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How To Not Create PBN Footprints...
Don’t use the same browser (like Google Chrome) to update and manage all your PBN sites. Use Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and other browsers too.
Use a VPN to mask your IP address. Keep changing the VPN location while handling different blogs.
Use different IP hosting for your PBN. For example, use a mix of A, B, and C class hosting.
Register your PBN blogs with unique Start of Authority (SOA) email addresses. SOA email is the one that you give while registering with your hosting company. The same SOA for all the blogs in your PBN will confirm singular ownership.
Don’t just use @gmail.com or @yahoo.com email addresses. Use some
[email protected] types emails too.
Don’t host your PBN blogs on IP addresses and host servers that have a lot of spammy or deindexed sites. Google will quickly sniff out the connection that way.
Don’t register all your domain names at the same time. It will also be a clear giveaway. Make sure you maintain intervals between the time of registering these domains.
Host your PBN blogs on servers and data centers in different countries.
Don’t blatantly block all bots and crawlers. Blocking bots is important to not let your competitors trace and track your PBN blogs. But if you block all the bots on all your PBN blogs, it will raise suspicion in Google’s eyes too. Keep the blocking limited to the bare essentials.
If you are using Google Analytics on your PBN blogs, make sure they have different tracking IDs. Same tracking IDs will help Google trace all the sites in your network to you.
Applying these tips will help ensure that you did not create obvious footprints, and therefore you should be safe from Google’s penalties.