Lets talk private blog networks

Scattered

Scattered

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I had thoughts on this a long time ago, never really pursued it though. I'm starting to see more and more chatter about it and I've got some questions, as I'm sure others do. Some of these questions may seem down right obvious, but it never hurts to ask.

- Hosting multiple blogs in the same vertical all on the same hosting plan, bad?

- Would you use entirely different hosts so there are different nameservers?

- Would public who-is be bad? Your objective (if you're thinking like I am) is to have several sites related to your niche pointing quality links to your money maker. If all of those sites have the same reg information, it looks fishy. I don't know if its looked at, but it certainly can be. Plus, for competitive terms, I could see manual reviews being pretty scrutinizing.

I'm sure I'll think of more tomorrow when I'm not so tired.
 


Why not just use all the web 2.0's out there? (Free, public links.. also the social stuff) Will save you money on hosting etc.

Using some social for tips in your niche site. Helpful tips, then direct to your money site.
 
Scattered said:
- Hosting multiple blogs in the same vertical all on the same hosting plan, bad?

- Would you use entirely different hosts so there are different nameservers?
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Spread it across variant shared hosting platforms. You can automate their updates via simple PHP scripts hosted on a secure server.

Having too many sites of the same niche pointing to the same money site is pretty obvious.

Scattered said:
- Would public who-is be bad? Your objective (if you're thinking like I am) is to have several sites related to your niche pointing quality links to your money maker. If all of those sites have the same reg information, it looks fishy. I don't know if its looked at, but it certainly can be. Plus, for competitive terms, I could see manual reviews being pretty scrutinizing.
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Private whois is pretty common these days and is offered for free by most registrars. It also prevents obvious spammers from spamming you.

I make it a point to privatize all whois information on all my sites. DOES make a difference.

Also, remember to ensure that you stabilize the network first before you start pointing links to your money site. Also ensure that your money site IS NOT the only outbound link across the seeders.

Also, maintain a balance across your link list. The seeder links shouldn't be the only links pointing either - nor should they constitute the majority. Diversify with links from other sites/web 2.0s
 
Imo, private blogs network will only work for a small group of websites, not using private networks as a link building service.

They can be used if you have just a few money sites in similar niches and you can make blogs about relevant content, but with Mr. Penguin you will get slapped if you extend too far and use them too much.
 
The one thing I'd like to see discussed, is how will IPv6 play into your SEO / blog network structures? For example, there's hosts now that will offer you 1 IPv4 address, and that's it. However, they'll offer you almost an unlimited number of IPv6 addresses without problem.

And obviously, IPv6 is going to become mainstream quite shortly. How's that going to effect your strategies?
 
^ Bumping this post because of national IPv6 day.

The SEO implications, in my mind, are essentially moot. Until hosts start offering you zero IPv4 addresses, nothing will change. Because as long as you have one IPv4 address you can be identified by that. It doesn't matter how many IPv6 addresses you have.

You can make "IPv6 only" sites that can only be accessed via IPv6. Google will be able to scrape these because it runs on IPv6, but it will also know that you have an IPv6 only site. And of course a bunch of users won't be able to access you.
 
Don't use SEO hosting, use cheap hosting from webhostingworld instead. Make sites that look real even if it means not getting front page juice.
 
for those guys managing private blog networks? how are you managign it? wpmanage? xmarkpro? i was thinking about using AMR in the beginning. anyone else do that?
 
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