OK Guy's here's the deal. SEO is evolving; it's dynamic. Mother G is always looking to "improve user experience" (bleerrgh!) and deliver "quality" results. That means pages with some "value" to users (if that could even objectively be defined) are what we must create.
Profile links, as much as cloaked sites plastered full of ads and zero content, are as naked and non-juicy as kim kardashian in that ray j video (ok ok her vagine was juicy as hell what am I talking about) ... so you are going to have to find ways to make G think that your empty profile link does have value in it, even though it's basically an empty page with a link. G hates emptiness. Just take a look at its bank account :O
So, there are two ways to go about indexing these links:
1. Add content in to your profile, hobbies, interests etc. Make sure these are HEAVILY SPUN, as you will want them as unique as possible, that means nested spinning, rewritten paragraphs, the whole shabang.
2. Building backlinks to backlinks. Nothing screams importance like some good old ******** 'votes' for your site. If users think it's important, then it must be! Even though you just fired up scrapebox and blasted a load of Blogengine crap, didn't you??? Don't waste your time with RSS and bookmarking that, it used to work ok but nowadays it's just not happening. Feel free to try it, and watch your measly 2 or 3 links come in after a 1k blast.
Feel like SB is still too hands-on? Well, since we are in BHW the attitude here is, "I only do manually that which is strictly impossible to automate." I would call posting with SB semi-automated as it takes time to write comments, set it up etc. It seems like a hell of a lot of trouble for some darn profile links. Many people will sit and cry about the old days when they blasted with XR and a week later half the links were indexed. Sadly these days are gone, just as default ******** Wordpress. Google is tightening it's grip on your ball sack. But do not fret, there is still hope. They can't be too strict as it can backfire in the sense that web publishers feel overly scrutinized. Google wants to be seen as an ethical, loving, quality oriented URL guidance counselor. It doesn't want to be seen as Adolf Hitler or those crazy North Koreans who forcibly install radios with propaganda 24/7 which you are not allowed to turn off, ever! So accept the situation and move with the times. See your profile linking as a two step process now:
1. building them (easy part)
2. indexing them (trickier part)
Before indexing might have been automatic with all that 'let G find them naturally' crap or you will get banned. Go do a 1 million blast, ping all those mothers if you are crazy enough, and see how many get indexed. Pinging for profile links is no longer worth the time, it's like a half broken alarm clock trying to wake a teenager up for school on a monday morning. They might turn around a bit but they sure as hell won't get up. You've got to run upstairs, pull off the covers and slap a saucepan of cold water in his face!
JB
