Building Your PBN THE STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS
Finding A Domain Name There are 3 places you can go to when buying domain names for your private blog network
Finding A Domain Name Domain Brokers
• You can pick and choose the domains by metric • Very time efficient way of picking up domains • Guaranteed your domain will be indexed • Possible to get a discount if buying in bulk
• Expensive, you’ll definitely pay for the convenience • Possibility that domains haven’t been kept private
Finding A Domain Name Domain Auctions
• Chance to pick up powerful domains cheaply
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Saturated with buyers, rare to get bargains Public auctions = privacy concerns Time consuming Auction sniping is commonplace Potential blackmail from other buyers
Finding A Domain Name Expired Domains
• Cheapest method - only need to pay the registration price per domain ($10) • Can dig for niche specific domains • Chance to find a ‘Honey hole’ with many good domains
• Can be very time consuming • Have to check the backlinks carefully • Have to check site history carefully
Building Your PBN Site This can be broken down into three steps
Building Your PBN Site Hosting The Site • For your PBN sites you want to use different host for each PBN site. • Ensure each host has a unique class C IP address (unique to your PBN). • Find dollar hosts at ‘Web Hosting Talk’ in the Shared Hosting section • Aim to pay between $0.75 and $2.00 a month per site, and choose providers who have recurring billing.
Building Your PBN Site Choosing a CMS Depending on your expertise you can mix it up at this stage. Consider the following methods of building a small site. • WordPress (Popular and easy) • Anchor CMS (Fast but more involved) • HTML Site (Easy with a template, but time consuming) • Ghost CMS (Fairly easy to set up)
Building Your PBN Site Customizing the site Your chance to release your inner designer. Each site should be unique, and should look like a proper genuine site you’d be proud to promote. - Buy a logo from Fiverr or make one yourself (squarespace.com/logo is a great free resource) - Add standard legal pages, about us, contact us etc - These pages should set the ‘tone’ of the site, it needs a personality, and you should give it one.
Adding Content To Your Site Adding Content
Adding Content To Your Site Write It Yourself
• Cheapest method – Free! (costs your time) • Good writing practice…
• Can be VERY time consuming • Can be very tedious • May not have niche experience
Adding Content To Your Site Writing Services –sites like HireWriter and iWriter, they are low cost and usually fairly low quality. The more detailed your instructions to the writer, generally the better the produced article.
Adding Content To Your Site Writing Services
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Fairly cheap for unique content Scalable, can get lots of content quickly Reasonable quality You don’t have to write it yourself
• Be careful for plagiarized content • Content may be written by a non native English speaker • May be time consuming if you have to reject articles multiple times
Adding Content To Your Site Hiring a Writer – Finding a writer on oDesk or Elance is a good option for those who are aiming for a much higher quality PBN site.
Adding Content To Your Site Hiring a Writer
• Hopefully well written content • Potential to use the same writer for future projects • You can hire someone with experience in your PBN sites niche. • You don’t have to write it yourself
• Most expensive option • Slow lead times for getting a lot of content written at once • No automatic checks in place to check uniqueness.
Linking To Your Money Site Remember these three important rules
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