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What I’m going to reveal in this blog post is a strategy that will likely weed out a certain section of the ViperChill audience. In other words, I’m fully aware that this blog post will make a particular type of person unsubscribe from ViperChill and likely never return. It’s certainly not going to end up on the homepage of Inbound.org.
If you are loyal to Google guidelines, the teachings of blogs like Moz and love playing by the book, then you’ll probably realise with this article that we possess a very different perspective.
When I first started my internet journey – where I spent day and night trying to make a living online – I tried and tested more website ideas and angles than you would believe.
Today, I’m still pushing the boundaries to see what works. These boundaries most often pertain to SEO, since it’s what I’ve enjoyed the most over the last 11 years.
I’m in the fortunate position that my business it not tied to some employer who dictates how I have to do things when it comes to promoting web properties. As such, I’m always willing to ignore everything I previously thought about marketing and to be open to new ideas and opportunities.
This blog post details one such opportunity, but I realise it will not be for everyone. Not everyone is the position to implement it for their online business, and even if you are, you may question the ethics of what is coming up.
With that disclaimer out of the way, today I’m going to introduce you to the world of PIN’s. Just before I do that, I want to talk about why I think they’re necessary.
I Predict We’ve Got Four to Five Years Left to ‘Do SEO’ As We Know It
This isn’t some “SEO is Dead” article you see go viral in the SEO blogosphere every six months, but a genuine prediction based on how Google search results have evolved over the last few years.
Google make all of their money via ads so quite simply want more people to click on them (and more often). The less success people have with SEO, the more likely they are to move to Google’s advertising platform.
Long gone are the days when we’re presented with just 10 blue links on a page.
The White Space Between Search Results Has Increased
It’s known that the higher up the page a search result, the more clicks it will receive. Therefore, when organic search results are pushed further down the page they’re going to be receiving fewer and fewer clicks. Not only are they lower down now in mobile results due to spacing, but the change is being tested across desktop results as well.
The search result on the left includes the new extra spacing with the ads taking up far more vertical space than the search result on the right (graphic via SEMPost).
There Are More ‘Featured Snippets’ Than Ever Before
There isn’t much to say on this one besides feature snippets are to be found for millions of search queries in every industry imaginable. What, when, how and why questions are often answered with a featured snippet box.
This not only pushes ‘organic’ search results further down in search results, it also attempts to give you the answer right from the results page. We can argue whether or not it’s useful for searchers, but for SEO’s, it gives new meaning to having the top result in Google.
‘Map Packs’ Completely Changed Local Search Results
Some call them ‘map packs’, some ‘the local pack’ and some even call them the ‘snack pack’. Whatever your term of choice, after being introduced a few years ago SEO’s have been trying to figure out how to get themselves and their clients into the pack to compensate for a lack of expected search results.
After all, these local listings take up a large portion of screen real estate.
I’m not complaining about this change; I’m simply pointing it out. There’s no doubt it makes search results more useful and that is Google’s aim (usually) after all. While Google did reduce the listings from seven to three back in August of 2015, the redesign of the listings with adding spacing means not much changed in terms of organic results being seen.
Those Map Packs Now Contain Ads, Too
We’re not going back to Google updates of a few years ago to make a point about Google evolving. Just last month Google announced that the map / local / snack pack would now include ads, as shown below.
This image is a mockup by Barry Schwartz, though the real thing looks very similar
It’s interesting to follow both PPC and SEO guys on Twitter and see the difference in reaction. PPC guys are over the moon since it gives them more traffic opportunities for their clients and SEO guy’s, well…I’m sure you can guess the reaction.
Based on how Google’s past, it’s not one of surprise.
They Have All The Answers
The knowledge graph was released in May of 2012 and it’s almost disappointing when you don’t see it for queries when looking for quick answers. For example, when I want to see how my football team, Newcastle, have fared against Liverpool, I literally don’t have to click anywhere.
Whether you want to learn about how old someone is, what 12 x 56 is or who discovered Radium, Google has the results right there for you. As a searcher, I love these quick answers, but as an SEO, it’s just one more thing which has lessened the likelihood of people clicking on my website if it doesn’t appear in this box.
They Continue to Make People Scared of Link Building
Google are great at making people fearful of performing any type of SEO. After all, this was the company that introduced the rel=”nofollow” attribute so we could link out to websites without giving them “link juice”.
That isn’t the real headline for the article – I’ve got to have some fun in these serious posts – but Google have publicly cracked down on pretty much everything when it comes to link building. The list includes, but is not limited to:
- Guest posting for links
- Using directories for links
- Utilising private blog networks
- Adding links to website themes
- Adding do-followed links to widgets
- They literally created a ‘no-follow’ tag
That’s not all; they openly share how much human intervention is involved in finding people abusing the guidelines, rather than algorithmic. This tweet speaks volumes.
Anglo Rank was a small network being promoted on the Black Hat World forums.
Just think about this for a second. One of Google’s first employees (and former Head of Web Spam), worth millions of dollars, dedicated his time to actively targeting a tiny little network on some private forum just to scare other people away from doing the same.
The simple fact is that Google can’t figure out with absolutely certainty which links are earned, or bought, or manipulative, very effectively.
Now I’m not taking anything away from Google here. Their company is worth hundreds of billions and mine, well…isn’t. They have undoubtedly created the world’s most sophisticated search engine.
But as I said earlier, it’s far easier for them to get us to police ourselves than it is for them to police us.
Big Brands Dominate the Long Tail
As SEO becomes increasingly difficult and searches are more and more dominated by big brands, the long tail will be the final frontier of search traffic opportunities.
When I said we only have a few years left to do SEO as we know it, the long tail will be where the majority of SEO’s focus their time through on-site SEO changes and content marketing.
While we’ll still have opportunities for SEO to ‘work’, long tail search results just don’t seem to be as diverse as they were in the past. It makes sense to me that Google have some kind of ‘filter’ whereby if they’re not sure what to list for a search result, they simply show more results from an authoritative site to be on the safe side.
Logically, this makes sense, but as an SEO, it could be a worrying sign of things to come. You can see this lack of diversification above in my screenshot of the map packs as well, with Yelp dominating the first three organic search results.
The Lack of Diversity in Search Results Will Only Get Worse
If you’ve only found ViperChill recently then it was likely because of my recent article, How 16 Companies Are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results. It has been shared thousands of times on social media and been read over 40,000 times, making it one of the most popular articles I’ve ever written here.
In the article I highlighted how Hearst Media were using their brands like Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Woman’s Day to point footer links to a new website of theirs, BestProducts.com.
That strategy, which would get the rest of us penalised, continues to work incredibly well.
“Just follow the Google guidelines.” Why?
Since that post, I was also contacted by a few people associated with the brands I had featured. One of those people I talked with was Tre who works in the growth department of About.com. I had already mentioned in the article how About planned to spin off into many more verticals over the coming months, which he confirmed.
I admit I’m being a little pedantic with my highlighting, but when you’re Director of Growth for About.com you’re going to share which terms are driving traffic to one site with the team that is in charge of another.
I appreciate Tre’s replies and I’m sure there’s only so much he can say, but About.com’s real goal with their spin-off’s is to no doubt own ten search results, instead of one.
PIN’s: My Version of Fighting Back While I Still Can
When I talked about why I started using private link networks and then continued to use them after Google’s “crackdown”, my primary reason was very simple: Writing quality content and getting ‘whitehat’ links wasn’t working for me. I was being outranked by people with crappy link networks who could build their own ‘relevant’ links on a whim and I decided to fight back.
You could view PIN’s in a similar light. I am utilising them because we’re not competing on a fair playing field, and what is supposed to work is very rarely what ranks, at least in the industries that I operate in.
While I don’t wish to reveal those exact industries, let me give you an example closer to home, with ViperChill.
I will say in advance that this is a search term I really don’t care about ranking for. I have no idea how many times it’s searched for each month and honestly, I doubt it gets many searches at all.
Here are the search results for the query, ‘Future of blogging’.
My site is usually either in 10th or 11th for that term, yet by every SEO standard metric I should be number one.
- I have more links to the page ranking than anyone else
- I have more ‘domain authority’ than most other pages
- My title tag seems more relevant than half of them
Yet in order to get more traffic for this search term, which I think I ‘deserve’ from a 10,000 word article which took me weeks to put together, all I have to do is one thing.
It’s not getting more links. It’s not improving my on-site SEO. It’s not building better connections with influencers.
All I need to do to get my traffic back is to add a sentence to the start of the article which says ‘Last updated: July 25th 2016‘.
This is a search result where how recent an article was posted is more important than whether it’s actually a good page to rank.
I don’t actually have to update the article; I literally just need to make it appear to Google – thanks to that one sentence – that my article was updated recently. This one sentence, this ‘trick’, would bring me back the ranking I feel I deserve. (Though, again, I doubt this even gets searched for. It’s just an example).
This is not theory. If you look at the first sentence of my WordPress SEO guide that’s exactly what I’ve done before, with great results.
This little change is not too dissimilar to what I need to rank in other industries. I don’t need better on-site SEO. I don’t need to build natural links from relevant sites through content marketing. I simply need to add more domains to my private link network and write more guest blog posts.
Yes, these are both tactics that are looked down upon by Google, but they still work incredibly well. In 2014 when I covered Google’s crackdown on private blog networks I did mention that they would now be less likely to care about private link networks.
In my exact words:
What I expect to happen is that Google will ease off looking into private networks. The damage is mostly done.
Why? Because they’ve already made people scared to build them. The best way to deal with people trying to game the system is essentially making us as a community police ourselves so we don’t try to game the system in the first place.
The continued use of private link networks and guest posting for SEO is part of the reason why I will get a lot of criticism from this post. How to implement these tactics more effectively, which I’ll talk about later, will be the larger reason for criticism.
