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When something like link building using forum and free membership site member profiles becomes popular and hits the mainstream marketing crowd, it gets over-used and causes what is known as a decreasing rate of return for people.

Therefore, there needs to be some sort of best practices guide put out there for people who decide to add this link building method to their SEO strategy and portfolio.

Profiles link building best practices

Based on my research, there have been some common denominators for successful profiles link building:

#1 - Do not expect much from using the most popular links packets being sold because they cause a massive influx of new profiles creations of the new sites added to the lists people are getting.  When the new list of sites to create profiles on gets mailed out to people, they immediately get slammed with new membership creations, causing some alerts to go off from the site administrators. (more…)

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Some of the recent rage for the last year or so has been profiles link building; the practice of creating member profiles on high PageRank, DoFollow sites.

1. A lot of people swear by this method
2. A lot of people say it’s not worth the effort and doesn’t work
3. Some say that remaining old school is the way to go.

I did some research on a marketing forum where a lot of these links packets are being sold and the following is what I came up with (with the help of the people who responded to the thread) for Profiles Link Building Best Practices.

What is Profiles link building?

It’s the practice of getting free memberships at certain types of sites, then creating profiles on them. When you create a “fleshed-out” profile or just a bare bones profile you get to place a URL or two in these “bios” /profiles.

However you only want to target high Page Rank site for profiles link building that have DoFollow attributes enabled, otherwise the whole exercise is pretty much worthless. (more…)