You all must have heard about profile links. Yes right links on different forums and other websites. Some internet marketers like Angela, Paul and others sell monthly link packets for a little price.

Now question arise, does these links work anymore and help in organic rankings, the answers is YES in my opinion.

How can I say so?

I have seen many Squidoo and Hubpages ranking for a very competitive keyword on either page one or page two of Google.
First I though to present a case study taking and example of Squidoo or Hubpage, but then I decided not to do the same, as I do not want to ruin someone else work and SEO efforts.

So I will just present my findings here.

Let us take an example of a mild competitive keyword when searched in Google, it returns 1700k competitive pages.

It is a two word keyphrase and related with gaming niche.

When I checked the ranking a Squidoo lens is at the top position on Google and a website with exact match domain is ranking on number 9.

After checking backlinks of this lens, I found that the lens had nearly all backlinks from profiles and some spammy blog commenting.

So which factors helped this lens to rank of number one position.

• First thing as Squidoo is an authority website, so it helped it to rank high.
• The second thing it has lot of backlinks from profile pages and blog commenting.

So in first instance it shows that profile backlinks really help.

I have a plan to create and Squidoo lens and a Hubpage, for some mild competitive keyword and will do all backlinks from only profile pages and study the result.

I will keep you all updated on this.

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