one linking strategy

You have to vary your backlink sources.

They work, but you need to make sure they get indexed so that Google sees your backlinks in the first place.

To save time you can use an index checker such as this one and then use this profile link checker to also make sure that the links are still dofollow.

I have used forum profiles as part of my backlink strategy but it's not good long term. The profiles will get removed after non-activity. I have lost many links because the profile was deleted by admin.

I don't use them anymore. They get removed too easily.

Profile backlinks have a great SEO impact. If you create your profiles with wisdom (i.e fill in all the fields, upload an avatar, put your links one week later than the creation date) then you can be sure that your links will stick and remain for a very long time. Note, that not all the profile links will work. They must belong to extremely high quality and high PR websites, they must be public and above all they must be dofollow.

They can work as long as they are part of your overall link strategy. If you are just counting on forum links you are in for some bad news.

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yes....It's useful....find high forum,high page rank and do follow...

when you query the backlink of the other's website in yahoo,often you can see the profile link. so it does work,too,just as the other links.

U believe that using other methods is more effective if you only want to make a profile backlink on a forum and leave that forum for ever. If you want to do this, i suggest you to use other ways you know for building backlinks for your website.

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in my experience, it did work!

It's definitely working but profile linkbuilding is only a PART of the whole SEO venture. Still opt for other options out there.

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Forum profile links is a good idea,i want to try it,thanks your share.

yes, profile link building works but only if you get them index. Your forum profile links does not have an page rank. Google will take a while to notice these links sometimes it never notices. one good way to make sure you links gets index is to backlink your profile links into a high pr page. i guarrantee you they wil get index in under 24 hour. but if you are building alot of profile links. make sure you are notusing only 1 keyword this can certainly gets you ban

If the sites are do-follow ofcourse, the higher the PR the more value it adds to your link

Yahoo likes sheer volume. Google and Bing are more three dimentional and like variety in the links.

P.S. I posted the following in the profile building thread, but it might be applicable to this thread too:

Profile links work great but as many of you have mentioned it can be quite boring. You could of course just outsource *cough*checkmysig*cough* it all. Also, I've found that it is really a waste of time to ping your links. You can do other things to help search engines index your links but if you are stilling pinging your backlinks and rss feeds then you really don't know anything about Google Caffeine.

Oh, and I really believe that you should put more effort into building more backlinks than into trying to get your backlinks indexed. I've done extensive research and testing on this and your time would definitely be better spent getting more backlinks.

sorry guys i am a newbie to the SEO stuff, i have a blog for its very new few months old and i have found that profile links work well, does it also help improve the page rank also? and how do i find out about page rank please, how to check.. Thanks Matty

Yes they work. But as I say to my own clients, you must make them PART of a linkbuilding strategy, and not the whole strategy.

It also worked for me. So helpful in driving more traffic to your site.

It will make it more powerful if you do Forum Profile Link Wheel, like 8 high PR forum profile linking together and with your website ofcourse. That will catch Google's attention.

It can help mostly if you are good contributor and posting quality and informative posts on that forums. Because it is one way of building good reputation online

yes, definitely still works.

Yes it helps, in both way. To getting the traffic as well as search ranking.

Well, Links from High PR sites will surely work for you, and in the case if Forum, it really does..

Never underestimate profile links from high PR sites.

This Fiverr guy has helped my site ranking a lot. The best thing is, he creates anchor links manually - no bot...



To your success!

Well guys I feel this is really important to understand how search engines work while figuring out which links will work and which will not. Profile links of the forums have very little possibility to work out because they are not mentioned as a resource.

You would be better served by not only doing the profile post, but also participate in the forum for additional juice!

Yeah, it is a very powerful link building strategy. Try it. If not, come back to me.

Profile linking used to work, but currently you can use but with very limitation, successive use may harm your site, use it parallel with other link building strategies.

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High PR forum profile does work but what work more is link diversity. If you want to get rank better than just try to get back links from different sources like SN, Article D., PR sites etc. Make forum profiles an addition to them not the priority method.

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For me they stopped working after Panda. Existing links did not lose value but ever since panda when I try to use forum profile links alone to really judge how useful they are, no movement at all. I already find them spammy enough so I just stopped them now that they do not even have any SEO value.

