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It’s a Series of Tubes.

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? Who could forget the Series of Tubes analogy by Ted Stevens from back in 2006? The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.   Don’t forget when you’re building a PBN, that you’re going to put something into a tube and your message will get...
A New PBN Strategy

A New PBN Strategy

If you’re going to game the system and build a PBN, you really need to have your a-game on. So, it’s  time to revise your strategy, and start building each PBN site like each site actually built by a completely different person. You don’t have to have multiple-personality disorder, but it’ll certainly help.   Here’s my PBN strategy in a nutshell: Here’s the mentality I use when building a PBN site… Think of each and every PBN site as being the only site you own. Only – it’s not you who owns the site. You’re a different person now, sometimes with the alternate gender, using a different email address (don’t Googlify!), where your web site is hosted in a different time, place and network. The site looks different. It reads differently. It’s built differently. It serves a different audience. It’s natural, and it’s undetectable. Because you’re a schizophrenic on a PBN rampage and when you wake up in the morning, you’re not sure if you’re looking at yourself in the mirror or that guy from Boston with the blog about bicycle basics. No wait, no you’re not! But you have evolved. And before you even start to build your first PBN site, you’ve got a clean slate and a lot of hard work ahead of you!   My Fifteen PBN Strategy Hot Tips: Let’s get a little more specific. Off the top of my head, here’s what you should be doing, and NOT doing when you’re building your PBN:   Don’t Googlify Yourself Don’t use Google accounts at all to authenticate any service, or to sign up to any...
What happened to No Hat Digital’s PBN?

What happened to No Hat Digital’s PBN?

I’m sure you’ve read about it, and were as surprised as I was to learn that No Hat Digital had 40% of their supermassive private blog network hit by Google. It’s important that we take notice of what has happened to NHD, and ensure we’re leaving anything to chance. So, let’s take a closer look at what Greg has revealed about their network and find the takeaway lesson.   A Google algorithm, or were NHD targeted? No Hat Digital aren’t exactly backwards in coming forwards that they build PBNs. Check out a few of their blog posts or listen to the podcasts they’ve been featured on…NHD are clearly quite public about their private blog network(s). So on that basis, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Google had their own intern track NHD down and sniff them out. Of course, that’s just the conspiracy theorist in me coming out!   Let’s take a look at what Greg tells us about the NHD private blog network, and what was hit: 8 networks with over 600 domains combined: Firstly, wow! An average of 75 domains per network? The first thing which stands out to me is how massive each network is. Or should I say, how massive each network was?   3 of 8 networks. Now with 37.5% slapdown! Greg makes reference to 3 of their 8 networks, and then states: 1 network has been completed deindexed 1 network had “a handful” of sites lost 1 wasn’t touched at all. Wait – isn’t that 2 out of 8? I think the 3rd network Greg refers to is one of the five networks that weren’t hit. More than one third of their entire network has been...