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    Forum Profiles

    i had manually made some Forum Profiles (about 60 slowly in 2 monts ) and i get a small 50 package (in 1 day ) links from a friend.
    but i heard its better to link them not directly on the main project.

    do i risk now a penalty if thej are linked on main project?

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    Links are best when they come in slowly. I spread them through out my money sites (deep linking within each site). But the best links are those associated with your niche.
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    Then again, forum profiles don't do a lot for your listing or ranking. You see a lot of these offers on fiverr for example.
    Once I bought a fiverr gig from someone who submitted over 800 forum profiles for me over a period of about 3 weeks....ZERO effect on my listing or ranking.
    He even gave me the complete list of URLs he pinged (I checked a lot of them) as proof.

    Find higher PR blogs or use the Supercharged Bookmark tool here on the forum...
    And create a dozen free blogs (blogger, wordpress, etc) to build backlinks.
    Forum profiles don't work, unless your active on that forum and then signatures work even better...

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    ok thanks for your reply...

    so its better then to create backlinks from blogs etc to an blog who points to my main project? or link directly to main project?


    someone say to me thats not good to collect backlinks from nongerman country (im in germany) for a serios german project.
    he sees himself as a seo expert (i think hes is one). i was using the supercharged bookmark tooll and i think itas very effective.

    but the links or bookmarks are not german so he says that dont helps me for a longer time and google will steal my positions.
    what can you say about this?
    is it true?

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    If you are promoting German site means, its better to create majority of backlinks from German site. But forum profile links are no more effective in improving the search engine ranking.

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    ok what about the superchage bookmarks tool ? is it recommendet to use it? it really have boosted me but links or the sites are not german

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    Forum profiles are good if they are topic relevant to get traffic but for backlink construction they are not very good. Better use article and press releases and social bookmarks, relevant blog comments and blog postings in relevant blogs or as guest author.

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    wheel, 99% of profile URLs are "do-follow". The key is to get these profile URLs indexed. With web 2.0 it is quite easy.

    Sure you can do profile blasts on your feeder sites which link to your money site which is a better approach than creating profile links for you money site.

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    If I may just say, I have been following this thread for a while now.

    In all honesty, why would you want to create a score of forum profiles and not use them? Would being part of a community not be a better approach? Think about what you would get with just a forum profile and weigh it against what you would get if you actually took part in that forum. IMHO creating forum profiles purely for the sake of a link is wrong, when people can clearly see what kind of business professional you are simply by reading your posts and threads, and signature links. Which I think to be a much better option.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phoenyx View Post
    If I may just say, I have been following this thread for a while now.

    In all honesty, why would you want to create a score of forum profiles and not use them? Would being part of a community not be a better approach? Think about what you would get with just a forum profile and weigh it against what you would get if you actually took part in that forum. IMHO creating forum profiles purely for the sake of a link is wrong, when people can clearly see what kind of business professional you are simply by reading your posts and threads, and signature links. Which I think to be a much better option.
    I agree with phoenyx. You can keep placing links on forum profiles all you like but they don't have much strength (unless they are .edu or .gov) in comparison to blog posts, articles, blog comments etc.. Forums are great for generating traffic from signatures but not so great for passing on any real backlink benefits unless you have a lot of them. And I do mean lots. Spend the time and effort creating contextual style links i.e blog posts, articles, press releases, web 2.0 profiles etc and you will get far more benefit from your work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by econtinue View Post
    Then again, forum profiles don't do a lot for your listing or ranking. You see a lot of these offers on fiverr for example.
    Once I bought a fiverr gig from someone who submitted over 800 forum profiles for me over a period of about 3 weeks....ZERO effect on my listing or ranking.
    He even gave me the complete list of URLs he pinged (I checked a lot of them) as proof.

    Find higher PR blogs or use the Supercharged Bookmark tool here on the forum...
    And create a dozen free blogs (blogger, wordpress, etc) to build backlinks.
    Forum profiles don't work, unless your active on that forum and then signatures work even better...

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    I bet if you checked all those profile URLs he sent with google by simply inputting them into google search, 80% of them or more would not have been indexed. thats your problem, most profiles never get indexed. you can high a PR 8 website that doesn't index profiles and that profile is useless.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Habbakuk View Post
    I bet if you checked all those profile URLs he sent with google by simply inputting them into google search, 80% of them or more would not have been indexed. thats your problem, most profiles never get indexed. you can high a PR 8 website that doesn't index profiles and that profile is useless.
    I agree. I've done many forum profiles using back link packages from Paul and Angela, and I've had very low index rate. You have to get those links indexed.

