PBN with free website?

Hey everyone. I need some help. Im dipping my foot into seo and ranking my own website. Im a bit strapped for cash at the moment and someone from a different website recommended the free and less powerful method is to do pbn with free sites like WP, Weebly etc. The person said its not as effective as it was years back but its free and can help move the needle in the right direction. So my question is, will it work if I do around 15 free sites to help rank my local business at the top? They have absolutely no juice at all are completely brand new. I started with the free sites so I can practice and do this with not real consequences besides losing my time I invested.

What I have done so far.
-Registered on protomail via firefox to help hide cookies and with minimal traces (obviously not perfect)
-I have 2 websites built out (both sites with different personas)
-website 1 has 2 blog posts with 4 more that are scheduled to post within the next 1.5 weeks
-website 2 has 1 blog post with 2 scheduled to post for the next 3 days.
-I finished those yesterday. Trying to space out when the sites are registered and go live.
-My goal is to build out at least 6 websites then start slowly linking to my own site for local business.

What im not sure about.
-Does this even work with free sites?
-What is the best email service to use to get more emails?
-Is my browser the correct one or should I be using something else. (I tried brave but it wont let me register via brave browser)
-I might be missing some important information but im still new. Any advice?

Jhulk2010 said:

-What is the best email service to use to get more emails?

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you can use a single email for all of the platforms, you can use hotmail/yahoo emails if you want to create multiple accounts per platform

Jhulk2010 said:

-Is my browser the correct one or should I be using something else. (I tried brave but it wont let me register via brave browser)

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for a typical pbn, probably using a differet browser than chrome could be a precaution to consider, but for web 2s nothing to worry about since many users are accessing the same domain from different browsers including chrome

Jhulk2010 said:

-Does this even work with free sites?

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probably will work for easy keywords if you set up the web 2s decently, don't except much and as you mentioned it used to work well back in time, not as good today,

you can also use free links from forums (crowd) or/and any other less known web 2s websites or similar websites where you can add your link contextually, i've came across multiple authority websites where you can do that and it's as good as a guest post, wikipedia is a good example,
just avoid the most used/known ones for these as they're most likely spammed

hideath said:

you can use a single email for all of the platforms, you can use hotmail/yahoo emails if you want to create multiple accounts per platform

for a typical pbn, probably using a differet browser than chrome could be a precaution to consider, but for web 2s nothing to worry about since many users are accessing the same domain from different browsers including chrome

probably will work for easy keywords if you set up the web 2s decently, don't except much and as you mentioned it used to work well back in time, not as good today,

you can also use free links from forums (crowd) or/and any other less known web 2s websites or similar websites where you can add your link contextually, i've came across multiple authority websites where you can do that and it's as good as a guest post, wikipedia is a good example,
just avoid the most used/known ones for these as they're most likely spammed

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For the multiple accounts, do you mean as in, I can create multiple websites using the same email on WP?

Ok thanks for the browser info. I'd like to just keep using something other than chrome to build good better habits.

I'm not expecting much, I know they won't provide much juice to my local website since local seo takes different things into consideration. But I'm hoping that it give my site just that little extra push.


Can you expand a bit on posting a link contextually. I know what that means but I have no idea what the other stuff is. (Still green in doing this)


EDIT: should I also be trying to rank the web 2.0 sites? The person who recommended this didn't really say if I should or shouldn't. They just said to make it look natural like a real person is running their own blog. So far on site 1 I have 1 outbound link but it's to a local park. I haven't done any ranking or keyword stuff for the site. I'm just posting it like any normal person would run a blog trying to share their experiences.

Jhulk2010 said:

For the multiple accounts, do you mean as in, I can create multiple websites using the same email on WP?

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you can use the same email to create multiple accounts in different platforms (wp.com, weebly, wix, etc...)
creating multiple accounts in the same platform would need you to use different emails & proxies if it's done in bulk (more than 3-5 accs per day)

Jhulk2010 said:

Can you expand a bit on posting a link contextually. I know what that means but I have no idea what the other stuff is. (Still green in doing this)

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a contextual link is a link that's added within an article, paragraph, etc...
blog posts are a good example, forum links can be contextual as well (depending on the cotnent),
as well as any platform that actually allows you to post "content", so you can add the link within

Jhulk2010 said:

EDIT: should I also be trying to rank the web 2.0 sites? The person who recommended this didn't really say if I should or shouldn't. They just said to make it look natural like a real person is running their own blog. So far on site 1 I have 1 outbound link but it's to a local park. I haven't done any ranking or keyword stuff for the site. I'm just posting it like any normal person would run a blog trying to share their experiences.

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not necessarely, but if you can target some super easy keywords without interferring with your website keywords, go for it,

traffic is not required to pass link juice, but it could potentially get visits overtime and if the page got good UX,
it will get more authority & pass more link juice,

this is less likely to happen with web 2.0s, but i've got some built for older websites back in the day that still ranks and got traffic,
the pages/keywords with the targetted links still ranks well as well (unlike many others), so yes it's a little bit a plus,
this can keep these web 2s indexed and passing juice as well (long lasting), don't put too much hope for this tho, it's not as big for a factor

hideath said:

you can use the same email to create multiple accounts in different platforms (wp.com, weebly, wix, etc...)
creating multiple accounts in the same platform would need you to use different emails & proxies if it's done in bulk (more than 3-5 accs per day)


a contextual link is a link that's added within an article, paragraph, etc...
blog posts are a good example, forum links can be contextual as well (depending on the cotnent),
as well as any platform that actually allows you to post "content", so you can add the link within


not necessarely, but if you can target some super easy keywords without interferring with your website keywords, go for it,

traffic is not required to pass link juice, but it could potentially get visits overtime and if the page got good UX,
it will get more authority & pass more link juice,

this is less likely to happen with web 2.0s, but i've got some built for older websites back in the day that still ranks and got traffic,
the pages/keywords with the targetted links still ranks well as well (unlike many others), so yes it's a little bit a plus,
this can keep these web 2s indexed and passing juice as well (long lasting), don't put too much hope for this tho, it's not as big for a factor

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Ok thanks for the info.


One more question. Any advice on what really works for local seo? What I mean by that is how regular seo works, it's the link juice and Domain ranking/authority that matters. If you search SEO or something on Google you get basic answers like "content is king" no one gets into PBNs at all unless you really dig. I feel like it's the same thing with local SEO but I'm not sure exactly since I haven't come across anything different from mainstream searches. Is there an acronym or something like PBN that will point me into the right direction and where to start digging?

Jhulk2010 said:

One more question. Any advice on what really works for local seo? What I mean by that is how regular seo works, it's the link juice and Domain ranking/authority that matters. If you search SEO or something on Google you get basic answers like "content is king" no one gets into PBNs at all unless you really dig. I feel like it's the same thing with local SEO but I'm not sure exactly since I haven't come across anything different from mainstream searches. Is there an acronym or something like PBN that will point me into the right direction and where to start digging?

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I have no experience with local SEO, so can't really help with that, sorry,
content is not king when it comes to SEO, authority is king & it mainly comes from links

hideath said:

I have no experience with local SEO, so can't really help with that, sorry,
content is not king when it comes to SEO, authority is king & it mainly comes from links

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Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.