Accidently built a PBN, should I use this?

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So I have about 11 blogs for different kind of stuff in the same niche. I never intended to use these as a PBN, and I didn't even knew what a PBN is before I created most of these.

In total, all these sites get a small amount of traffic, they're all blogs with only a dozen blog posts. Together they get about 1000 visitors a day, so ~50-200 daily traffic on average per blog.

Each site is connected to their own social media profiles, and that's about it, couple HQ YouTube videos as well.

Now I'm wondering if I should use these sites to have them all link to my one new, main money site?

None of these sites have any backlinks as far as I know, nor any spam or anything in the blackhat world was done here. I was just wondering if linking them all to my one site could possibly do any harm rather than good, to both the individual blogs and the main site?
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  • Profile picture of the author mathompson
    PBN has some risk. at the moment, i don't use PBN for my system because i scare about google look for that terribly
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    How do you "accidentally" build a PBN???
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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    Hi Guys, I have accidentally made a profit in my business should I use it as I pleased?
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    • Profile picture of the author BDazzler
      If the blogs are all on the same IP address or on the same server, they won't be a good PBN.
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      • Profile picture of the author irawr
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        Sigh. The word is unintentionally.

        Were you playing with your barbie dolls and accidentally 11 blogs all in the same niche appeared out of nowhere?

        You built 11 blogs and in hindsight, realized you unintentionally created 11 blogs that could be used as a network.

        If your actions directly caused something to occur, it's not an accident.

        Take some responsibility man...
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      • Profile picture of the author options
        Originally Posted by BDazzler View Post

        If the blogs are all on the same IP address or on the same server, they won't be a good PBN.


        Second This
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim3
    You are in a good postion to test some stuff.
    Use 5 of sites to link to one other first and see what happens to the linked-to site, that way you will have a better idea, and if they get slapped you still have 5 more plus your new money site intact, and will have acquired some useful knowledge.
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    • Profile picture of the author creat1veone
      Originally Posted by BDazzler View Post

      If the blogs are all on the same IP address or on the same server, they won't be a good PBN.
      These are all separate wordpress blogs I used some time ago for similar niches. Well, same niches but different sub-categories, like if the niche were selling cars, I got 11 car-model dedicated blogs.

      Originally Posted by Tim3 View Post

      You are in a good postion to test some stuff.
      Use 5 of sites to link to one other first and see what happens to the linked-to site, that way you will have a better idea, and if they get slapped you still have 5 more plus your new money site intact, and will have acquired some useful knowledge.
      Thanks guys, finally someone who isn't looking to spam in order to blast their post counts . Thanks for the idea, I'll use 4 sites to link to the one I am getting mediocre traffic from and wait for the results. Have you done this before? Do you know when I can expect results?

      Cheers
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim3
        Originally Posted by creat1veone View Post

        These are all separate wordpress blogs I used some time ago for similar niches. Well, same niches but different sub-categories, like if the niche were selling cars, I got 11 car-model dedicated blogs.
        If I remember correctly, and someone may correct me if not, Matt Cutts has a video on his blog somewhere that actually recommended doing this if you have related sites, but this was a long while before PBN's were even talked about.

        Of course they all have to be pukka sites without the faintest whiff of spam, and I would avoid putting all the interlinks on the home page of every site.


        Have you done this before? Do you know when I can expect results?
        I have never had the opportunity or time to try it, my sites are all in different niches.
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  • Profile picture of the author kajalmishra
    I don't think it will work. Do not use it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Stewart
    If you "accidentally" built it, I highly doubt it's private. It's going to be more of a "public" BN.
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  • Profile picture of the author hipeopo02
    Originally Posted by creat1veone View Post

    None of these sites have any backlinks
    Then unless you get targeted traffic from these sites to your money site your "PBN", as you call, is useless.

    A real PBN is all about authority based off metrics that depend on backlinks one way or another. It is used to rank other sites in search engines above anything else (Traffic, Brand Awareness, etc.)
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