Linking building for third party domains?

[SEOPTI]

Say you run a press release (prweb, newswire... whatever) and your URLs with dofollow links are hosted on the third party server within the press release.

Does it make sense to build links for this press release URL which is located on a highly trusted domain? It's a lifetime URL.

[tangor]

Possibly. I view "news" urls as ephemeral, ie. no legs. Personally I don't expend a lot of effort in that area.

[martinibuster]

This is from the "It's not enough to win, everyone else has to lose" school of business. It makes sense if you want to maximize the amount of visitors to your site at the expense of competitors. But it has the potential for stirring the pot depending on how savvy the competitors are.

[SEOPTI]

I've been investigating a backlink profile for a site which has two million URLs indexed. Since it is a site where people don't link usually Here is what they did:

Setting up about 600 forum accounts for forums which are highly trusted but in most cases are not on topic. Every time with a different username so their is no footprint, this is important.

But this is not enough. These forum member pages will not rank, they need a vote. So they posted (spammed) the URLs for their forum member page on blogs (each URL on 4-5 blogs). This way they have been able to get this huge amount of URLs into Google.

So the idea of linking to a third party has got huge potential.

I was testing what needs to be done to get this huge amount of URLs indexed and different tests show, backlink quality and backlink quantity both are highly important.

ps.
this is for educational purposes :)