Why use blogs to build PBNs?

[Rob Whisonant]

This is really a curiosity question. When people build PBNs why do they seem to only use blogs?

Why don't they use a variety of site types like static, forums, download sites, other CMS types etc?

Seems having a variety of site types pointing to you would be less of a footprint and more natural looking.

What are your thoughts on this?

 

[SEOPub]

When people build PBNs why do they seem to only use blogs?

Because 98% of internet marketers are dumb.

Almost none of my private network sites are "blogs".

 

[Rob Whisonant]

I'm wondering if the name PBN is perpetuating the thinking to use only blogs? Maybe it should have been called PLNs or PSNs.

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

I actually wrote a course about building them a couple of years ago. One of the first things I put in the course was "let's stop calling them PBN's". The traditional blog type style is a dead giveaway of what you are trying to do.

On the other hand, throwing up a blog in Wordpress is easy, and most IM'ers are lazy. It is, unfortunately, what drew them to internet marketing in the first place... All the BS about a 4-hour work week and working from your laptop on the beach, etc.

 

[Rob Whisonant]

This actually brings up another question to ask some people.

If you have built or use a PBN that is ALL blogs, why did you decide to just use blogs?

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

I will let other people answer that, but in my opinion it is because it is the simplest way to do it. Again, it goes back to the lazy thing.

Basically all they do is install a theme on Wordpress and make posts. There is no thought about design and/or structure of the site. You can set one up that way in about 20 minutes if you have the content written already.

 

[Miguelito203]

When I first heard about them, blogs seemed to be what people were using (after a lot of the free article directories started getting crushed by the search engines and stuff). From what I know (correct me if I'm wrong), aren't they just a modern version of the link wheel from back in the day that the search engines did not like? That's why I don't use them. Plus, I know a lot of those crappy MLM programs said that they used such things, and once a lot of people signed up, the search engines would catch wind of it, and it would disappear.

Joey

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

A private network is not like a link wheel at all really. This is a pretty common link wheel structure.




I would say using private networks is much more like guest posting except you control the sites where the guest posts appear.

 

[TCoder]

I would think one would want to use straight HTML pages..

1) You don't have to worry about a database..
2) You can get FREE hosting for simple HTML Websites all over the place.

I think people use blogs, because they have very little coding skills and they are familiar with "wordpress" or "joomla" and they just go from their.

In my head I call it - Public Website Network with Backlink Profiles - It's the same thing.

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

HTML pages are fine, but even for an experienced coder they often take a lot longer to setup.

Also, I would never, ever use free hosting. No real business is using free hosting. Any free host is going to be littered with spammers, and your site is likely to get labeled and potentially penalized right along with them.

 

[TCoder]

TCoder

I was thinking places like the free plan [URLnf="https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/"]here[/URLnf]

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

The problem is that anything free or ultra cheap is going to attract tons of spammers. Think .info domains several years ago and .xyz domains today. Also all the Web 2.0 and article sites that have been hit for years by spammers.

 

[hrishivardhan]

There's a simple reason behind it. if you have multiple blogs then it's very easy to interconnect them. instead of mixture of the website's and blogs. so people prefer to use blogs for pnbs. there's another reason for blogs because it consumes content as much as we can make it.

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

What you just said makes zero sense.

You can easily interconnect any website, whether it is a blog or not.

Any website can "consume content". You don't need a blog for that.

 

[Rob Whisonant]

Rob Whisonant

What you just described is the "big red easy button." If people would actually put in the work, their end result would be far better and much more profitable.

I have seen so many people, including myself in the beginning, go the easy route and then have to start over to get it right. They end up doing more work in the end when they did not have to.

 

[TCoder]

One of the reasons why I don't link the CMS route, is because it's very difficult to page sculpt those sites.

 

[Bat2100]

With blogs you can insert various keywords into many posts and aim for a better rank.

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

You can do that with any website. You don't need a "blog".

 

[HostLittle]

This is really a curiosity question. When people build PBNs why do they seem to only use blogs?

Why don't they use a variety of site types like static, forums, download sites, other CMS types etc?

Seems having a variety of site types pointing to you would be less of a footprint and more natural looking.

What are your thoughts on this?

When I am building a PBN for a specific niche, I like "diversify my portfolio" with rss reeds, blogs, forums, media and such.

 

[StasVa]

This is really a curiosity question. When people build PBNs why do they seem to only use blogs?

Why don't they use a variety of site types like static, forums, download sites, other CMS types etc?

Seems having a variety of site types pointing to you would be less of a footprint and more natural looking.

What are your thoughts on this?

I think the reason is to "put them on the conveyor". I mean the process is very simple and intuitive. You can easily automatize it.

In my personal view, generally it's quite smart to diverse type of donors page/websites.