The Approach to Take
One of the first ideas I had when I started out online was to assemble a team of people who could work together to build a huge website. At the time I was following the growth of TechCrunch and Mashable and saw how quickly they were able to grow thanks to having a team of writers.
My idea was to essentially connect a team of people who all worked on one website and in return everyone had a percentage ownership. The logic being that working as a team would result in the site growing faster and even if revenue or a sale price was split, we would have more success than working on our own.
It’s a similar idea a number of ViperChill readers had after reading my last article on the small number of brands dominating Google search results.
While it’s a nice idea, in theory it doesn’t work so well.
Some will want to dictate the direction of a site that others don’t agree with and more importantly, some people will put in far more work than others. If you’re writing more content than others and your articles are getting better traction, you’re going to want to increase your ownership compared to someone barely putting in any effort.
There is another option you can utilise if you wish to team up with others though, and that’s a PIN.
It comes with all of the benefits of creating your own team, without the downsides of worrying about who is contributing what work.
What the Hell is a PIN?
A PIN is a play on the acronym PBN, which is commonly referred to as a private blog or link network.
I’ve received my fair share of critics over the years for talking about PBN’s and their success – and continuing to build them – but there’s a reason I do: They work.
I simply don’t believe that playing by Google’s rules is always going to get me the results I want. In some industries I wouldn’t make the money I do without them. I don’t use them for clients, but do for my own websites.
Going forward, I think PIN’s are going to be crucial to my success in certain industries, and I think they are going to be crucial to a number of people reading this as well.
PIN, stands for Private Influencer Network.
Before you think that just means making some “friends” online and building up your connections, allow me to continue.
I define a Private Influencer Network as a group of people looking to rank their websites in Google in similar industries (but not the same) who work together to help each other reach their objectives.
Essentially, they use any opportunities they have to build links (such as private blog networks, guest blogging, interviews, blogger round-ups) to send backlinks to other people in their network. In return, other people do the same for them.
The end result is that for the work you would do to build ten backlinks, you can get twenty to forty (of the same quality) in return.
A $100,000/m PIN Operating Right Under Your Nose
I first came across a Private Influencer Network a little over a year ago. A few ‘influencers’ in a particular field were using their private blog networks to – quite simply – link to each other.
I didn’t think much of the tactic at the time, until I found another example of this happening just a few months later.
Then three months after that, I found my third example. This time it really got my attention.
A group of just five people (from what I could tell) were ranking in one of the most profitable industries online and undoubtedly making over $100,000 per month in the process. I operate in the niche, which is how I found their collaboration, and know the numbers very well.
This is when I started working on building my own, PIN.
Finally, the idea to write this blog post came to me when I found yet another PIN. One of the members of this network is one of the most well-known SEO’s on the planet and is reading this article. He already “knows I know.”
If you follow the SEO blogosphere, you’ll undoubtedly know who he is.
One of the sites they are promoting also very likely also makes more than $100,000 per month. I’m not involved in the niche, but I know others who are and with the rankings they have, those numbers wouldn’t surprise me.
I reached out to the owner of the ‘money site’ they had all teamed up to promote. I keep a private database of paid link opportunities and one of them costs more than $10,000 per year. I found their website there, so sent the main owner an email.
One months revenue spent on link building is a small price to pay when you’re doing huge numbers thanks to gaming Google.
While some would view four to five guys linking to each other to make more than $100,000/m from a one-year-old website as shady and unethical, I’m personally impressed at how well they are crushing a very competitive niche so quickly.
While there is a chance that a PIN could be “outed”, the last two examples I found were so well put together that I’m almost certain I was the only person who connected the dots.
If you’re not trying to rank in an obvious industry that’s constantly monitored by SEO’s – like blogging and internet marketing – the chances of your PIN becoming uncovered are relatively low. Much lower than having your private blog network discovered.
As you’ve probably already figured out more succinctly than I am at getting to the point, members of a PIN use any opportunity they have to ‘link out’ to take care of their whole team.
While I’ve been fairly slow on the uptake to building my own PIN, I have been slowly building them in a few industries over the last few months and I’m excited to see what the future holds.
I didn’t want to write this blog post until I had a better understanding of how to build and manage them, because managing them is actually the most time-consuming part.
You have to make sure everyone in the network is pulling their weight and giving (and getting) equal opportunities. Opportunities, of course, is code for links.
A Real-World Example of How a PIN Works
One of the websites I find myself checking for ideas and inspiration is Entrepreneur.com.
I recently found an article on the website, published by a contributor and not a staff member, which could serve as a great example for how PIN’s work.
Let me say it in bold (for those just skimming) that the example below is totally legitimate.
I’m highlighting it because it’s natural, but could have been used in a non-natural way.
While the screenshot below might be the longest ever embedded by me into a blog post, there is something much more important that I have to say about it.
There is no specific reason I have singled out this article. It was simply the first article on Entrepreneur.com when I was looking to give an example for this post. Proof of that is the date. This article is going live on July 25th whereas this article I’m featuring below is from July 22nd.
It just happened to be a great example to see a PIN (or what could be a PIN), in action.
I made the article a little shorter than the original (the screenshot was long enough, I know) but you can see the majority of it here. The first thing you’ll notice is four mentions of Weekdone. Unsurprisingly, these are all links to the company that the author works for.
A good guest article, utilised for a PIN, will link to other recommended resources that are connections of the author. The links should be relevant, but also to other people in your network so that you are ‘owed’ a link back.
Now on the surface (without my large logos stuck over the text) this looks like a totally normal article (albeit with a little overuse of linking back to the authors employer). If you do a little more research, you’ll learn that the other two highlighted companies, Zlien and Mavrck, are actually clients of Weekdone.
In other words, Weekdone likely earn some bonus points from their clients for mentioning them in an article on Entrepreneur.com. I see nothing wrong with this and it’s a one-off occurrence so it’s not done for SEO manipulation; I’m just trying to show how a PIN link looks without actually revealing one.
Essentially everything looks natural until you look under the hood. It’s normal for a client to talk about a company they use, as shown below where the relationship continues.
Once again, I’m not saying they’re doing anything wrong here. It was one of the top articles on Entreprenuer.com as I was finishing up this article (the post is only three days old) and happened to make a good example.
The truth is that Entrepreneur.com, along with Forbes and the business sections of the Huffington Post, are great resources to see mini PIN’s in action. The people who write content for these sites generally try to get as much out of writing for them as possible.
They link to their friends, and their friends link to them.
A PIN in Action
I wanted to create a graphic for this section but your understanding of the concept is far more important than your ability to decipher my poor Photoshop skills. Before it gets a little bit crazy, I have assumed that there are just two ‘influencers’ in your private network.
The yellow box is your money website (the website you wish to rank in Google).
The brown boxes are private blog sites you own (optional).
The grey boxes are link opportunities you’ve created through guest posting or similar.
While the graphic is admittedly not the prettiest (I did warn you), the concept is very simple.
Some of your private network domains will point links to the other influencer in your network, as will some of your guest posts on other websites.
In return, the other influencer will do the same for you.
Once you start adding more people to your network, things get a little bit more messy, but the principle remains the same.
When I try to visualise this with four influencers as part of your PIN it gets a little ugly, but here goes.
The golden rule you need to remember is this: If you receive a link from someone from a specific source, you need to replicate the link in kind.
So if you receive a link in a guest post from someone in the network, you need to give them a link from a guest post you write.
Essentially meaning that the work you do for 10 links for yourself gets you 30-40 links in return. This number varies because sometimes it’s a bit risky (such as using blog networks) to link out to the same sites which are linking to you but you still receive more links than you would have without your network, for essentially the same work.
The Types of Links Which Are Shared
I originally tried to write these guidelines as if there were four people in a PIN but it became a little bit too complicated to read (and write). Instead, I’ll assume there are only two people in your PIN and show you what types of links you could generate or other ways to help each other.
If there are more people in your PIN, which I highly recommend, then understand that Influencer #1 will sometimes link to #2, while #4 sometimes links to number #3 and so on. It’s basically just varying the following link opportunities to keep things fair for everyone.
The types of reciprocation that can take place.
- You can tweet or Facebook share an article from another influencer
- You can retweet or publicly thank another influencer for mentioning you
- You can utilise a guest post opportunity to link to a relevant quote or article from another influencer
- If you use build private blog networks, you can use some to link to other influencers
- If you find articles where comments drive traffic to your site, you can inform other influencers
- When being interviewed you can link to a relevant quote or article from another influencer
- Sharing link opportunities you find on your site they can utilise for theirs
- Offering website design advice
- Utilising Web 2.0 properties to give links and get the same in return
If performed properly, there is no reason to hide that you have a connection with other influencers in your niche. The only thing you would have to care about is that the obvious mission for having these connections is to help each other’s search engine rankings.
If you are outside of the internet marketing world you don’t really have to worry about other people finding your private link networks, but always keep a few rules in mind to avoid footprints.
Ready to Build Your Own PIN? Here’s My Advice
If you see the benefits of utilising a PIN for your own search engine rankings, and actually getting more than rankings in return, then here’s my advice for setting one up.
A PIN Must Have a Leader
As I mentioned earlier, I didn’t want to write about this topic until I had attempted to do it myself.
My short but relevant experience tells me that there has to be one person (or two at most) who is in control of the group you gather together to make sure that everyone in the team is pulling their weight.
In other words, you need to make sure that the people who are receiving links are doing their part in giving them as well.
The leader must also make sure that members of the team are active. It’s no use everyone playing along for the first few weeks while the idea is hot and then dropping off the map.
Bringing Together Your Team
While some of you may be excited about getting started on this – and some horrified that I’m even talking about it – there’s one important caveat to keep in mind.
Do not bring anyone into your team who has never shown any self-drive in terms of search engine optimisation.
If someone:
- Doesn’t already have a website they wish to rank
- Doesn’t regularly produce content for their own sites or others
- Doesn’t have at least a basic knowledge of SEO fundamentals
Don’t invite them to be part of your network.
