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Can building backlinks on forums hurt my Off-page SEO and website overall?
Posted by on February 25, 2021 at 12:29 pmHey, I’m in the need for some SEO advice. I’m relevively knowledgeable of SEO but still have certain bits and pieces to learn.
Lets say I have an E-commerce site, and on that site I have some bitcoin products. So to build some niche backlinks I goto some different bitcoin forums and create some unique content which includes a link to one of the products.
Could this hurt my SEO? I’ve heard a lot of negative talk regarding forums, comments etc. If it’s done right, can it be effective? If so, what would be the appropriate way to approach such a situation?
And yes, im currently in the process of creating some web 2.0s , I just figured posting content on specific high enough DA forums would be more time efficient.
Thanks in advance, any advice helps 🙂
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Very unlikely, but it depends on the market. For some languages and niches you can still get away with it.
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Forum comments are part of a rounded BL profile. They shouldnt be the entirety of it tho. Web 2.0 profiles signal to google you are more of a legit company as an architect firm would have profiles on numerous subreddits, forums, architect related sites possibly, linked in profile etc.
Web 2.0 and forum posts are good for showing google youre legit. Do they add much authority? Possibly but probably not.
Forum posts can be good for traffic. And if your comments get a lot of referral traffic with a low bounce rate then it may signal to google that your page could be important. But this may be false too.
But it usually does nothing or it helps, it usually doesnt hurt your site unless youre really spamming the crap out of forums.
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It will certainly not harm your website because as of now Google is just ignoring the low quality backlinks.
It may even benefit your website if you target good forums which can bring in traffic too to your website.
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