PBN building tip!

tony_d

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When you buy dropped domains, they often have incoming links to sub pages.
The conventional approach has been to do a 301 from those sub-pages to your home page/posts. That's effective - but time consuming.

Enter;

PBN building time saving hack

Edit the PHP code on the 404 error page, so that it does a 301 to your home page :)
That way, link juice flows to your home page without having to create an individual redirect for each and every page.

Step 1: In wordpress, go to Appearance > Editor
Step 2: Select the 404.php template
Step 3: Delete everything, and replace it with the code below

Sample code
PHP:
<?php // Permanent 301 Redirect via PHP
    header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
    header("Location: http://www.YOURSITE.com/");
    exit();
?>

NOTE: This is for WordPress, and it assumes that your WordPress template has a custom 404 page.
 
A friend of mine struggles finding the right domains for our project and i think this should come in really handy for us...
 
I've been doing this since day 1 I had no idea you guys were 301ing individual pages that sounds like a nightmare. Good share for the board though OP.
 
Thanks for sharing. I wonder if there is any risk involved since G might be able to discover your PBN sites using some sort of custom search based on this code.
 
Useful Tip indeed. Thanks for Sharing.
 
Or simply use plugins like Link juice keeper or 404 redirection.

Thanks for sharing :)
 
link Juice keeper plugin does the job if you are creating Network with wordpress.
 
Can't you just use a 404 301 redirect plugin? Don't they do the same thing?

Thanks for the code
 
Not sure if this would be helpful, a 404 is a good thing to have, this would indeed transfer the link juice but not sure if it'd really be helpful in the longer run.
 
Thanks for the tip Tony!

Although I just use Link Juice Keeper. I think it is a good a idea to use both, to mix it up a bit. Just to be safe :-p
 
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