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Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by sdan »

As this post says, Google is taking action against this blackhat method of SEO.

Several people have tried to rank as #1 using s3, but Google's ranking algorithm eventually pulls or removes the content from being listed entirely.

We're talking about Google here, I'm pretty sure they're aware of this type of SEO hacking.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by martin-adams »

I’ve seen this type of links against s clients domain which wasn’t initiated by the client. We can only think it’s a negative SEO attack, but honest have no idea what the motive behind it is.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by beobab »

dazc wrote: post #3

'Google Issues Warning About Leasing Subdomains Or Subfolder' https://www.seroundtable.com/google-warns-about-leasing-subd...

I like the line in that article which said that they wrote about it "1.5 months ago". It's an oddly precise measurement with an imprecise unit.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by 3xblah »

Imagine if the "trusted domain" used for the whitelabel site on a subdomain was google.com.

Constantly referring to "Google's algorithm" misses the real issue. Google can do whatever it wants. Google can "trust" anyone or no one but itself.

Google has all the traffic, not the coupon websites.

Do we need laws that govern such middlemen?

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by luckylion »

Let's be clear here: the content doesn't rank because it's on a subdomain or folder of the strong domain, it ranks because it's there AND gets lots of links from most/all pages of that strong domain. The links are the relevant part, you'd have similar (albeit not as strong) results if you had site-wide links from top domains to your separate domain.

Google already has a rule to deal with this: buying and selling links (and, by extension, renting links) is against their guidelines. They just don't enforce it for big publishing companies.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by ackbar03 »

luckylion wrote: post #7

Let's be clear here: the content doesn't rank because it's on a subdomain or folder of the strong domain, it ranks because it's there AND gets lots of links from most/all pages of that strong domain. The links are the relevant part, you'd have similar (albeit not as strong) results if you had site-wide links from top domains to your separate domain. Google already has a rule to deal with this: buying and selling link…

From the medium article they link they show that most of the visits come from search though
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