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SEO Parasite walkthrough: crawl to published article

This guide supports MicroBiz365’s SEO Parasite — practical advice for UK founders searching around guest post SEO tool UK.

21 June 2026 · MicroBiz365

General information only — tools do not replace qualified legal, tax, or financial advice where you need it.

General information only — this guide explains how SEO Parasite works and sensible habits for UK founders. It is not SEO guarantee advice, legal guidance on advertising, or a substitute for qualified tax or financial help where you need it.

This walkthrough assumes you have already read the pillar guide and opened SEO Parasite. We will go from sign-in to a saved live link you can track in Rankings.

Step 1 — Create an account

Visit seoparasite.vercel.app. Register with email and password (minimum eight characters). Sessions last about 30 days on a trusted device. Sign out from the header on shared computers.

Step 2 — Add your business URL

Paste the full HTTPS URL — e.g. https://microbiz365.com, not just the domain without protocol. Click Load if you have run the engine before and want saved data. Click Run engine for a fresh crawl, keyword mining, and competitor detection.

First runs take a few minutes. The crawler respects a page limit; huge shops may need you to narrow focus in editorial guardrails (Overview tab) before re-running.

Step 3 — Review competitors

Open the Competitors tab. Auto-detected domains appear after Run engine. Add rivals manually (max eight) — use bare domains like competitor.co.uk, not full article URLs unless you mean to watch a subdirectory.

Hit rescan when you want fresh headings. Remove domains that are not really peers (national newspapers, for example) — they skew your content plan.

Step 4 — Pick a content gap

On Content plan, read suggested topics and rationale. Choose something you can speak about honestly. MicroBiz365 tenants block VAT-heavy legal topics by policy; your tenant may differ.

Step 5 — Approve and edit a draft

Drafts land in the queue depending on your publishing mode (Overview → safe mode). Open a draft, read the long and short versions, tweak facts, add a personal anecdote — readers spot generic filler instantly.

Use Copy article for manual platforms. Use Publish when Dev.to or Hashnode keys are connected and mode allows live publish.

Where articles go: auto-publish vs copy-paste

The SEO Parasite dashboard splits platforms into two buckets. Auto-publish works for Dev.to and Hashnode when you paste API keys in the Platforms tab. Hashnode typically needs Pro on your publication — check their billing before you assume auto-post will work.

Manual targets — your own blog, Substack, Reddit, HackerNoon, Vocal, LinkedIn articles — use generated drafts you copy yourself. After you paste and publish, hit Save live link so rank tracking knows which URL to check. Skip that step and the Rankings tab cannot help you.

• Dev.to — fast developer-audience reach; outbound links are usually nofollow, but discovery still matters.
• Hashnode — often dofollow when configured correctly; good for technical niches.
• Your blog — full control; best long-term asset if you will maintain it.
• Substack / Reddit / HackerNoon — manual only in SEO Parasite; read each platform’s self-promotion rules before posting.

One article, one primary platform per publish cycle. Duplicating the same post to six sites the same day looks like spam to humans and search engines alike.

Step 6 — Save the live link

After you publish on Reddit, Substack, or your blog, open the draft again and choose the platform from the dropdown — including Reddit now — paste the public URL, and click Save live link. Rankings and the published list dedupe by slug so you do not get duplicate rows for the same article.

Step 7 — Connect platform keys (optional)

Platforms tab: Dev.to API key from Settings → Extensions → DEV Community API Keys (not the Agent session JSON). Hashnode: GraphQL token plus publication ID. Substack is manual-only — session cookies were too unreliable for auto-publish.

Step 8 — Check Rankings weekly

Rankings tab lists keywords against saved URLs. Trigger a refresh if your plan allows. Expect “Not ranked” for weeks on competitive head terms. Long-tail UK phrases move first.

Publishing modes explained

Overview → safe mode controls how aggressive the pipeline is. Dry run never calls external APIs — good for testing copy. Draft only generates text without publish attempts. Manual approval queues drafts until you click approve. Live can auto-publish when keys exist and the platform selector picks Dev.to or Hashnode.

If you are nervous about the first post going live, start in manual approval, read the draft twice, then switch to live once your Platforms tab is configured.

Overview tab in 60 seconds

Overview shows tenant status, publish readiness, scheduler state, and quick counts for drafts and live posts. Treat it as a dashboard glance — not somewhere you spend an hour. The habit lives in Content plan → Drafts → Rankings.

Step 9 — Editorial guardrails

Overview → operator guardrails: free-text instructions the generator must follow (tone, topics to avoid, compliance notes). Save before Run engine.

Troubleshooting publish errors

• Dev.to key rejected — strip any “Created:” suffix the site appended when you copied it.
• Hashnode failed — confirm Pro on the publication and the publication ID matches.
• Nothing in published list — ensure you saved a live link or completed auto-publish; mock test rows are purged on load.

First-week checklist

1. Day 1 — Account, URL, Run engine, skim Overview.
2. Day 2 — Trim competitor list to real peers.
3. Day 3 — Pick one content gap; read draft; edit intro.
4. Day 4 — Publish or copy-paste; Save live link same day.
5. Day 7 — Glance Rankings; note “not ranked” without panic.

Repeat weekly. By week four you should have two live URLs saved — enough for rank tracking to show patterns, even if positions have not moved yet.

Local vs hosted dashboard

Developers can run python cli.py serve on localhost for unlimited crawl time and persistent SQLite. Most founders use the hosted dashboard at seoparasite.vercel.app — same UI, no install.

Tracking Google rankings without obsessing daily

SEO Parasite checks whether your saved live URL appears in roughly the top 20 Google results for each target keyword. Not ranked is the default for new URLs — not a bug. Exact URL match matters: if you saved https://yoursite.com/blog/guide but Google indexed the www variant, fix the saved link or add a redirect on your site.

Check weekly, not hourly. Position 47 yesterday and not ranked today tells you nothing useful. Trend lines over a month — after you have published consistently — are worth your attention.

Pair SEO Parasite with other MicroBiz365 tools

Build the site first with the AI Website Builder or your own host. Sketch channels with the Marketing Plan Generator. Use SEO Parasite for article production and rank tracking. Add Linqer when you want reciprocal on-site links plus social amplification from other founders.

None of these replace registering with HMRC or Companies House when you need to. They shorten the gap between “I have a website” and “someone who is not my mate found it.”

That is the full loop. Run it once end-to-end this week; repeat on a cadence you can keep. SEO Parasite is a habit tool, not a one-click traffic button.

More SEO Parasite guides

• Get your new website found in the UK
• Guest post SEO mistakes UK
• Side hustle SEO without an agency
• Tracking Google rankings FAQ

Open SEO Parasite for the landing-page overview, then sign in at the dashboard.