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”.

You probably have heard of some of these sites like Squidoo, WordPress, Blogger and Hubpages. Others are not as well known, such as Bravenet and Xanga, but offer just as much value for building quality one way links to your site. You can find these sites by doing a search in Google for free blog or free web site.

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.

The next thing you will want to do to really turn up the link juice is to use social bookmarking on all the free sites you create. By doing this the links going from these free sites to your main web site will give even more SEO benefit.

You now have the knowledge needed to take advantage of parasite hosting and the SEO benefit it offers. It’s up to you to take that knowledge and use it now. It’s free, it’s easy and it can really boost your listings in the SERPs. So what are you waiting for? The links are there, go get them! If you have found this information good and need more seo help follow that link.