I assumed this would be the case from the start of building my own, but I’m even more sure of it after trying to get other people excited about the idea who weren’t actually willing to contribute to the rest of the teams’ success as a whole.
A simple test to see if someone would be right to join your network is to send a candidate over to this article and have them read about this concept for themselves.
If they don’t immediately “get” the idea and they don’t reply with something like “I can see this working well” then it’s not someone you want on your team.
You shouldn’t have to convince anyone to work with you. They should see it for themselves. If they’re against it because of ethical reasons, then that’s totally fine (and understandable) but again, it’s a sure sign that they’re not someone you want in your team.
As far as communication goes, there are a few platforms out there that would be useful.
You could create a Skype group where people get together. I certainly recommend that everyone get on a call together at least some point to make sure you all understand each other’s roles.
Slack is another good option, as you can keep up to date via their mobile app and have a history of previous agreements.
A private Facebook group is another good option.
Both Slack and Facebook allow there to be a leader who can add or remove members to the network.
The platform is really up to you. My only recommendation is not to lay out all your plans in Google Docs ;).
Take One Step Back from Your Current Niche
It should be obvious but I’ll state it anyway: You don’t want to work with people who are targeting the same keywords as you.
However, you still want to connect with people who are in a relevant niche (I’ll give you the chance to connect with ViperChill readers at the bottom of this post). For instance, if you’re promoting your real estate website then it makes sense to team up with other realtors, just not for the same region.
If you’re in the weight loss niche then it makes sense to collaborate and grow your audience with other people in that niche, but target different keywords and / or promote different types of products and services.
Whatever niche you’re in, imagine you’re shopping for that specific industry on Amazon but go back one category to find people to work with. Again, I’ll give you the opportunity to find PIN partners at the end of this article.
Footprints are Hard to Find, But Still Be Careful
From the PIN’s I’ve discovered and the ones I’m working on myself, I’ve found you really don’t have to be too careful when it comes to leaving some kind of footprint. After all, it doesn’t ring any alarm bells when Copyblogger keeps mentioning Problogger or Mashable keep linking to TechCrunch. It’s “natural” and something you can expect from the owners of websites who have developed friendships with each other.
Where you have to be careful is primarily with private blog networks and not creating footprints of clearly linking back and forth to each other from the same sites at all times. Of course, you don’t have to use private networks, but remember for each link you give out, you can get three to four back, so it can dramatically speed up the process of ranking your site.
You Need to Know How the Microphone Works
And how to sing.
One of my favourite authors, Daniel Priestley, said the following in his book The Key Person of Influence;
You don’t need to know how the microphone works, you need to know how to sing.
He was referring to the technology behind the microphone and how, when it was first invented, your time would have been better spent learning how to sing than how a microphone worked, if you wanted to reach a lot of people.
When it comes to ranking in Google, I don’t think that’s the case. You need to know how the microphone works and how to sing.
There are going to be people who worry I’m encouraging armies of people to come together to take over the Google search results.
The truth is that I don’t believe people who can’t sing – in this case, can’t produce great results for search engine users – will have much long-term success.
There’s no point putting all of the work into your PIN if the end result is going to be a crappy website.
The third example of a PIN that I mentioned earlier now easily does in excess of over $100,000 per month. What I didn’t yet tell you is that they built a fantastic resource for their industry. The site doesn’t have many pages (less than 50), but each one genuinely solves a question that a particular searcher is looking for an answer to.
I don’t view utilising a PIN as a way to “sneak” up the Google results and send thousands of visitors to an ad-riddled website.
Instead, I see it as a way to help you start getting great content noticed that could attract natural links once it is.
I mentioned at the start of this article that I would likely weed out some of the audience of ViperChill. I want to make it clear though that I’m not trying to help people with shitty websites rise to the top of Google.
While I believe there is a great opportunity here, it isn’t easy. Turning the concept into reality sounds much easier on paper (or in a blog post).
The truth is that when it comes to making money online, most people are, quite simply…lazy.
They may be excited about this idea for a few weeks but if you’re going to use this to rank in an industry worth ranking for, you should be aiming for keywords that take a few months to get any serious traction for.
Links Aside, The Connections You Build Can Be Invaluable
I’ve already briefly talked about the other benefits this kind of network can have, besides link building.
You can connect with people who have a genuine passion for your industry who in turn spur you on to put more work into your site and help you improve your online ventures. Whether that’s giving advice on your design, your writing, your strategy or anything else.
Working online can seem lonely at times, especially if your offline friends don’t have an inkling to do anything online. When you’re aiming to make money from your web projects it’s nice to find other people on the same journey.
In my future of blogging post a few years ago, one of the most popular on the site, I mentioned how some bloggers had worked together to help grow their respective audiences in the same industry.
TechCrunch and Mashable grew incredibly quickly at the same time while investors were putting more and more of their money into web-based projects. They mentioned each other thousands of times.
Smaller operations – though still huge – like Copyblogger and Problogger would guest post on each others’ sites, promote each other’s products, send traffic to each other via their email lists and essentially enhanced both of their own images through their connection.
I took the time to actually figure out how many times some sites mentioned each other, which you can see in the graphic below.
While links were a key factor in all of these partnerships, I wouldn’t essentially class them as private link building. Most of the links didn’t include any specific anchor text and they weren’t to random affiliate sites or anything like that. All of them were trying to build authoritative online businesses and found someone with a similar passion on the same journey.
While TechCrunch and Mashable were almost in direct competition with each other, they still highlighted the stories that the other site got to first. Michael Arrington later sold TechCrunch to AOL for $25m. Pete Cashmore is still the CEO of Mashable though according to Politico.com, is trying to sell the site for around $300-$350m.
That’s a partnership that certainly paid off for both of them. Pete holding out six years on his sale seems to have been a smarter choice, however.
A Facebook Group to Find PIN Partners
For what is probably a very limited time only, I’m giving access to a private Facebook group where people can assemble together to potentially build their own Private Influencer Network.
I don’t want the comments here to be full of pitching opportunities, so let’s take this elsewhere to see what industries you’re working with. To be approved for the group you must leave a comment here with your Facebook name or put your Facebook initials at the end of a comment. Facebook will likely recommend the group to people who have no idea what PIN’s are and I don’t want to do a lot of moderating.
Don’t reveal your exact niche when you start a discussion, just simply zoom out of your niche and reveal a higher category that you would like to work in. You can find the group here (remember to comment to be approved).
Thank you, as always, for reading.
JCD
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Hi,
Can you add me?
A E
Thanks
MB
Welcome, Martin!
Damn this is a great post Glen, and yes I didn’t unsubscribe. lol
Haha, thanks Paul!
CS
Damn this is a great post Glen, and yes I didn’t unsubscribe. PL
Dude,
Great to have you back in the community!
I’m still searching for the paypal donation button.
Hahaha,
Thanks dude. So proud of your success with Marketing Inc!
AB
DWJP hey Glen 🙂
Hello there Mr. Wong!
DM
Approved! 🙂
JR
Welcome!
EL
I am very tempted to do this because this seems like it can definitely work if done the right way. Unfortunately I dont seem to have the privilge you enjoy with experimenting. Having said that this post has definitely inspired me, let me do some thinking and sketch out a plan with minimal risks.
BTW thanks for this amazing information.
And another one…Posts keep getting better and better. As always, appreciate the time and insights.
Hey bro,
great article. Took me a full 30 minutes to read.
I 100% agree with you that this is the future of SEO and the next step after the PBN train. Would recommend anyone serious about SEO to get on this now before it becomes too mainstream.
CV
Hey Glen,
I would like to join, but I’m not sure if my level of SEO knowledge is good enough, I mostly do eCom. Can we discuss this on email or FB?
CST
AS
Hey Glen!
I’ve been trying to put my experiences on my personal blog after 4 years of testing, churning, failing and winning with SEO and an article on something like “PIN” is what I was working at as well. I stopped writing mid-way because this surely out performs what I was writing. You’re badass, you mention details like a baby would understand. I generally don’t write if I can not better them and this post is one of such.
I’ve seen every SEOs on earth who we all know or at least are famous doing “PIN” all the time. Damn! Someone needed to explore this maths about SEO!
Keep ’em coming! Great work!
Best,
Naman Nepal.
SS
Excellent content as always! I imagine his is rife throughout the Internet.
DOR
MT
Great post! MS
WS
Great article
AB
TK
Thanks for this article mate…
Very insightful analysis Glen – but that’s to be expected from you.
AA.
Great post.
RC
Hey Glen,
You’re usually on the button.
After your last post, I got the idea of taking advantage of business partners with a web presence. I got links to my main commercial site, inserted in the partner’s footers.
Bam – 4 weeks later, my traffic & rankings up about 30%
So yah, I wouldn’t be surprised if what you said here, really pans out.
Another awesome post. Thanks
After almost 16 years of having the puppet master pulling my strings to follow the (remember?) Google Dance, your great article spoke to me directly. I belong to sevral FB private groups, in a couple of them some of the guys are raking it in with a similar linking system. I’ve been sort of leery to try it, but I think now, you have convinced me and I thank you. I would really appreciate joining your private group to learn the best ways to do it.
Thanks again, you are one heck of a good writer!
Appreciate the kind words, Ed.
Looking forward to joining you in the group.
I think this is the best way to rank. Help others to rank in one niche and they will help you to rank in another niche. The give and take way is the best. PIN is what I am following now to make my network.
Welcome to a new world, Rahul 😉
DT
Just approved you, Dan.
LJ
How always Glen, epic post!
KK
I’ve done this, and it does work, and I think your tips are valid. We did not have a “leader” and I think that is one of the reasons why it fell apart. Some people got hit with penalties as they weren’t careful enough, some were in very, very competitive niches that had eyes everywhere, and some started blasting their PBN’s linking to your money site with terrible links to try to build their juice. PBN”s started getting deindexed, and then you start getting nervous about working with them going forward because of it.
