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Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by iamben » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 8:24 AM UTC

jwilk wrote: post #10

What does "DA" stand for?

Domain Authority

Re: Parasite SEO

#12

Post by ksahin » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 9:17 AM UTC

ackbar03 wrote: post #8

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

OP does not say the traffic comes from the links, he said the internal links make the site rank, not the fact that it’s on a high da subdomain/subfolder.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by Avamander » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 9:38 AM UTC

martin-adams wrote: post #4

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.

Boosting some competitor if you fall?

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by C1sc0cat » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 10:11 AM UTC

iamben wrote: post #11

jwilk wrote: post #10

What does "DA" stand for?

Domain Authority

Which is an inhouse metric that one of the Major seo tool makers invented to try and measure the authority of a domain - its not a google metric.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by fasicle » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 10:23 AM UTC

jwilk wrote: post #10

What does "DA" stand for?

Domain Authority (DA) is a search engine ranking score developed by Moz that predicts how well a website will rank on search engine result pages.

https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

Re: Parasite SEO

#16

Post by auslander » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 10:24 AM UTC

World needs a Coupon Stock Exchange, like NYSE. Then bundle fake coupons into CDOs.

Re: Parasite SEO

#17

Post by fasicle » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 10:27 AM UTC

3xblah wrote: post #6

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?

"Google can do whatever it wants" - wouldn't this be anti-competitive behaviour if they stated favouring certain sites in their algorithm?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that they get audited to make sure they don't do this, although can't find the link.

Re: Parasite SEO

#18

Post by butler14 » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 10:39 AM UTC

Ahhh affiliate marketing, still trucking along, still the lowest form of digital marketing

Though influencer marketing has been having a good shot at that title in this past 5 years

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by derpherpsson » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 10:53 AM UTC

It took a couple of paragraphs for me to realize what the article was about. I thought it was "Parasite CEO", that the boss is doing nothing while also stealing company resources.. arguably a somewhat common phenomena.

But it's about Parasitic Search Enginge Optimizations.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by Yuval_Halevi » Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 11:49 AM UTC

In the next 1-3 years I'm sure Google will update their algorithm against these such of strategies