Profile links are a great way to establish branding for your website or online business, and it provides an incredible Search Engine Optimization - SEO boost when you create profiles on trusted sites (sites with a high PR). Just copy the following into your browser, and you may have to search for “forum” or “community” to create an account and edit your profile (you will have to confirm your email address with most of them).
PR6-PR9 Profile Link Sites (Top 20)
- myspace.com
- openstreetmap.org
- help.com
- my.opera.com
- phpnuke.org
- premium.wpmudev.org
- slashdot.org
- boston.com
- last.fm
- livejournal.com
- rottentomatoes.com
- studyabroad.com
- ted.com
- tumblr.com
- zotero.org
- zennyatta1.webs.com
- arduino.cc
- bleacherreport.com
- blog.foreignpolicy.com
- caloriecount.about.com
These top sites for getting high PageRank profile links are a mix of nofollow and dofollow. It is great to have both for SEO diversity, and contrary to popular belief, nofollow backlinks do help with SEO. Google seems to have already released the Penguin 2.0 update, and nofollow links do seem to hold more weight for SEO now because webmasters are less likely to deliberately create them themselves.
Nofollowlinks are also a representation of a brand, but they usually indicate that some other webmaster or blogger is naturally linking to that content but does not intend to pass link juice to that URL.With the Panda, Penguin, EMD, and Penguin 2.0 update, establishing a brand is important. Treat your main keyword as your brand if you do not have a specific brand name.Be sure to fill out the profiles with as much detail as possible. If one of these sites does not have a field for your website, blog, Facebook page, etc, a large majority of the time you are able to link with HTML in your author bio, about field, or in a blog/journal entry.
You should be aggressive with your main keyword for your anchor text, but create only a handful of them per day (especially for newer sites) to monitor your rankings and anchor text correlation more easily.Feel free to link from one profile to another to create a profile link wheel. You should use your name or username in your bio as your anchor text when linking to another profile. Ping them one at a time directly after having created them, but once you have created enough over a period of a few days to a week, to create an XML RSS feed and submit it to FeedBurner.
You can also use a lot of these same sites for high PR blogging and contextual, unique article backlinks. Essentially, many of these sites offer author profiles much like you will find in the Wizard. Profile links are (and should always be) considered an authority link building strategy by Google as a business is attempting to establish their brand, and so it serves as a very powerful whitehat SEO tactic for many webmasters.
