I just found out this week that Google now has profiles. http://google.com/profiles you can add your URL which is dofollow.. Can having this profile help you in the serps ?
Yes! it is a do follow link! Also we can add our keyword in the anchor text. Not sure about SERP ranking but I'm sure it has some value since it belongs to Google. I just added my blogs!
It can help, but those pages don't have enough backlinks, unless they get linked by a high pagerank site, and get indexed, it will be helpful but it takes time to get backlinks to those pages.
I have noticed someone just put them Google profile link in them backlinks. Does this help? If we could use G profile link as a new sitemap?
It definitely does.. I seem to receive a large amount of hits from my Google profile, which initially surprised me.
No point in profiles. hardly help them to get visitors and get traffic. so hands down to opensocial feature of google.
Definitely, a link to Google itself is a vote of confidence for your site. Let's hope it will always stay as dofollow. Otherwise Google may make it nofollow to combat abuse.
I am going to link into the account via my links page on my website - use it as a reciprocal link - google then may go to my profile more often and pick up the link as some sort of value.....fingers crossed.