Profile Links Are Negative Ranking Factors!!!!!

by Giannii01

Posted: 15 years ago 35 replies

Hi Guys

I just wanted you opinion or your experiences on the following information I read somewhere.

DO NOT BUILD PROFILES. Google Recently changed profiles
into a negative ranking factor. I've seen 5-10 client sites lower
in rankings after this update, then rise back up after the
thousands of profiles on each site were deleted manually. Google
sees pages with a link but no content to be webspam, and they are
now treating links from those pages NEGATIVELY.

Profiles will kill your rankings, and I've had to get rid of
several of my sites because of it.

Rather than delete profiles from your sites, I recommend getting
rid of any site you own that has forum profile backlinks. I was the
biggest promoter of profile backlinks, as they worked up until
about May 2011. They're poison now. Stay away from them like the
plague.

Has anyone experienced any of this happening with their site????

#factors #links #negative #profile #ranking

Kelly Dwayne 15 years ago

Hello Gianni!

I will be hearing as a new information here and how evolve are you saying profile back links are like a poison.You have any more source with you for this to make a update for me.
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jimkirk1943

15 years ago

Really dont know what to say about that but it goes back to the old story if i want to beat my competition all i have to do is blast their site with profile links ???

I dont think so !

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Giannii01

15 years ago

Originally Posted by jimkirk1943

Really dont know what to say about that but it goes back to the old story if i want to beat my competition all i have to do is blast their site with profile links ???

I dont think so !

Yeah I couldnt agree more, I just read it and thought I would see if anyone has any experience with it recently

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maurytattoo 15 years ago

Not effect actually for my 12 sites..i still be steady or going up using them

maybe is the quantity the problem..

Maury
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VladWorks

15 years ago

Originally Posted by jimkirk1943

Really dont know what to say about that but it goes back to the old story if i want to beat my competition all i have to do is blast their site with profile links ???

I dont think so !

There is no way to have offpage factors effect your SEO negatively...It would create a spam my competitor industry it would make no sense!

Sites only get impacted negatively when they are new and build too many links at once!

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terryd 15 years ago

I don't think they will negatively affect your sites but Google will probably just ignore them altogether, otherwise as has already been noted if it did affect a site negatively then it will hunting time with Xrummer and the competition......
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Andrew S

15 years ago

exactly

knowing what affects sites negatively in the serps is waaaaay more valuable than knowing what affects sites positively

let me tell you, profiles dont affect negatively

at best they are ignored, but i would like to see your before and after data of using and deleting profiles

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Clyde

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrew S

They do, but not to authority sites. New sites + profile = sandbox.

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amoeba 15 years ago

i have scheduled 250 profiles creation daily for one site..and its running from past 2 months. site sis going up steadily. now on 4 th position..i just do some senuke runs and directory subs once in a while...the domain is 3 months old
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OrganicServices 15 years ago

Its difficult to believe that "Profile link make negative impact". May be it loss its weight but not banished.
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Emarketing Excellence 15 years ago

Well! I won't agree with the statement that let go your website that have profile backlinks. I never see them indexed in google, but surely there is no penalty either. It is worth spending your money other than profile links. I couldn't agree more on above statement to defeat all my competitors with profile link blasts.

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xxxJamesxxx 15 years ago

Tbh, I've noticed when I've done profile backlinking, it's had a negative affect on my sites so I've stopped using them altogether now.

But saying that though... Does that mean we can start "Profile Nuking" our competitors now?

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MIRENGE 15 years ago

I am not aware that any backlink affect ranking negative,all i knew was that Google would most likely not notice the link.
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razorhound 15 years ago

Let's start nuking our competitors then.
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Wilding 15 years ago

I think they help, but much less than they used to. Less and less by the day too.
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RayW 15 years ago

Google can not penalize you for having a certain type of backlink because you can not control who links to you.
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rafiseo Banned 15 years ago

I am going to start a link building campaign for one of my client's wordpress blog by using just forum profile backlinks.

