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Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by kadoban »

fasicle wrote: post #17
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.

I would think they're perfectly allowed to favor certain sites over others, especially with good reasons for doing so.

What I would expect to be illegal would be overly favoring their own sites/services over those of competitors, since they are so big and that would be abusing their search marketshare to spread into other markets.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

derpherpsson wrote: post #19

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.

I thought the same. A parasite boss may be a common phenomenon but searching didn't bring up any interesting articles.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by paulpauper »

This article is wrong on many levels. no wonder so many ppl try this and make no money.

>You find a high DA site that allows user generated content to be added and indexed. (the host)

>Common parasites include Medium, Amazon s3, Github, Linkedin, Quora, Youtube, ect.

Google rank does not apply to subdomains. The subdomain does not inherit any of the rank of the parent. That is why blogspot and s3 will never work in this regard.

Parasite SEO boost only works if the link passes ranking, the page itself has a lot of SEO authority, and there are not too many outgoing links. Medium will not work for this reason unless you get your link on a very high ranking medium page. Just posting your link on a new medium blog is useless. Same for Github, Quora, Youtube, linkedin for these reasons.

Re: Parasite SEO

#26

Post by martin-adams »

Avamander wrote: post #13
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?

That's the only reasonable conclusion we could come up with.

Re: Parasite SEO

#27

Post by jwc1 »

butler14 wrote: post #18

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

I find a decent percentage of influencer marketing is still just affiliate marketing with a slightly different delivery channel.

Re: Parasite SEO

#28

Post by Matsta »

paulpauper wrote: post #25

This article is wrong on many levels. no wonder so many ppl try this and make no money. >You find a high DA site that allows user generated content to be added and indexed. (the host) >Common parasites include Medium, Amazon s3, Github, Linkedin, Quora, Youtube, ect. Google rank does not apply to subdomains. The subdomain does not inherit any of the rank of the parent. That is why blogspot and s3 will never work in t…

Hmm that's not 100% correct.

Google still does apply this to some domains. Blogspot is a good example of this. and the s3.amazonaws.com is the same domain for EVERY bucket, so it definitely has link authority. The thing the article missed is that most of these medium/s3/blogspot parasites are a few years old. While a year ago you could chuck up a Medium blog and rank it in under a month, with the most recent Google update, it takes a lot longer to see things ranking.

However yesterday I saw an exception to this, as this Medium account ranked in literally 2 days without any backlinks (the page has since been deleted): https://i.imgur.com/8lPHUYs.png

Parasites do work well, you just need to find the right 'secret sauce'. Some people can still spam 1000's of backlinks using Xrumer and/or GSA or slowly drip feed cheap PBN links.

The article shows looking for keywords such as 'HostGator coupon' or 'Clash of Clans hack' and you'll see that the top 10 results literally change on a daily basis.

People are doing of lot 301 redirects (buy a expired domains with lots of high authority backlinks and 301 it to your URL) and then block the bots for SEO tools like Ahrefs/Majestic/SEMRush etc. so other SEO's can't find their backlinks.

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by Matsta »

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?

As an example, people use the Google sites as a Parasite. I said in my other reply, with the last Google update, most of these pages are over a year old, so it would be hard to replicate it if you were build a site today: https://i.imgur.com/WX9uidg.png

Re: Parasite SEO

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Post by Matsta »

C1sc0cat wrote: post #14
iamben wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's Moz's Metric. Majestic has their own metric (TF/CF Trust Flow and Citation Flow) and Ahrefs (UR/DR URL Rating and Domain Rating).

I would say Ahrefs's is marginally more accurate then the others but to be honest any of these numbers can be gamed and are not a accurate representation of a domain and/or backlink.

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