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parasite-seo

When the user wants to choose or execute third-party platform SEO (high-authority sites for rankings or backlinks). Also use when the user mentions "parasite SEO," "parasitic SEO," "barnacle SEO," "hosted content," "third-party publishing," "Medium SEO," "Reddit SEO," "GitHub parasite SEO," "LinkedIn Pulse SEO," "high-authority platforms," "distributed authority," "borrow domain authority," or "rank without own website." For GitHub-specific playbooks, use github. For Medium.com posts, use medium-posts. For Grokipedia, use grokipedia-recommendations. For AI answer-engine visibility (not platform selection), use generative-engine-optimization.

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# SEO: Parasite SEO

Guides parasite SEO (also "barnacle SEO")—publishing optimized content on high-authority third-party platforms (Medium, Reddit, LinkedIn, Grokipedia, etc.) to leverage their domain strength for rankings and backlinks, bypassing the need to build your own site's authority from scratch.

**When invoking**: On **first use**, if helpful, open with 1–2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On **subsequent use** or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.

## What Is Parasite SEO

**Parasite SEO** = Placing content on high-authority platforms to leverage their domain strength for rankings and AI citation. Part of "Distributed Authority Engineering."

Instead of waiting months for your own domain to gain trust, you publish on established platforms that Google already trusts. Content can rank on page one within days rather than months because Google crawls these platforms frequently and inherits their domain trust.

**Best for**: Beginners testing niches; local businesses needing quick leads; demand validation; supplementing traditional SEO.