Are Profile Backlinks Effective For SEO?

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Hey Warriors,

I read an article about profile link building that made the following points:

1. Inner profile pages dont carry the same PR as the homepage as the website so it's a low quality link.

2. Since the profile page linking back to you has no backlinks of its own, it has no link popularity from google.

3. Google never indexes these inner profile pages.

Overall, the guy says that his experience tells him that profile link building is a waste of time.

So I wanted to hear what you warriors think.

Share your results with profile link building.

Peace & Love...
#search engine optimization #backlinks #effective #profile #seo
  • They are. Look at all the banner ads selling xrumer blasts (at the top of this forum) - go read the reviews.

    I personally do not blast my money websites with 5k profile links at once, but that's mostly just a personal preference. You won't be de-indexed or w/e just for doing this stuff.

    Also, just to counter some of the points made in that article:

    1. It is a low quality link, so what?
    2. Why not blast those profile links with another set of profile links? Easy and effective.
    3. Google only indexes a small % of these profiles, that is true - BUT there are ways to make sure that nearly all of them get indexed. You just have to test this stuff for yourself.
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      Such as? Maybe pinging and social bookmarking all of these links? That sounds too time consuming for just indexing forum profiles. There has to be some other zany automation tool that does this kind of job, no?
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  • 1. True. However I will only consider it as low quality depending on the site.
    2. You can add link popularity to the page as well.
    3. No, Google does index them.

  • I think it is good and effective but still there are lots of links better than profile links.
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    • Can you enumerate those????
    • Yes you are saying correct, because there are lots of link building method is there., while we create a account individual one profile page will created. so thats new page. Google will give more important for Old page.
  • Yes I think they are good but don't just depend on them. Try another link building techniques.
  • everytime i do a xrumer blast of profile links, I upload all the links into tom's backlink booster which ping..rss..bookmark them... and I see alot of them being indexed. You can also use sean's backlink booster...or another tool called backlink energizer i think. they all do the same thing though.
  • Hi,

    If you are afraid of being penalize then its better to point your profile links to your web 2.0 properties that link to your site. This way your site wont get penalize directly.

    You should also do some effort to get your backlinks indexed. There are ways to get your backlinks indexed unless the site owners block search engines for their sites. For example your forum profile is not publicly viewable.

    For clients that are not sure on what to do with our customization options we just suggest them to point the blog comments and forum profile links to their web 2.0 properties.
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    • Hey Ann1986,

      I'm not concerned with being penalized. I just wanted to make sure it's worth the time and effort (or cost of paying a VR).
  • Profile backlink is not all for SEO. But they have geed effect in SEO.

    Profile links are DoFollow and they get indexed by Google. It is not completely west of time.
  • I'm not expert on this, but I will give you a snapshot of my limited experience with them.

    I have an exact match domain that only has about 3 pages of content (just haven't spent much time on it). It was sitting on page 2 for a month or so. I used a profile link service to get a few thousand profile links to it and it is now on page 1, spot #4. That is the ONLY thing that changed - no new content, nothing else done on the site.

    Here's a good write up on profile link "best practices" which may help you:
    Best Practices
    (not an affiliate link, or my site)
  • Benefits are going to be short term at best. Don't be fooled to think that Google can't determine if the links pointing to your site are of quality or not. It is common for new sites to get a very small temporary boost, but that is short lived, and if your quality suffers with bad links, it is a difficult hole to get out of once you have low quality links.
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    • I'm assuming you are directing this post at me, but maybe not. Either way, the plan would certainly be to supplement profile links with other higher quality link building efforts, and then use future profile links to link to these tiers of "better" links.
    • Not really and... not really.

      I have done both and never really experienced what you're talking about. Profile links can be drip fed - completely hands off and extremely effective.

      A difficult hole to get out of? Google doesn't penalize websites for profile backlinks. I could take one of your sig. websites and send a 100k profile blast to it tonight if I wanted to - I'm pretty sure it wouldn't cause any harm - too easy.
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  • Profile backlinks is only powerful only when you do it right...

    It's true that profile pages are usually having lower pagerank than their homepages. That's why you may need many profile backlinks to for maximum results.

    The biggest problem many marketers face is that it usually takes quite a long time for search engines to crawl and follow the profile backlinks. Sometimes, they are not indexed at all!

    No matter profile or other forms of backlinks (like article and comment backlinks...), the key point to getting your backlinks worthwhile is to inform search engines that the backlinks are exisiting... Good social boomarking, RSS strategies can achieve that result.

    If you are not planning to build up a good number of profile backlinks regularly over time, the profile backlinks effect on search engine rankings might not be so significant.
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    • That is 100% true except indexing... The more correct way to put it is, google rarely indexes profile links, and when they do, they are almost useless.

