Link Building And Parasite Hosting
If you are getting started on a shoe-string budget and need to build links to your site for SEO purposes parasite hosting is one good way to go. Firstly it’s free (we all like free) and it can be very effective. In this article we’ll cover just what parasite hosting is and how to take advantage of it for your SEO efforts. I want you to be confident that you can learn seo.
Any web site that will let you put up a free blog or site is a parasite host, not as fancy as they make it sound. These high page rank sites (many with a PR of 8 or better) are all over the Internet and you can use them to get back-links to your web site for free. The blog or site you build on these parasite hosts will not have that high of a page rank but it helps to have them just the same because the search engines will view your links as coming from a “good neighborhood”.
Some of the more popular and well known of these are Blooger (owned by Google), WordPress (a PR 9) and Squidoo. Some of the others you may or may not have heard of include Wetpaint, Bravenet and Livejournal. All of these web sites will let you build free blogs or sites that you can then use to give your main web site one way back-links. To find a list of good parasite hosts just search for top free blogs or top free websites.
Taking advantage of this for SEO is easy. Just put up a free blog (or several) using content related to your niche. It’s very important to make sure you only use articles or posts that are relevant to the market you are in. Within that content put an anchor text link or two pointing to the page of your site you want to boost the rankings for, how easy is that!
If you’re reading this and have no clue what an anchor text link is don’t freek out. You will have a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor to create your free blog with. With this creating anchor text links is a breeze. Pick the text you want for your anchor link and highlight it. Next click on the chain icon on the menu bar. A window will open and you put in the URL you want to link to, simple!
For additional benefit build more than one of these sites and then link from one to the other as well as linking to your site. For the maximum results use what is known as a link wheel. In a link wheel site A links to B which links to C which then links to D which closes the wheel by linking to A. You could even build more than one of these and have links going from one wheel to the other, the possibilities are endless.
Another tactic to give even more power to these links is to social bookmark your free blogs. Social bookmarking does not give the SEO benefit it once did but it will still make your back-links pass on more link juice.
Are you still reading this? Why aren’t you out there building links to your site? You have the know how necessary to use parasite hosting to get free one way back-links to help with your sites SEO. If you put this knowledge to use it will only be a matter of time before you see your web site in the top of the SERPs, so get moving. If you have found this information good and need more seo help follow that link.
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