what rule do you use for PBN anchor text?

It can be: 20% Keyword anchor text, 20% Branded anchor text, 10% Long tail/generic, 50% Naked URL

When you say branded what does that exactly mean? Can you give an example please?

Generally i use branded/naked/img/generic in automation tools. this way I am left with em, lsi and pm anchors for my PBN.

Id use Partial match only once. and no emd anchor of course. it will be very weird if you will have an exact match anchor link and that exact match has 60k SV monthly! its as obvious blackhat link as it can.

I prefer very long anchors so I can include various kws and stop words there (but without spamming). this way ur not getting penalised for exact match, this way u cover all the main kws anyway.

only one link like that per inner page with most important kws inside. rest of pbns would be branded and naked. google is probably crazy about hunting pbns that use Exact match anchors.

what is great is that I use only one anchor with stuffed kws there BUT this blog has literally tons of link juice. all this link juice goes transformed through blog relevancy, article relevancy and that ANCHOR stuffed with kws. its only one link but strong.

rest just go for branded/naked its very safe and it will transfer juice anyway

So many people in here have said to use the naked url as anchor text on a PBN. Although I haven't tested it in months (I would imagine it still works), this can be dangerous if you want to hide your PBN.

Say you want to link to domain.com/page from your PBN and use domain.com/page as your anchor text. You rank number one for it but the guy who used to rank number one now wants to know why you rank number one. If he searches "domain.com/page" in google, it will show him all of the pages with that text on it and thus, show him your PBN. Even if you use other platforms to try to hide your PBN, he now has a list of domains linking to your site with the naked url as anchor text. Run it through something like AHRefs to get an idea of the page metrics and then you have the PBN domains...

Shaunm said:

So many people in here have said to use the naked url as anchor text on a PBN. Although I haven't tested it in months (I would imagine it still works), this can be dangerous if you want to hide your PBN.

Say you want to link to domain.com/page from your PBN and use domain.com/page as your anchor text. You rank number one for it but the guy who used to rank number one now wants to know why you rank number one. If he searches "domain.com/page" in google, it will show him all of the pages with that text on it and thus, show him your PBN. Even if you use other platforms to try to hide your PBN, he now has a list of domains linking to your site with the naked url as anchor text. Run it through something like AHRefs to get an idea of the page metrics and then you have the PBN domains...

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Yeah I know the method. but I thought it also finds non naked anchors (crawls source code). I guess google doesnt let you search by source code or at least not anchors, because I checked again and couldnt find indexed page just with the link used in branded anchor.

however maybe because its not long enough in the index. before i searched for image file name (which was only in the source code) and it was found. but href in anchor tag isnt.

Look at all your competitors ranking top 10 for your keywords. Put their ratios in a spreadsheet, calculate average and the most aggressive one. Then put yourself close to the most aggressive one.

My impression is that all niches have different viable levels, best bet is to not be that different from competitors.

I'n new to PBNs.. I am starting with 50 blogs (I know)..One thing that i will suggest you is never use the same anchor twice.

aidenhera said:

Yeah I know the method. but I thought it also finds non naked anchors (crawls source code). I guess google doesnt let you search by source code or at least not anchors, because I checked again and couldnt find indexed page just with the link used in branded anchor.

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To my knowledge, its never worked like that. Google used to have a link: search modifier that may show it but they disabled it.