      WHAT? LOL. So just because you see ads you think it works? So if I purchase an ad spot advertising the secret to making 100 trillion dollars, it MUST be true.

      Check this out, profile links don't give you traffic. If it doesn't get you traffic, then don't focus on it. Plain and simple.

      Yes, all the artificial ways to make sure they are indexed are sure fire ways to lose the value that they didn't have in the first place lol.

      Blast profile links with another set of profile links? Has to be the worst logic ever.

      Its a profile link, it is not quality no matter how great the site is. When people talk about getting profile links, it is usually a mass amount, like 5-10K. Adding link popularity to each page would be so time consuming and just DUMB. I don't advise that at all.

      Kim, it just isn't worth it. People think that pinging their links help, it actually does not help. The best way is to let them go until google finds them, otherwise it is deemed worthless and artificial in my opinion.

      Almost every link is better than profile links, but I'm glad you acknowledge that.

      In a sense of it adding variety to your link building, it isn't a waste of time. Does it get traffic? No. Does it push you up in the SERPs? I really don't believe it does.

      Congrats on your rank! I don't believe it had anything to do with profile links though. I believe it had everything to do with an EMD. I think that it is just a coincidence, and hell, even if 5 of those links got indexed it probably would have pushed you up in the SERPs, simply because you have an EMD, and you probably have pretty decent on page SEO.


      Guys, I know some of you spend money on profile links, just don't do it. Find about 20 forums to register on and leave it like that lol. I'd hate to see you guys waste your money and hopes on profile links. You're better off spamming blog comments. I believe it could benefit you to focus a little on profile links for variety, but don't blast out 20K thinking it will help because it probably won't.

      I can get you thousands of profile links for cheap, why don't I advertise it? Because it just doesn't work like people believe.
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  • In my personal experience, I have come to realize that the best think you can do is get links from different sources. Especially if you are concerned about Google and its rule of "natural seo". The more different kinds of links you have, the more natural it looks. So mix them up.

    And by the way, dont you think if it was that easy to get penalized or deindexed, competitors would build thousands of profile backlinks fro their rivals and get them out of the picture?...
  • Inner profile links are not so low as were described in the article. In fact there are many good and useful techniques to build back links and when we consider that techniques with profile inner links we just discard this and say it is waste of time. Inner profile links have their own effects and techniques to be used and they can also give you a traffic. It may be a slow and pain taking but it will be effective at some time. This is true that these are not indexed by Google cache but we can make them indexed by Google and rather more effective.
  • Like all backlinks they shouldn't be your only ones.
    You need a variety of types and sources of backlinks to keep your site looking "natural".

    Yes many types of backlinks work on their own, often quite quickly but for long term success keep it varied.

    Besides Google changes what it values and what it doesn't all the time. If you rely on one type of backlink you could find your whole site dropping dramatically if Google make changes. All your eggs in one basket???
  • I had a site stable at #8 for months and sent 10k profile links at it 2 weeks ago. 10 days after, it's sitting at #28, as I'm trying to index all of these links ASAP. We'll see what happens...
  • They are definitely effective. It's my primary method of linkbuilding. Then I just use Backlink Energizer to make sure most of them get indexed.
  • I do think Profile backlinks are not waste of time and it helps in SEO even.. especially when someone targets with hyperlinked keywords. It can turn more effective if its done in nice way.. every profile should appear unique, your profile id should be unique.. and if you keep on repeating same thing over and over again in all forums.. it will look more spammy.. Make it unique and get some benefits of it.
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    • I have only just started to try profile backlinks and pinged them as well. Only tried it on my lower PR sites and none have improved and one has dropped from a PR1 to PR0. Cannot be totally sure that it was the profile links but it seems the most likely candidate. So far from my experience it is inconclusive and I might do some occasionally but it will not become a main focus unless the testing proves otherwise.

      Happy linking.
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  • profiles links is less value in google's eye but it does index and index well if you work to index them
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  • Profile link building is not so effective than other backlinking. I appreciate that the inner pages of a website are less significant than the homepage. However the inner pages are greatly affected by the valuable keywords. So try to make profile link based on higher traffic value of keywords.
  • Well profile backlinks is a quick way to get backlinks from high page rank domains to your website. Profile backlinks can be found on most forums and many social networking sites.

    There are three ways you are able to use profile backlinks to rank your site in search engine:

    1. low competitors key phrases
    2. precise keyword domains
    3. long tail key phrases
  • Lolz. Low competition key phrases...

    Of course profile backlinks shouldn't be the only backlinks you build, but they do help. Quoting Matt Cutts? Are you ****ing serious?

