If you build niche sites like myself than all the changes that have been happening to some of the larger private blog networks like BMR and ALN may have you concerned. This post is about how to avoid an online footprint whether you are building multiple niche sites or building your own private blog network. What it comes down to is what Google wants and what Google wants is unique authoratative websites which give the searcher a good experience. The trick is for you to provide this while still generating links.
BASIC PLAN – Build authoritative relevant websites that all look different and using original content “guest post” on them with diverse contextual links to your money sites
Now if you want more detail here are 30 tips on how to make sure you don’t leave a footprint…
Buying Your Domains:
- Buy expired domain which have a diverse backlink profile
- Backlinks are more important than PR but high PR is a plus
- Always register with privacy activated (whois guard)
- Use a popular registrar(millions of other sites also registered there)
Hosting
- 5 sites max per hosting account
- Don’t use SEOHost or other “SEO Hosts” as I suspect Google will be watching them
- Use Popular and Inexpensive Hosting Accounts – Here are the ones I recommend:
Building The Website
- Don’t use the same username on each website
- Use a different theme for each website
- Its ok to use wordpress on each website
- Dont use plugins that leave a unique footprint
- Akismet and some others that require a code
- Use a different Privacy Policy on each
- Use a unique About Us page
- Don’t install google analytics
- Don’t install google adsense
- Don’t try and monetize the blogs for yourself
- Do install some monetization(this may be too time consuming)
- Use a different affiliate code/advertiser number etc for each site to have each site appear unique
- 301 redirect all old URLs to similar pages
- This will maintain the PR for as long as possible
- A plugin can be installed to help with any pages you missed
- Vary what plugins are used (dont use your favourite SEO plugin on every site)
- Vary the permalink structure
- Vary how the site is built
- Don’t use the exact same plugins configured in the exact same way, randomize how the site is built
Running The Network
- Never Ever Interlink within the network (never link one network website to another)
- Interlink each article to another article on the website
- SEO smartlinks or similar plugin can help automate this
- Include subheadings and bullet points on your articles
- Link to 1 authority website/article on the topic of each article posted
- 25% of posts should not include external links to your money site
- These “no external link” posts should still link to internal pages/posts and the occasionally authority site
- Posts should vary in length 300-500 words
- Don’t have every post 305 words long
- Include media in your posts (Youtube Video, Images)
- Only post unique articles
- Original written articles are best but costly readable spun articles will work (be careful with this tip!)
- Don’t have every blog in your network link to every money site
- Make sure all sites in the network are not also linking to each money site as this would produce a footprint
- Vary Keyword Phrase in Anchor Text in links to your money sites
- Instead of using “dog training” everytime vary the anchor text “training a dog”, “how to train a dog”, “dog training tips”, “dog trained” etc
- Generic Anchor Text should be occasionally used in links to your money sites
- visit, click here, URL
- Limit the number of posts per website to 1 or less per day
- Prepare a detailed procedure for how the network should be run and outsource it to someone on ODesk
- If you are interested in seeing the procedure I use please send me a message and I can share it with you - Contact Me
If you follow these 30 tips and truly build high quality websites with decent quality content than you should be able to build a powerful blog network that not only provides value to you but also to your visitors.
The best part about building a quality private blog network is that some of your sites will eventually begin to get enough traffic that you will pull them out of the blog network and they will become a money site.
If you are interested in seeing the procedures I used to build and run a small private blog network please Contact Me
