Profile Creation Sites List 2026: 576 Live Sites, Checked for Link Building

Checked 2 November 2026. The earlier version of this page promised 1,000+ sites. When we tested every one of its 1,030 rows, many were repeats and a large share no longer worked: domains that had expired, been parked for sale, redirected to another company or been taken over by gambling spam. This update keeps only the 576 distinct sites whose home page answered on the day of the check, and lists the 243 we removed and why.

Profile links are a small part of link building. Used well, they give your brand a consistent identity across the web, a few referral visits and some discovery for a new site. Used badly, they are a footprint of low-quality links. The sections below cover both: how we checked the list, how to use it without spamming, and the full tables.

What Are Profile Creation Sites?

Profile creation sites are platforms that let a person or business publish a public profile with a name, bio, logo and usually a link to a website. They fall into a few groups:

• Professional and business networks: LinkedIn company pages, Crunchbase, Wellfound for startups.
• Social and community platforms: X, Pinterest, Reddit, Quora and topic forums.
• Publishing platforms: Medium, Blogger, Tumblr, SlideShare, Issuu and Scribd, where a profile sits next to content you publish.
• Portfolio sites: Behance and Dribbble for designers, GitHub and GitLab for developers, SoundCloud and Mixcloud for audio.
• Review and directory sites: Trustpilot, Manta and local business directories, which matter most for local SEO.

Do Profile Backlinks Still Help SEO in 2026?

A little, and mostly indirectly. Most large platforms mark profile links as nofollow or ugc, which tells Google not to treat them as an endorsement. Google's spam policies name "low-quality directory or bookmark site links" as an example of link spam, so hundreds of thin profiles created only for links can do more harm than good.

What profiles do well:

• Entity consistency. The same name, description, logo and website on LinkedIn, Crunchbase, GitHub and your own About page help search engines and AI assistants recognise your brand as one entity.
• Discovery. A link from an active, crawled platform can help a brand-new site get its first pages found.
• Referral visits and trust. A complete profile on a platform your buyers use (Behance for a design studio, GitHub for a developer tool) sends real visitors and reassures them that you exist.
• Branded search results. Well-filled profiles often rank for your brand name, so the first page of results for your business shows pages you control.

How We Checked Every Site on 2 November 2026

We ran a script against every row of the old list: 1,030 rows, which turned out to be 820 distinct sites once repeats and www variants were merged. For each one we requested the home page the way a desktop browser would, followed redirects and allowed 10 seconds for an answer. Addresses that now lead to the same site, such as wanelo.co and wanelo.com, are listed once.

1. First pass: HTTP status of the home page. A 2xx or 3xx answer that ended on the same site counted as live.
2. Second pass: sites that failed were looked up again through public DNS and re-requested directly, because some Indian internet providers block sites at the DNS level. That rescued, for example, telegra.ph and mediafire.com, which work fine from outside India.
3. Third pass: sites that still timed out were tested from three outside locations. Only sites that failed everywhere were removed.
4. Parked and hijacked domains: we flagged home pages that redirected to a domain marketplace, showed a "for sale" or parking page, or carried gambling, spam or adult content, and checked the flagged ones by hand.

103 live sites answer automated requests with a bot check (from Cloudflare, Akamai or similar). A bot check means the server is up, so we kept them; you will see the normal page in a browser.

What the check does not tell you: whether a site still accepts new sign-ups, whether its profile links are dofollow, or whether it is relevant to you. The DA column is the Domain Authority value from the original list; we did not re-measure it, and it will have drifted. Check any site you care about with our domain authority checker, and test a batch of 20 addresses at once with the server status checker.

How to Use These Sites Without Spamming

• Pick 20 to 50, not 500. Choose the platforms your customers actually use and that fit your topic. A design studio needs Behance and Dribbble; a SaaS product needs Crunchbase, GitHub and Product Hunt.
• Complete every field. Real logo, real description, real contact details. Empty profiles with a lone link are exactly the pattern spam filters look for.
• Write each bio for the platform. Same facts, different wording and length. Do not paste one keyword-stuffed paragraph everywhere.
• Use your brand name as the anchor. Link to the homepage or the most relevant page, and never stuff exact-match keywords into names or link text.
• Be active where it makes sense. A GitHub profile with a real repository, or a Quora profile with a few helpful answers, is worth more than ten dormant accounts.
• Do not buy bulk profile packages. "500 profile backlinks for 5 dollars" means automated accounts on abandoned sites, many of which appear in our removed list below.
• Keep a record. Note each profile URL, login email and date, so you can update or close them later.

Before you start, read our checklist on how to audit a backlink list before you submit to it. Once your profiles are live, see what was actually picked up with our backlink checker. Our backlink maker is a different thing: it asks public website-analysis and whois sites to create a page about your domain, which can help discovery but is not a substitute for real profiles.

Start Here: 15 Profiles Worth Creating First

If you only have an afternoon, start with these. All 15 answered our check on 2 November 2026. Expect most of their profile links to be nofollow; the value is the identity, the audience and the discovery, as described above.

Local businesses should also claim Google Business Profile and Bing Places, which are not profile sites in the usual sense but matter more for local search than anything on this page. US businesses can continue with our list of USA citation sites.

Profile Creation Sites With DA 90 to 100

105 sites, all answering on 2 November 2026.

Profile Creation Sites With DA 70 to 89

197 sites, all answering on 2 November 2026.

Profile Creation Sites With DA 50 to 69

189 sites, all answering on 2 November 2026.

Profile Creation Sites Under DA 50

85 sites, all answering on 2 November 2026.

Sites Removed in This Update

If you worked from the earlier version of this list, these are the 243 sites we took out on 2 November 2026, with the reason for each. A profile you created on one of them in the past is most likely gone, so remove it from your records and your reports.

Step by Step: Creating a Profile That Stays Live

1. Prepare a brand kit once: logo in square and wide formats, a 50-word and a 160-word description, your website, address if you are a local business, and the email you will use for every account.
2. Register with a business email on your own domain, verify it, and turn on two-factor authentication where the platform offers it.
3. Fill every field with the same facts (name, address, phone, website) so the profiles agree with each other and with your site.
4. Add proof: a real photo, portfolio item, repository, article or review. Platforms remove empty accounts, and readers ignore them.
5. Link from your site back to the profiles that matter (footer social links, About page) and, on your own pages, mark up the profiles in your Organization schema sameAs list.
6. Check after a few weeks whether the profile page is indexed with our Google index checker, and whether the link shows up in the backlink checker.
7. Re-check twice a year. Platforms close, change their link rules or delete inactive accounts, as this update shows. The bulk URL opener opens your saved profile URLs in one go for a quick review.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Inconsistent details: a different business name, phone number or address on each platform confuses search engines and customers.
• Keyword-stuffed names: "Best SEO Company Jaipur Cheap SEO Services" as a profile name looks like spam and often breaks platform rules.
• Profiles on dead or hijacked sites: a link from a domain that now hosts gambling pages is not a neutral link. Use the checked tables above.
• Counting nofollow profiles as ranking links: report them as brand and referral assets, and earn editorial links for authority. Our list of dofollow backlink sites and the guide to your backlink profile cover that side.
• Never updating: an old logo or a closed office address on a high-traffic profile costs trust.