Hi, I am registering for 50 forums and placing my URL in the URL field which is allowed by the site. I am not making any posts whatsoever. Is this considered white hat or black hat?
I don't quite understand exactly what you are trying to do...........could you explain in more detail?
Black hat can get you banned by search engines. White hat is considered "okay". I am trying to promote my site.
I don't see why this would be considered black hat, you aren't really spamming anyone unless you did this activity over and over again to the same sites but with different links.
It's neither white nor black, it's what we call 'stupid hat' link building, no offense You're wasting your time, these links won't pass much (if any) 'juice' and you'd be lucky just to get those pages (where your link appears) indexed/cached.
Ask yourself this question - would you rather spend that time building quality links rather than just forum profiles? It doesn't sound black hat but it certainly won't get you to where you want to be.
Most forum owners will consider this simple spam. Forums are definitely not the right sites to get link juice. You would do better with blog comments. IMHO forums are more for reputation and direct traffic.
Well I wouldn’t considerer it black hat… but I think 50 manually created forum profile links is kinda a waste of time. Unless you have a bot which does this for you, you would be much better off gaining backlinks using a different method.
That is probably white hat-ish. But if you were to do the same thing, but with the program Xrumer, that would definitely be blackhat. That program is used to create thousands of backlinks through automated forum signups. Each one doesn't do much, but if you get a ton of them...well that's blackhat spamming.
It's white hat but you're probably only doing half the job. Let me explain... First of all, those profile links are useless if they are no follow links. Unless you have been checking this most of the links you have done are probably a waste of time. Second, even if they are follow links they are still useless if the page they are on is not indexed which will be the case because they are new profile pages, so... you need to send other links to these pages to get them indexed! In my opinion this is not a great use of your time. Why not find industry specific blogs instead which allow comments with dofollow links? These are more likely to be indexed, and they will send traffic to your site if what you have to say is useful.
Nofollow links has a little bit of influence, but only little. A year ago there was no point in getting no follow links, but times are changing.
Just building backlink and make sure you don't trying to spam, don't building more than 150 - 200 a day. . All will be ok.
As long as you aren't doing things server side such as cloaking, or referral spam, the liability is on the webmaster to maintain credibility with Google, so the links would help only if a site was moderated, and the conundrum is that the sites you want to get links to are the ones that are moderated...you will mostly end up with worthless links that won't exist a year from now.
depends on your technique , it will useless stuff. better if you comment on blogs whether it is follow or nofollow . if it is related to your site then it will help in serp. No PR from Nofollow.
Every link is considered 'Juice' by the search engine, Some more than others. Just do it, every backlink helps weather its a nofollow or a follow. Most 'SEO' experts dont know what they're on about. Go ahead with it and check results as time passes by. Its definatley not BlackHat, so its white. Also if the forum is relevant to your website - It will help.
I would say that this is neither "black hat" or "white hat". What I would say is that it is a complete waste of your time. Just putting the url in your profile on 50 forums will get you 50 backlinks but that is pretty minuscule. Here is what I say you do. Write 1 good quality article. Then re-write it 10 times. 2 links per article. 1 in the content and 1 in the bio box. = 22 links Submit each article to the top 10 article submission sites. - 220 links Use onlywire.com and submit to 32 social bookmarking sites = 300 plus backlinks Now you have 520 backlinks. Sounds like a better way to get them. Or you could actually post content in the forums and build a reputation. Then get your site noticed that way.