Here’s step by step instructions on how to get a do-follow contextual profile link from IBM.com
This is not a blog post backlink. It is a backlink within a profile you create on ibm.com/community
IBM.com has a DA of 93 which is pretty solid and getting a backlink will pass some amount of juice down to your site. If your site is in the tech niche then the backlink passes some amount of “relevance” as well.
Here’s how its done, step by step…
Step 1
First, visit – https://www.ibm.com/community/
Step 2
You need to click on the “Sign In / Join” Button. This page may take a while to load, so please wait.
Next, click on “Create an IBM id” – which will basically create a new IBM user ID for you.
Step 3
Fill up the required information as above.
Please make sure to use your own personal information (or create an alias / pseudonym).
Step 4
After signing up you will see this pop-up…
Go ahead and click on “Proceed”
Step 5
A verification email will be sent to the email you entered on the step above…
Enter the 7-digit code that was sent to you in the mail and click on “Verify”.
You will need to read the terms of service and click on “I Agree” on the next page (Pretty standard stuff. you wont get into any legal trouble, at most your account will be shut down if you abuse it – but that’s not what we are doing here. We’re playing it safe).
Step 6
After agreeing to their terms of use, you will see a page as below…
Proceed by Clicking on the “Complete Profile” button.
Step 7
Click on “Add” under the Bio section…
Step 8
And, you will get a Pop-up window as under…
This is the key page where you will need to write a 500 to 700 word content article as per your SEO needs. You can target your primary keyword for the main content and use any link and anchor link as required!
This is the content of the published page that you will see after you click on “save” to save your bio…
Step 9
As an added bonus you can power up the link juice from this page to your target link by taking part in the online community, or create Tier 2 links to this URL.
Make sure your post URL gets indexed by Google. I have seen some profile pages getting indexed and some not. I am not sure why this is happening, but you can increase your chances of your post getting indexed by pushing through some indexing tools like BacklinksIndexer or tweeting the URL or using a great desktop tool like Gindexer (I highly recommend you get this if you have the budget. The tool is fantastic and the developer responds to help and issues very quickly).
You can even use this link to power up your private blog network sites!
If you’re new to the world of PBN for SEO, make sure to check out the 85+ page guide and free downloadable guide ebook on how to build a pbn – which is basically the ultimate guide to dominating the search engines 🙂
I’ve seen these links before and wondered how the link providers got them. thanks for the share.
great method. worked like a charm!
Link from IBM is valuable, thanks for share the knowledge
Nice! Thanks for the tip. Time to go and get an IBM link!
Suppose my niche is not relevant to the Tech niche do you think creating a backlink would hurt my site in any way?
No it will not. It will just add variety. Also, you can try to use lateral thinking to somehow connect technology with your niche / topic and then write a postabouthow technology is applied / used in your niche and then create the link. However, this is not a requirement.
Amazing! Just got this link and it took me less than 15 minutes. Thank you!
Thanks for your article!This is very usefull information for me!
Is it indexable page? Can you show an example of URL with this link?
Hi Jack… thanks for stopping by and asking a very relevant question!
The answer is yes! This page can be pushed to be indexed in Google. You need to make sure you run it by a bulk pinger, twitter or use a force indexing tool like indexification or any other indexing tool you have access to.
Here are some examples of pages created on IBM with the method above –
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/gettingstarted/network/members/profile?UserKey=bad8fed7-ea40-4775-9fb6-7dd310836e02
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/gettingstarted/network/members/profile?UserKey=cee6cf9f-9d40-453f-98d9-3dce46333a11
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/gettingstarted/network/members/profile?UserKey=9d284357-ee19-47bc-a599-6f7d3d37b298
If you want to find more examples, just query google with this –
site:https://community.ibm.com/community/user/gettingstarted/network/members/profile?UserKey=
Woow. I never expected this. Thank you Vishal for this gift!
hi. thanks for this post
how can i find my UserKey?
you will need to search for your page title in Google (do so in quotes) – this can be done only if your site is indexed. Userkey should be there when you published it. check browser history i guess.
really nice information for making backlink
Link from IBM is valuable, thanks for share the knowledge
Hello
Thanks a lot for the useful and valuable material you provide to users
will you not get penalised for it with the latest g-trends (this summer)?
no this is safe to do as its a contextual backlink and as long as you use proper anchor text ratios etc this is safe.
A very nice article with great information. thanx for sharing such knowledge.
I have a question, some websites offer backlink generator tools. Are these backlinks safe? and are these kinds of websites safe?
Hi,
Very nice article!! Thanks for sharing. Please suggest a few more such websites.
Thank you a lot for the great tips. Apreciated!Any idea if the backlinks from sites such as Yelp and Websst are do-follow and is there a way how to double check this?
Best regards: George W.
there is a no-dofollow plugin for chrome / Firefox that you can use to check links on a page. they highlight in red the no-follows
I follow step by step and finally I have link from IBM .COM thank you so much
Greeting from Indonesian.. cheers ^_^
Is it really possible. The link from IBM is worthy. I should try today itself.
I have tried this method today, its not working anymore. There is no option now to linking. Tried linking via raw code, its not accept.