In the end there were only a few of us and I gave up on it and decided to put my energy into building my own net with my own stuff that I have 100% control over. I’m still in teh Skype group but don’t pay much attention to it anymore.
So while it can absolutely work, you need a leader for sure to watch what everyone is doing and also need to always be looking for additional people and replacements because inevitably people fall out for one reason or another. And be very, very careful who you work with.
SL
Another great read Glen! Tudor Cioltea
lucidpage
The main problem with SEO in not the fact, that it’s not working, but the marketing goal behind it. Google is trying to take advantage of their ad inventory as much as possible and for all of the commercial queries it will be, more or less, a “pay to play” game.
Days, where it was easy to take a bite of this traffic are definitely over. As a person, who offer PPC services, I can say that right now are really good times for people who specialize in paid advertising, as the demand for this kind of services is really high.
Google don’t care that much about long tail traffic either. Their main focus are high volume keywords, popular demand products and repeatable purchases. The rest of the traffic, concerning the upper sections of the purchase funnel, is left for SEOs.
Great post as always – thank you AM
VG
Wow, really mindblowing discovery, this looks like a great opportunity. Would like to learn and do more!
DV
TM
JC
HC
CM
Awesome! Sent a join request to the group 🙂
Glen you consistently impress me with your non-bs approach to SEO. Thanks for another solid post.
Appreciate that, Marc!
No problem Glen – It’s just infuriating to see the industry constantly preaching white hat when in reality I see spam dominating the SERPs everyday. White hat SEO is just good marketing but competitive keywords require that extra push and guest posting will only get you so far. Anyways would appreciate an invite to the fb group you can find me at facebook.com/noindexplz/.
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Approved!
JL!
Great stuff Glen
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Great article
PJ
Approved!
Glen,
As always, brilliant post with lots of new things to learn and think about.
I rarely comment, but read everything you publish.
Cheers,
MJAK
As mentioned in one of my comments long back, the reason I follow your posts is because they are DIFFERENT, realistic and straight to the point. I have been struggling with SEO and have edited my articles as much as I can and all using WHITE HAT. Although I do not belong to the group of people who blindly follow the phrase “follow google”, I did what I could. That included advertisements, adjusting sentences, replacing words, putting in links. Well, truth is I was never satisfied. Nor were the results any better. My articles were specifically meant for a specific group. However, the specific group could be reached only if the site showed up in searches.
Your articles have proven, each time, that blindly following certain rules don’t work and a revolutionary thinking is definitely needed. PIN is an excellent idea. An idea with a foundation, logical clarity and at the same time an inherent flexibility. Waiting for more from you.
Thanks for sharing your creative ideas.
Suren
Suren,
Thanks for such an awesome comment (and the kind words).
Great to have you as part of the community!
Glen, it is I who need to thank you. In an unfathomable struggle, there is a reason why I unsubscribed from innumerable sites (honestly, I have no count) and keep a very few sites and I always keep coming back to your articles (and of course your emails) . thanks again.
Appreciate that, Suren!
PH
RS
Glen, i must let you know that it’s quarter to 2 AM in the morning here. Also, frankly I haven’t read the article yet completely but I know for sure it’s gonna be awesome. I’ll make sure it’s my first read in the morning. Hope you still have a spot left in there.
Good night
RK
CW
Been waiting on this article Glen. FB initials are MCNL
DL
SD
WD
PC
PC…#2 (sorry)
Great Post Glen Thanks!
AO
JG
BH
Another great article!
TF
Brilliant , been following your sites and posts since your Gaurdian series with the Butterflyist.
Keep it coming.
SC
That brings back memories.
Great to have you here, Steve!
Interested. DS
EL
Sam Hanson
Send a request too.
CS
Good shit Glen. You’re one of maybe two SEO blogs I still enjoy reading – everybody else seems to be terrified of Google
Hey Christian…whats the second vlog you follow. If its as good as Glens id like to read it also if you are willing to share. Too few good good bloggers out there and Glen’ s ranks pretty high….
BE
DT
Incredible (and dangerous) information here. The PIN concept under different names has gone back and forth from favor and usually the semi-public ones burn because of the laziness of the membership. Hopefully that is not the case here…
ST
Awesome article!
Best one of yours I’ve read
I’m in the money blog niche.
Thanks for the insightful article.Looking forward to learning more.
Hopeto
Great read, thanks!
FL
another killer post Glen ! Shame you aren’t posting more articles
KA
mu
MB
this is a great post Glen. Thanks
Epic post, as always Glen.
TDB
SJ
My facebook initials: raf
If we’ve only got another 4 – 5 years, we’d better make the most of it.
AJW
Haha, indeed!
MB
Would love to try this opportunity!
DG
JM
Great post! as always. JASC
Tnks Glen for this awesome post
AO
SSHS
AW
Great post Glen!
PS
B.S ! (:
GB
Amazing, insightful info as always. Thanks you – AB
Great post Glen, i like the idea, though I think is something that comes naturally when one creates a quality blog and makes friend within a niche. I already link to my buddies, and get linked by them, on a regular basis, which seems perfectly normal to me.
Nevertheless, I think it might be useful to learn techniques to systematize this. I’d like to have access to the group. MGM.
hey glen
awesome article.
My initial are SJ
I’l have to read this article multiple times. Much food for thought here. Thenk you, Glen.
EM
How doom and gloom! Not unsubscribed, though! Do you think there’s a chance that more people will use Adblocker’s over time, Glen? DG
Brilliant article
GD
Awesome article, like ever! I
DB
I was expecting to read yet another article pushing the virtues of PBNs (which I feel are risky long term), instead I found something of merit. Very interesting and informative.
RQ
Very interesting- keen to learn more.
GBS
Hi,
It looks like we’ll have to do a lot of network and start linking ourselves 😉
thx
Loving your work, Glen.
I’ve not been able to put any of your advice in to action yet as I have far too much going on, but I do love to read your insights and research
AA
what a damn good read Glen.
🙂
BC. Super eager to join the group. Thank you in advance for the opportunity!
Interesting take on this Glen. I’ve been watching “SEO experts” use this tactic for years to rank their own sites but would never help their clients do the same. I finally gained access to a few large sites like HuffPost, Entrepreneur, Life Hack, and business.com and have been leveraging them to grow my own network. I’m interested in checking out your FB group and just submitted a request. My initials are RL.
interested. this remind me by the old link exchange groups..the history is happen again.
TP
Thanks
No need to approve comment. Just the group
This makes for a great read. Gets one to zoom out and think about the bigger picture.
This is also a reminder of the fact that one strategy is not enough. You can blog all you want, if you never end up getting PR from it or some complementary form of traction, you won’t be at the top. (The book Traction is a good way to reflect on the topic and prepare a plan of attack.)
Likewise, people who run MasterMinds or help one another will do better than lonewolves.
Butterflyist, I remember that as well! CM
My first steps in traffic jungle. Great article
AT
Hey Glen what’s up brother, would love to take part in some discussion!
M Patrick
BPD
RL
GS
There is actually some great software out there that manages PIN’s as well. Great Post, but now the secrets out.
IU
Another great post, man my head’s starting to spin with everything there is to do! I think I’m just going to keep plowing on the Marketing Inc for now.
BLW
Thanks Glen. That was a really great post.
Add me to the group, please!
Thanks,
Harry
HEC
Facebook Name: harry.chittenden
Thanks again for a great post.
CM
Hey Glen, my wife was a writer for About.com for a number of years until about 2 months ago, and you’re not actually correct about their motivations. They started experiencing dramatic SERP and traffic losses in a lot of verticals in the last few years, and made tons of changes to try to combat that. When the issues started, the site was hideously optimized for social (and had a poor design in general), and the vast majority of traffic came through organic search.
They have been frustrated with Google over the last few years, since they started having organic traffic/rankings issues. This led them to move their focus much more to social optimization and traffic, while still attempting to optimize for organic rankings.
The move to different websites makes clear sense because they don’t want to be like Wikihow and those other annoying 10-step answer sites. They want to be able to be authorities in their space(s). How many informational sites are there these days that are authorities on everything? Quality sites? Few, if any.
People trust and look for websites that are specialists in niches. We don’t want generalists (and neither does Google). They took a while to figure that out, but it will help them with social sharing and likely organic rankings as well. The getting multiple spots in the SERPs thing could be a nice bonus, but it definitely wasn’t the motivation for them doing this.
H Fo
PS
SW
Great post Glen!
Worth a shot
Yeah, I am in. Great idea!
Thank you for this!
Many golden nuggets to be found in this article even beyond what you made easily noticeable.
– SGR
RG
SG 🙂
Great article, love your stuff!
RL – great article
As always, amazing.
DVV
Nice outline, interested in more.
Hi Glen,
Great post, but what is to stop someone turning on you and entering you niche?
Excellent post Glen, I really enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for sharing this great idea. CR
Suscribed!
Hi Glen,
I am looking forward to being a part of this Group.
Jim
CT
Amazing Stuff like always! Thanks
PK
Agencies have been doing this for years. It leverages their efforts for multiple clients all at once.
Mf
ZK
Sounds like fun!
TY
private influencer network.com domain taken
Lol!
VT
Thanks for this post. I don’t have 30 mins to read right now but I’m keen to join the fb group.
I have a few sites across various niches. Thanks
RB
AH
jcd
ME. Thanks glen!
You’re the best 🙂
SS
Very interesting article as always Glen, a pleasure to read! My initial are TS!
BW
I echo the love. Thank you for the time + effort in putting these posts together.
If you’re still accepting, SS
Another insightful post as always, I ‘ve been thinking on best way to fight back since reading your previous post. keep it up Glen
Great Post – Let’ us in….
Another incredible article ! Thanks Glen !
BR
Great article!
This looks great Glen
DN
krt
WS – Really enjoyed this post. You’re awesome, Glen!
