Step 6 - How to setup your PBN sites

How to setup a WordPress blog.

Select a theme

It doesn't matter what theme you choose. However they should all be different.

Make sure the theme allows you to:

  • Customize the Home page to show full blog posts, not just summaries.
  • Sticky one post on the home page

Basic setup

Email address - different from any money site

Reading - make frontpage display the latest post

Required Pages

  • About Us. At least 400 words.
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Page

3 required WordPress plugins

  • Any WordPress SEO plugin
  • Any Contact form plugin to generate your contact page
  • WP Redirection plugin (or SEO redirection plugin)
    • It creates 301 redirect pointing old existing links back to your site homepage
    • You can use it to 404 links that come from an unwanted domain

Avoid footprints

  1. Don’t use same theme across all your blogs
  2. Don’t use wordpress plugins for managing your content, especially any plugins called *PBN* in the name.
  3. Don’t use the same plugin configurations

Keeping your site secure

Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct web robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl pages on their website

Create and paste the following into your sites robot.txt file.

If you need help setting one up there are instructions here on the MOZ site.

robots.txt

# www.robotstxt.org/
# www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449

# Slow down bots
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

# Disallow: Sistrix
User-agent: sistrix
Disallow: /

# Disallow: Sistrix
User-agent: SISTRIX Crawler
Disallow: /

# Disallow: Sistrix
User-agent: SISTRIX
Disallow: /

# Disallow: SEOkicks-Robot
User-agent: SEOkicks-Robot
Disallow: /

# Disallow: jobs.de-Robot
User-agent: jobs.de-Robot
Disallow: /

# Backlink Analysis
user-agent: AhrefsBot
disallow: /

# Bot der Leipziger Unister Holding GmbH
user-agent: UnisterBot
disallow: /

# http://moz.com/products
User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

# http://www.searchmetrics.com
User-agent: SearchmetricsBot
Disallow: /

# http://www.majestic12.co.uk/projects/dsearch/mj12bot.php
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

# http://www.domaintools.com/webmasters/surveybot.php
User-agent: SurveyBot
Disallow: /

# http://www.seodiver.com/bot
user-agent: SEOdiver
disallow: /

# http://openlinkprofiler.org/bot
User-agent: spbot
Disallow: /

# http://www.wotbox.com/bot/
User-agent: wotbox
Disallow: /

# http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot
# http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/dotbot
User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

# http://www.meanpath.com/meanpathbot.html
User-agent: meanpathbot
Disallow: /

# http://www.backlinktest.com/crawler.html
User-agent: BacklinkCrawler 
Disallow: /

# http://www.brandwatch.com/magpie-crawler/
User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

# http://filterdb.iss.net/crawler/
User-agent: oBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: fr-crawler
Disallow: /

# http://webmeup-crawler.com
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

# https://megaindex.com/crawler
User-agent: MegaIndex.ru
Disallow: /

User-agent: megaindex.com
Disallow: /

# http://www.cloudservermarket.com
User-Agent: CloudServerMarketSpider
Disallow: /

# http://www.trendiction.de/de/publisher/bot
User-Agent: trendictionbot 
Disallow: /

# http://www.exalead.com
User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /

# http://www.career-x.de/bot.html
User-agent: careerbot
Disallow: /

# https://www.lipperhey.com/en/about/
User-agent: Lipperhey-Kaus-Australis
Disallow: /

User-agent: seoscanners.net
Disallow: /

User-agent: MetaJobBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Spiderbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkStats
Disallow: /

User-agent: JobboerseBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Plista
Disallow: /

User-agent: Domain Re-Animator Bot
Disallow: /

# https://www.lipperhey.com/en/about/
User-agent: Lipperhey-Kaus-Australis
Disallow: /

# https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
User-agent: turnitinbot
Disallow: /

# http://help.coccoc.com/
User-agent: coccoc
Disallow: /

# ubermetrics-technologies.com
User-agent: um-IC
Disallow: /

# datenbutler.de
User-agent: mindUpBot
Disallow: /

# http://searchgears.de/uber-uns/crawling-faq.html
User-agent: sg-Orbiter
Disallow: /

# http://commoncrawl.org/faq/
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# https://www.qwant.com/
User-agent: Qwantify
Disallow: /

# http://linkfluence.net/
User-agent: Kraken
Disallow: /

# http://www.botje.com/plukkie.htm
User-agent: plukkie 
Disallow: /

# https://www.safedns.com/searchbot
User-agent: SafeDNSBot
Disallow: /

# http://www.haosou.com/help/help_3_2.html
User-agent: 360Spider
Disallow: /

# http://www.haosou.com/help/help_3_2.html
User-agent: HaosouSpider
Disallow: /

# http://www.moz.com/dp/rogerbot
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /

# http://www.openhose.org/bot.html
User-agent: OpenHoseBot
Disallow: /

# http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /

# http://thumbsniper.com
User-agent: ThumbSniper
Disallow: /

# http://www.radian6.com/crawler
User-agent: R6_CommentReader
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImplisenseBot
Disallow: /

# http://cliqz.com/company/cliqzbot
User-agent: Cliqzbot
Disallow: /

# https://www.aihitdata.com/about
User-agent: aiHitBot
Disallow: /

# http://www.trendiction.com/en/publisher/bot
User-Agent: trendictionbot
Disallow: /

# http://warebay.com/bot.html
User-agent: WBSearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Python/3.5 aiohttp
Disallow: /

User-agent: Toweya.com
Disallow: /

# http://www.website-datenbank.de/
User-agent: netEstate
Disallow: /

# http://law.di.unimi.it/BUbiNG.html
User-agent: BUbiNG
Disallow: /

# http://www.linguee.com/bot; [email protected]
User-agent: Linguee
Disallow: /

# https://www.semrush.com/bot/
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /

# www.sentibot.eu
User-agent: sentibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SentiBot
Disallow: /

# http://velen.io
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: DomainCrawler
Disallow: /

# https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-procedures/what-is-rogerbot
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: IndeedBot
Disallow: /

# http://www.garlik.com
User-agent: GarlikCrawler
Disallow: /

# https://www.gosign.de/typo3-extension/typo3-sicherheitsmonitor/
User-agent: Gosign-Security-Crawler
Disallow: /

# http://www.siteliner.com/bot
User-agent: Siteliner
Disallow: /

The .htaccess file is a configuration file that affects how a webserver responds to various requests.

If you need help creating one there is a good tutorial on wordpress.com.

.htaccess

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*rogerbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*exabot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*mj12bot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*dotbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*gigabot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ahrefsbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*sitebot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*semrushbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ia_archiver.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*searchmetricsbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*seokicks-robot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*sistrix.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*lipperhey spider.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ncbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*backlinkcrawler.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*archive.org_bot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*meanpathbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*pagesinventory.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*aboundexbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*spbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*linkdexbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*nutch.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*blexbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ezooms.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*scoutjet.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*majestic-12.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*majestic-seo.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*dsearch.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*blekkobo.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*screaming frog seo spider/*.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*PHPCrawl.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*gocrawl.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*DigExt.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*DomainSONOCrawler.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*TweetmemeBot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*OpenHoseBot/2.1.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*Kraken/0.1.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*-Java-.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ubermetrics.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*best-seo.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*Synapse.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*Harvest.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*Harvester.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*harvester.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*harvest.* bad_bot

<Limit GET POST HEAD> 

Order Allow,Deny 

Allow from all 

Deny from env=bad_bot 

</Limit>

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