How would you improve a PBN - private blog network?

[goodroi]

It is no secret that PBNs have been around a long time and have been a nice ranking trick. Google isn't stupid and they have taken some steps to limit their effectiveness. Google also isn't perfect and there are almost always work arounds. So how would improve a private blog network so you can keep slurping up that delicious nectar of high rankings :)

[Leosghost]

Those who know, are highly unlikely ( woudl have to be crazy ) to tell anyone , on a website that Google can crawl..

Crazy to tell anyone anyway, anywhere..like a lot of things that help traffic / ranking in SERPs..

[tangor]

Money.

Buy up the domains and go to town (usually expired or under performing). Create a (strikethrough)Link(/strikethrough) Private Blog Network....

Oh, wait, does this sound familiar?

If one is going to make this work, you need expired domains, hopefully some with history with the SEs, a niche, and a bit of hubris/ Spread yourself/content as thin as possible across the PBN for as many entry points as possible. Use WordPress to easily replicate look and feel across all, just change the title. :)

Sorry to be so skeptical. I just call a spade a spade. This is (PBN) new SEO buzz speak for linked domains, reciprocal links, etc., only i guy does it using recycled domains. By hisselt (sic)!

ONLY difference, and it is telling, is the use of any expired domains you manage to obtain as G in particular, and B ti sine extebt, look at the "start date" (age) and supply some small cred in that regard, even though the old expired domain was about red widgets and the new one (part of a PBN) is all about the various ways to weave nose hairs.

[goodroi]

The really smart ideas won't get shared publicly because smart people know its better to skip the ego boost and keep making money. But some basic ideas like avoiding hosting companies that advertise they are PBN friendly aren't dangerous to share.

Reducing the common signals with your network and all other spammers makes it harder for Google to identify and hit you. I once saw a beautiful network of sites that was really great ... except it republished an original privacy policy on every site in the network. Taking a sentence from that privacy policy and searching on Google pulled up a nice & neat list of every domain within that network.

[Leosghost]

But some basic ideas like avoiding hosting companies that advertise they are PBN friendly aren't dangerous to share.

Allowing one's competitors to make errors, is always to one's advantage..There is only one #1 spot..

[tangor]

The really smart ideas won't get shared publicly because smart people know its better to skip the ego boost and keep making money. But some basic ideas like avoiding hosting companies that advertise they are PBN friendly aren't dangerous to share.

Could have provided the quotes and links regarding this marginal method of webmastering, didn't. Figured the other smart guys could find them. A really smart man does all he can to downplay bad behavior to keep the playing field level, and keep the whippersnappers out of trouble. This topic, for example, is one I'd never broach as it is a retread of behavior that G has already quashed once, and will again.

There would have to be REAL significant CONTENT on any PBN (link network) to save this concept.

[wheel]

I've mentioned before that I maintain a network of a couple dozen decent blogs as a backup plan. I don't use them for backlinks currently, and have no specific intentions of using them, they're my fallback plan. If my main site gets hammered, I have a couple of decently linked industry sites as backup that I can start throwing these links at.

All the sites I bought years ago. Ownership, registrar, hosting, dns, content and themes are all distinct and have been for a number of years. I don't think there's any trace of commonality in the domains.

I suspect the key to making such a network successful is a couple of things. First, the blog network sites need relevant links. Secondly, the blog network needs relevant content. I would be suspicious and not overly confident if the blog network didn't have both of those. But that's my speculation, maybe this stuff works without the quality.

[netmeg]

Meh. More trouble than it's worth to me. I'm too easily distracted as it is.

[proyidol]

PBN is good to build backlinks to your website. You can improve your PBN by not giving away too many outbound links. Also content shouldn't be thin.

[Jez123]

I don't have a PBN but if I did, I would try to make sure that all of the sites were making money. Preferably not from ads or selling links to others. If a site has an income and is a source of links it would be a huge asset.

[Rob_Banks]

I have about a dozen distinct and unlinked together blogs that I hadn't looked at for about a year. So what do I do to improve it? Most have three pages of content, I've started adding more. They will never win any awards for the content, but all provide some useful information and will soon range from three to ten pages with most of the blogs on different platforms and themes. A couple of them have flat-lined on Majestic, so I'll probably use those for testing with inbound links (Fiverr).

The rest I'll probably have to build bridges to get links. Such as I'm sure I can get links to chocolate, which I can link to vanilla, which can then link to strawberry. Poor example, but people don't want to link to strawberry ice cream.

You can learn a lot if you pay attention while doing these things.