RS
Reply for access
TB
YG
Great stuff as always Glen.
SP. Brilliant article Glen!
Great post, thanks Glen. My initials are AY.
Great read.
CB
Ibn
SM
RK
Another great post – one of your best – Thanks Glen
FB intials PC
Epic post! Skim-read and bookmarked for later. Please can I be part of your FB Group? Initials are CG.
Requested!
Just found you Glen, I am very impressed with your site, did mention I hate cheese!!!!!
SVB
RS
Glen! Thanks for the time put into each of your articles. I find the idea of joining forces for mutual online cooperation a must in today’s online-work-isolation. Couldn’t resonate more with me. -JS
DF
facebook initials: saq
CH
IÅ
Great stuff Glen!
It’s ironic the timing of this article. I was just noticing a PIN in action in one of my niches (but I had labelled it a “Good ‘ol Boy Network”) and had been thinking that it would be nice to team up with some influencers to do the same.
Please let me in the FB group. Initials: REB
KS
j d
What an eye opener!
GL
LA
Great article Glen!
MM
Hi Glen, You don’t disappoint. I love this article. It’s insightful. Please add me to group please facebook username wclinks
Much appreciated, Wayne!
GK
HM
YO
Have followed you for years, Glen because of your authenticity.
WK
AH
This is one of those concepts that’s been stirring around in my head for the past year. I avoided it in the past for worry of someone edging into my primary niche. Now that I’m comfortable with my primary niche and looking to build up new verticals this post couldn’t have had better timing. Thanks Glen.
DK
Another benefit of PIN’s is since it’s has legitimate content, you’ll also end up owning media on which you can have ad space on.
Nice article (as always)!
PJ
DS
I love your site. It has helped me overcome my fears and start applying what I’m learning from you.
HH
The only content I look forward to receiving in my inbox! Great stuff again Glen!
JC
Awesome, SC
RJ
Let’s do this Glen. 😉
MK
NB
Amazing article, took me a while to finish, coz I was rereading parts of it.
Thanks bro!
HA
Sounds insane.
Remember we are “guided” with what we read and watch in all media.
JB
Cheers.
John
Great post Glen.
Interested in joining – JS
I’m interested. It’s all about like minds helping each other out, right? Right.
BD
Got to try.
Ms
Vc
good. i like it.
Amazing post once again Glen. I too use the Last updated tip with my niche and it works very well.
CF
Let me in Glen! : )
*Please*
JN
bkg
JK
AK
FWB
New kid on the block so I had to reread this to understand the concept…..reminds me of a wealth club provided the network has the right content, true?
Ok I”m in. Let’s make it happen.
RB
ED
MC
VA
Dpk
PH
a pearl in the pile of oyster shell trash, happy to find, thanks
DK4
Hi Glen, another one of your monster articles that I can’t stop reading.I had to go back to absorb all the good stuff you share, thanks!
JC
RB
TS
RT
Mes
GLJ
let’s see
RCM
Awesome poat mate
FB Initial MF
Great read, Glen. Cheers.
KFM
Great post, solid content.
DT
This is awesome! KC.
Love your work Glen, count me in. PM.
This is one of the best article you have written. I love and like the idea. This is how we can play with big brands. Please count me in.
SS
Great post!
LK
Very interesting article and I’ve already noticed these private influencer networks popping up, especially in the manosphere. Lots of blogs about fitness, motivational stuff and other manosphere topics link to each other all the time. They’re all more or less “friends” who met online and constantly promote each others stuff across their own blogs and social media sites.
Anyways, thanks for the article, I just joined the group on Facebook and my name there is the same as here.
Insightful post as always bro. In hard times people have often clubbed together to be stronger together than they would be on their own. This is clearly the seo equivalent.
I’m ranking for keywords that I can rank for with just personal pbn at the moment, but gonna keep my eye on this movement. If (big if) done properly it can clearly be lucrative for all involved.
Something I think worth mentioning is that with ads getting more and more space above organic search results, it’s important to diversify by building funnels that begin with paid traffic.
Don’t wanna be too reliant on either traffic source, especially organic, with the way things are heading.
CH
Nice post. I kinda typed this reply quietly so as not to arouse suspicion. It always amazes me that in this high tech world that looking to the natural world is often where answers lie. Symbiotic relationships work everywhere to survive against the odds! jh
I’m down. How do I get access? CWJ
SP
BR – I’d like to learn more about this. I think this is a great opportunity.
BS
SM
SH
I A B
AC
Great post as always!
TNP
PG
TT
Thanks!
Great article, a lot of good info inside! 🙂
CK
Fantastic actionable strategic insight. Love the analogies and (subtle) humor. Thank you, Glen. Suggestion to team cooperatively as well as laying down criteria and ground rules is brilliant. I’d only launched my website last month, so not experienced (yet!) but self-driven and meets criteria, so requesting opportune to be in to continue to learn… fast. PLP
RA
Hello Glen , follow your blog a little over 1 year. Nicer to read its content when I receive an email from you …
This article is magnanimous , track viperchill made ​​me grow a lot in digital marketing in Brazil. I feel I am years lights Freight my competitors . It’s a shame not to have people in Brazil to assemble such a promising project like this . The PIN term is new to me , I was more familiar with the term PBN … I hope you understand my words , I used Google translator to write as well as use to read your rich content .
Thank you, Jorge Moreno
Hi Glen! I asked you on the group.
SHG
NT
Cheers Glen for an interesting post was a long read but worth it.
GD
Firstsly, awesome thinking. Secondly would appreciate the approval in the fb group…facebook initals : AQ
CDA
DW
Damn this is a great post Glen
BC
I think PIN is what industry experts use already, at-least in in SEO industry. The big players attend so many conferences, summits meet people across the industry network and share links.
They all are well linked, no wonder they get great links and also get big brands who anyway loved by Google. Rich gets richer is the theory.
Yes, small business players loose out on this but networking is the key.
Thank you so much for this. I needed to read this! FB DJ Yabis
UA
NF
Been working a lot on outreach and guest posting lately. This is the cherry on top!
MG
Great article
KO
Great article (as always my friend!)
I love reading your posts and following your courses because the strategies you teach they simply work. And for the people not wanting to come to the “dark side”, good luck trying to follow the “recommended” practices. Big players use the system to their advantage, so we, the smaller players need to do what we can to game it as well. Thanks Glenn.
Steven Acosta
This article makes a whole lotta sense… The power of groups always wins 🙂
Great post. Always interested in your work as it steps outside the usual dribble.
BA
I would love it if this could be done at the local level, but all we get are those reciprocal links from business associates. I’ll link to you if you link to me.
RS
Joseph
Excellent stuff, man. EC.
Forgive me if i seem obtuse but this seems to be a further extension of the well established axiom: Quality content which is thoroughly syndicated. This is basically how the WWW works, the interconnections of relevant interest materials forms ‘web nodes’ of content which links which creates link bundles – perhaps I missing something here but it this does not seem to be that revolutionary?
Forgive me if i seem obtuse but this seems to be a further extension of the well established axiom: Quality content which is thoroughly syndicated. This is basically how the WWW works, the interconnections of relevant interest materials forms ‘web nodes’ of content which links which creates link bundles – perhaps I missing something here but it this does not seem to be that revolutionary? FB michaelgorman1
Let me in!
Awesome post man!
GC
RN
DT
DN.
Looking forward!
TL
It seem to be use to try other forms of PBN. Google will love this strategy.
MG
Always look forward to reading your material Glen. Great post and a great idea for creating a network of like minded people. JS
Great post mate – AJB
Been using PINs for the last couple years and work great.
Let’s get into that group 🙂
S S Y S S
Thanks Glen, awesome stuff!
ST
Great post – been reading VC since almost a year back and there’s always some good different ideas here that makes it stand out from the rest of the community. Would love to join the PIN and see how we can all make it work together. Thanks Glen.
Initials: LHZL
It can be scaled and seems to be wortg time and money growing them. Thanks for taking ur time pointing out the pin principles. I think its time for me to focus on few industries and stick to it to become an absolute expert with the pin about them. 🙂
JR
Justjillin says sound intriguing
RM
Glen,
You put up huge posts I mean with Quality insights how Google plays by their own rules.
And the big brands utilizing their own network of media sites to outrank other small players like the one you mentioned in your previous posts (best products), I have been digging into this ever since there are many such brands which outright rakes in 1000’s of rankings using their own network – they are safe and still going strong. I am monitoring a lot of these sites to see what happens – whether they will take hit or not !
PIN is good concept as you said when you have the right team. Will give this a try, don’t want to be left behind.
Again Glen, do appreciate for time and effort you put in to research and write insightful blogposts. 🙂
Hats Off to Glen Alsop.
This works very well for some agencies I know..The problem is trying to find a team to collaborate with and maybe 5 is too large a number to start with.
Will give it a try
AM
TB
Grest post m8
SC
Awesome idea 🙂
jonathan.magnin.54
Great concept Glen. I’d like to join the group as well. My Fb initials are DN 🙂 Thanks.
SV
PC10
Great blog post m8
SC
Really good information! I’d like to be apart of this group. EM
HB
Very, very interesting post. Is a PIN also a good idea to build up something like a magazine style site, or more suited towards niche sites based around specific niches?
By Rand! EB
Wow. Epic. Fully makes sense. I wished I thought of putting two and two together. Truly awesome.
JB
Best, Jae
PG
MM
CM
JC
Great post.
MM
KC
Hi Glen,
That’s very useful.
Enjoyed this….I think the most salient point is that most people struggle with creating quality content and while you have told us how the microphone works, being able to sing is even more important1
FB initial MF
Shah
Great article!
SG
Makes all the sense.
Lucky Murari
Count me in.
GT
Good stuff. Thanks for putting the Facebook group together. Initials are JD.
CD
Great article
Nice post.
CO
I’m in.
