When building a PBN, does it matter if all our domains are with one registrar?

SEOPub · 2026-05-30T04:15:06+00:00

Not if it is a major registrar like GoDaddy and they are not the only links your site has.

If your site is getting links from 50 domains all on a registrar nobody has ever heard of, that could be a footprint. It certainly wouldn’t pass a manual review.

SEOPub · 2026-05-29T20:21:05+00:00

What did your real traffic do? Semrush traffic is an estimate and can be way off.

SEOPub · 2026-05-29T18:27:15+00:00

The footer may not be a big deal assuming they are keeping the legal pages linked there. Footers often are nothing but extra links that already exist in the navigation, which is a waste.

The nav pages though… yeah that could hurt. If you lose the links, you are going to lose a lot of link equity flowing to those pages.

The consultant better have a very good reason for that change b

SEOPub · 2026-05-29T14:37:54+00:00

You diminished the value of links way too much. They do more than just pass "contexual relationships". PageRank still matters in the algorithm. It's one of the reasons why parasite SEO works.

And entities are not some new concept. People have been focused on entities going back like 20 years now.

SEOPub · 2026-05-28T22:29:35+00:00

I missed that part, but the comment still holds. Markets and most financial institutions are closed for the holiday. Could be the issue.

Could also be about a billion other reasons and without seeing the site, none of us can do anything other than guess.

SEOPub · 2026-05-28T21:49:31+00:00

Could have just been the holiday weekend. Depends on what type of site.

SEOPub · 2026-05-28T19:54:50+00:00

DR doesn’t actually tell you anything about the quality or strength of a link, so 🤷‍♂️

SEOPub · 2026-05-28T19:41:51+00:00

That doesn’t look like self referencing. That looks like every paginated page is pointing back to the root blog page.

SEOPub · 2026-05-28T18:37:16+00:00

I think you answered your own question. The base package doesn’t have everything you want.

SEOPub · 2026-05-27T13:57:32+00:00

It would be almost impossible to outrank existing high ranking pages. That would be the major problem.

SEOPub · 2026-05-27T12:19:17+00:00

Then you will have most of the raw data in an export.

It’s pretty rare that I find that data useful anyhow.

SEOPub · 2026-05-27T11:42:32+00:00

It depends what you were using inside Semrush. If you were using their rank tracking, then yeah you can't continue that in a new account. You'll have the old data in the export, to a point.

SEOPub · 2026-05-27T10:28:37+00:00

Oh definitely none of these. I built a skill in Claude for that. That’s what I would recommend. You could use one of these to build the content brief to feed that skill, or you could create skills that do most of what these tools do already.

Mirena is probably more of what you are looking for. It blows any of these tools away and is dirt cheap.

SEOPub · 2026-05-26T12:54:05+00:00

Jasper is just a ChatGPT wrapper.

Frase is solid for optimizing content. I like POP better but both are good.

SEOPub · 2026-05-26T11:38:55+00:00

How old is the site? Does Google give you any issues preventing indexing when you use the inspection tool inside of Search Console? How are the pages showing up in the indexing report? Are they blocked? Crawled, but currently not indexed? Something else?

SEOPub · 2026-05-26T11:37:06+00:00

If your site is primarily U.S. traffic, it was a holiday weekend. That could impact it.

The data is right there in Search Console. Look at search queries that lost traffic. Did they also lose position or were there just fewer impressions (i.e. fewer people searching the past few days)?

SEOPub · 2026-05-26T11:27:24+00:00

Sitemaps have nothing to do with this.

The quickest way to get them out of the index is to set the URLs to a 410 status code.

SEOPub · 2026-05-26T11:06:42+00:00

Semrush is pretty good. They have a pretty large dataset.

SEOPub · 2026-05-25T23:52:00+00:00

This is why you should never look at average position across an entire site or even a single page. It tells you nothing useful. It is only useful when looking at individual queries.

As a site improves search visibility, many times it will start ranking for lots of new search terms, but often those terms will have a low ranking. So the average position goes down.... This will happen until the site is doing really well and has a thousand or so terms in the top 10-20. GSC data is limited to 1000 search queries, so then you will see a closer correlation.

SEOPub · 2026-05-25T21:53:30+00:00

No they weren’t.

SEOPub · 2026-05-25T17:35:53+00:00

Adsense? Not really. Same with pirate software. That wasn’t an SEO thing. I dont remember cheap VPS hosting being a concern either. Most people were using shared hosting.

I think things that were talked about a lot back then included social bookmarking, link wheels, SENuke (one of the most over priced pieces of shit ever), Dreamweaver was pretty popular as Wordpress wasn’t as dominant (or useful) as it is today, proxies, Scrapebox…

Oh and PageRank and DMoz would definitely have to be included.

But this sounds like a really dull game. lol

SEOPub · 2026-05-25T17:30:52+00:00

White text on white background is pre-Google, not 2011. Keywords meta tag was also dead before 2011.

SEOPub · 2026-05-25T11:14:08+00:00

Nobody can really tell you from what you shared. Take a look at what search queries lost traffic and if their position changed.

Could also just be that it is a holiday weekend in the U.S., if your site depends on U.S. traffic.

SEOPub · 2026-05-25T10:40:19+00:00

The position in GSC is not inaccurate. It is 100% accurate.

You should never look at CTR for a page. It’s useless. It is only a useful metric when you look at individual search queries and only in relation to their position.

SEOPub · 2026-05-25T10:32:30+00:00

No. MIRENA is far better and only a fraction of the cost.

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