bingo! Web 2.0s don't have the same punch they used to, which is why most people (myself included) only do it for diversity purposes.
In July I've built backlinks on 41 web 2.0s (the vast majority of these d0foll0w, too), but they haven't done anything. It's also true that the website that I've pointed these links to is in the medical / health niche, one of the toughest niches to break into, especially with web 2.0 links, and especially if you scatter the links like a moron to all pages (including category pages, too). So, I'm not fully surprised that they didn't even increase my number of impressions, much less bring me clicks and traffic. So, my personal experience with these links might not accurately illustrate the validity of these links.
These being said, it's also true that most of the web 2.0s have become scumbags over the last few years. For example, of the 41 links that I've built in July I don't think I have 10 that are still live, indexed, and / or d0follow anymore. Each week I get messages from the websites where I've built these links on, that urge me to either login, or post more content, or upgrade my plan with them because otherwise my website gets removed, the links nof0ll0wed, or whatever. And since I don't care about these links anyway (I've merely built them to test things out), I will obviously not give a shit what those websites do to my articles.
Anyway, the general consensus is that web 2.0s are only good for diversifying your backlinking profile and that's about it. Which I tend to agree with. And the few "experts" that advocate for treating web 2.0 sites like your own website and post quality, unique, highly researched and well optimized content on, post regularly on them, too, and so on.... well, to all these so-called experts that advocate for quality and white hat bullshit I have one thing to say: if I have to waste my life nurturing web 2.0s for backlinks that google devalues anyway I will rather waste my life building my own PBN, which I have full control over, and which require the same amount of time and dedication that nurturing web 2.0s require. So....
