PBN... Am I doing it right?

Hi guys,

I have a Shopify website for a business that has been operating for many years, without really cracking the top 10 for our target keywords. Our competitors have spent thousands on SEO each year... analysing their websites reveals plenty of white hat and black hat methods to rank.

We are doing White Hat methods of outreach etc already - which is obviously quite a slow process.

I have recently created a PBN for us, on Easy Blog Networks (heard good reviews) - and I have been using SpamZilla to find and buy domains with very low spam scores, and okay DA etc.

The domains I have been buying have a small relevance to our niche, which I have then made more relevant with the blogs I have posted. I've used SEO Content Machine to spin some blogs to post and have scheduled these to post at random intervals to keep the blogs updated.

Currently I have 5 blogs with DA's of 25-35... my question is - are these domains of high enough DA to make a difference to our rankings? I know the higher the better, but if I ended up with say 25 blogs on domains in that range... would it have a positive effect?

I've done hours and hours of research on this - and have learnt all about buying the correct domains with low spam, backlinks, indexed pages etc... so that is not a problem. Just not sure on what DA we should be targeting.

If anyone could let me know if I'm on the right lines that would be useful please - as I dont want to carry on with this method if I'm already making big mistakes!

Thanks!

spiderscrape said:

Hi guys,

I have a Shopify website for a business that has been operating for many years, without really cracking the top 10 for our target keywords. Our competitors have spent thousands on SEO each year... analysing their websites reveals plenty of white hat and black hat methods to rank.

We are doing White Hat methods of outreach etc already - which is obviously quite a slow process.

I have recently created a PBN for us, on Easy Blog Networks (heard good reviews) - and I have been using SpamZilla to find and buy domains with very low spam scores, and okay DA etc.

The domains I have been buying have a small relevance to our niche, which I have then made more relevant with the blogs I have posted. I've used SEO Content Machine to spin some blogs to post and have scheduled these to post at random intervals to keep the blogs updated.

Currently I have 5 blogs with DA's of 25-35... my question is - are these domains of high enough DA to make a difference to our rankings? I know the higher the better, but if I ended up with say 25 blogs on domains in that range... would it have a positive effect?

I've done hours and hours of research on this - and have learnt all about buying the correct domains with low spam, backlinks, indexed pages etc... so that is not a problem. Just not sure on what DA we should be targeting.

If anyone could let me know if I'm on the right lines that would be useful please - as I dont want to carry on with this method if I'm already making big mistakes!

Thanks!

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Mistake #1 - Using a PBN host. While people seem to like them, they leave huge footprints in my opinion (you share droplets with other PBN sites - big no no).
Mistake #2 - Using SEO Content Machine. Spun content has no place on a PBN that supports a real (shopify) websites. Use unique content instead.
Mistake #3 - Focusing on DA instead of just the underlying link profile of the PBN domains. DA is a third party metric such as TF (Majestic) or DR (Ahrefs) they are subjective. While they can give you an idea of the quality of a domain, they are not set in stone. Instead you should focus on the links pointing at the domain, as that's where the real power comes from.

Tip #1: Use real cloud hosting instead of PBN hosts, shared or even worse VPS hosting. Good cloud hosts are Digital Ocean, Vultr, Rackspace, Linode, AWS, Cloudways (managed). Only then you can get a unique and dedicated A, B and C-class IP. Nothing is shared.
Tip #2: Use unique content instead of spun sh*t.
Tip #3: Rebuild the previous site structure (inner pages & URL architecture) of the domain, so you can funnel the link juice (not sure if you did that - you didn't mention it?). Add fresh content to the pages and use internal links to link to the homepage of your PBN domain. Another option is to 301 redirect all the internal pages that have links pointed to them to a new post on your PBN domain or your PBN homepage , but this is only recommended for <5-8 inner pages. Otherwise it’s better to rebuild the URL structure and pass juice to your PBN hompage via internal linking.
Tip #4: Redirect to the proper homepage version (www. vs. non-www)
Tip #5: Make sure none of the domains are trademarked (you can do that here: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/search-trademark-database)
Tip #6: Make sure none of the domains was used as a PBN or worse for other unethical means in the past (you said you only check for low spam).

Obviously add a cookie banner, legal pages, non-linked content and use a nice theme. But those are a given...we have a few more tips in our pbn guide, but these should get you started.