Profile Linking/Blog Commenting is dead....or is it?

I would tend to agree.

They're working, to an extent, but the search engines are watching the methods people use and adjusting results accordingly. Remember when forum links carried a lot of weight? They're still fairly significant but marketing yourself or your business is now 'up close and personal' i.e. doing it yourself on social networks. As it has been for 15 years+.

Just followed you on twitter, btw.

Great comment..I too agree.Profile and blog commenting backlinks can do a lot in seo.

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Ive been reading into this and read the Gray Wolf post but he is more going on about paid links which pass page rank than crappy profile backlinks is he not?

personally I am not a big fan of profile links unless you are going to be at least participate in the community a little bit.

When it comes to blog commenting I would highly recommend posting comments that actually contribute to the discussion, otherwise you are wasting a lot of peoples time!

I found people still going this way too i don't know whether they are getting good response or not. But it's not dead yet.

My of the blogs are no follow now but you can write a good comment with your name on a do follow blog to get approved.

Profile backlinking is the best if you have to link back to your site with your desired keywords.

Well...they have helped me rank some pretty "lame" content at an article directory in the past. So, perhaps they are "worthless" for some people, but that could be a footprint factor where people build massive numbers of profile links on certain platforms during very short time intervals and Google is able to identify and discount outbound links from the websites where "monthly packages" are being spammed.

My personal experience is that quality, relevant, well-themed content with backlinks will kick butt. Without the backlinks great content in nearly all moderately competitive niches, and many low competition niches as well, will probably never see the light of day. Once your great content is ranked and visible, then you do in fact start sloooooooowly picking up unsolicited, genuine one-way backlinks from other webmasters (that is if you get really lucky).

I believe that backlink spam is a massive problem on the web and is not likely to go away anytime soon unless Google elects to discount all links. Then where does that leave them? Keyword spamming, etc., etc. Personally I would love to just create great content that benefits my website visitors. Without devoting a major portion of my time to backlink spam (spun articles, phony blogs, profile links, irrelevant social bookmarks, useless RSS feeds, blog comment spamming) my well researched content is worth about as much as used toilet paper.

So yes, user generated backlinks work. Even the purest among us eventually have to resort to backlink spam because no real "Authority" website is likely to voluntarily give the typical newly built affiliate/adsense/info product site a legitimate backlink without major financial compensation. Nearly all of us started our internet ventures with the best of intentions: deliver value and they will come. Once that delusion wears off we gradually enter the ranks of link spammers or quit. I mean really...please give me a break here...who in their right mind truly wants to spend their time prowling forums and blogs and make "meaningful posts that deliver value" to get a stinking backlink?

Oh, that reminds me...the major corporations are in the link spamming game as well. The niche where I make my money is being heavily spammed by the industry leaders. I know because I outrank nearly all of them and they have repeatedly tried pushing their links onto several of my link feeder sites. These are companies that run advertising campaigns offline in magazines and on television and I just happily deny their posts.

As with all things, there are exceptions to the rule and the above is just my opinion...your mileage may vary...but most of us have had to resort to doing things we never intend to do to compete on the web. Sorry for the lengthy rant.

Wasn't the 'Mayday' update supposed to deal with this?

As I understand it, the Mayday update placed more weight on overall domain authority and less on anchor text of links?

My experience tells me that these kind of links still work, but nowhere near enough to stand alone.

It works for some extent , but mix up the other link building techniques , it will be good seo techniques

Any sort of links to your site will benefit.

Profile links or otherwise.

There's always going to be someone saying that some form of something is dead.

But that's just BS.

Google built their search engine on links! So the more you get the better you rank.

Get more links!

From more IPs!

From more sites!

The more you get the higher your site goes.

In my opinion Blog commenting on do follow will be my one of the most high quality backlinks, suggesting informative statements is one of my best asset as SEO and also through this i learned new strategies for development.

If blog,forums profiles are not working again,then what and what is working.Let everyone just do it their own way.