SS
Glen, insightful and valuable as always. I had been thinking about this concept a lot after your last post but not with so much clarity and structure. YW
HS
TN
Amazing work as always Glen!
FB: WN
Hey Glen,
Really great post, again! Thank you for the time invested in bring these fantastic resources for us.
SF
Interesting (in hindsight obvious) idea. I think it’s (as you said) a great thing for a site you’re pretty committed to, like your own personal site. Not so much for pushing quick affiliate junk.
I’m keen to give it a try nonetheless.
FB initial is ZS
I have always been overwhelmed by your consistency in writing such long and extensive articles.
AN
My name is…
FB
🙂
DS
This is an amazing overview of what is happening currently in SEO. Everything is moving so quick. Time to pivot or double down.
Rick Bodey (RB)
Hi Glen.
Do you still have a spot left in your facebook group. Can you add me please facebook name: Wayne Cassidy Links.
Impressive post!
RE
SM
I’ve seen this work with a person I work with and his PIN. Great insight on something that’s not really talked about much. RK.
Interesting article. I’m TT on FB 🙂
Interested.still going to continue with the marketing Inc company strategies you and diggy have put together.
DC
Great post Glen. Sounds like a great opportunity. ED
Alex B
EP
Thanks again for everything!
NT
Great method.!
Boom! Glen drops an effing mega bomb.
QT
Great Post.
RRK
Nice blog post again mate!
RK
ML
🙂
VT
Great article 🙂
JT
Fantastic write up as usual. Lemme in! RT
BS
NL
Scott Godar (sgodar)
YS
You are different. I like different 😉
HVZ
Greater post i did say. thanks Glen
Raymond
looking forward to joining you there!!
LL
OB
Cheers.
NL… Always down to network, should be interesting.
lchiay
Thanks Glen.
A corporate mentalist here looking for entertainment and event planner professionals for this pin, anyone interested?
Great article Glen. I love how you think outside the proverbial Google box!
APK 🙂
D. K.
Thank you!
Amazing post. Applied for the Facebook group! BD.
MK
Nice post as usual. Love to join the group. 🙂
Always learning, great work again. DS
Loved the article. Great concept. Requested for facebook group.
Great article.
RK
JBC
JJ
Another interesting post from you again. I always love to read your articles because of the knowledge I used to gain therein.
Thanks a lot
Great article, as always!
Totally agree with PIN – but never saw the name as such. I’m definitely interested in meeting more people in my niche and helping each other out – i’m requesting access to the FB group
MM are my initials- Mike Michelini
Another great post, or should I say an epic post? You put linking into perspective for me,
I’ve not trusted a lot of the other guru’s recommendations, things like using PBN’s, it
just didn’t sound like a good and safe way to go. Thanks
PD
Hy Glen,
Nice article, as always. I think I will never unsubscribe from your list, no matter what you say 🙂
I can always find some value from your work.
Thanks.
Adrian I.B.
Great post as always and makes great sense for a new venture I am trying to get going. ML
Great research this does seem to make a list of people for Google to target and does seem like the old reciprical link methods from the dark ages but as you have proven can certainly be used in some form –
i would like to test the group my initials are DJS 🙂
RD
Johnny Rosato
Amazing article Glenn!
Very interesting as usually!
DBC
Very deep informative post Glen ! MY.
PM 🙂
I have the view that all will travel far through collaboration.Two will slay thousands easily
Very good read! Thanks, Glen
lonelyschnozz.
PM
AK
MH
Keep uncovering the big bad boys!
WA
EVT
I would like to be part of the facebook group. I´m Spanish ;-). By the way, good blog. Thanks for all your entries.
Mate,
A fantastic fucking article as always. It’s along the lines of an idea I’ve been toying with for a little while now, but with a twist.
A local version. The idea is to build a network of local business owners, influencers and service providers to share links to each other, cross-promote, build JV’s, etc. and basically help each other grow.
Thoughts? I imagine it would be quite a bit easier to rank for this kind of local terms using the same PIN type method than for global search terms. Plus I love the idea of building small biz in my city (and getting some clients out of it too!).
ED
FB
ADD
MM
kh7
Great article Glen!
MF
Hey Glen loved the article. As always, lot of actionable content to get started on.
My fb username is: yesacpow
Thanks
Very interesting post. Thank you!
MK
Another great post. Interested in your Facebook group TA
SL 🙂 thank you!
SMW
Sv
Great post! LABY.
CA
Awesome post. BZ
KJ
Thx!
ES
Hey Glen!
Really very helpful post. you can follow one person and/or one orgn when they are leaving no option for you rather then just chasing them. you really dared to put other side of the game which people might like or not (specially by GIN, hope people understand its meaning).
It’s not about pointing or disclosing some info, it is all about finding something which can help those who are helpless in this game. It’s not some kind of shortcut or hack, its just how human being works in this world and how only few people/orgn just own the major part, mostly by some kind of games.
I feel really good to subscribe earlier for your post and eagerly waiting for next one.
I always get a lot out of your posts. Keep up the good work. I would very much like to be a part of your Facebook group. I have clicked “Join Group.”
Nice post as usual. Have learned a lot from you throughout the years. The viralnova type site I created in another language after reading about the opportunity here is still making nice money for me.
Everything here is golden, love to join the group. 🙂
AS
Can’t believe I’m doing this, but your right. Thanks for the insight. FB – TB
KD
MS
Love your blogs Glen. Bit confused sometimes but learning from you nonetheless. Not sure if our site needs to be a blog specifically (because it’s not) but let’s hope I can give and receive anyway.
JW
AS
II Thanks !
JL
I’m interest to learn with you guys and I really don’t know the initials but I’m doing Ecommerce now
RH
LP
(Can contribute a lot to specific niche)
Thanks in advance Glenn!
Darky Khan
Good stuff Glen and the time and care put into this post is really appreciated (not sure how you do it to be honest).
The PIN concept can be applied not only to influencers but products (we work on that a lot here) and YouTube videos as well, among other things.
Nice job G.
TT
Does it need to be private? I’m looking at one of Abouts new web properties, and in the header there is a plainview link to “join the network” with your website. This would imply that not only are they creating new brands, but new networks, in broad daylight.
I can only say WOW for this post. You really put your time researching a matter none would do Glen. I feel the same thing about how seo changes overtime and it might be dead sooner probably. Well, the time isn’t up yet, right?
NA
Hey great article. dont knwo how long it must have taken u but it seems really really long and very well written
Great Article. Would love to be a part of the group.
AD
B.o
Again a great article!
gorik
Bo
APM
RA
Great article Glen. Ready to join the group.
MT
This post is legendary. But then again, nothing surprising as that’s what we expect from you!
PD
Way back this is what all the SEO “gurus” used to do, for example, I spoke to and they all promoted each other and got influence this way. I remember someone at the time called it a jerk circle but whatever it was really effective.
Travel niche 🙂
JG
John B.
Well done, Glen…
Again, another nice and little secret revealed post!
Just join group in FB, hope let me IN too, thanks.
DH
Laurence Stanley
Thanks in advance 🙂
Hi Glen,
You mentioned that we’ve got “Four to Five Years Left to ‘Do SEO’”, without looking in to your crystal ball, do you have any thoughts on where we’ll be after that? Just left with paid advertising?
Great article BTW!
JB
As always great post Glen.
FB Initials- Real.T
Very interesting, look forward to exploring this more! Thank you!
MR
Here is my facebook ID: Flo Roub
Great article once again, Glen.
I find your perspective on SEO to always be refreshing, insightful and actionable.
Cheers,
Josh Hamit
Glenn
A fantastic article and I’m sure that will be a great way to rank for the years to come.
And thanks for the opportunity of joining the FB group.
dwaser
Great info Glen, another inciteful post. JM
Just submit to the facebook group
SW
BLESS you Glen 🙂
Initials: C I
Shalom!
Blair Urquhart
Fully in Glen
JK 🙂
RH
Thanks for the in-depth post. Love to read something different (and unique) every time you come up with a post.
pls add me
LJ
PG… the 2nd with those initials
Michael D
Nice post bro.
WP
Good job Glenn. MH
Whenever I see post like this about the seo changing, I often get nervous. Maybe because I am still new and feared that I loose out for starting out late. But I have to see that myself later as you said it is still 4 -5 years more.
Regarding the strategy you write here, I think its brilliant, its not gaming google, but helping each other to attain common goal ethically. I really like how honest you are with the results of the research you are doing.
Thanks for this, Glen
Hi Glen,
Incredible article and I completely agree with you.
Count me in! CM
Absolutely ground breaking post… Thanks Glen
CJ
I found this to be very informative and worthwhile. I’m glad I took the time out to read this article. Want to join the FB group. Thanks.
EL
Sebastian M.
I can see this working well for people who have already build up a strong online presence but not so much if you’re starting from scratch.
Really great article Glen. This is an amazing new concept. Do you think this concept will work very well in the construction niche. I’ll like to know your thoughts. Thanks for sharing such an amazing discovery.
Great article!
I’ve been looking at this for a while too. Great Post. MM
K K
DS
Oh boy, another great post that gives me great ideas! Thanks Glen!
DT
Great article. The amount of replies in a couple of days shows just how many people are hungry for new ideas. MC
Thank you so much!
SS
Great post Glen,
OE.
BW
Hi Glen
Excellent post. I’m in
Insightful post. Thanks Glen!
JW
Thanks for that gem of an article.
Vicky Arenas
Glenn, this is an excellent post.
I have been working on my own site and have observed the strategy of promoting multiple clients in the blog posts on media sites many times. You took it to another level.
PIN will also give more ROI on the efforts spent earning a link. A guest post on a top blog does not come easily. But by promoting others, the RoI be much higher.
Thanks,
PD
ja
RS
Awesome Glen!
MS
JF
CM
Nice Post as always Glen
RD
Great post Glen. Very insightful and just shows what groups of people have been doing for a while. Have seen some groups grow their audience using PINs but they weren’t even aware of what it was they were doing. That’s why it looks natural!
