People have been saying that profile linking and blog commenting are “not as effective”, “not effective”  etc for a year now.  The problem is it is speculation at best and dis-information at worst.

Why?  Because I have noticed that a lot of the people who are saying these things have either tried and failed with their linkbuilding, or they are forum, blog or site owners who are trying to play down their effectiveness.

So what is the reality?

In my own testing, I have ranked sites using only profile links and followed blog comments and continue to do so.  So they still work for me, but does anyone else agree?

Well, how about Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz, will he do as an authority on SEO and linkbuilding?  Yes, I thought you would agree he will.

This is what he posted a week ago:

“On nearly every commercially lucrative search results I pull up these days, I see bad links pushing sites into the top rankings at Google.”

So Rand of SEOmoz agrees with me.  Profile linking and followed  blog commenting still works as part of your link building strategy.

Now I am not suggesting using these types of links exclusively, nor am I saying that they are good or bad links.  Personally I do not subscribe to the opinion that they are offensive to the site owners, as along as you do not make them offensive.  If you comment on a blog with a polite, relevant comment then is that spam regardless of the motivation?  If you  create a profile on a membership site that, amazingly, allows you to create a public profile, is it wrong to put a link in it?

To me no.  That is what a profile is for…for you to add a profile and links in the places they allow you to place links.

As for blog commenting, of course the morons still submit automated “good post boys, bookmarked.  Viagra” but these rarely get through and its just a waste of everyone’s time.   But if you visit a blog and you ADD VALUE to that post with a relevant comment, regardless of your motivation for doing so, then is there harm in that?  Of course not, unless you subscribe to Google’s whiter-than-white “build it and they will come” mentality (which incidentally even well-respected SEO’s like Gray Wolf are now questioning) then you will be clicking away from this post right now.

So in terms of one way backlinks, profile links and blog commenting do still add value.  If you are believing the dis-information, then you are only hurting your own rankings.  Your link building strategy should be “whole of world”, and like it or not, the rest of the the world is still ranking above you because they use profile links and blog commenting as part of a fully developed strategy for their link building.

If the experts are telling you that sites are ranking for “spammy” links, then unless you run a church website, why are you not still using these link building methods? A successful site will have a good mix of a few big links, under-pinned with lots of less powerful ones.  By leaving this to chance, ie, by hoping someone will link to you, then you are only hurting yourself.

Forget relevancy,  ignore the propaganda.  Just build links.

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