otherwise known as parasite SEO!
I've been seeing this term floating around a lot recently too. So parasite SEO is basically just piggybacking off Reddit and siphoning traffic away to your own links?
Can I get into trouble for doing that?
@olivias you can't get into trouble. It's not illegal but most white hat SEOs consider it the darker side of grey hat. It's certainly not a new thing either. Ever since authority was a thing in Google, there have been SEOs leveraging that fact. Back in the day it was a site called Ezine Articles (among others). Things have moved on since then.
And it's not just Reddit. There are tons of parasite websites you can use. Here's just a small selection that I've saved down during my time parasiting off Reddit:
- Medium
- Wordpress.com
- Quora
- Filmfreeway.com
- Weddingwire.com
- Pressbooks.pub
- Amazon S3 and Cloudfront
- Hackmd.io (sounds dodgy but it's not)
- Nas.io
- Groups.io
- Scribd.com
- Beehiiv.com (paid link)
- Github.com
... and many, many more.
When you start analysing the Google SERPs for high competition, review queries you'll find loads of 'em 😉
@rohanm thanks Rohan. I do see Beehiiv quite a bit on page one of Google when I do my keyword research! And Medium too. Parasite SEO seems like a great way to supplement traffic to my site! I'm going to dive into it a bit more I think.
@olivias I can highly recommend a little dabble Olivia. If nothing else, you will learn a lot about how Google works 😉
Hence the less clicks from Google these days, and Pinterest.
Why do you think you have less clicks from Pinterest? Because of the AI overviews? Or did I misunderstand?
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