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Old 04-03-2017, 05:00 AM  
sirkonstantine
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Originally Posted by HappyTugger View Post
My review...

Most of the sites are months old with posts 2 months old. Meaning this network was set up for this sort of thing only. About a dozen are 4 to 15 years old. But most are months old. Most likely picked up after their owners dropped them for whatever reason.

Many have really nice backlinks. Again, probably why they were purchased. But the backlinks they had are dropping off since the site's content has all been changed. So a link list might not link into a link list domain on this network since it isn't a link list anymore.

Content is spun and if you google for sentences you often find that 6 other blogs have the same sentence. Could be an issue with Google.

Most blogs use excerpts on the index page so you will only get a link from the blog posts themselves. Sidebars mostly don't have anything so pagination is prev-next and not archives, categories, tags.

Seems like most blogs also don't have categories.

You decide how much a link from here is worth to you.
Again, this is a private blog network. Most PBNs are built with dropped domains.

Link loss is natural for dropped domains (some webmasters realize that a site has changed owner and removed the links) but if you look in the report, the number of referring domains is quite high. After the initial drop, the blogs' total backlinks are stable (the webmasters who took notice and removed their link have done so; the other webmasters did not both or didn't even notice and won't do so). There might be link loss but not all links will be lost; it'll never be 0 backlinks.

Having the same version of sentences in other posts is a totally normal phenomenon on the Internet. For example, "We know what we are, but know not what we may be" (a Shakespeare quote) appears over 163,000 times online. Google has no issue with that.

The blogs are structured in the following way: the homepage has a paginated list of all posts and each post links to the previous and next one. This is for 2 reasons: 1.) it is simple to crawl 2.) there are no duplicate posts on the site (1 post from a blog = 1 link from a blog).

For crawling, the blogs all have a robots.txt file that directs spiders to the sitemap.xml file. This, in our experience, is the best way for search engines to crawl a site. Archives, categories, and tags are there for humans, not robots.
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