Parasite hosting

What is Parasite Hosting?

Parasite hosting is a black hat technique that relies on utilizing a domain’s inherent authority to create a free blog/wiki / forum etc and use it to create in content links. Which as was pointed out in Link Power – How to get the best links are THE links which hold the most ‘punch’.

Advantages of Parasite hosting and Google sandbox

The Google sandbox is usually a period of 3-4 months in the beginning of its life where low authority incoming links are ‘discounted’ and ‘filtered’ therefore making it difficult for them to rank high for competitive terms straight away.

The parasite ’site’ as its based on a high authority domain does not get caught in this filter and therefore does not get caught by this filter. Enabling the primary site to rank well. (this also being why social bookmarking works well).

Is parasite hosting really blackhat?

Now this is up for debate (well I believe so anyway). If you use the ‘parasite’ purely as a method of spamming links, then yes it is blackhat. However what if you have useful information on the hubpages? on the blogs? what if they are actually useful? then what? is it still blackhat? or a bit grey?

Arguably (one sided imo) Courts latest Hub Page Venture is a point in case to actually USE parasite hosting. Due to the hubpages intrinsic domain authority the ‘hubs’ are ranking well.

Linkbuilding using Parasite Hosting

Now those of you who are thinking out there oh Donace has lost it now why would we even build links with parasite hosting? I would never do it!

Well wakeup call! you already do!

Those of you that have social media profiles will notice that you can leave your site link there…and these profile pages are what? …pages you control on a high authority domain! *shock*

So link building methods as described in Colin’s blog are only good because of the intrinsic value of those domains. Extrapolating the definition to its extreme article directories and normal directories are also examples of parasite hosting as you are putting your content on a site and relying on ITS domain authority to make those links count for something.

Spammers and Parasite hosting

It is because of spammers that the term parasite hosting has been given a bad name and is associated with shadowy figures with huge great hardon peddling drugs to under-age dwarfs.

However for the clever people among you or just the ones with a bit more time, will notice when analysing spam comments from the shadowy peddlers most of the links are from high authority sites (including .edu) that the ‘SF’ has signed up to their cms and used it as a doorway.

The ones with time can simply follow the link > find the signup page and great your own ‘parasite’ page …but ofc yours will be useful!

The concluding paragraph

So in conclusion parasite hosting while sounding like a blackhat technique, 90% of the time it is not. ‘SEO’ experts and link builders utilise the concept behind it to build links. yes there is a shady side to it; but then again even the sun has a dark spot.

As an added bonus I have included a huge list of places you can grab free accounts to create your own subpages(more control is better); and would also suggest you check out Lahay’s cookbook.

p.s. this is the more ‘liberal’ interpretation of parasite hosting the true ‘blackhat’ version uses complex query strings to injects its url in authoritative sites. A great example can be seen here.

