@nemira yep … the big difference with parasite SEO is you’re piggybacking off the authority of the host so you can worry much less about competition. Without backlinks you’re still going to struggle to rank for high competition keywords but the long tail becomes a valid target again … unlike our ‘dead’ websites
Hey @mrdon ... I think it's you who's recently posted the t4ctical walking stick review on the SubReddit - thank you :-)
I just checked the SERP and there you are, just under the Amazon listing (see screenshot). I'd imagine, with a few upvotes and comments you'd grab the top spot in the Reddit SERP block. There's only a video carousel the PAA and (a huge) sponsored ads top leaderbar above you ... great job!
It's testament to the fact that authority is building on our little project
[attach]1189[/attach]and I can only see this getting more and more effective, especially as engagement increases!
We now have 65 members and are in the top 64% of SubReddits ... I like that :-)
Hi all :-) I just posted an update on the Parasite SEO group that you might be interested in (just in case you miss the notification) ... Cheers :-)
Hey all,
I'm planning to post a progress update here after a year of posting every day on Reddit!
But before that, I'm wondering if anyone has some advice ... someone is running a copy + paste hit job on my Reddit posts. It looks semi-automated to me.
They are lifting my entire post, removing my affiliate links, adding their own, switching up the title and posting on another sub which has a lot more members (7.4k). Although it seems like a dead sub in as much as no-one seems to be interacting.
Due to their sub seemingly being more popular, their reposts often knock my posts out of the SERPS. As an example, try this Google search.
You should see a sub Reddit called r/Cursed Roblox ... this is the culprit.
I know all is fair in love, war and parasite SEO and I obviously want to avoid drawing unnecessary attention to my posts (since they're AI generated) ... but do you think there's anything I can do to combat this?
I thought about getting a gang of us together and reporting all their posts but even that might be risky because they're signing off their posts using my pseudonym ... this could track back to our sub.
Maybe play them at their own game and get hold of an aged Reddit sub with 10k members to see if I can knock them out of the SERPS!
Lol ... if only I had more time :-)
Any thoughts are most welcome ...
@rohanm It looks as though the problem may be resolved - that user’s account is now suspended! In fact, there are multiple accounts suspended in that sub Reddit.
Oh yeah :-) Good spot Diane!
Looks like all the users posting plagiarised reviews have been suspended. Coolio :-) Now they just need to delete those posts.
Onwards and upwards ...
Curious about your progress doint that a whole year Rohan! :-)
I probably should do a lot more with Reddit again to, but whereever I get banned once (or hacked), it is so darn demotivating to start again. And Reddit is so quick ban-triggered, ugh.
But can be a fantastic resource! They're almost always in Google now, in my niche, after AI overviews, ads (and ads), and Pinterest.
@ohnoo_not_her hey Lizzie :-)
Well no time like the present and I don't contribute enough here so let's post this now ... it doesn't have to be War & Peace. Lol.
A little context. My time is limited. Work the 9 - 5 (changed jobs late last year and much happier, yay!). So I gave myself a very bare minimum target of 1 post per day on our Reddit Sub that Partha set up for us.
I thought, if I can't even make one post per day then I probably need to evaluate my life choices ... lol ... (that actually is something Chat GPT would say. Ha ha)
So, yeah. Been doing that for 377 days now. At least one review per day. The sub has gone from zero to 440 members. Not sure who all these people are but they've joined for some reason. Maybe they like the content, or maybe they're scraping the content ... lol.
I haven't been tracking anything really. No time to get into much of that. I've just been writing, posting, writing, posting.
It's hovering around 20k views per month now. I think the bulk of this is the surge of natural traffic you get to a post when it's first published. The views then tail off after a few days and you're pretty much left with the organic traffic coming in from Google (mostly, I'd imagine).
Getting some very minor engagement but mostly just my one faithful follower who likes every post (is that you Diane? ... lol). Some genuine comments and some "This is a SCAM" ... "This product is SH1T" etc etc ... just delete those.
So ... on to the juicy bit. How much money has it made?
Well ... it's not life-changing and basically generated nothing for 5 months before a sale or two came in and now it's making sales most weeks. In the ClickBank screenshot you can see the first sale was actually at the end of October.
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That screenshot is from day 1 to today so $5,120.09 in 8 months. An average of $640 per month. Like I say, hardly time to quit the J.O.B but it has definitely helped me out of a hole.
Plus I've made $650 or so from various other affiliate programs, most of which have paid into my Paypal ... all in all, not too shabby for something that maybe takes 45 minutes a day, on average.
