Parasite Hosting is a term that refers to free remotely-hosted web pages. Despite the name, it actually is more specifically referring to the higher quality free web hosting pages that are loved by the big three search engines. Currently the best ones used by marketers are Hubpages, Squidoo, and Ezinerarticles (although Ezinearticles is just an article submission site and so there is a lot less you can do with it). These sites are the brick and mortar of Bum marketers.

But they can also be used for normal website promotion as well. By normal, I mean that you have main site which you need to drive traffic to. A lot of people do this by establishing a hierarchy of free web pages, each with links pointing up the chain. Your precious white-hat website is at the top of the chain as that’s where you want everyone to eventually end up.

The second level of the hierarchy are the parasite hosting sites. These are articles, reviews, and basic information related to your niche which ultimately recommend your site. By using anchor text in your link to your main site you also help in your SEO efforts.

Now, you need to get traffic to those article pages. This is where the third level kicks in and it’s where you can start to get a little spammy. Create a presence in high-traffic areas that are not necessarily targeted. Some examples include free classified sites, WPMU Free Wordpress blog sites, banner and traffic exchanges, safe-list blasting, forums, cheap trash traffic, etc. Think volume not quality. All this traffic is aimed at your second-level parasite-hosted pages.

Why the second level you ask? That is, why not just use the third level traffic tactics to get traffic directly to your web pages? Because it’s too risky. You’ll be dropping links in some bad neighborhoods and may even get accused of spamming from time to time. The second level acts as a layer of security so your main site doesn’t suffer from possible Google and Yahoo penalties, sending it deep into the sandbox.

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