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Organize your blogs with tags

  Published: 2020/09/15

 Last updated: 2023/06/13

 By: Dejan Murko

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We’ve received a lot of requests for blog organization in a way that doesn’t affect the Network and IP selection. There was a lot of confusion about the Network selection as a way to organize blogs when it’s only for IP selection.

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Easy Blog Networks System Update #27

  Published: 2020/06/20

 Last updated: 2020/09/15

 By: Dejan Murko

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There hasn’t been a system update for a few months, so it’s time to catch up with everything we did in the past few months. Yoast plugin issue fixed We fixed an issue with Yoast plugin that created trouble with the theme customizer. The issue was found in our configuration and resolved. Improved SSL renewal.

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What are PBNs (Private Blog Networks) and why you should use them in your business

  Published: 2019/09/04

 Last updated: 2024/06/12

 By: Dejan Murko

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A Private Blog Network (PBN) is a group of blogs on authoritative domains and hosted on different servers with different IPs. These blogs are created to simulate quality backlinks to the owner’s money site.

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Restore Archive.org sites directly into EBN!

  Published: 2018/01/18

 Last updated: 2020/08/19

 By: Dejan Murko

One major annoyance for some EBN users has been the inability to easily restore sites from Archive.org into their EBN account. But with the help from people at Wayback Machine Downloader that has now been resolved! Wayback Machine Downloader offers easy restoration from Archive.org of any website into your EBN account. And they’re offering a..

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Latest discoveries about deindexations and Search Engine crawling

  Published: 2016/08/03

 Last updated: 2022/05/03

 By: Dejan Murko

Every time a blog gets deindexed on EBN, we save all the information we have about it so we can analyze it later. We then do batch analysis to see if there are any patterns or footprints that we can report to the community. In the last few weeks, we found a few interesting things. We’re still discussing how..

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Footprints: default server webpages

  Published: 2016/04/26

 Last updated: 2021/11/25

 By: Dejan Murko

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In this series of blog posts, we’ve been looking at various ways in which servers present information which can be used by search engines to uniquely identify them. That is, they leave footprints, often very obvious ones. Here at EBN we take quite a few steps to make sure that the servers hosting our WordPress..

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6 Footprints and 10 Issues That Can Get Your Blog Deindexed

  Published: 2015/09/07

 Last updated: 2023/02/27

 By: Dejan Murko

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Since the large majority of daily deindexations we see on our platform would be easily avoided by following basic rules for PBNs, we’re thinking it’s a good time to refresh that knowledge. I categorized everything into two sections – footprints and issues. Footprints are something that can get your blogs deindexed immediately. Issues are something that raises flags and..

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PBN Blog Or Not?

  Published: 2015/09/01

 Last updated: 2022/07/27

 By: Dejan Murko

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Let’s play a game – PBN blog or not? Since I’m looking at PBN blogs for days, I can recognize a PBN blog in a split second. You’re probably not any different. Which one is the PBN blog? One was taken from the first page of the SERPs, the other is a PBN blog. This isn’t a hard question..

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Free Spider Blocker Plugin

  Published: 2015/08/04

 Last updated: 2024/04/04

 By: Dejan Murko

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Due to issues with similar plugins, we decided to create our own spider/crawler blocker plugin, called Spider Blocker. It’s completely free, open-source and without footprints. You can easily add it to each new blog in the Easy Blog Networks Add Blog form or download it from WordPress.org and install it. Set up Spider Blocker Plugin will block the most common..

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Causes For PBN Blogs Deindexation (backed by data)

  Published: 2015/07/23

 Last updated: 2023/02/27

 By: Dejan Murko

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One of the benefits of having a unified platform like EBN is that we can do analysis on a large number of PBN blogs. Because some users reported having more than just a few blogs deindexed in a sweep (later to be known as Panda 4.2), we did an analysis of all deindexed blogs and..

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