Profile and Forum Link Building Techniques

What do profile links mean? There are actually tens of thousands of websites that allow users to create accounts and have an online profile. Usually in the online profile, the websites will allow users to post links to their website or blogs. That is what we are targeting.

The same holds true with forums. Every forum or message board allows users to have a profile page where you can post a little about yourself normally including a link to your website or blog.

From SEO link building standpoint, we can utilize these linking opportunities to grow our incoming links to our websites.

To find these links, just search Google for forums and message boards then create accounts. There are also many places online where you can purchase lists of sites that allow you to add profile links. Here you can purchase a list of 5,000 websites that allow you to create online profiles and leave links back to your websites.

How to Build Free Backlinks to Your Websites?

After discussing on-page SEO, it's time we discuss off-page SEO. The most important thing in the off-page SEO is getting backlinks. Backlinks are incoming link to your website. The more backlinks you have, the higher your website ranking on search engines.

Here are some ways you can do to build free backlinks.

Free Backlink from Article Syndication Networks
Articles syndication networks provide two services to website visitors. First, the website provides articles that can be used for your website. Secondly, the website received articles from visitors. The visitors who write articles can put a link to their website. So if you want to get free backlinks, write an article with content related to your website, and add a link to your website. When the article is later posted on any websites, you get backlinks. The more articles you write, the more backlinks you can get. Some article syndication network websites among others are SEOLinkVine.com, MyArticleNetwork.com, and UniqueArticleWizard.com

Free Backlink from Article Directories
Article directory websites accept articles written by anyone. In the article, the writers can put a link to their website. So the more you write articles, the more free backlinks you will get. GoArticles.com and EzineArticle.com are examples of article directory websites. If you want to find more article directory websites, you can search them on Google with keywords: "article directories". For article submission, you can do so manually or you can use a software such ase Fast Directory Submitter. To find other softwares, use "directories submission" keywords on Google search engine.

Free Backlinks from Profile Linkings
Many websites provide a profile page where you can put your website link. You can create a profile on various websites manually, or using submission profile softwares.

Free Backlinks from Comments
Backlinks can also be obtained by providing comments on others’ blogs. In the comments you can put a link to your website. There are softwares that you can use to find articles on some blogs, so you can comment on them.

Free Backlinks from Article Contributions
Many blogs accept article contributions from their visitors. You can write some articles for such blogs. Of course, in every article you can put a link to your website.

Three Way Linking
Three way linking is basically a link exchange. But this exchange not only involves two website, ie your website and other website, the three way linking involves three websites. Let‘s say you have two websites, website A and B. On your website B you put a link to some one’s websites. But on the some one’s website, the link is to your website A.

On-Page SEO on a Page or Article

Each page or article in a website will be indexed by search engines. Therefore, you need optimize your pages or articles. Each page or article can have their own keywords. Here is how to optimize a page or an article.

• Determining keyword. Determine your keywords so that search engines will index the article in accordance with the keywords you want.
• Putting keywords in titles and subtitles. Titles, subtitles level 1 (H1), level 2 (H2), and level (H3) should contain keywords
• Spread the keywords in the body-text. Of course you should spread some keywords to the body-text.
• Giving emphasis on the keywords. Use a typeface such as bold, italic, and underlining to give emphasis on certain keywords.
• Putting ALT tags on images. What is an ALT tag? When you put the mouse pointer on an image in a page, some words will pop-up. The words were ALT tags . Put your keywords in the ALT tags. This is easily done on WordPress.

Primary and Secondary Keywords for On-Page SEO

As discussed in the previous article, “Do Both, On-Page and Off-Page SEO“, on-page SEO is the optimization of content. On a website, relating to on-page SEO, there are two things that need to be distinguished, namely the main content of the website and supporting content that is on every other page (in addition to the main page). The main content of the website reflects the overall content of the website which usually exist on the Home page.

The main content is supported by other contents on the second page, third page, and so on, or supported by each article on blog in the website. Content on these pages or on each article must be related to the main content. Thus the website will be more focused and has sharper segmentation. Your audience will love the website content, as well as search engines.

When associated with keywords, then there will be the main keywords related to the main content and secondary keywords in each page or article. In WordPress, these two types of keywords are very important especially when using SEO plugin like All in One SEO Pack. In such a plugin, you must fill in all the main keywords at the time of completion of installation, and secondary keywords on each finished writing an article.