<b>Site reputation abuse ('parasite SEO'): the coverage map</b>

<b>Site reputation abuse ('parasite SEO'): the coverage map</b>
This week on the radar: where this policy is being tracked and contested.

Confirmed
— <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies">Google's spam policy</a> — defines third-party content published to exploit a host's ranking signals as a violation.

Read this
— <a href="https://detailed.com">Detailed</a> — documented which big media domains hosted coupon/casino subsections and how they fared after enforcement.
— <a href="https://searchengineland.com">Search Engine Land</a> — tracks the manual-action wave against reputation-abuse sections.

Chatter
— Practitioners debate the gray zone: legitimate syndication and editorial partnerships vs. rented subfolders. Google's line is 'first-party involvement and oversight'.

The balanced read: enforcement has been partly manual, so absence of a hit isn't proof of compliance.

One to bookmark: Detailed's parasite teardowns — the clearest catalog of who did what and what happened.