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Build Powerful Private Blog Networks for Top SEO Rankings

A walkthrough of the exact processes to build your PBN in a detailed course, complete with resources and templates.
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InspireMe Labs
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Understand what goes into building out a Private Blog Network
Learn how to identify quality Expired Domains for use in your PBN
Learn how to avoid Google footprints detection and keep your PBN way under the radar

This is the only course you will need to dominate Search Engine Optimization using the power of Private Blog Networks. 

With over 3 hours of training you will learn how to build out your own powerful PBN that you can then use to rank your websites on Google. This course reveals everything you need to know and nothing is held back!

You also get access to resources to help you manage your PBN and downloadable ebook guide for quick reference.

Go from Beginner to Advanced

You’ll go from a beginner in PBNs to a high-level expert, as you are guided through module step by step.

By the end of the course, you will be able to find hidden high-power expired domains easily, construct your own Private Blog Network and start ranking your sites easily on Google.

You can implement every step you learn to build out your PBN that can then power SEO rankings of your websites.

Inside the course, you’ll learn how to:

  • Plan your budget for PBNs

  • Learn the exact SEO process behind PBNs

  • Understand what Expired Domains are and how they can power up your money sites

  • Learn what Expired Domain Crawlers are and how they work

  • Host your PBN on Shared Hosting and how to find good Hosts

  • How to Link Out from your PBN Sites

  • Learn Everything About PBN Footprints and How to avoid them

  • How to Use WordPress to setup your PBN sites quickly

  • Which plugins are essential and how to go about setting them up

  • What are the essential elements each PBN site must have to look real to withstand a manual review by Google

  • Find the most powerful pages of your PBNs so you can channel down the link juice for powerful rankings

  • How to add content to your PBN

  • Access secret tips that no one tells you (including how to test the power of a PBN site before investing heavily into it)

You’ll also get:

✔ Lifetime Access to The Course

✔ Fast & Friendly Support in the Q&A section

✔ Udemy Certificate of Completion Ready for Download

✔ A 30 Day “No Questions Asked” Money Back Guarantee!

Coming Soon…

Setting up PBN site using WordPress

Basic of Buying Auction Domains for your PBN

NOTE…

When I first made this course, it was created purely from theory that I deduced by reading and learning from other’s notes online in forums and blogs. I also came up with the post by doing extensive research and reading and wrote out what sounded practical.

I did not build a PBN, but just experimented following through with the process with a few examples so I could get some practical idea of the process. But, I never really built a PBN myself. I only applied theory using what would be logical things for the Google Algorithm.

I have no extensive practical knowledge building large Private Blog Networks for SEO purposes, like some of the other SEOs out there.

I personally don’t use Private Blog Networks much, but I do have a few high quality domains / websites that I own and control and pass links from for some of my client’s websites, when needed. 

I am also not certain how powerful the whole expired domains method still is, and if one can still push ranking power by using them to build a Private Blog Network, but from what I am hearing they still have power – specially if your PBN sites are real.

**KEY TAKEAWAY**

Each site on your Private Blog Network should provide high value. 

I would highly recommend that you BUILD REAL SITES that GIVE HIGH VALUE to users. This is key.

If each site you build can provide good value to users and get them to read and click through to your money site – then your PBN will last long term and it will stay Google friendly and user friendly!

The problems arise when you build out low quality websites and go for quantity over quality.

Stay away from the temptation of building low quality websites. At all costs you should avoid going for quantity over quality. 

​If you learn anything from this guide – this should be the most important lesson.  

I am not getting into an ethical debate here to decide if building PBNs are right or wrong and if it should be done in large quantities etc. I leave that to you to decide as its a personal choice in doing different SEO styles.

That said, lets get started…

Introduction to Private Blog Networks for SEO

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An Introduction To PBNs

What is a Private Blog Network?

A network sites that are that are built for the sole purpose of passing SEO link juice to manipulate rankings. All the sites in a PBN are generally controlled by ONE person (or entity) without Google (or anyone) else knowing this – because there are zero footprints left behind.

