Profile backlinks - are they worth it?

Speaking from personal experience - no, I dont think so.

I've tried this numerous times with the same results. Lousy.

The majority of them arent indexed, and if they are, they're a PR0 anyway, so the impact is probably minimal.

Its interesting to note the amount of people offering 50,000 backlink profiles for $1.99. Now I know why.

Personally, I think you'd be better off finding alternative backlinking methods. Ive never had any luck with them. Ive always had better luck blog commenting.

Ive received a completed profile backlinks the sites are between pr3 - pr5 on ave ....Ill have to wait and see

I guess it depends on whether you are buying or selling...

Umh profile backlinks are not worth at all. Ramone highlighted some of the main points why profile backlinks are not worth even the time nor the effort to build them (let alone to spend money).

The other drawback of profile backlinks is that they are known to be "spam" links, are easily detectable and would possibly do more harm then good (had sites where this negative impact was experienced, the solution? build more quality links).

Well there you go Roddy. I think you got your answer

My $.02

If you've got a couple of bucks to burn, they aren't going to hurt.

Something to keep in mind, the golden days of mass profile spamming for backlinks are behind us but a couple thousand junky backlinks, as weak as they are, could be the extra bit of oommph you need to bump your site up a couple of spots. Just don't expect them to be game changers, they aren't.

The backlink sellers who point to sites as proof they work, if you dig deep enough you'll see a lot more going on. Those products didn't achieve those rankings alone.

Now, everyone will say Get quality backlinks. Yeah, no duh Einstein.

Unfortunately, for most newbie and broke-ass marketers, low quality backlinks are the only option. Profiles, comments, article directories, pick your poison. Mix n' match and you'll do OK if your keywords aren't very ambitious.

The smarter long-term way to go is to buy up expired domains and use them for backlinks. It's a business investment.

I'd say not really. I believe Google has caught up to them. Personally I optimized one of my sites focusing a lot on profile backlinks, but I didn't see significant improvements. I believe modesty and diversity is the key. Not using the same keywords, keyphrases and text combinations in every profile. Naming each profile differently and even tailoring it a bit is also important. Google has become pretty good at recognizing spammy patterns, therefore natural link building is the best option in my opinion. At least, make it seem natural

N/A Page Rank, Unindexed Pages.

I think this will help you solve the mystery.

Show us some evidence then.

I just tried to give you some good tips in case you want to do this linkbuilding method.
I don`t want to make you believe in my technique. You can test it or you can disapprove.

I`ve showed only 2 of my sites by PM and of course that i`m not showing all of them. I`m just saying that I DO SEO with profile link buildings and it works !

I don`t see your point and why we argue on this topic. Go ahead and test my tips and then make your opp.. Do not claim that you do it right since you concede long time ago and didn`t scale it up.

The link juice from the profile backlinks are all coming from PR0 pages and the juice is also spread over all the other profile backlinks on that page. 0 Juice spread over 1,000,000 people is still 0...

From experience, I can safely say that profile backlinks do work as part of a backlinking campaign. As with many backlinking methods, doing profile backlinks alone won't work, but when incorporated with a proper backlinking campaign I can assure you it definitely does work.

Profile backlinks work, and they work very well..especially when they're dofollow, from a high PR domain, and can be seen without having to login.

wow looks like ill try Contextual backlinks lol

I think its not get the links like other strategy but its work. And its a most simple way.

I never backlink my money sites with forum profile links hoping that they will rank them. However I DO use them to backlink my backlinks, which is still very effective IF done correctly.

Jonathan

I am doing so and found out that it helps me increasing my backlinks but for the traffic I don't think it its helpful.

Honestly, I think they suck now. Ever since panda I think they got slapped hard.

I still think they are OK, obviously they should be done as a natural progression rather than a mass all at once

Profile forum links are extremely cheap inbound links that really don’t offer a lot of benefit to include in the search engine index.

I still do a bit of profile backlinking but just to keep diversification. I think if google just sees high PR quality backlinks it won't look natural.

I read somewhere, some time ago, that Matt Cutts said that backlinks spread more or less the following way would look natural to google:

For every PR5 backlink, you should have 2 PR4 and for every PR4, you should have 3 PR3 and so on...

It sounds logical.

Now, I know of some people that just needed 10 .edu/.gov high PR backlinks to get their sites indexed and ranked very high, nothing else, but I honestly think that if they don't diversify and add a few low PR backlinks, it won't look natural to google and eventually slap them.

What do you guys think? Is my diversification theory right? Or should I simply stop using profile backlinking and look for other low PR backlink alternatives?

i thought Google like profile links | |

They are worth it but no for long term...

Profiles seem to have been highly devalued and are considered spammy links, I wouldn't waste my time sending them to a money site.

Personally i feel Profile backlinks are not as strong as compare to other backlinks method...

for eg..in an hour i can produce a good 10x blog comments as compare to 100 profile backlinks..the blog comments would fetch much more traffic as i provide valuable content to the readers too..

Signature links work with profiles that you use on active forums all other stuff is crap

Dead horse .....whip.

I started this thread and it turned into world war 3 lol, it proves that ppl have different opinions about backlinks and its worth.

Doesn`t this just boil down to the fact it all depends on how competitive the keyword your going after is ?

I really dont want to anger the big gun`s here like Mike A because i really like Mikes threads on here he`s super smart but you dont need to go after the really really competitive keywords to make some good money in IM and if your not chasing the keywords with 1000`s and 1000`s of searches then profile backlinks work fine as far as i can tell.

I have sites ranking very well by just using profile backlinks so for me they work, would they work along for a highly competitive keyword guess not so the question as to if they still work is still open as far as i can see.

Hi Mike,
Pretty killer reply there from you kinda like i knew you would and makes perfect sense not to mention the fact that the thread wasn`t ` do they work` but `are they worth it` which i totally missed.

You are so correct about having to keep topping the sites up with the profile backlinks too i know this as i am always having to build more and more to keep position but i do get this done cheap as i have a huge list of 1000`s of sites that i have built up over the past few years which when i build a new site i use so i really dont buy many backlink packets although i do subscribe to joe finn`s $5 for 200 backlinks per month packet. As for indexing and creation i have a good network of about 100 web 2.0 sites that get my backlinks indexed superfast and outsource the creation for $15 per 200 profiles.

Again your correct my niches and keywords are not competitive and for the past couple of weeks i don`t have a number 1 spot i have a #2 and #3 although both have been #1 so right now i`m backlinking like crazy to get them back, just to let you know they have searches at 9000 and 14000 exact per month but are what i would think to be called buyer keywords though and one of the sites is ranking for lots of keywords that each have from 3k to 6k searchers so this site get quite abit of trafffic and is a good earner.

But after reading your comment i can see that over time this is definitly milking me week in week out $15 here, $15 there, $5 here $5 there your right !

Now i think its time to move on and create a small blog network of my own to start and use for my backlinking it is costing me alot of $ and time to use profiles so Mike could you tell me how i would start to build such a network of my own you mention you can show me ??

Best regards Mike,
Jim

Just my 2 cents!

Most of the Angela and Paul backlinks are available and shared on free hosting websites. Many of the packets are passed on and downloaded by 100,000s of people and maybe more.

Mostly newbie SEO workers start their career with Profile backlinks (3rd world countries). Forum admins BAN IP addresses and submit to spam projects because of profile backlinks. They never get indexed in Google nowadays!!

How they would help website after so much considerations!!

Lawrence