Why are private blog networks so secretive?

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How come private blog network service providers don't give reports? They say it's to "protect the integrity of the blog networks", but what does that really mean? What harm could be inflicted by letting private blog network subscribers know where their links are exactly?
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  • Mainly because they don't want people reverse engineering sites that use them and then attacking them I guess.
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    • Profile picture of the author kirakirafuwafuwa
      Originally Posted by TBInternetMarketing View Post

      Mainly because they don't want people reverse engineering sites that use them and then attacking them I guess.
      Attack them how? And how can you reverse engineer these huge networks? They're practically a number of domains owned by one person/company, right?
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  • Profile picture of the author GyuMan82
    Private blog networks are heavily frowned upon by Google. If too many people know about it they eventually get caught and get deindexed.
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    • Profile picture of the author kirakirafuwafuwa
      Originally Posted by GyuMan82 View Post

      Private blog networks are heavily frowned upon by Google. If too many people know about it they eventually get caught and get deindexed.
      How can you penalize a huge network with 10000+ blogs?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by kirakirafuwafuwa View Post

        How can you penalize a huge network with 10000+ blogs?
        If they are just handing out the URLs to people, all it takes is one ticked off customer to hand that list over to Google. All those URLs than can be quickly deindexed.

        There is no point in making it easy for search engines to find the entire network.
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        • Profile picture of the author Monty Montana
          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          If they are just handing out the URLs to people, all it takes is one ticked off customer to hand that list over to Google. All those URLs than can be quickly deindexed.

          There is no point in making it easy for search engines to find the entire network.
          Exactly, all that work on buying or gathering up high PR blogs will go down the drain instantly.
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        • Profile picture of the author Rony Ronch
          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          If they are just handing out the URLs to people, all it takes is one ticked off customer to hand that list over to Google. All those URLs than can be quickly deindexed.

          There is no point in making it easy for search engines to find the entire network.
          That's right. people are checking to see if their links are indexed, and when a lot of people doing it daily it's very easy for google to uncover the network. The secret is to keep the network clean, not provide url's (but rather provide some tokens that can be traced naturally), and treat the blogs in the network like money sites, making them popular and generate search traffic, and build diversified backlinks to any post on any blog.
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