The minute you go private network - you are Black Hat.Google HATE link networks more than they seem to dislike spam.
Read a penalty notice, and the only sort of link it ever mentions are "private and link share schemes to game Page rank"
Google TOS doesn't expect you to raise a finger on your off site SEO or manipulate/build your backlinks. If you ever comment, blog for backlink, social bookmark, create profile for your URL, post blogs with anchor, web 2.0, wikis, doc sharing, blog network, private network e.t.c then you are a party to black hat. In the real sense, true white hat only exist for sites like Fiverr, eBay, Wikipedia and the likes.. Whether you are buying or building the link yourself then you are guilty of black hat.
You either sit down and wait to see your ranking plummet or do something positive (blackhat) to keep you afloat on the SERP.
Google mention private network in their penalty notice because it works and it's there biggest problem till date. It's going to keep working so long as you keep them private and not publicly share or run them like the BMR (penalized) and other forms of blog networks been offered on the forums.
Unfortunately, many people don't understand the difference between blog network and private networks..
Here is the difference
Private Network<------------------------------------>Blog Network
Home page backlinks that doesn't roll off--------Backlinks get pushed off the home page as other buyers get added
Privately Yours and Only Yours------------------It's shared like the shared proxies and you know what that means, high vulnerability
Expensive, start from $500 to $10,000--------Dirty cheap
Guaranteed to work if you buy the right domain-----Only works for sometime no matter the originality of the PR
No backlink report in order to protect the network-----Report is given and Google can easily track it down like BMR
Low OBL----------------------------------------------Unlimited OBL, dead giveway
Relevance------------------------------------------Irrelevance
Chances of getting penalized, less than 1%-------------Chances of getting penalized, higher than 70%
Fewer links----------------------------------------------Lots of links
Well, i can go on and on..
There are lots of advantages.....
People mistakenly believe Penguin to be anti spam.
It isn't. It never was. Googles standard algo is there to weed out spam. Penguin and manual checks are to weed out "un-natural" links
SE's have made the connection that spam = unnatural - and while their is some cross over between the two, they are NOT the same thing.
Lol, there you go confusing yourself again..
Google Penguin is a code name for Google algorithm update that was first announced on April 24, 2012. The update is aimed at decreasing search engine rankings of websites that violate Google's Webmaster Guidelines by using now declared black-hat SEO techniques involved in increasing artificially the ranking of a webpage by manipulating the number of links pointing to the page.
The number one goal is to wipe out
low sites with crappy links.... See the low sites underlined.... If you have predominantly crappy (
spammy) links then you are bound to suffer a negative setback on the SERP.
Penguin is tailored towards spam because that is what over optimization of anchor does. Only spammy links can do that and only spammy sites get hit..
Google will tolerate a surprising amount of shitty spam - they won't tolerate link buying or sharing essp when high PR is involved.
If all your links are spamming links then you stand a big chance of getting tanked but if you have some authority links linking to your site then it all boil down to your anchor diversification.
they won't tolerate link buying or sharing essp when high PR is involved.
There you go making Google algo look like a human.
How would they know you bought the link?
What is the difference between the links you bought and the ones you built yourself? BS.
Not saying don't do it. Not at all. It works really well (which is why Google hate it) but if you get caught - you WILL get a penalty notice and Google put a lot of resource to finding these networks.
There you go again contradicting yourself..
It's good and bad.. It works and it doesn't.
Okay, tell us... Which source of backlink is easier to clean up in time of trouble? Thousands of links that can't get you on page 1 or 2 to 5 high pr links that ranked you on page one comfortably..