Forum Memberships for one-way link building

An old idea, but worth rehashing at times - especially with the downgrading of reciprocal links in Google.

I am sure a fair number of people have joined forums and "ahem" spamed the boards to try and build up links - then had their account terminated by naturally aggrieved website owners.

However, hunt down the forums which permit public user profiles - and place your links there.

For example, here on DigitalPoint - our profiles are public and can contain a homepage link. If I google my username, then this page will appear - and contain a one-way link back to my homepage.

You can use that to build up a large number of low value (and thematically not ideal) inbound links while also generally remaining below the radar for forum spamming.

You will probably also need to make a few legit postings on the forum to create the links from the spidered forum pages to your profile as well, so your profile will be viewed by forum readers and shouldn't be excessively spammy.

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What we really need now is a list of forums which offer public profiles.

I'll start with forums.digitalpoint.com

 

Wow, that's a novel idea. Too bad millions of others share the same thinking

 

IMHO I don't think it is worth all the hassle

 

It'll increase link popularity of your domain but worth big zero. in SERP it doesn't have any value.

 

Go to forum related to you niche. Regsiter and make a few useful post related to your site. It worth the time...but better hire money to do it

 

You again! Please stop making authorative statements that are incorrect!

This tactic will help your rankings

 

Hurt - I don't thinks so. Help - possibly so do it.

 

Forums really shouldent be used for shameless self promotion.

 

If you think forum sigs are worthless in the serps, you are simply wrong, or haven't experimented enough. I think there are 2 types of linkbuilding you need to do to be successful: short term and long term.

For short term, you need to focus on getting cheap forum sig links for noncompetitive keywords. Reading a lot of posts in this forum may lead to think.. forum sigs are useless! High quality links are all that matter. Not if your keywords are not competitive.. in that case, just a few forum sig links can put you over the top.

For long term, you of course want to rank for the more competitive ones. To do so, you need to be smart, and request links from related websites. Not link exchange requests. Not be straightforward link request emails either. You gotta be deceptive sometimes, and usually some lying. Develop a connection w/ the person first, and THEN mention your website. Don't even bother telling him the HTML code to copy and paste.. in other words, don't sound desperate at all.

 

yeps .. having the sig link in a forum which is relevant to the content of your site will help .

Well said & thnx