Time to learn about the Parasite trick/method/tactic. First off, a parasite for the purpose of this guide is any Web 2.0. FB, Twitter, YT, anything that you don’t own, has authority, and you can put some sort of content on.
Of course, your content will be centered around some sort of affiliate program or any other thing you want to funnel traffic to. Email list building, Dropshipping stores, PLR stores, your own product, whatever.
Why use this method over hosting a site that you own? We’ll cover that a little more below, but in short it allows you to bypass the typical process you have to go through in ranking a self-hosted money site giving you a huge advantage in being able to use “spammy” tactics to slam an affiliate site onto page 1 of the SERPS.
However, while it’s not the “parasite method”, the same tactic of using GSA on a web 2.0 can help a money site too. Basically, instead of trying to rank the web 2.0, you use it as a filter. Hit a web 2.0 with some GSA, giving said web 2.0 more authority. Then put a link on the web 2.0 to the money site, and you now have a rather powerful backlink. You have to be careful when doing this though. I’ll cover this later, but for now, let get on whit the parasite method!
Services You NEED For The Parasite Method:
I’m a firm proponent of using parasites, especially for beginner SEO’s and affiliates. They’re easier to manage, cheaper overall, and much more tolerant of spamy tactics. However, I’ve found that there are some services that just work better for ranking them. After I lay out the services, I’ll explain the parasite method better as well.
The first of two GSA blasts I recommend. You get a lot of links for a really decent price and they are great, especially for just pumping the parasite full of generic anchor links.
The Superstar SEO GSA blast has the fewest links of the three GSA blasts I recommend, but they are super high quality. It may take a few orders, but you HAVE to use these if doing the Parasite method. I recommend getting at least one order from each that I mention, though you will probably need multiple orders.
These links are a must have for any SEO project. .edu and .gov links give legitimacy and authority in the eyes of the algorithm, and even for parasites, you need at least one set of these per project. However, multiples can and should be applied as needed.
Like the above .edu links, these are a must for any SEO project. However, these help to give some link diversity when spamming out GSA blasts.
This set of signals is my favorite on Legiit, and you need to be pumping these out on a routine basis to make the parasite method work.
PBN links on gig sites are probably the biggest risk you can take. Some sellers have A+, S-class PBN’s that work wonders. Other sellers offer garbage that will get you penalized if they are used on a self-hosted money site.
Luckily, Montucas is part of the former. I’ve used his links, for client sites, my own self-hosted affiliate sites, and the give a huge boost to parasites. In fact, one of my favorite things to use parasites for is a testbed for new PBN link dealers, since they won’t get penalized and I can get a taste of how safe the domains are. Another nice point is the the gig is very affordably priced and can work well as links for parasites.
As for what the parasite method is, I’ll give you a quick rundown again before we get on with how to make one:
Web 2.0’s (i.e. any big platform site with high amounts of authority like Facebook, Blogspot, WordPress.com, Pinterest, Youtube, ect) almost never suffer the same penalties that normal self-hosted domains do. This has a huge advantage for newbie and veteran SEO’s alike since you can use methods and linking tactics that have become taboo for most other forms of SEO.
Let me make it clear, you CAN NOT use GSA blasts, even the one’s I recommend, on your own self-hosted websites. This will get you a penalty. There is the churn-and-burn method, but unless you know what you’re doing, the only one getting burned is you.
See the beauty of Web 2.0’s? You can abuse them all you like with what Google considers spam for any other site. Likewise, by the very nature of the way the algorithm works they will never be de-indexed. This is not a flavor of the month loophole that gets shutdown in due time.
The downside is that web 2.0’s aren’t actually owned by you. So if the account/page/post/video get reported, or banned or whatever, you pretty much loose whatever work was done.
Luckily, this doesn’t happen very often, and the amount of money you sink into each parasite is a drop in the bucket compared to the thousands you can easily sink into a self-hosted domain.
