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Been a while sience I posted some good stuff…

… so here it goes. I'll show you what affiliate piggybacking is and how to discover the piggies.

What is affiliate piggybacking?

When you do parasite hosting you actually take advantage of the strength of the domain you host on. Each domain provides its pages a different starting line in the race to ranking based on many factors. But, unlike parasite hosting, piggybacking is much more difficult and successfull. There's no interstitial, you send them straight to source.

Follow the next paragraphs so you understand this. I can't explain you here as everything is put together out of the details I'll share here and in the end you'll have the complete picture.

Step#1. Locating the piggies.

This is difficult. You have to choose a niche and start searching through the top 250 pages for those that have affiliate programs. You will sign up with all and then you will test their affiliate links.

Any sane affiliate program will give you a tracking link like:

http://URL/?affid=ID

But when you visit it you will be cookied and redirected with a 301 to the:

http://URL/

But, in very rare cases some URLs don't redirect. So they remain the same keeping the ID in the URL and return a 200 instead of the 301. These pages are vulnerable to an unlimited number of duplicate pages. But also to something else.

Sometimes, the Affiliate Links they give you will redirect but other URLs on the site, if applied your AFFID, will not redirect but will cookie you same as all the others. Test them with the tool linked above.

Step#2. Piggybacking.

Once you find the piggies it's time to outlink them. Remember! Those domains already rank in the top100 or more so the link boost will not need to be huge and the link juice quality can be more or less existent. To translate: throw all your link spam at it see what happens.

If you do it right, the URL with your affiliate ID will outrank (higher than the previous ranking page) the previous ranking page and you'll get their traffic.

The problems with this technique!

  • Piggies are very hard to find. Most likely you'll stumble upon them by mistake, as I did. But if you find them and got some links, it's very likely you'll rank very well.
  • Affiliate programs will threat you but 99% of times they won't do anything (100% for me but that's me).
  • You won't have any traffic statistics. You can't track visitors so you have to trust the affiliate program you work with.
  • Google will ban your Affiliate ID. This is fucking hilarious but it happens. The old pages wil get back to their rank (a bit higher thanks to your link juice) and your affiliate id will be permanently banned from serps for that domain. Usually this happens because those idiots you spam will bitch around. I don't know how long you can last if you don't spam others with you affiliate links and just use your own link farms and so on.

This technique has other applications but you will put them together from the process flow I just detailed.

Same as usual, form is below… ask or share experiences…

5 Comments Posted By Readers :

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#1 Terman from China
Posted on Tuesday, 01 July, 2008
"Sometimes, the Affiliate Links they give you will redirect but other URLs on the site, if applied your AFFID, will not redirect but will cookie you same as all the others. Test them with the tool linked above."

I dont quite understand what you mean of above sentence ? redirect to other urls ,then will not redirect ?
#2 webdiggr from Canada
Posted on Tuesday, 01 July, 2008
I have had some good and bad experiences with this technique. It is a lot like the "buy viagra" or "phentermine" results, for the short to medium tail queries when doing this, they are changing constantly, lots of BH competition. If you can, making your affiliate ID (which appears in the URL) a relevant keyword to the particular niche instead of a simple user name helps stay on the top a bit longer, or even permanently. ;)
#3 5ubliminal web
Posted on Tuesday, 01 July, 2008
@webdiggr: you don't really need keyword in url as affiliate ID except to make it look good.
You actually rely on the text of the page and anchor text in the links you give it.

PS: I know it's a pills technique ;)
#4 5ubliminal web
Posted on Tuesday, 01 July, 2008
@Terman: If they give you a link to copy paste like: http://domain/link?affid then this will redirect.
But, sometimes, if you use: http://domain/about-us?affid , the cookie with your ID will be set but the page won't redirect and will issue a 200 and be a valid URL. That's the weak point.
#5 Gab from Canada web
Posted on Monday, 14 July, 2008
Pretty clever idea... kinda turns the tables on people saying they don't like inhouse aff programs because of seo implications.
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