PR
GP
JP
EF
ML – Great article and looking forward to joining the group. If SEO or “organic” search will be gone as we know it in 4-5 years, are you saying “all” search will be paid? Not sure if I agree but the trend seems to support that. Just not sure people won’t start relying more and more on alternative engines such as Bing. Time will tell though
The first article I’ve read from start to finish and actually been glued to the screen for a long time. Looking forward to joining your group to explore this fascinating world.
Great post!
I was recently discussing this tactic with someone and didn’t have anything to call it. I will now be using PIN.
Look forward to reading more.
Kevin
Love it.
Networking is always good.
Facebook initials – ZR
AGER
Thanks for the great post.
JB
Great value, as always. aliciakan
Great post Glen! I wouldn’t hesitate to give this post the ‘Article of the year award”! I will be following closely.
NM*
Cat
Hi Glen,
once again you nailed it with this article. Whole idea and concept is something that I was thinking about for a long time. In my eyes, this is one of the few ways to do proper work considering situation in SEO world.
Thank you for spending so much time writing valuable articles. All the best!
BR
further confirming my belief that SEO is remarkably similar to regular marketing– but with specific online goals in mind… and not keeping those search engine-specific parts (link building etc) top of mind will leave you in the dust…
thanks for creating the FB group! great piece as always
WK
DS
Add me in glen, fb- Gail Tuuri thanks
I love these posts that give you the nuts and bolt s behind the idea and not some general blanket advice, like “get friends to link to you”
The question, though is why would you have to even worry about hiding said connections at all? If you are on the face connected to each other, on social, even in “real” life, of course you would be linking to each other , right?
I mean, a happenstance meeting on twitter or facebook leads to a conversation which leads to a friendship. That is completely believable and above board.
As long as you stay within the trend graph of friends linking to each other, you won’t even have a human eyes on it.
This. I like this.
SB
Great post as always Glen 🙂
FM
Excellent insight as always Glenn.
Thanks for sharing!
JM
Hey Glen,
amazing post. My Facebook initials are MR. Can’t wait to connect with like-minded people.
cheers,
Marius
Nice! Really enjoyed this article. You took your time and laid everything out. KM
Great article I’ve been looking for something like this for 3 years!
BB
AA. Great post Glen. Never find such gud stuff anywhere.
Hey Glen, awsome post and great idea with the facebook group. GE
It’s only July, but this might end up being my favorite SEO article for 2016. Your thoughts in the beginning of the article outlined what I’m thinking and seeing as well. I assume other SEO’s are facing the same things and PIN’s are a great way to be thinking about the future. Looking forward to joining the FB group.
Love the idea.
JJC Thank you!
LF 🙂
Great article holy shit. I truly enjoy reading each and every one of those.
How can I contact you Glen?
if SEO is dying a slow death should we be ups killing yourself on the social media front?
i actually dont think SEO is dying on every search engine i think bing will be the next frontier…
Great post, facebook initials MC
BK
Epic post Glen. Up there with your best work IMO. Thank you
John M
Epic post Glen. Up there with your best work IMO. Thankyou
Am I approved?
Great article Glen, I have been following this topic for some while and this makes a lot more sense than anything I have read to date. Really appreciated. Paul Draskovich
AS
RB
Love it! There Ahrefs has alluded to this in some of their posts in regard to Moz, Inbound, Backlinko, Hubspot and more.
JW
JW
RA
GREAT POST!!!
TIA for adding me Glen 🙂
Interesting stuff Glen – a chance for the small fry to benefit in the same way the big fish have been doing for years…
anna.preston.1048
Fantastic post as usual Glen. I love how you’re always pushing the boundaries. Oh yeah, and my initials are “PC”.
Hello Glen.
Liked your post. The idea of PIN is great. But does require time and effort. Also would like U to do a post on some exciting new markets or products which are not already over saturated by PBN and PIN.
Great article. KP
This is the best article I’ve read on your site till date.
And let me provide some context behind this sentence.
First, it’s not that other articles were behind in terms of actionable tactics, steps, and whatnot… Most of your content is game changing. But this… this is something else. This is Visionary!
Few reasons why:
It’s not black hat any more… Not that I weren’t enjoying reading about the other strategies, and not that many of them were totally unfamiliar to myself and the guy I’m working with, but black hat is not how we roll. Forget about ethics, it’s purely a challenge game. White hat is way more satisfying, challenging, and most of all gives you the option to one day stand behind a solid project with your name on it (releasing our huge fitness product in one month or so).
This my friend, is visionary because it combines white hat with the ability to scale. Something that resides in the realm of growth hacking. Am I in? You bet.
Creating content is a real joy for me, and I truly believe I can contribute to the right team.
SD
Glen,
Looks like you struck a nerve here – almost 500 comments & 325 shares in 24 hours!
Thanks for the ideas, learning how the mic works & tuning up the singing voice!
DA
The future has arrived. I’m in – DL
EG
Peter BaranÃk
Looking forward !
Glen – smart as ever.
See you in the group.
Ian – IC
TH
RC
Thanks Glen!
MG
Good article. Awesome nuggets! Thanks
LB
AE
“The Future of Private Link Building” was part of Inbound.org’s Daily Digest today!
TMD
Great
SB
Kevin S. – Health / Medical – Awesome post as usual Glenn!!!!
Great article, Glen. Nepotistic networks are how the game is played.
Req access to FB group as well.
Thx
My FB name is Nenad Vedo, I would be happy to join, I’m in the financial services niche.
CD
FB initials SW
Awesome post man!
OA
HTL
Great article Glen.
AS
Interesting twist on an idea I’ve been using.
PR
Fabulous post!!! SP.
PPK
KK
PK
Completely agree
DW
Thanks for the article and I look forward to joining the FB group (same name as me). Looks like the next evolution in high end guest posting, although it can certainly be scaled down for businesses that don’t necessarily need placement in some of the top (e.g. more expensive) sites.
SN
Awesome post!
DB
Cheers
This is a very, very clever way to get lots of people’s information. Props.
That’s not to say I disagree with the post. I actually found one of these a couple months ago in the tech-startup niche and it got my wheels turning. Just noticing… 🙂
Or a really bad way to let other marketers contact my audience directly? 😉
RA
MF
Thanks! JH
Great article! 🙂
MO
Legit content as always. I requested approval for your FB group.
JT
The handsome one on FB.
Awesome post buddy. Always love your research and insights into the SEO world.
JR
JK
AC
Thanks for the article. I’ve actually has the idea for a PIN although I’ve never called it that or found people motivated enough to do it.
superb. totally agree with you.
a thought: eventually we’ll all *need* to have PINs and PBNS because everyone will be an affiliate.
fb: SD
FT
JDUB
Great article as always, Glenn. Looking forward to the PIN facebook group.
NK
DH
Hey,
“Links Aside, The Connections You Build Can Be Invaluable” So to sum up the article: build relationships with similar companies but not (too) competitive and use those relationships to help each other.
Looking forward to the second post about PINs where you share some results.
RH
FV – FB group…
GL
BH
As usual Glen always delivers the goods!
RB
AS
This is great info, lots of work to do research at this level. Thank you for sharing.
LC for the facebook group.
Joined, TB. Thanks
Cool stuff as usual.
TS
Hey Glenn,
Great article write up and post, if put together properly with a niche related team, this can be a High Level SEO process/concept that would work well. It is almost like link swapping back in the day, but everyone that did it then used their money site on a links page. Can you say FOOTPRINT. This concept is brilliant, but the only down fall I can see is if people are not pulling their weight or how they SEO some of their own properties.. But still an incredible concept and this would work to help promote many money sites.
MP
Not sure how you keep out-doing yourself with each post. Great stuff…thanks Glen!
DD
Great article
AH
Thought my post went through but can’t find it. Glen, you’re always one step ahead of the curve and this post was great.
Just put in a request to join the Facebook group – JB.
I have to approve all comments so it takes a little while, Jesse 🙂
AG
Mind-blowingly good article, by the way.
SP
Looking forward to the discussion, maybe share strategies and insights.
Great read – very interested! DM
I can’t understand how can i get access to your private Facebook group?.
Read the last paragraph 🙂
I think PIN is difficult to make work for lillte man
JZ
KP
JB!
Great article as usual Glenn! Looking forward to the FB group.
GG
IM 🙂
FB
DS
Your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me…Nice post….I don’t just join anything….I want to be like you when I grow up…..
WW
Appreciate that, Will.
Cool Niche!
LC
Really great article, couldn’t wait to try this in my niche and find some good partners 🙂
QJ
Best of luck, Kentin.
Love your niche!
SC
great idea. Thanks Glenn!
Fantastic article, even more reasons to stay on your list, thanks very much!
My initials for the FB group – S.V.
I appreciate that, Saso!
DW
Interesting. DR
Great article Glen. I have used this very moderately with decent success. GK
NW
BP
Love this!
JMT
AC – Travel/Lifestyle
JP
I very much appreciate your insight, Glen. Best damn 30 minutes I’ve spent online in a long time…TB
Great to read that, Ted!
LR
Way to go Glen. The great thing of this is you don’t need to hide it and help each other while growing. I just join the group.
Great point Richardo.
Good to see you here
JA. Great post, definite food for thought
As always great post glen. AG
DR
Great post, first time here. I’ve read it twice and will read it again. NB
Thanks Nate!
MD are my initials . Thanks VC
Great article Glen!
KT
AS
Another quality article, just keeps getting better! CS
Great post glen. I always get a few solid ideas to work into my own plans or at least a different way of looking at the work im doing. JH
Thanks Justin!
Yeah i think this has been happening for quite a while. Very in depth post, thanks.
Fantastic post mate.. Lapped up every word of it. Keen to look at this group initials BNNM
Cheers buddy.
NH
KG
JM
Thanks for this opportunity Glen!