No real downsides so far. Apart from the ever-present mild worry of the whole thing getting suspended. That comes with the territory in Parasite SEO. And I've learned a lot about the Google SERP as well as honing my AI prompting skills.
The review prompt has turned into a bit of a beast and I think I may have found a way to automate the entire process with Google Sheets, AppScript and the Open AI API. All using GPT to plan the entire process, write the scripts and debug/refine.
AI blows me away every day!
I've also built up quite a good list of other parasites I've seen ranking. This is in readiness for when I become a full-time organic SEO marketer. Have to think positive. I've even learned something about thoughts creating reality!
But that's another forum ... lol.
So what's missing? I hear you say ...
BACKLINKS!
I've played around in a very minor way with some backlinking but not seen any real SERP movement to be honest. I need to check on a couple of links actually!
I do think that if I could just get some of the more competitive CB products ranking, that's a full time income right there. The maths works.
Say $100 per sale on average. With only 2 sales a day, that's $6k per month.
I feel I'm so close to that now!
... and if you think of it like that, even if we all promote products on ClickBank, then there's room for many more of us on the Reddit Sub. Let alone the other parasites that I've only dipped my toes into the water with :-)
Finishing up ... just a little note to Partha. I hope you're doing ok mate. I do miss you man. After all, it was you who set me off along this path and it's only bloody working! Thank you so much :-) I honestly feel blessed to have crossed your path in Wealthy Affiliate, all those many moons ago.
And here we are ...
So I hope you found this helpful ... I'm happy to answer questions and try to give back a bit here.
(The legal bit. DISCLAIMER: These earnings are from my personal ClickBank account and are not typical. Your results may vary depending on your experience, effort, niche, and marketing strategy. This is not a guarantee of income, and I'm sharing this for educational purposes only)
@rohanm This is quite amazing to see, what you earn with not even an hour per day, so happy for you and I hope this will get you a full-time income!
Thanks for the explanation, and yes, I hope that Reddit will let you stay! I should be more active again on Reddit, it's a pity that they don't allow planners and such.
Thanks for the transparency and yes, miss Partha too, and many others :-)
Things are moving so much in the online world, and I'm looking at tons of Youtube videos and such and trying x-amount of things, it's crazy. Partha had a way of saying: focus on this now and just do that. I feel like I'm all over the place now at once and it's driving me nuts lol
- my miniature site is coming back in Google , heu? Pinterest is hardly growing, but not going down either, it is still my main income, and I'm building up a second account, niching it down even more.
Interestingly, today I had an email from a brand, offering me one of their DIY miniature kits, in exchange for a blog post review. Now, this has not been very unusual over the years, I got many kits for free lol, but this time they want to mention me on their blog and their socials. Could be a big game changer, as I see them creating ads everywhere, on Google as well as socials.
Planning on getting back in full on Facebook for this niche, after I got hacked last year.
- my Etsy store. Although Diane takes care of most of it, I'm still trying to make publicity for it all over socials to get those sales up. And then theres the 'real' pictures and videos, and printing, cutting out all those mini printables, because people 'see it better in a dollhouse scenery' that way, is exhausting hahahaha
In the planning is my own Woocommerce store, so that would be better anyway instead of only AI images of the product
- Trying to revive my Africa site by means of Facebook (Diane is working on this to). Which will work in the end, I do believe that. But yeah, that still means having new content posts on it as well regularly. I am using AI, but I want them as humanised as possible, because Journey will never except me otherwise. I am an 'official' Amazon influencer now, though, since recently, with my own 'store', and getting some clicks hahaha
After 5 years, I am now earning about 1100€ per month, while I have my expenses still. But still fighting, just a bit more behind the scenes I guess ahahaha. I don't think they miss us all at WA - lol.
Good job in staying consistent!
@rohanm This is quite amazing to see, what you earn with not even an hour per day, so happy for you and I hope this will get you a full-time income!
Thanks for the explanation, and yes, I hope that Reddit will let you stay! I should be more active again on Reddit, it's a pity that they don't allow planners and such.
Thanks for the transparency and yes, miss Partha too, and many others :-)
Things are moving so much in the online world, and I'm looking at tons of Youtube videos and such and trying x-amount of things, it's crazy. Partha had a way of saying: focus on this now and just do that. I feel like I'm all over the place now at once and it's driving me nuts lol
- my miniature site is coming back in Google , heu? Pinterest is hardly growing, but not going down either, it is still my main income, and I'm building up a second account, niching it down even more.
Interestingly, today I had an email from a brand, offering me one of their DIY miniature kits, in exchange for a blog post review. Now, this has not been very unusual over the years, I got many kits for free lol, but this time they want to mention me on their blog and their socials. Could be a big game changer, as I see them creating ads everywhere, on Google as well as socials.
