Private Blog Networks

I run a private blog network myself and used to repeat posts over and over each month for clients, we quit with that idea as I ran into the same issues you have, able to link from only so many domains before it started to trigger things in the algorithm.

I'm not so sure whether that's caused by private whois registration or not, Wordpress on itself leaves a footprint as well of course.

I have one specific client that buys the most posts from my network than anyone else, he never gets penalized and he doesn't build any other links.

Few things we can learn from him on how he does things:

- 50% links to homepage
- 25% links spread out over multiple categories (3+ categories)
- 25% links spread out over inner posts (15+ inner posts that is)

On top of that he uses a huge variety of anchor text's and only uses commercial anchors in longtail and exact format on a select number of sites.

So let's say he buys links from 80 domains from me where he only uses URL / generic / brand / LSI anchors and builds links on 10-15 domains (WP as well) he owns himself and only there he uses exact and longtail anchors.

The sites where he didn't take care of such link distribution and anchor variety did tank, all his sites are build up in the same way though, about 35 pages large and well structured.

I think the biggest reason could be link distrubition as no page has links from more then let's say 40 domains.

It is hard to compete with the big boys with
just content.

PBN's work but they have their risks. But what
strategy doesn't?

Be Well
Don

Yes its true but you are MUCH less likely to be shut down, deindexed and money site penalized if you get or build your own.

For the safest option you should own your own PBN and use it just for yourself. Service providers renting links on their PBN to anyone signing up are a huge risk