JC – for FB group
Nice write up Glen!
JT
Vern L
Wow, this is definitely interesting. Looking forward to contribute on the FB group.
Thanks Juha!
NL
RQ
DW
D “M” R
Great insights Glen! Your work is appreciated greatly. Hope to read more from your studies. 🙂
Thanks Hyzel
What a nice gem!
ИК
EE
CJ
A long scroll down to the bottom just to leave a comment haha.
FB group – Yeehong
Haha. A long scroll indeed.
I’m in.
Great post. I have already started doing this but in a very informal fashion. need to buck up 🙂
DC
This is probably one of the best SEO articles I’ve ever read! I’m sick of headlines like “CTR might be a ranking factor” or “Links are still useful for SEO”. Thank you very much for the know-how and the insights, Glen. Will send a request to join the PIN group. Hope I get approved.
Once again – big thanks!
Great concept!
CL
LM
Interesting post!
O.A
CC
Another really interesting read Glen! Thanks!
DI
EW 😉
Really good read 🙂
Hope to meet you guys in the FB group
JD
AI
PR
Great pots. SDW
IC
WOW.
Glen always love your stuff, you football fields ahead of other SEO guys. – its probably why i applied to work for you.
MD
GG
Hi Glen
Thanks for the detailed post and as always well thought out and valuable information. I think these PINs sound effective but also quite difficult to implement and monitor well. It will be interesting to see what teams can be established.
Thanks
Clyde
RO
IT
Pretty neat.- worth a shot 🙂 Joining the fb group to see whats going on under the hood.
RM
NG
DN
DZ
Great article and concept – thanks. PC
Love this post, shared with my community.
Great post Glenn, hope to meet a lot of people in the Facebook group 🙂
PN
RC
Another great article, Glen. Thank you.
RC
This is a very wonderful post Glen,
I’m much interested in this and I’m certain that it’ll work out.
My Facebook initials are TH.
Thanks for sharing.
Great idea with the PINs I hope to join the facebook group and see the magic happen.
OS
Initials: F B
NN
CL,
Great quality post!
Thanks.
Michael Robert (M.R)
Great post Glen! No umlauts in the username.
MP
Nice write up Glenn. Let me in the FB group
fb: KenSavage
Glen,
I always get excited when I see a new article published from you because I know it will be epic and thought provoking. Thank you for continuing to share ideas and thoughts.
CT
Great article!
JC
This is great stuff Glen. Thanks for posting it!
OOM
Glen, thanks for yet another super-useful post.
Awesome insights as usual Glenn, thanks a lot! Catalin Zorzini
Glen, thanks for yet another super-useful post.
TO
“All I need to do to get my traffic back is to add a sentence to the start of the article which says ‘Last updated: July 25th 2016‘.”
Great idea! But I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere before…
Glen, thanks for yet another super-useful post.
T.O.
Was just reading the other day how relationships are the future of the web. You confirmed it – with a different spin.
BJ
But what you have described sounds very much like normal social interaction. I suppose one can argue that it is contrived but isn’t it entirely natural for people in a similar space to be reading about others’ sites and interacting with them?
I launched a gaming site this year and of course I followed all the key gaming blogs already because hey it’s something I’m into. When my site hit a certain standard other bloggers took note and because they are interested in this topic they followed it too. If I write something good, they’ll link to it and share their own thoughts. If they ask me for comment I’m flattered and heck I’d love for them to contribute to my blog cos you know I’ve been following them for years. The type of network you described then forms – naturally. There is no cynical ploy here but yeah I don’t mind if it makes my site look good to Google.
These are just normal social interactions played out on the web. The word “social” on the web isn’t idiosyncratic, it accurately describes what’s going on. If it works that’s because Google recognises these kind of patterns as normal. Can this be “faked”? Well is it fake if a group of blogs are interacting and talking and sharing? I don’t see why it matters or how you could ever distinguish between contrived networking and natural in this scenario.
“Hey I like your blog, let’s chat and become friends and help each other out”
“Hey I like your blog, let’s chat and become friends and help each other out because that will help us rank”
How can Google ever know the difference and does it matter? Why wouldn’t we expect this to happen.
I feel as though this article is trying to convince us you just invented the Wheel!
Absolutely fascinating article.
DW
If you can’t beat them join them. GKT
DM
Always worth the read. Thanks again for all the value you provide Glen!
Awesome article, great find and new strategy.
Thanks
DM
BH
Nice write up Glenn. Let me in the FB group
fb: KenSavage
MG
WH
This is one of the best content I have ever seen. Thanks For creating it. Good going.
Awesome post Glen!
TW
Great post bro. If we’re talking authority style sites, the traffic benefits could even outweigh links. Nice work. CW
Fantastic post Glen!
~ Andrew Sexton
Awesome post as always! AB
Great article Glen.
BDS
GA
JM
BD
JF
MG
Great Post man, Thanks
ek
PK
Great article :).
Great article, thanks for the monster overview. In fact guest-blogging or article-exchange is some kind of low-level PIN.
Actually, it is time to get some serious new search engine. Without all those “personalized results” and all that unpredictable crap. Google sucks in many niches because they simply cannot recognize e.g. scientific pro site from the heely-feely blog. They are spreading like cancer, continually removing unpaid results and competition from SERP. And providing more and more ads and more spying on users. Not good… The problem of Google is that they are search engine and biggest ad seller in the same time. We obviously see the winning part.
Interesting read mate, as you said though managing it effectively will be difficult. Worth a shot though
AD
SF
Nice one …. had same in mind but not same name……. CBN
DS
Great Post Glen! I am glad I found this. You truly went ahead and laid the cards on the table for someone newbie like me to understand the myriad world of SEO 🙂
Looking forward to FB private group. SM
very interesting Glen. Keep up the good work.
MS
And I have ALOT to offer and contribute in a PIN. Please put me in the big boy group. I run an agency that does over 3k posts per year. Have lots of relationships and link opportunities.
Hi Glen,
That’s a very useful post. Thanks for sharing with us.
IM
Thanks for this amazing information. Feel lucky that I found this blog.
Sriranga Ramaseshan
Great post, as usual. Impressed to see someone pushing the envelope on PBNs to take it to the next level. With so many running scared from link building, this truly is one area where there is competitive advantage right now.
DC
Aaaaannnndddddd I just sh*t myself…
This is the reality, I call it Matrix-style SEO.
Glad to see someone had the courage to say it publicly, well done Glen!
Cheers,
WM
Glen,
Absolutly right. This is the way to go even 5 years back when the dances of Google started to happen.
nonetheless, I am in.
P.S. However how are you going to stop anyone from Google to sneak in and see wahts goign on?
ZC
Thanks
DS
JH
EH
AM
Ps to add a comment to this article while browsing on mobile I had to scroll through the hundreds of existing comments to reach the comment input form – could be useful to have a link to add a comment directly after the article ends. Look forward to joining the FB group!
Interesting how SEO seems to have come full circle and is now about human connections and not the mechanics of grinding out link requests via email and to people you don’t know.
I’m in.
Great post! TK
Great post Glen! TK
Been struggling with some of the same issues that you describe with a client’s website. Domain authority is much higher than higher ranking sites. Number of back links much higher. Technical SEO is tight. We go down a list of ranking factors…check, check, check. But these other crappy sites are out ranking our client’s site. Looking for a new approach.
Thanks for the article!
MW
Hi from France,
SV 😉
MW
Thanks!
BV
DR
Great article!
Ye So
TK
Thanks for the share, great information!
JK
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Thank you Glen as always for sharing.
CT
Super interesting.
TS
Initials: W A S
JA
Another amazing piece of content.
Great read as always, thanks! DE
Hey Glen
I feel there is distinct similarity here with something you talked about a few years ago: making connections with other people in your industry. Basically build your network with other influencers and help promote each other. Feels like a progression in the same vein.
I think you have highlighted something that is going on a great deal with many people in their quiet little huddles. I don’t see any reason that this is unethical – people in business have been helping each other out for millenia and ‘old boy networks’ will continue for ever more.
Always enjoy reading your insights, I have done for many years now.
Shelli
SW
Appreciate you stopping by, as always, Shelli!
Thanks for the kind words 🙂
Great post! It’s info that simple can’t be found elsewhere.
A A
You are a genius sir!
Thank you for the knowledge!
ACz
hey glen,
great info as always!
i just joined your fb group 🙂
ab
BT
Initials: D C
Please add me:
I have many Niches I’m in:
K H
Thanks,
Kirk
TJW
Love it. Thanks for the great content Glen!
BO
AB
Commenting. Looks very interesting
JR
ViperChill strikes again, while ruffling the feathers of the Big Boys and Big G. Good on you bro, the article was fantastic and a testament to the underhanded dealings of the conglomerates online greasing the palms of G to get the upper hand in the SERPs.
They claim to give their results based on the relevance and best use of the user, but you can plainly see they are just serving search results based on their own revenue interests.
Thanks man, keep testing and giving us, small fries, the heads up on what’s going on and how to still go Guerrilla warfare on these guys.
Hey, AP here 🙂
Great Share Glen… Would love to join your facebook PIN.. Here’s my FB Initials D.N
Hey Glen,
I agree with the idea, but that will need your managment skills for the FB group.
Best.
Initials FEQ
Finally, a blog post I can use. I have been searching for days for a way to fight against big business as I see the writing on the wall with Google as well. My initials are: SH
Thanks!
PS
That was an awesome article. MT
Initial: O D. Completely looking forward to this
Hey,
Just clicked join A.T
Thanks
IS
Hi Glen,
awesome content as always, much appreciated!
Can’t wait to give this a go 😉
Hey! Could you add me too please? RM
Thanks!
MS
Thanks!
AV please 🙂
Great article. Sounds almost like Network Crusader, except more than just pbn and 2.0’s. Count me in, I like
TN
Hi glen.. count me in.. FB initial TM
What could be more natural?
JC