List of free Blog hosts

http://20six.co.uk/

http://aeonity.com/

http://anyonesblog.com/

http://apcala.com/

http://avatale.com/

http://beblogger.com/

http://blog-city.com/

http://blog-city.com/bc/

http://blog-roll.info/

http://blog.ca/

http://blog.co.uk/

http://blog.com.es/

http://blog.com/

http://blog.de/

http://blog.hr/

http://blog.messagemonster.com/

http://blogates.com/

http://blogcafe.com/

http://blogcult.com/main/

http://blogdog.com/

http://blogdrive.com

http://blogeasy.com/

http://blogfuse.com/

http://blogged.it/

http://bloggeo.org/

http://blogger.de/

http://bloggercrab.com/

http://blogghost.net

http://blogging.com/

http://bloggoing.com/

http://blogharbor.com/

http://bloghi.com/

http://bloghorn.com/

http://blogigo.com/

http://bloglegion.com/

http://blogmosis.com/

http://blogmyway.com/

http://blogomonster.com/

http://blogontheweb.com/

http://blogpage.com/

http://blogpirates.com/

http://blogs.bulldogg.co.uk/

http://blogs.dk/

http://blogs.fi/

http://blogs.ie/

http://blogs.no/

http://blogs.ro/

http://blogs.se/

http://blogs.shareup.net/

http://blogs.trhonline.com/

http://blogs4me.com/

http://blogsamillion.com/

http://blogsharing.com/

http://blogsofroleplay.com/

http://blogsome.com/

http://blogsource.com/

http://blogspirit.com/

http://blogspot.com

http://blogster.com/

http://blogstream.com/

http://blogstudio.com/

http://blogtext.org/

http://blogthing.com/

http://blogwebsites.net/

http://blogzor.com/

http://blogzy.com/

http://bloty.com/

http://bloxster.net/

http://blurty.com/

http://clearblogs.com/

http://cool-blog.com/

http://crablog.com/

http://deadjournal.com/

http://diary-x.com/

http://diaryland.com/

http://digitalpatriots.com/

http://easyjournal.com/

http://ebloggy.com/

http://edublogs.org

http://efx2.com

http://egoweblog.com/

http://electricdiary.com/

http://evilsupergenius.net/

http://ez7.com/

http://fdblog.com/

http://firefighteremt.net/

http://fotopages.com/

http://free-conversant.com/

http://freeflux.net/

http://fresh-blogs.com/

http://fu-gu.com/

http://fullmoonwebs.com/

http://funchain.com/

http://globbo.org/

http://gmrblogs.com/

http://gotblah.com/

http://greatestjournal.com/

http://hondos.org/hwl/

http://hrblogs.org/

http://hwyblogs.com/

http://iblogs.com/

http://imagesquirrel.com/

http://inknoise.com/

http://inthelife.2flymedia.com/home.php

http://ipadder.com/

http://iuplog.com/

http://jefferyparis.com/

http://jetsetweblog.com/

http://journalhub.com/

http://journals.jevon.org/

http://journalspace.com/

http://journurl.com/

http://justblogme.com/

http://kitehost.com/

http://learnerblogs.org/

http://lifewithchrist.org/

http://lightblog.com/

http://livejournal.com/

http://livelog.com/

http://livelogcity.com/

http://mazeme.com/

http://members.freewebs.com/

http://memebot.com/

http://memorypost.com/

http://mindsay.com/

http://mobilepup.net/

http://moblog.co.uk/

http://mobynuke.net/

http://modblog.com

http://mogblogs.com/

http://motime.com/

http://multiply.com/

http://mumsblog.co.uk/

http://myblog-online.com/

http://myblog.com/

http://mycookingblog.com/

http://mydisneytrip.com/

http://nutang.com/

http://ohblog.com/

http://ohlog.com/

http://papadingdong.com/

http://photostreet.com/

http://pitas.com/

http://plugsocket.com/shade_of_grey.html

http://port41.com/

http://powerblogs.com/

http://problogs.com/

http://publicsoup.com/

http://quickblog.org/

http://rantnation.com

http://rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal.php

http://sailblogs.com/

http://satublog.com/

http://scoopal.com/

http://seo-blog.org/

http://sodblog.com/

http://spaces.live.com/

http://spaces.msn.com/

http://squarespace.com/

http://tabulas.com/

http://tblog.com

http://theblog.cc/

http://theblogs.net/

http://thediary.org/

http://thegroundunder.com/

http://typepad.com/

http://uniblogger.com

http://uniblogs.org/

http://upsaid.com/

http://vnunet.com/blogs/

http://vooble.com/

http://vpad.com/

http://weblog.rankstudio.com/

http://weblogger.com/

http://weblogone.com/

http://weblogpage.com/

http://weblogs.cz/

http://weblogs.hu/

http://weblogs.pl/

http://weblogs.us/

http://wikyblog.com/

http://wordpress.com

http://wordpress.org

http://worldlog.com/

http://wpblogs.com/

http://x-journal.com/

http://xanga.com/

http://xrblog.com/

http://zorpia.com/

List of other Parasite Hosts

http://squidoo.com

http://scribd.com

http://hubpages.com

http://wetpaint.com

http://Helium.com

http://webs.com

http://zimbio.com

http://quizilla.com

http://tumblr.com

http://tripod.com

Find Wordpress MU blogs

By entering the following in google it will give you a few hundred places to sign up from:

“you’ll be blogging seconds later” inurl:wp-signup.php

This will give you A LOT more but soe may be broken

inurl:wp-signup.php

If you have any other great places let me know! Until then keep an eye on the spammer you may just find your desert rose!

EDIT: Just noticed this is The Nexus 100th Post!!! as a thank you to all the loyal readers / commenter’s I’ll throw in a free niche report (detailed here).

Just drop a comment below and we’ll work something out!

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