The thing is forum profile backlinks barely got indexed and google put less weigh ton it

Profile links still work great, you just have to know what to do, check this out: Is Profile Link Still Working? , I had detail outlined the right way to use profile link.

forum, blog, social network, social bookmark every thing is okay

No harm trying. Cheers.

totally agree with diverse link building profile. cant only do 1 thing, need to make it look natural. all links from profiles doesnt look natural. looks obviously fake.

yeah, it works in some ways. But be reminded that it's only a part of a big SEO puzzle in ranking your site.

Yes, high pr forum best for get backlink, And with forum you can get backlink from other way like social bookmark and press release etc...

posting on relevant topics is very impact full for quality backlinks.join relevent discussion board and get targeted traffic and quality backilnks.

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yah, it works, but keep in mind that there is a lot of strategies, profile link building can not do it all alone.

The better the quality of the links are, the most likely you are going to improve your SEPRs. I'd rather focus on the actual rankings instead of the PR.

Only sign up on forums that are only related to your niche..

They Only When When They Indexed By Search Engine.

they work but don't expect them to show up on google webmasters or in yahoo site explorer. Profile links will rarely get indexed but the crawl is still worth something to your site.

I've ranked sites on just profile links before but I wouldn't recommend it, go for a mix of links and always look for quality if you can.

Although this is a boring type of SEO method, it really works. It does help your website rank high on the SE's like Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Forum profiles are a very good source for backlinks. The high the PR of the forum, the better.

Everything works.

Don't listen to the complete rubbish you hear around here.

I have ranked #1 in a number of highly competitive niches with over 300,000,000 competing websites with PR 0 links alone. The key to success with SEO is link diversity and that is all.

yes they work but alwayz check the page rank of a particular page before leaving backlink.

Hi,

I have heard that it is great to sign up for high pr forums so that the profile contains a link to your blog.

Is this a good way to get backlinks, i mean are they of value?

Or should i stick to social bookmarking, directory submissions, etc?

Thanks,
Si_P

high PR forums can provide index and more traffic

I have found them a useful additional way to improve my SERPs, but fairly low value. If you find yourself with a bit of free time try it out but definitely do not focus on it. The problem is that the forums you really want your link on are generally the most heavily moderated.

They still do. Who are the best providers now?

It would still work if you create an account that would not look spam because most of the Forums moderators were very strict and they delete new accounts with links right away.

It works well. But always remember that diversifying is very important.

It is good to have forum profile links in your backclick profile, but just as a part, and not the main backlinking strategy.
First of all even if you have a profile on high PR forum, you actually have link on your profile page with PR0.
Some forums will delete profile without any posts.

They do have SOME value, but's only when you combine them with other seo strategies.

got useful information? what is the difference between forum profile links and forum signatures? Do forum signatures actually help? thanks

Yes, but just a profile link alone usually isn't enough. In order to get the full effect, you need to post frequently.

Also, you need to make sure that your target website has a balanced incoming link portfolio - it can't just be made of up forum links. You have to have other types of links in there too.

yes they really work as high pr forum links really helps to get the better PR for your website.

High pr and dofollow fourms sites help our sites. I observe that you also try this

It most of the cases it works but it is very time consuming task. Its better to do blog commenting instead.

Profile backlinks have a great SEO impact. If you create your profiles with wisdom (i.e fill in all the fields, upload an avatar, put your links one week later than the creation date) then you can be sure that your links will stick and remain for a very long time. Note, that not all the profile links will work. They must belong to extremely high quality and high PR websites, they must be public and above all they must be dofollow.

yup....
It's useful. you have to first find high forum, then high page rank and do follow is next to this...

High pr fourm profiles working fine for me.

forums participation is also very important some forums give a dofollow link in signature

Definitely it is a part of the big total. It's a good part to have more traffic when you are active and you can advertise for free (it only costs time to post on the forum), and you will always be able to change your advertising text.

Yes, They Do Work! You Can Also Try Forums Signature! They Give A DoFollow Link Too!

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There are lots of Do follow forum available over internet. Just find out effective forums and starts work on them

Profile backlinks works, dont as much power as use to have, but remember:
- 2.0 profiles are better than normal forums
- Mix of anchortext, and do/nofollow
- Make your profiles look natural, submit as much content as you can, it will have more value for google, and probably admin wont delete it, search for angela profiles on fiverr, look for blboss, he does a greate job.

Yes high pr profile back links really helps....

High PR forum profile links helps to get link juice.