NEW and very original method!!! Parasite+affiliate links

Yeah, I know, this not new nor original

But it is kind of new to me, I've never used parasites.
I was thinking of using a parasite like medium or google sites to promote affiliate links in my foreign language.
I would concentrate on finding low competition keyword with buyer intent ad link to amazon products. I would like to avoid link building.

I would like to ask some questions to the more experienced parasite players in here:

1. Which parasite would you suggest, Medium or Google sites? i read here and there "medium is dead" and "medium is still very good" so I dont know what to think.
2. Could I try to use them both and put some half on the articles in medium and half on Gsites? Or having many articles on the same parasite helps to rank better and therefore I should you choose only one parasite and concentrate on that?
3. (just ot confirm) in theory my parasite pages should rank higher compared to if I had posted the same content on a new domain, right?
4. Should I warm up the parasites a bit with articles without affiliate links or can I go straight into making affiliate articles?
5. Any personal advice?

Thanks

Good questions, really looking forward to the answer of experienced people in this field. Personally, I only build affiliate websites on my own domains.

Abyzals said:

Good questions, really looking forward to the answer of experienced people in this field. Personally, I only build affiliate websites on my own domains.

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yeah, lets see

Answer to 3 is yes if you choose the right platform.

krishnaverma said:

Answer to 3 is yes if you choose the right platform.

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this creates more questions than before do you have any opinion on which platform works? Medium or Google are good/better than brand new domain?

castoro said:

Which parasite would you suggest, Medium or Google sites? i read here and there "medium is dead" and "medium is still very good" so I dont know what to think.

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castoro said:

Could I try to use them both and put some half on the articles in medium and half on Gsites? Or having many articles on the same parasite helps to rank better and therefore I should you choose only one parasite and concentrate on that?

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My first choice is always a YT video. If it's low competition the video can rank easily.
Medium isn't as effective as it used to be in the past an with G sites there has been issues recently where the page either doesn't rank or vanishes a day or 2 after ranking.

castoro said:

(just ot confirm) in theory my parasite pages should rank higher compared to if I had posted the same content on a new domain, right?

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A parasite page is any type of web property that is on a domain with high trust and authority in the eyes of big G.
So what you do is you leech the authority power to rank your content on that authority domain.

castoro said:

Should I warm up the parasites a bit with articles without affiliate links or can I go straight into making affiliate articles?

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castoro said:

Any personal advice?

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Nope in most parasites you can directly post articles with your links, build some links wait for it to rank.
I would suggest leeching out the value from parasites and passing onto your landing page or affiliate website.

There are always parasites that work and others that used to work, so you need to keep hunting for those.
CPA and movies streaming are the most common seed niches you can use to find working ones.
You won't find the list of working updated sites easily shared on public internet just because these get taken down by big G from time to time.

thank you for taking the time for this long answer!

MKSKS said:

My first choice is always a YT video. If it's low competition the video can rank easily.

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interesting. Sadly I'm targeting very low volume kw (even = 0 according to some tools) and I would like to focus on quantity, so making videos is not an option.

MKSKS said:

Medium isn't as effective as it used to be in the past an with G sites there has been issues recently where the page either doesn't rank or vanishes a day or 2 after ranking.

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So with Gsites so unpredictable i would opt for medium or something similar.

MKSKS said:

I would suggest leeching out the value from parasites and passing onto your landing page or affiliate website.

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Why not putting directly links on the parasite? keep in mind that I would like to create a "good" parasite, like a medium parasite that do a lot of top 10s best amazon products for X,Y,Z etc. All within the TOS of the site so that they do not take me down.
The idea is that I would write a reasonably good article on a keyword that according to some is so low on competition that it should rank even on a new domain with DA/DR = 0.
I would use this strategy based on the very low comp KW but on top of that I would leech out of the parasite authority instead of a new domain. To my understanding, it's like starting a new website but with already some trustworthy backlinks.

MKSKS said:

there are always parasites that work and others that used to work, so you need to keep hunting for those.
CPA and movies streaming are the most common seed niches you can use to find working ones.
You won't find the list of working updated sites easily shared on public internet just because these get taken down by big G from time to time.

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yeah i do not want to go these type of parasite, because my strategy would be medium to long term, so I need the "security" of a parasite like medium or Gsites.

Let me know your opinion about what I wrote

castoro said:

interesting. Sadly I'm targeting very low volume kw (even = 0 according to some tools) and I would like to focus on quantity, so making videos is not an option.