I am going to do some experiments by using forum profiles without posts, and profiles with posts. And want to closely monitor whats going to be happen...... I Follow my thread.....
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Jeremy Banks 15 years ago

I have been successfully building sites and getting them to rank on the first page of google and I use profile links for some of these websites. I think the worst google can do regarding links is just NOT count them. From all my research that is basically the worst you will see (unless you are REALLY working the system like JC Penny or Overstock)
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Daniel Molano 15 years ago

It is a fact that profile links have lost a lot of value to Google since May. Now, it is impossible that they affect negatively as that could be used by the competition.
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JamesGw 15 years ago

They can cause your to jump around a bit, but I wouldn't say they're a negative ranking factor. I think they might appear to have a negative correlation if only because people that use profile links normally have lower quality sites.
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Steven Miranda 15 years ago

I also believe that profile links can't effect your site in a negative manner. Having said that, if you blast too many without a method your site could see some issues. I suggest social links more and more after May 2011.
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demoac 15 years ago

I also see profile links loosing it value..
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Justin Says 15 years ago

No matter how they affect rankings, I felt they were useless anyways I of course use them on my REAL profiles and whatnot. But those people that build like 5000 profile links are kinda unrealistic to me.
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ayurak 15 years ago

I don't think that profile link will hamper the ranking. What about the users who like to participate on different forums, create profile, put links on profile, discuss on forums and other activity.
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- jackwebson 15 years ago
  
  The profile links are still useful. It depends on the quantity and quality of the backlinks. I have helped a lot of clients in reaching first page in Google using only profile backlinks so I don't think they are poison.
  
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guzpra 15 years ago

sure, this is very confusing topic because surely every person has different perspectives.. but still, I believe the opinion that google won't penalize some kind of backlinks so easily,
because we cant 100% take control of our backlinks...
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outwest 15 years ago

Interesting, most of the comments I see say people think that Google penalizes profile links now, in fact I have seen SEO companies saying they are removing old profile links
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goldradio 15 years ago

Google never treats any of the spamming methods negatively. It just ignores those links that are made. If it is treated negatively it will be easy for a competitor to build such links to my site and take me down off the rankings.
So if Google doesn't like a link, it just ignores it.
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harro1

14 years ago

Yes profile links are now the negative factor for your rankings

i had one website ranking page 6 for quite some time now, recently i did profile blast to inner page of that site and 2 days later sites home page went to page 11

so yes this shows that it's a negative factor, i have also ordered 10k profile links for a competitors site sitting on page 2 for same niche, lets see what happens to that site

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outwest

14 years ago

Originally Posted by harro1

so yes this shows that it's a negative factor, i have also ordered 10k profile links for a competitors site sitting on page 2 for same niche, lets see what happens to that site

ur such a nice guy
IMO thats a slimy tactic

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rasel786 14 years ago

Really it's a bad news for me that, "Profile link make negative impact".
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JeanneLynn 14 years ago

I'm not sure what these profile links are. Are these like the Angela and Paul-type backlinks?
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awj888

14 years ago

this isnt true, otherwise yes we could just ruin peopls websites by blasting profile links very quickly.

the only truth is that profile links dont have as much power as in context anchor text links however they still dont harm your site. there wont be any negative ranking factors unless your site is part of a link farm but that is more like getting banned than negative ranking

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Banned 14 years ago

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JeanneLynn

14 years ago

Originally Posted by wegenbelasting1

Well there are more things in life you can do to a person/company to hurt them without them being guilty of something. So why you think Google would protect the innocent? Google just makes the statement it won't hurt to prevent people from trying/doing.

I sort of agree with this. How do we know for sure that if someone blasts their competition's sites that the competition won't get penalized by Google? I hear this all the time and I wish I knew what the truth was. In real life, people get punished for things others have done all the time. I don't do any backlinking on my sites because I'm terrified of Google penalties/Adsense bans. I hear different things all of the time and I just don't know what to do as far as backlinking.

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