Owning a Private Blog Network

I think it's better to diversify.
Diversify everything. Google love this

Depends on the project and competition I'm building the network for. PR 2's and 3's are plenty for some niches. Others, you are going to need PR 4's and 5's to make a dent in anything.

I would suggest stop buying domains from auctions and learn how to find expired domains. From there, it's just a matter of registering them for $10.. Hell, you can find $1 .com coupons. All of my PBN is from expired domains. Haven't spent more than $10 per domain.

I don't go by PR, as neither should you. Here's some metrics for what I consider a BARE MINIMUM:

30+ DA
35+ PA
3.50+ mozTrust
5+ year age
100+ LRD's

The domain must have at least three of those points. Although, I'm extremely picky and I only want the best. For somebody building their first PBN, you can probably drop to two points.

PR 2s and 3s are the bread and butter of high Pr networks. If you start stacking multiple PR4+ you are asking for a PR penalty.

WTH just happened.

I was expecting you to be part of it cause you would tear someone's a-hole lol. All good I'll just continue watching your course.

From the point of market credibility I would have 0's, 1's, and 2's to add to the mix because that is how the internet is.

I'd hazard a guess and state that less then 5% of the internet has a PR4 or higher.

I'd definitely include lower PR ones as well, just for diversity's sake, but as a sidenote, be prepared for a lot of headaches, managing even a smaller blog network can be a huge sink of time, money and energy, and sometimes it's just not worth it.

But if you manage to utilise it and profit from it, it can be your most powerful asset in your SEO arsenal.

Here is what i do:

- I snipe PR domains using a tool.
- I look at trust flow (majestic), DA/PA, Linking root domains, total links.. i then look at link sources. I have nabbed sites with links from BBC, Dell, Harvard, CNN, wall street journal and more.
- I also look for PR.
- I watch the domains.
- I bid at the last couple of minutes. (I am sure people go round looking at the domains that have 1+ bid). Dont show your hand early! Auction bidding 101.
- I put on my own class C.

I am getting PR3 domains for $12-$50 depending on links. Pr4 domains for $20-$100 depending on links and how much value i see in them. Not all PR domains are created equal.

I then build links to them to boost them.

I then link to my money site.

I then kickass. Buy 50 of these and you can pretty much rank for anything you want, apart from most competitive terms.

I will probably put out a detailed guide and charge $37 for it at some point. I duno, i am too busy actually ranking and building my SEO empire to do it i think :-/

Source: 5-figure month affiliate in casino/betting/poker/slots/bingo etc.

Thats how you do it, thank me later

I have hundreds of blogs I use for SEO but when I am buying domains I look for domain with PR2-5 but the main thing for those domains is to have a lot of backlinks. Sometimes domains I bought as PR2 are bumper to PR4 because of Good links and some PR5 are demoted to PR2.

So make sure you research these domains based on other factors that just PR, otherwise PR update will kill the value of your domains.

You can do a lot of damage with just PR3s. I will buy a PR2 if I think it's solid, but there seems to be plenty of PR3s to go around.

Why did I buy an effing exhaust and new wheels for my car *sigh*. Could have invested all of that into a powerful private network for myself -_-.

Just going for the higher PR domains will not look very natural. If it is not natural the flags start going up at Google and you can say good bye to your rankings. Spread it out logically. A few stronger ones (PR4 and higher) and loads in the PR2 and PR3 range.