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Cloud PBNs I do SEO for quite a few companies. I am comfortable with the design and build of PBNs, content, spinning, GSA, whatever. I would like to offer some first impression notes and some suggestions for in terms of the systems functions and capabilities. This is a quick and dirty “first impression” review of the platform, and notes about possible areas of upgrade and improvement.

Cloud PBN, Beginner Friendly First off, I would like to say that this platform looks to be 99% geared towards the novice. Some of the features here are hardly useful for a more seasoned SEO, and the system is missing some items that a well versed SEO might use.

Monitoring As a monitoring platform, you mentioned that web statistics would be added soon- that is good. Because in its current form Cloud PBN actually isn’t really doing anything for my already established PBN sites. It does not import posts that were there prior to the Slave installation, so I cant see or optimize my existing sites without removing and re-adding them. I might suggest changing this so that the plugin sees all posts regardless of whether they were published in platform or not. Being able to see site metrics would be great, as would being able to see things like # of published posts, traffic, comments, etc. Pretty much take the /information and integrate it in. Taking it a step further would be to allow mass upgrading of plugins/themes/etc. I know that all of this is something that normally is not done on a PBN site, but still why not add the functionality if it is partially there.

Sign Up and Integration After signing up, there is the act of integrating with the APIs. I am a technical person, and I still had to do a Google search to find the YouTube API settings. You might consider adding some help documentation in there. Adding the sites is easy, though it would be better if we were able to install the Slave plugin “on-demand” using WordPress admin credentials as well (also like Manage WP).

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Posting from the Cloud PBN platform needs some refinement. First off, some of the literal adjustments: The content edit box which you type into needs to be resizable- it is very small and when scrolling it is easy to skip whole paragraphs. The image upload only offers a link. This is OK in low-end PBN sites, but a good SEO likes to make a PBN as “real” and custom as possible. This often means uploading my own stock images. In order to do this with the Cloud PBN platform, I would have to upload the image to my hosting or to the PBN site, and then get the URL and insert it that way. How great would it be if we could upload into your platform, which would then be pushed down to the site? The “Publish Post” and “Create Backlink” need to be merged somehow. Consider this- I might wish to use some of the backlink features while a publish a post and vice versa. For instance- randomly finding an image based on a keyword. This would be useful while I am using the “Publish Post” interface. The reason behind this is that for a typical PBN, a SEO will publish several generic posts before a money site post. Being able to auto-insert images and links to high PR sites using MY content would be great.

Cloud PBN Backlinks Now, as for publishing backlinks… I do not know if I cought the spinner at a bad time, or what. But my published backlink post came out 100% pur spam garbage, and was not English readable. I know some SEOs will harp on content not being important, but that is just simply not true. Either the spinner needs to be adjusted, or content needs to be scraped differently. I had keywords for SEO, forex trading, and a variety of other non-related topics. So we need to be able to create a CUSTOM unique post (hand written, outsourced, etc.) and insert our backlinks and pictures into it. Automation is great, but not at the cost of customization in this case.

Customization I also personally believe there needs to be more customization options for the PBN site itself. I manage my PBN like is an actual WordPress site, enough so that it would pass a manual review. This means creation of static pages- About, DCMA, Contact Us, etc. Perhaps adding a “Publish Page” options would be great as well. Control over URL for pages and posts would be a welcome addition as

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well. If I had to make a list of the truly important features that should be added in order it would be: 1. More post and/or backlink customization. More content features. 2. More site customization features. 3. More prior site features, to enable Cloud PBN for use purely as a monitoring platform.

Conclusion Now with all of that said, it is within 3-4 hours of launch, and things are still getting squared off. A lot of these features and/or problems might be addresses shortly- the author did mention that upgrades are coming soon. Overall, this is a very nice platform and with refinement it could take over the entire SEO world by storm. I will continue to look into this platform in hopes of management of multiple resources- I would love to ditch the huge spreadsheets as much as the next guy!

SEO Expert at is a Christian entrepreneur who loves web design, marketing, and anything on a computer. He is the creator and author of , a local Virginia web design company. He also runs Virginia SEO, which is a SEO and inbound marketing company. Chris is currently finishing up his Master of Information Systems at University of Phoenix, and works by day as a Senior Network Engineer.