Parasite SEO

Rank on someone else's domain — Reddit, Medium, LinkedIn, Forbes — instead of building your own authority.

Find a high-authority UGC or contributor platform Google trusts. Plant content there that ranks for your target query. Drive traffic to your offer via in-content mentions or profile links. In 2026, Google's site reputation abuse policy has chewed through the obvious cases (Forbes Advisor, USA Today coupons). The remaining plays — Reddit, niche forums — get caught faster every quarter.