never mind
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Most sites use PBN links. Answer is no.
Did you learn anything at all since you joined BHW?
Anything?
Hi guys
After the recent PBN penalty that was given out there were a lot of blog posts about people quitting using PBNs and moving on to authority sites and strictly building them with white hat SEO techniques.
What do you guys think? Are PBNs dead?
I only joined in Aug of this year and I'm not 1700 something posts in like you.
PBN's are not dead. You just have to use them correctly and set them up correctly. There is no way Google can find every single PBN and deindex them. When you set them up make sure you use different hosting accounts (don't use seo hosting) instead find 1 dollar hosts and host 3-4 sites per host. When you setup the sites make sure you use unique themes (paid is best) and mix up the platforms (wordpress, drupal, joomla, and regular html). Make sure you have logos uploaded and that there is content on your sites that have no external links. Mix up your linking strategies (link differently everytime from each site). Rotate your anchor text with longtails, brand, url, and randoms. Then you should hire one of these services on BHW (I use seopez) and buy their manual created link packages for 20 dollars (use brand, url, and random with their service and hard anchors with your PBN).
Make sure you post content to your PBN regularly and within your posts use images, videos and etc. You can schedule them or hire a VA to do it for you.
If you follow this advice you will be safe and your rankings will be solid.
Binh
With this kind of mentality, believe me you wont go too far.
If you just take a 5 minute look at the market place, you would see that 3 services out of 4 are offering PBN links. Now do the math if they work or not.
Why did a lot of bloggers go on about how awful they were then?
PBN's are not dead. You just have to use them correctly and set them up correctly. There is no way Google can find every single PBN and deindex them. When you set them up make sure you use different hosting accounts (don't use seo hosting) instead find 1 dollar hosts and host 3-4 sites per host. When you setup the sites make sure you use unique themes (paid is best) and mix up the platforms (wordpress, drupal, joomla, and regular html). Make sure you have logos uploaded and that there is content on your sites that have no external links. Mix up your linking strategies (link differently everytime from each site). Rotate your anchor text with longtails, brand, url, and randoms. Then you should hire one of these services on BHW (I use seopez) and buy their manual created link packages for 20 dollars (use brand, url, and random with their service and hard anchors with your PBN).
Make sure you post content to your PBN regularly and within your posts use images, videos and etc. You can schedule them or hire a VA to do it for you.
If you follow this advice you will be safe and your rankings will be solid.
Binh