Is parasite SEO even black hat anymore?

[Vynith]

I guess it depends what you use it for.

It's like a knife it can be used to cut onions or murder someone.

Likewise parasite SEO can be good if you use it for legit products/service and bad if you use it to promote scams or borderline scams.

Thoughts?

 

[Monkey D. Luffy]

I think parasite SEO is not always considered black hat SEO. It depends on the way in which the authority of the host site is being abused. If you publish content that is helpful for your audience, there is no problem with it. However problems start when you try to abuse the authority.

 

[V]

I think parasite SEO is not always considered black hat SEO. It depends on the way in which the authority of the host site is being abused. If you publish content that is helpful for your audience, there is no problem with it. However problems start when you try to abuse the authority.

And most of the black-hat niche sites exploit high-authority sites. So, it's getting a little tough to find and rank parasites.

 

[seo mastermind]

I think the intent matters more than the label. Using an established platform for useful content does not automatically make it black hat.

 

[Nikolaos]

I think parasite SEO is not always considered black hat SEO. It depends on the way in which the authority of the host site is being abused. If you publish content that is helpful for your audience, there is no problem with it. However problems start when you try to abuse the authority.

Yes providing real value to the members of the host site you're choosing to do SEO from will not always be blackhat. I totally agree with you you on this!

 

[WebRankX]

I guess it depends what you use it for.

It's like a knife it can be used to cut onions or murder someone.

Likewise parasite SEO can be good if you use it for legit products/service and bad if you use it to promote scams or borderline scams.

Thoughts?

I agree. I think it mainly depends on how you use it. If the content is useful and relevant, I do not see parasite SEO as a bad thing. It becomes a problem when it is only used to manipulate rankings or promote low-quality stuff.

 

[tomguis]

SEO is SEO lol, there will be no difference if you use it for white or black hat niches. You want to rank something fast so that's the easiest way. Even it's scam or a cancer cure

 

[kulsoombano]

It depends on how it is used.

 

[Jason Starkey]

Its not really blackhat method anymore since they tell you to do it basically, unless you can spam it and really scale the numbers. But putting a spin on it can be blackhat still, like hiding links in pdfs.

 

[moonshine7000]

Google hates SEO period lol

 

[Anos_King]

I guess it depends what you use it for.

It's like a knife it can be used to cut onions or murder someone.

Likewise parasite SEO can be good if you use it for legit products/service and bad if you use it to promote scams or borderline scams.

Thoughts?

Yeah... It just a tactics, intent and execution matter. If it’s used to promote legit offers with useful content, fair game. And problem starts when it’s used for spam, scams, or misleading users.

 

[Deezy88]

Does Google ban you for parasite seo?

 

[SERHub]

Some weird questions about parasite SEO coming up on here lately, I answered one similar to this a few days ago,

By definition isn’t anything we do to manipulate an algorithm considered bh. Maybe because it’s such a house hold name now in SEO scenes?

Parasite usage has been around for a lonnngg time, it still works because the fundamentals of it are hard for their algorithm to ignore - they give credit/exposure to authority - that has never changed, all we see changing is the sites that they dish it out to and why.. SEO’s then leverage those, the cycle continues.

So yeah I feel it’s still bh in a manipulation sense, the fact we are doing it knowing why proves that. I don’t see how Google stops its easily either.