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You don't need a HQ video, just a simple into style video with mention to link in description is good to go.
Your Clickbait/question style Title & content in description should be optimized.
With something like lumen5 you can make videos in minutes.
But you can always use other parasites.

castoro said:

Why not putting directly links on the parasite? keep in mind that I would like to create a "good" parasite, like a medium parasite that do a lot of top 10s best amazon products for X,Y,Z etc. All within the TOS of the site so that they do not take me down.
The idea is that I would write a reasonably good article on a keyword that according to some is so low on competition that it should rank even on a new domain with DA/DR = 0.
I would use this strategy based on the very low comp KW but on top of that I would leech out of the parasite authority instead of a new domain. To my understanding, it's like starting a new website but with already some trustworthy backlinks.

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I have been into the SEO game since 2014 when I joined this forum and with years passing by and SEO evolving I have also focused on traffic from sources other than organic traffic.
My primary objective with any parasite is to rank and redirect the traffic to money site.
On the other hand I have this typical habit of building email lists so that I can get my targeted traffic audience in case my site gets tanked or any other unfortunate situation.
You can also use retargeting and other concepts if you are into PPC game.
That's why I prefer to redirect traffic from parasite to money site/landing page.

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yeah i do not want to go these type of parasite, because my strategy would be medium to long term, so I need the "security" of a parasite like medium or Gsites.

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There are no such these types of parasites.
Basically there are parasites and spammy parasites so need to avoid the later ones as they will harm your backlink profiles.

Medium works to rank keywords although not if they are highly competitive. However, they are very strict about not having affiliate links in articles that seem to have been written for affiliate marketing.

"Medium or Google sites?" - there's one big problem with Medium (and that's why so many people left it), most of medium posts have "noindex" attribute which means they will never get indexed by any search engine.

There are a few threads on this forum which help with choosing a parasite.
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-finding-parasites-to-rank-and-bank-in-2018.1032365/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-earn-100-month-using-cpa-parasites-2021.1337673/

MKSKS said:

My first choice is always a YT video. If it's low competition the video can rank easily.

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MKSKS said:

You don't need a HQ video, just a simple into style video with mention to link in description is good to go.
Your Clickbait/question style Title & content in description should be optimized.
With something like lumen5 you can make videos in minutes.

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made my first video with affiliate links in description a link to the full article on my domain (already existing amazon review style article).
Let's hope it will rank in the SERP. (should I push it in some way? views? because it is the first video of a brand new channel).
I hope it will bring traffic and also boost the backlink profile of the article. I'm also wondering if I will get clicks directly on the affiliate links in the description.

praetserge said:

"Medium or Google sites?" - there's one big problem with Medium (and that's why so many people left it), most of medium posts have "noindex" attribute which means they will never get indexed by any search engine.

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ok so both Gsites and medium have problems, I understand it now. But what you are suggesting is searching for churn and burn parasites that can be taken down very quickly.
What instead I am searching is a legit site that lets me create a legit "blog" for free on their platform (like a web 2,0 but with page authority > 0).
So do you know by any chance a site like this?

castoro said:

Let's hope it will rank in the SERP. (should I push it in some way? views? because it is the first video of a brand new channel).
I hope it will bring traffic and also boost the backlink profile of the article. I'm also wondering if I will get clicks directly on the affiliate links in the description.

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The benefit of YT as parasite is chances of it ranking are always good & it doesn't go down if it's not something that violates their TOS.
One YT NF link won't help your backlink profile.
You can add some GSA links/social links/web 2.0 embeds on aged properties to it.
IDK if views can rank it or not as I have never tried that.

castoro said:

made my first video with affiliate links in description a link to the full article on my domain (already existing amazon review style article).
Let's hope it will rank in the SERP. (should I push it in some way? views? because it is the first video of a brand new channel).
I hope it will bring traffic and also boost the backlink profile of the article. I'm also wondering if I will get clicks directly on the affiliate links in the description.


ok so both Gsites and medium have problems, I understand it now. But what you are suggesting is searching for churn and burn parasites that can be taken down very quickly.
What instead I am searching is a legit site that lets me create a legit "blog" for free on their platform (like a web 2,0 but with page authority > 0).
So do you know by any chance a site like this?

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You could use linkedin, vocal.media (it's like medium but submissions are manually reviewed), reddit as parasites. Of course there are many more parasites to choose from.