The PBN SEO Process

  • Find an domain with good and clean metrics (in your niche)
  • Analyze its potential to pass down link juice for SEO
  • Register the shortlisted expired domain carefully
  • Setup hosting for the domain
  • Make the site look real (on-page and off-page)
  • Link to your money site(s)
  • Update and drip new content into your PBN site
  • Rinse and repeat
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Planning Your PBN Strategy

Planning Your PBN Strategy

  • Niche PBN (for Relevancy) or General Purpose PBN (for Power)
  • Source of PBN site domain (Expired Domain, Auction, Flippa,other)
  • How many PBN sites do you need?
  • Speed (Link Velocity from PBNs)
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Cost of Building Your PBN

Cost of Building Your PBN

  • Domain Acquisition
  • Web Hosting
  • Site Setup - Installing, Design
  • Content (Initial and Ongoing)
  • Backlinks
  • Social Profiles
  • Network Management

Expired Domains for PBN - An Introduction

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Lifecycle of a Domain

Lifecycle of a Domain

  • Available
  • Active
  • Expired
  • Redemption Grace Period
  • Pending Deletion
  • Available...
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Analyzing Metrics of an Expired Domain

Analyzing Metrics of an Expired Domain

  • Backlinks - quality, power, spam, type of backlinks... footer, directory, blog comments, forum links, etc. (tools Ahrefs, Majestic) 
  • Anchor Profile (money keywords or natural)
  • TF, CF, DR, DA … Third Party Metrics
  • Historical Content in WayBackMachine and Screenshots.com
  • Link Velocity
  • Indexed (non expired), Site Traffic (SEMrush)
  • Age?
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Expired Domain Crawlers

Expired Domain Crawlers

  • PBNLab
  • Domain Ronnin
  • Domain Hunter Gatherer (high recommended for power users)
  • SERPDrive
  • Domain Reanimator
  • Lazurus Crawler
  • Expired Domain Miner
  • Scrapebox, Xenu Link Sleuth
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Domain Databases

Domain Databases

  • They simply pull Expiring,  Auction, Dropping etc. Domains from Registrar Databases
  • DomCop
  • FreshDrop
  • Register Compass
  • ExpiredDomains.Net
  • the.domain.name - A Huge Collection of Expired Domains
  • HammerHead Domains

Hosting Your PBN and How to Link Out from your PBN

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Hosting Your PBN

Hosting Your PBN

  • Shared Hosting
  • Illustration of hiding your PBN
  • Why not dedicated hosting
  • IP footprints
  • Hosting footprints
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Linking Out from Your PBN to Money Site

Linking Out from Your PBN to Money Site

  • Avoid IP footprints
  • How to link out from shared hosting accounts
  • Do's and Don'ts
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Finding Good Web Hosting Providers

Finding Good Web Hosting Providers

  • Finding quality Hosting Companies
  • Avoid $1 hosting
  • Market share of top hosting providers

Setting Up Your PBN Sites

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Setting up your PBN on WordPress

Setting up your PBN on WordPress

  • Wordpress CMS
  • Company Site
  • Personal Blog Site
  • Magazine or News Site
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Elements All PBN Sites Must Have

Elements All PBN Sites Must Have

  • Sign Up Forms
  • Photograph (reflecting the Personna if possible)
  • Sidebars & Widgets
  • Popups and Overlays
  • Social Networks and Profiles
  • Key Static Pages - Privacy Policy, About Us, Contact Us, Terms of Service pages… with appropriate address and name of the persona 
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Other Elements for Your PBN sites

Other Elements for Your PBN sites

  • FAQs (must relate to your industry)
  • Events / Coming Soon pages
  • Start Here-My friends / My Recommended Sites / Services
  • Case Studies which could link to your money sites naturally
  • Advertise On My Site - for magazines or blogs.
  • Guest Posting / Write for us (for blogs)
  • Promote Us... Become an Affiliate (for business sites)


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Finding Your most Powerful Pages

Finding Your most Powerful Pages

  • Use Ahrefs
  • Link Out To Money Site
  • Build 301s to Homepage or other Page


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Key Wordpress Plugins

Key Wordpress Plugins

  • SEO Yoast
  • Simple 301 Redirect 
  • Bot blocker – Spyder Spanker, or via manual method of htaccess file editing. 
  • Link Juice Keeper - redirect link juice from 404 broken pages to homepage. But, beware as too many of these can cause your site to get a soft 404 error issue.
  • Updraftplus, Duplicator 
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Wordpress Settings – Vary Them!