    Out of curiosity, has anyone had any success with profile building? I'm not too keen on them, but I always thought many people had success with them. If you've had success, what do you do? Do you use an indexing service such as Linklicious?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RobertoMejia View Post
    I agree. I've done many forum profiles using back link packages from Paul and Angela, and I've had very low index rate. You have to get those links indexed.

    Out of curiosity, has anyone had any success with profile building? I'm not too keen on them, but I always thought many people had success with them. If you've had success, what do you do? Do you use an indexing service such as Linklicious?
    I used to use and still use sometimes Angela and Paul backlink packages. The thing about them is, they say to follow their instructions and not do anything else. I never listen. Most of the time, they say to only make links on your profile, nowhere else. To me, that's a waste of a perfectly good website. I always see if I can get backlinks via that website's forum, which I believe are much stronger than profile backlinks, AND are indexed almost instantly, if it is anywhere near a decent forum. Of course, getting those backlinks to stick is another thing, and I often have to resort to letting my posts age for around 2 weeks or so before adding links, but to me, that's much more worth it than just getting a profile backlink that may never be indexed.

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    I agree. I've done many forum profiles using back link packages from Paul and Angela, and I've had very low index rate. You have to get those links indexed.

    Out of curiosity, has anyone had any success with profile building? I'm not too keen on them, but I always thought many people had success with them. If you've had success, what do you do? Do you use an indexing service such as Linklicious?
    I am not 100% sure if this works, but from what I've seen, I started doing it myself. There was this one website who had tons of his profiles backlinks indexed, and he made them quite recently too, and they weren't all on very good websites. Through checking the indexed pages, I would find sometimes there would be thousands of profiles on a certain website, but only a handful of them would be indexed, one of which were his profile.

    Usually, when I make profile backlinks, I just add the links and nothing more, and this is how I see others make theirs as well. What I saw him doing was filling out other profile info, including making the links in context with some paragraph relating to his product. Maybe this is "common sense" to some, but I rarely see people doing it, and I wasn't doing it either.

    So from now on, I fill out more stuff in my profile when I make them, not everything like phone number and address and stuff, but like Interests I make using my keywords, I also fill out location, birthday, etc. I don't know if it works better, but it takes only a few seconds more work, so why not.
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    I was stuck at #6 and did a forum profile gig from Idreesfarooq and it sent me to number 1 2within a week. I believe in them since this happened. Sorry if my English is not good.
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    Forum profiles do work. However there are some big downsides to them. Profiles are quite hit and miss, sometiems you can strike it lucky and get a profile link that will stick around forever or they will be around for a few weeks and be deleted by the sites admins. They can also take quite a while to get indexed by Google.

    If you were to become an active, respectable member of that forum though, especially if it is related to your niche, you will start to see a considerable rise in traffic and hopefully conversions.

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    Forum profile takes time to show some improvement, the more you active in that forum, the higher chances of the link getting indexed, however some people don't have time to participate in certain forum due their backlinks are so many in various forum

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    profiles strategy consists of forum posting in which your forum profile will carry your signature in the end and anchor text links will be placed within that signature.

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    How do You know if the forum is indexed ...so the link that we all building will get counted?

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    Hmmm, Franberries is right. Look at it this way. You have 2500 forum profiles, and judging by the hit and miss, let's say that 1500 are indexed. ok, so that's quite a few backlinks pointing to your site, and your site gets a boost. What happens when those forums do their annual housekeeping? They remove profiles that aren't being used, they delete or archive posts etc. and your backlins are? gone So then its back to square one. Now let's have a look at the other end of the spectrum. You take the time to become part of the forum, create 1500 posts instead of just 1500 profile links.

    The practical upshot of that is, if all of those posts are quality and add to a forum, you have a greater chance of keeping your profile, your posts, and your reputation. Everyone online can see what you are saying/doing, and even visitors that aren't part of the community. They all have access to your signature links etc. So taking part in a forum is beneficial in many more ways than just creating one profile link and moving on to the next forum.

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    Agree with some members here. I treat forum profile links just as backlink to my backlink and not for my money site. Forum profile link, however, has been marked as trash (low quality) backlink by search engine because many people abuse it.


 

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