PBN QUESTION

hey guys please i got a question in relation to pbn aquiry, i hear people talk about TF and some DA. my question is which amongs these one should look out when acquiry a pbn,have heard someone say what matters in a pb its its DA,anchor ,link type while another said, TF,anchor,lnk type . Please advice. Thanks

Domain Authority doesn't mean anything, you should take a look yourself at their backlinks profile so you can get an IDEA. DA can be virtually overboosted with some easy methods, but it doesn't offer you chit.

What you should care about is topical trust flow, spamscore, BL profile..

Well, it depends.

Back in the day (in the good ol' times) you could simply really on Google's Pagerank (PR) to determine how powerful a PBN domain is. Unfortunately for us, Pagerank has been eliminated from the world of SEO and since then most people looked for other (third party) metrics to determine how valuable or authoritative a site is.

However, these metrics are highly subjective, can be manipulated and should be taken with a grain of salt. Especially when it comes to expired, auctioned or dropped domains.

The three big ones, as you mentioned are:

• Domain Rating (DR)
• Domain Authority (DA)
• Trust Flow (TF)

While all of these can offer you a baseline to filter out super crappy domains, but they can be artificially inflated. So whenever you find a domain with good DR, DA or TF, you ALWAYS have to check the link profile on top. After all that's where the real power stems from.

We'd recommend to start with a low metrical baseline and instead look at the domains pointing at the site to gauge the quality.

Our baseline filter is usually:

• DR7+
• RD20+

Ahrefs DR is possibly the most accurate third data metrics we have at the moment. DA is somewhat outdated, but still worth a look. We don’t really rely much on TF anymore (even though it has been a great indicator in the past ).

But the actual PBN analysis happens on the link level.

If you head over to ahrefs, plug in your PBN domain into their site explorer.

Then click on “backlinks” and select “link type: content” from the menu and make sure to check “one unique link per domain“. Then sort by “DR“ .

This gives you an idea of the unique ocontextual links pointing to the domain and will definitely give you a more concise understanding of the authority and power of the domain, instead of just reyling on DR, DA or TF alone.

Thank you for the write up. Will look into it more . Thanks

BentMo said:

Domain Authority doesn't mean anything, you should take a look yourself at their backlinks profile so you can get an IDEA. DA can be virtually overboosted with some easy methods, but it doesn't offer you chit.

What you should care about is topical trust flow, spamscore, BL profile..

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Thanks for the insight

Spam-score is vital.

quality of content and link profile

Check its backlink profile, the anchor used, referring domains, this will give an idea about it.

All you've to check is Spam score of the site and Trust Flow, Back-link Profile etc.