Could You Use Wordpress.com as a PBN?

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I thought about an idea and I wonder if this could work.

If you created a bunch of wordpress.com (free blogs) properly setup
with high quality content, do you think you can make
a little network of wordpress.com blogs pointing back to your money site?

The domain authority on WordPress.com is massive. Yes I know a fresh
WordPress.com blog doesn't have much page authority, but the domain
authority is a ranking factor.
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  • Profile picture of the author serpexperts
    www.wordpress.com is not used in PBN.
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  • Profile picture of the author jross07
    Originally Posted by jkgultimate View Post

    I thought about an idea and I wonder if this could work.

    If you created a bunch of wordpress.com (free blogs) properly setup
    with high quality content, do you think you can make
    a little network of wordpress.com blogs pointing back to your money site?

    The domain authority on WordPress.com is massive. Yes I know a fresh
    WordPress.com blog doesn't have much page authority, but the domain
    authority is a ranking factor.
    from my understanding you are kind of right. But wouldn't that be a public blog network? You would need a way to not leave any footprints, and PBNs don't typically leave any traces. They're on different ip's for each domain as well, and are more powerful because you're usually piggy backing off an expired domains link profile for the sake of your own money site.
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  • Profile picture of the author LloydMS
    You can certainly use a WordPress.com site to support your primary site. Definitely nothing wrong with that and your understand of domain authority and the benefit of linking to your primary site from a high DA site is correct. Having numerous WordPress.com sites pointing to your primary site would not likely be natural. So creating a network of such sites would like not provide much more benefit over linking from one (or a couple). And it could perhaps trigger an issue with the algo. But take your thinking and consider what sites similar to WordPress.com could possibly be used as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author watkip
    How many Wordpress web 2.0's with backlinks would cause deminishing returns? In theorie they are just subdomains right.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by jkgultimate View Post

    The domain authority on WordPress.com is massive. Yes I know a fresh
    WordPress.com blog doesn't have much page authority, but the domain
    authority is a ranking factor.
    You are wrong (and those you agree with you) it has little to none. Web 2.0s have been used for years now and they almost all have high domain authority. Those who used them saw no big lift unless they sent links and juice to them. Its worse for web 2.0s that do not link to their blogs in any way. No juice is passed on.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    First, the domain authority of WordPress.com will not benefit your site in any way. It will only aid the transfer of link juice to your site without penalties if you decide to use tiered link building.

    WordPress.com are quick to delete spammy or seemingly spammy blogs, so it's not worth the time. Use a different web 2.0 service that is not so strict. Also, use different web 2.0s instead of one to diversify your risk.

    By the way, a blog network built with web 2.0s will not be nearly as effective as one with powerful expired domain names.
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  • Profile picture of the author npoint
    It`s a to big risk to focus only on one platform,it leaves footprints, it doesn`t look natural. You should vary the platforms as well as your anchor text in your backlinks. There are a lot of good quality web 2.0 sites. Don`t focus on one only cos you can get penalized quite fast - depending how many backlinks will you build on those properties.
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    • Profile picture of the author jkgultimate
      Originally Posted by npoint View Post

      It`s a to big risk to focus only on one platform,it leaves footprints, it doesn`t look natural. You should vary the platforms as well as your anchor text in your backlinks. There are a lot of good quality web 2.0 sites. Don`t focus on one only cos you can get penalized quite fast - depending how many backlinks will you build on those properties.
      I have a ton of variation of my anchor texts always.

      What Web 2.0 would you recommend?

      I am just used to SENUKing my web pages (Carefully of course).

      I start out with slow link building over 14 days and with each new campaign, I increase the volume slowly with a ton of variation is my anchor texts.

      I am just looking at other ways that's effective that's all.
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      • Profile picture of the author PBMax
        Originally Posted by jkgultimate View Post


        I am just used to SENUKing my web pages (Carefully of course).
        Oxymoron?
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  • Profile picture of the author jazzer707
    Yes, you can do that, but it's not very effective. It's better to use many different platforms.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    A root domain on a 2.0 sub-domain has nothing to do with the sub-domain ranking pages. Silly metric (DA).
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  • Profile picture of the author godoveryou
    1) Minimal inclusion is fine - but if you think that you are going to make a network of wordpress.com blogs or blospost.com blogs and tumblr.com blogs and great away with it - that's a different story entirely.

    That having been said, I still run networks out of web 2.0 blogs but quite frankly, discussion on that way WAYYYYYYYY beyond the scope of this conversation. They are run far removed from any money site and by several factors of actual self-hosted domains most of the time.

    2) The Domain Authority of any *NEW* subdomain is 0 despite what a tool reports. It's still a new domain in Google's eyes and when we are talking about who actually decides where you site sits in the SERPS, Google's opinion is the only one that matters.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    As others have indicated a new sub-domain does not benefit from the root domains ranking.

    Consider a sub-domain as a brand new separate domain, if you build links to it, it can rank in it's own right and pass SEO benefit via links to other sites you own. A new free WordPress or BlogSpot sub-domain has no more value than a sub-domain on a domain you already own.

    Building sub-domains on BlogSpot etc... is giving yourself more work for very little gain and since you don't own those domains you have no control over their future: many free blog platforms have been deleted.

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