Planning on getting back in full on Facebook for this niche, after I got hacked last year.
- my Etsy store. Although Diane takes care of most of it, I'm still trying to make publicity for it all over socials to get those sales up. And then theres the 'real' pictures and videos, and printing, cutting out all those mini printables, because people 'see it better in a dollhouse scenery' that way, is exhausting hahahaha
In the planning is my own Woocommerce store, so that would be better anyway instead of only AI images of the product
- Trying to revive my Africa site by means of Facebook (Diane is working on this to). Which will work in the end, I do believe that. But yeah, that still means having new content posts on it as well regularly. I am using AI, but I want them as humanised as possible, because Journey will never except me otherwise. I am an 'official' Amazon influencer now, though, since recently, with my own 'store', and getting some clicks hahaha
After 5 years, I am now earning about 1100€ per month, while I have my expenses still. But still fighting, just a bit more behind the scenes I guess ahahaha. I don't think they miss us all at WA - lol.
Good job in staying consistent!
@ohnoo_not_her Thanks Lizzie :-)
Yeah, even though it's small change, it feels good to earn online again, after so many years 'in the wilderness' ... lol
I do think backlinks could make all the difference and certainly an interesting experiment, now I have so many targets to try!
Time is my biggest obstacle currently.
Ha! You're dead right about Partha. He has this uncanny knack of saying exactly what you need to hear at exactly the right time :-)
That's good you're getting a bit of Google love again on your website. I must say I've seen quite a few low DR domains on Google first page in my SERPs wanderings! Maybe the authority tools haven't caught up with the backlinking campaigns yet or maybe Google has mellowed its stance. Hard to say without a team of SEO engineers on stand-by ... he he.
It sounds like you're diversifying as much as you can, which is great. Well done! Good luck with building those connections. It only takes one good one to come through and you're golden. Just keep at it :-)
I still get WA's emails ... 🤣 🤣 🤣 Beer with Lyle .... ha ha ha.
Ok ... I'm out ... these reviews aren't going to write themselves. Oh wait ... they could do with prompt automation via AppScript ... he he.
Stay focused x
@rohanm One faithful follower who likes every post? How strange, who could it be?? *blushes*
Congrats on keeping the consistency, and getting the results you deserve!
@diane ha ha ha … thanks Diane 
The party's over folks (for now). I should've known better than to post a progress report! Asking for it ... lol
[attach]1256[/attach]Or maybe Debra over at WA rallied the troops to raise the red flag ... 😆
[attach]1257[/attach]Of course, this is the risk you run with any parasite SEO operation.
Glad I backed everything up now 😉
The party's over folks (for now). I should've known better than to post a progress report! Asking for it ... lol
[attach]1256[/attach]Or maybe Debra over at WA rallied the troops to raise the red flag ... 😆
[attach]1257[/attach]Of course, this is the risk you run with any parasite SEO operation.
Glad I backed everything up now 😉
@rohanm Oh no, I guess you had a good run at it, but it was always a possibility it would happen at some point…
@rohanm wow!!
@rohanm ohw f**k! In my experience with reddit, a bunch of people probably reported you , indeed. And then you're just BAM, gone, without a reason why or no possible appeal.
If it is someone from WA and they are reading this: shame on you.
(wouldn't be surprised if it was either. I once placed a negative review on Trustpilot, and Kyle just reported my review claiming I wasn't a member, and I had to 'prove' it. While I only told the truth about their bad hosting and such, things I would only have known if I was a member in the first place.)
They are all over claiming that they can 'learn' from criticism, while they never really do that, then they just silence ban those people, as happened to many of us. Anyway, I have moved on, don't even want to think about WA any longer hahaha. I think they are losing clients to. Their "AI writer" never was any good (hardly used it cause it was so horrible), and "Jaaxy"? no one ever heard about that tool lol !
It probably is better if you would create a new subreddit, to mention it here (but not the actual name), and if someone wants to join, they have to dm you so you have some controle over who knows about it! It always sucks so much to lose all that work, ugh! (parasite or not)
@rohanm also: wow. I googled WA review as well, just now, it was a long time ago that I did that. Not much positivity on the first page, is it? (not even that Youtube video from Eric Cantu on the first page) I call that Karma, it always comes around. (yeah, I can be a bit unforgiving lol ).
@diane Yep, goes with the territory. I will take away the positives. I’ve learned an awful lot about parasite SEO, created close to 500 posts and compiled a good list of alternative parasite platforms (which I’ve been meaning to test for ever!).