Wordpress Settings – Vary Them!

  • Make sure your WordPress Settings are different across your PBN sites
  • Vary your timezone, and date format etc. for each site.
  • Setup to close comments inx number of days
  • Vary the permalink structure (and never use the ? url parameter option)
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Linking out to other Authority OBLs

Linking out to other Authority OBLs

  • Link Padding to hide your Money Site!
  • Link to Authority Sites in your niche adds relevancy
  • Search for Authority Sites in your niche (non competition!)
  • Search for News in your niche (site:cnn.com + keyword)


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Adding Content to Your Site

Adding Content to Your Site

  • Buzzsumo to find popular content
  • Content Curation 
  • Embed and Explain Infographic
  • Transcribe a Video
  • Image Posts


All About PBN Footprints

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What is a Footprint?

What is a Footprint?

  • Put simply, any factor that remains common across your PBN site network – that can be seen publicly and that can be identified and processed by Google or an algorithm.
  • It could be an onpage factor, a common plugin, some DNS setting, some IP, some text on the page, the hosting account you use, some common backlink pattern etc.
  • If you leave a footprint, chances are the algorithm will swoop down on all your PBNs eventually. Every footprint has some sort of severity meter attached to it and there are higher risk footprints and lower risk footprints.
  • The more severe your footprint or the more number of footprints – the more danger your PBN faces to be deindexed.


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Hosting Footprints

Hosting Footprints

  • using the same registrar 
  • registering all domain on same date
  • common email across all domain
  • common who is on all domains
  • try not to use custom name servers all the
  • common name servers on multiple sites in PBN
  • SOA shows your common email address
  • Excessive Cloud CDN (cloudflare)


3
Site Setup Footprints

Site Setup Footprints

  • Mass redirection via 404 of all pages
  • Extreme Bot blocking (may be an issue, not too critical)
  • Same plugins on all sites
  • Same Theme on all sites
  • Using Same Analytics
  • Using same Affiliate code (if affiliate sites)
  • Similar robots.txt files / blocking same crawlers - use htaccess 
  • Using same author name on all sites
  • Quick 2 minute setup sites with not much work into them
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Site Content Footprints

Site Content Footprints

  • All posts link to money site
  • No outbound links to authority sites
  • No internal page linking / cross linking
  • All posts have similar number of words (500)
  • Content is badly spun or duplicate
  • Not having Pages (only having posts)
  • Exact number of posts on all sites
  • Same images and media on all sites
  • Sites missing contact us, privacy policy, T&C pages
  • Posts on site made on same day


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Site Linking Footprints

Site Linking Footprints

  • Always inserting a link in first post on all sites
  • Using same number of links to money site
  • Using too many non-relevant sites as compared to the money site
  • Linking out to same money site
  • Linking between PBN sites
  • Using too much of exact match keyword links


Closing Notes and Some PBN Tips

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To Your PBN SEO Victory! Parting Tips…

To Your PBN SEO Victory! Parting Tips…

  • Mix Up Your SEO Backlinks – Not just PBNs!
  • Tier 1, Socials, Google Reviews, Maps etc.
  • Build Links to Money Site after 30 to 40 days only
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Bonus Tip

Bonus Tip

  • How To check the Power of a PBN site
  • Link to a site at the bottom of page 2 and watch for 2 weeks


[Case Studies] Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis

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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Introduction [Part 1]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 2]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 3]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 4]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 5]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 6]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 7]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 8]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 9]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 10]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 11]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 12]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 13]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 14]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 15]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 16]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 17]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 18]
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Expired Domains, Quality & Metrics Analysis - Case Study [Part 19]
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