Likewise, you can also get away with using PLR too. The duplicate content penalty is somewhat overblown, but it especially seems to have little affect on parasites.
SO with all that said, I hope the “toolkit” I just provided you can help you start making some of your first bucks online….
…What?
You want to know how to make one? Alrighty then, we’ll go over that too!
First off, choose the best platform for the job. The usual favorites being Tumblr, Blogspot (Blogger), WordPress.com, Youtube, and Flickr. It really depends.
Likewise, you should take a look at the results for the keywords your targeting (this guide assumes you know how to do some basic keyword research). Look for other web 2.0’s. Which one’s are dominating the SERPs? Sometimes, the algorithm tends to favor one platform over others for certain searches.
Now, content. If it’s a video site, you’ll obviously need some videos. You can either make your own, or buy some PLR videos. It really depends on your niche and what you’re trying to rank for.
By and large you’ll need a lot of text content. You can either:
A: Write your own. If you like doing that, by all means go for it.
B: Buy some from a writing service. My favorites being iNeedArticles, Iwriter, and Ambers Legiit writing service.
C: Use PLR. I know that sometimes the stuff has ickky connotations to it, but hear me out. I’ve found that just straight up reusing PLR doesn’t really seem to hurt the SEO quality. I’ve tested this because I recently bought some pre-made Clickbank PLR from Arun Chandra and it was of such nice quality I would be making it worse by re-writing it.
Anyway, it ranked well. Still in the process of ranking the sites, but I can confirm it at least didn’t hurt the indexing, and the sites are gaining in the SERPs.
Either way, figure out how you want to go about procuring content. It all really depends on what your doing. There may not be any PLR for a given keyword.
After that, you should do all of the necessary and typical SEO. This mean the formula I use:
- 2-4 pictures depending on the length of the content, with keywords in the metadata and also in the alt-text.
- 1-4 Video embeds. They don’t have to be your videos, but never miss a chance right?
- H1, H2, and H3 text with your keywords placed in them.
- At least 500 words. More is better. 1000 – 3000 words often does better though. This doesn’t apply to platforms with word limits like YT and Twitter.
- Outbound links to other authority sites.
After that, hit it up with social signals. Those are the only links you should be sending to the page until it’s indexed. It can take up to a week to get things to index sometimes, but usually the signals help mitigate that. Patience is golden.
One other thing I highly recommend you have is an indexing service. I recommend Indexifacation. There is a free way to do indexing but if you want to save your time and sanity the $20 a month is well worth it.
Once indexed, start hitting the site up with the links I mentioned above. It can take up to two weeks to get the links back in some cases, so you can sit back and repeat the above steps while waiting for batch #1.
So, you should have a metric shit ton of links to index now. Either hit up Indexafacation, or do it the…:gulp:…free way.
I’m usually a frugal person. However, this was a little too tedious for me. Either way, I learned this trick from somebody on BHW. It’s been two years, so I’ve lost the thread it was mentioned in. Sorry.
- Start a new Gmail account, and buy some expired Blogspot blogs. These index better. Register the blogs and set that all up.
- Start a new post, name it whatever.
- Go to URL to HTML.
- Copypasta no more than 1000 urls. This is all that a Blogspot blog seems to support. Convert them into HTML hyperlinks and copypasta the chunk of HTML text into the HTML tab of the Blogspot post.
- Rinse & repeat.
This method of indexing may not work that well anymore since Google removed the ability to submit links for indexing. You may be able to do it via Webmaster Tools. Either way, see how much trouble that’s going to be if you have 200K+ links to index? Your choice.
On the topic of expired blogspots, expired web 2.0’s also work great. I’ve seen some success with direct match urls, but I’ve also had a lot of success with expired Blogspot and Tumblr sites. YMMV.
Once indexed, just track the progress of the site and throw more links at it as needed. Simple stuff. You can also add more content as needed too. It just depends on what you’re doing.
I’ll add some links to various resources in this space soon.
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