    You "don't think" that I got websites ranking using profile backlinks? Well, I got dozens of test sites (all testing different stuff), and hundreds of money websites... You "not thinking" something means absolutely nothing.

    You "had 10k profile backlinks done"... "Thousands of backlinks built, more than you ever"... You are so out there my friend. Seriously, a mid range dedicated server with a good list can push 10k profile links in under 10 mins - all completely hands off.

    Lets just agree to disagree. I'm fine with that.

    For everyone else - test things out before you draw conclusions. Testing this stuff is extremely cheap and not time consuming at all (under 5 mins and under $10).
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    • All in all I've probably had about 50k profile links done in the last month. 10k on one site, and that was the only method used, to test this out. I don't believe they work anymore, thats it. I agree, people should test out every strategy to see what works for them.

      If profile links are working for you, then great, I wish I had the same luck as you. That would be wonderful, and I'm not just trying to be different or pessimistic, I really would love to rank with just profile links.

      Humor me though, can you PM me some of these sites you are ranking for, only with profile links?
  • I haven't been lucky with profile backlinking...

    Although it's a good way to rapidly build a massive number of backlinks the strength of this type of links is weak... They are at the base of "Link Pyramid"

    Check: online-reference.org/doc/20101123001555_seo_link_pyramid_small_med.jpg

    What you should do is combine this strategy with all other types of backlinks in order to look "natural" at the eyes of Google!
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  • Yeah It is true that the home page have higher page rank.But profile back links are effective.But use the Website that have 6+ Google page rank.
  • Dude, dont go and do any mass profile linking to your main site, make sure you have buffers in place or your going have a bit of an issue on your hand.

    Know your existing link graph before you go out an start uses link packets that everyone and their dog use, make sure it makes sense for your site and your ranking needs.
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    • Issues like what..? Not disagreeing that using "buffer" properties is a good idea, I just don't know of any current issues that a profile blast can cause to a website.
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  • yes it effects alot especially anchor links in facebook pages.
  • Profile backlinks as long as they are do-follow is still effective, although Paul and Angela type links are not as effective as when it first came out, it's still good
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  • Yes, they are effective!
  • Me too was thinking the same, because, earlier the Profile link building method worked well for me and I was able to rank well for the keywords with just the profile link building, but nowadays, It is not possible, even the profile links are not being indexed by Google (Note: I am using PR3-PR4 forums for profile link building, may be I need to use PR5 or more Forums to get success)
  • I'm not sure if it's still effective but last year I've got a site witch keyword was very hard to rank high and with 7000 PB blast, I've land on page 2, did not do more effort to rank on page 1 because I was too busy. Anyway Yes it was effective. Now, from what you say above, I don't know now.
    So I've got a site witch is a month old and done everything from unique contents, seo pages, commenting, pyramid, directory, press... but not done forum backlink direct to site because I was afraid of penalized but when you think if you get penalized that way, then great for competitors, use this method to outrank others. My conclusion was, no could not be this way! So I will experiment here and will update of it's effectiveness. Actually on page 2 since a month now and want to get on page 1. Also I'm not trying to better rank with a junk site but in my opinion, deserve to be ranked on page 1 for a real quality site when I see all other websites don't deserve their places (low quality sites).
    SEo: 7000PB + ping.
  • 5 days after 7000 p blast, zero, nada, niet,... site ranking have not change a line, still same. Also adding more unique contents, still stuck to page 2, how do I move to page 1?
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    • They have their place in a SEO strategy, just don't rely solely on them. It is best to have some editorial links too from related sites with high PR.
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  • All of that is true, that's why whenever I build forum profile links, I build a couple of blog comment links pointing to my forum profiles. This GREATLY increases index/cache rates as well as increases the power of the forum profile link a lot.

    Cheers,
    Dominium
  • Where do you buy profile links and how much they cost? Some say that you have 50k forum profile backlinks :O. I do them manually, so it's a waste of time?
  • Works well for me. Also try profile link wheel.
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  • Yes profile backlinks are effective. You should aim to get quality back links rather than increasing the quantity of baklinks.
  • Is there a preferred backlinking service that anyone suggests? I have a couple new sites rolling out and looking to mix it up.
  • In my opinion yes it works.
  • I think profile backlinks are still good, but some have recommended doing it as a last step after article submission and social bookmarking

  • ROFL. Five recommendations for profile links and all from newbies signed up less than a month ago. Strictly post count posts.
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    • Ironic, no doubt. The value of profile links are bolstered by comments from 'newly minted' forum posters
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  • They are not that great but help to some extent. If your site is new, it is not recommended to blast your site with lots of them.
  • I use Profile Links sometimes as a backlinks to create link juice but if you have High PR profile links list then try to do variation of anchor text might work.
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