What's the earning potential for a 30 site PBN?

It depends on a number of factors but mainly the niche and monetisation method used. You can expect anything between $100 - $1000 per month.

Rock_Shock said:

An important question is:
What would be the cost of these domains : 30 Domains with 30+ RD would likely cost a decent amount ?

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If you're scraping them yourself, it's just the registration price. If you're buying them, say from the few sellers here in the marketplace, then add that. It's an easy estimate, just depends on your approach. As mentioned in the OP, I'm talking about expired domains, not auction domains.

bignose said:

But you don't use only this PBN, do you? You have also other links, and the links that the site already has, and social promotion, etc etc....

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Well, as mentioned in the OP, the hypothetical scenario entails using only the PBN. A number of people on this forum have mentioned that this is pretty much the only type of link they use.

I know it's hard to estimate the answer to this sort of question. That's why I've added all those conditions in the OP - to help constrain the question.

The idea isn't that somebody has done exactly this and knows an answer off the top of their head, but that a person who has successfully taken a number of moneysites to profit using PBNs, might have a "gut feeling" for the sort of revenue they'd expect when looking at these constraints.

krishnaverma said:

It depends on a number of factors but mainly the niche and monetisation method used. You can expect anything between $100 - $1000 per month.

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Okay, thanks. Seems kind of low, but I wouldn't know, hence I'm asking this question. Are these numbers based on your own experience?

OutOfContext said:

If you're scraping them yourself, it's just the registration price. If you're buying them, say from the few sellers here in the marketplace, then add that. It's an easy estimate, just depends on your approach. As mentioned in the OP, I'm talking about expired domains, not auction domains.

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Thanks.. i was implying the rate that you would BUY it for.. not the reg cost.. if you can scrape nice ones yourself thats awesome.. but i am not too sure about that..atleast as of now.. The ones i am getting by scraping are just garbage chinese, fake goods, pharma, gambling kinda spam.. i mean at a point in time initially they were great domains.. then they were snatched by those shady affiliate people.. and then they got used for spam and must likely have lost link juice &/or deindexed..

So question is: What is rough guestimate for acquiring these kinds of domains from the marketplace/elsewhere for the metrics you talked about ?

Would appreciate answer as it would help estimate ROI..

What a lot of people don't get on bhw, is that a lot of you are all pissing in the same pot. That is why your are only finding junk domains with spammy anchors ie viagra, chinese, etc, etc.

To really find a quality of domain is possible but you will have to highly likely get creative in your methods to find a super good domain.

In all fairness, looking back how I done it, which was scraping. I would cut the bullshit and just purchase directly of a seller.

Back a few years ago, I could find hundreds of quality domains in one good scrape on a server. Now'adays, it's a little more complicated.. it's still possible.. but remember anything shared on bhw, will highly likely end up saturated to fuck, to the point if you get in the game to late, your gonna be left with shitty left overs.

I would say fuck the scraping, just buy the domains of a quality seller in the BST, to save you the time and bullshit that goes with it. There is nothing worse doing a fucking huge scrape, filtering through domains and finding one that looks perfect. It has really good metrics.. then u run it through majestic and ahrefs, to realise it's been spammed to death by a viagra seller.

One more thing. You can't estimate ROI with a PBN. Its very difficult, as it comes down to various things, such as quality of domain, quality of maintenance on the bhw, on-page of the pbn, loads of factors come into this. Be careful before laying down a lot of money.

I would still just use a bst seller.

Rock_Shock said:

Thanks.. i was implying the rate that you would BUY it for.. not the reg cost.. if you can scrape nice ones yourself thats awesome.. but i am not too sure about that..atleast as of now.. The ones i am getting by scraping are just garbage chinese, fake goods, pharma, gambling kinda spam.. i mean at a point in time initially they were great domains.. then they were snatched by those shady affiliate people.. and then they got used for spam and must likely have lost link juice &/or deindexed..

So question is: What is rough guestimate for acquiring these kinds of domains from the marketplace/elsewhere for the metrics you talked about ?

Would appreciate answer as it would help estimate ROI..

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Yeah, well, as of right now, I do my own scraping. Since I have significant experience in software development, I wrote my own scraper. I don't run an operation anywhere near the scale that some sellers here do, but it's working reasonably well for me. It even automatically checks for Chinese/Japanese history which saves a lot of time

Now there's one reason I couldn't give you a cost estimate if you were to buy domains. The sellers that I've seen in the marketplace typically use TF as a metric to price the domains or at least to filter them. I, on the the other hand, ignore TF completely. I just don't understand that metric. So many times I've looked at the backlink profile - good RD, it's clean, natural, with contextual dof0llow links from real active websites and then I look at TF and it's just abysmal. And it's the other way around too - there are like two decent links and TF is like 17 or something.

At the moment, I look only at the dof0llow RD (I call it DFRD to make it look important) and the overall quality of the backlink profile. Again, regarding RD, as I understand, sellers typically list the overall RD, which includes n0follow ones. Because of these things, and probably because of my lack of experience, I'm unable to draw parallels with domains sold in the marketplace to be able to say "this domain of mine would cost this much to buy from a seller".

Just to be clear, I don't yet have the PBN I talk about in the OP, I'm in the process of building it and it takes a lot of time. Maybe my approach of not considering TF will bite me in the backside, I don't know.

On the other hand, if you do know which metrics you're after, you can check some sales threads that specify prices based on metrics or ones that list specific individually priced domains to get an idea. I can definitely recommend @Nargil - have bought from him in the past, great domains. Recently had a look at @bignose thread - some very nice domains in there with individual pricing. Note: not affiliated with either of them, just two examples of where to see clear prices for estimating your costs.

OutOfContext said:

The sellers that I've seen in the marketplace typically use TF as a metric to price the domains or at least to filter them. I, on the the other hand, ignore TF completely. I just don't understand that metric.

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TF once was rather reliable metric; today however DA is much more accurate again. As for me, i personally find Ahrefs DR the most relevant metric for today.