Merry Christmas, and something to think about...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for everyone, especially @Sven for their great work.
I'd like to open a discussion about GSA and its future. GSA is like a knife, you can use it for cooking, cutting, such as tool or to kill, all depends on the use you give it. I do not use this software for exploit microniches every 3 months, I am not so aggressive. I have a great web games with several hundreds of thousands of users a day for more than 10 years. My seo is more neutral, gentler, and more natural in opinion of Google.
It is said that knowledge does not occupy space, but it consumes my time and that of many people. Like many of you many SEO tools I use every day, but GSA-SER is the main. A program that is sold with a one-time payment and license of lifelong, that maybe is ok for normal users, but not for me. If I use my time to understand GSA SER, every of their functions, to avoid their bugs... I don't want that in a period, for example, of two years there are no updates or simply GSA SER abandoned because it is not profitable for the company's @Sven.
I suggest to pay a small monthly fee, roughly between 10 - $15, that is not money. All who work on this seriously, it will happen as me, considering VPS, dedicated proxies, other programs, licenses blah blah blah, $ 500 a month, and I am not going to be stingy and I prefer to pay a small amount to GSA SER.
But not only is to pay, also we should have some advantage, as more information about the functions, written manuals (to translate with Google translate), more people in the maintenance of the engines of GSA to improve the LPM, documentation of new features and so is asked less and GSA SER will become increasingly better, more stable and better LPM to improve their engines more often. If this is so, I think who actually work in internet pages, we will be indifferent to pay that amount even me I would be calmer because is that the project is more viable in the long term.
Practically would gain benefits from what they sell each month and is not charged more, that is not stability at a company, GSA-SER is competing against the most great, others are pay... very high payment. I once I have learned GSA-SER I do not want other software in place.
This is just a suggestion, I am just dealing with Sven, but I am looking after my interests and I want to follow using this Soft, know to last over time, better support, better maintenance. If I mention it is because actually the program deserves it. Whenever I see an update of any product of GSA or GSA-SER which is almost every day, I feel almost like a thief, SVEN works a lot and we update almost every day, and do not have to pay more?. If other software that updates once every several months, I would not say this, but really with the hand on the heart GSA-SER and @Sven deserve what I'm commenting on here.
Now be honest. If it goes well, it’s good to me too, if some day GSA falls for lack of money, me and many of you have to redo our work and invest hours and hours to learn other software of these characteristics, and in addition, this is what more it is updated with difference, it deserves this support. And again, if to GSA-SER it goes well me too. I even would pay a one-time or a donation, so @Sven really to update the manual with all the functions and explain them. Using the GSA-SER appears info, I know it but I am not so good at languages, and if everything appears in an online manual, translate with Google is enough for me.
Merry Christmas
Best regards
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Doing it a monthly payment would enforce me to be polite so people will renew the license
Oh well Im not too sure if thats something for me. Now seriously it is a bit unethical to get customers and switch to a monthly system. It's kind of scam if you asked me.
Anyway that SER becomes useless is hardly possible as I code everything in a way that every accpect can be changed by external files. You can edit user agents, script your own engines, text captcha answers and so on. In the end you can change everything to be something completely different. And I know already people doing this (custom engines that do completely different things).
If there was a monthly sub, as sven said, he would need to be more polite hehe
I don't think there would be such a helpful community if everything was done by sven, this forum would just be for submitting bugs and more feature requests which would need to be implemented swiftly, simply because there are monthly repayments in place.
I'd be open to a monthly sub - but as Sven mentioned, it's not really ethical to change the system after selling it as a one time license.
Sven - is there any way to set up a premium membership system on this forum? People could pay like $5 / month to be a premium member - there could be a hidden forum only for premium members to discuss tactics without the whole world seeing. And I think the vendors could easily offer a discount to premium members to help keep SER going.
@porlapatria I don't think a monthly subscription for the software would be a viable option. First, the software was sold as a one time payment and it was one of the selling factors. I for one have bought the software because of the one time price, same with Scrapebox and other SEO tools that offer one time payment. Second, most of the users here have multiple licenses. Imagine paying $40 per month for the 4 licenses on the top of VPS, Proxies, Indexers, etc cost per month.
Not everyone would be happy paying monthly subscription. If it would happen which I doubt will, I would ask for a refund for all the licenses as I have paid for a one time price in the first place. I would feel like I was bait in to purchasing a one time software and then later on asking me to pay for monthly subscription.
If you feel almost like a thief for the awesome updates that Sven is putting into the software, ask for his Paypal and send him money for a job well done. Better yet ask for his address and send him flowers every month.
Merry Christmas to all!
Ok, as Sven says, it's now not possible to change the rules for people that have already bought Ser.
The alternative can be a voluntary fee, from people that feel and need that a big update now is necessary for all the troubles described on the posts of last month.
The button "DONATE" is always present in the top-right of the forum, just under "Manuals". As most of us are paying lots of dollars every month for servers, proxies, software monthly fees, verified lists, indexers, ranking trackers etc etc, I think $10 more (amount suggested by Porlapatria) can't damage so much our wallets. Probably some recurring donations (from most of users) can only help the developers to work more or to pay other developers if their time is not enough.
In the past I personally donated only one time, $10, just after a feature request that has been satisfied. Later sometimes I asked other new features, but as never they has been satisfied, I never have donate again, eh eh ;-)
So, for the people that (as Porlapatria said) "when see an update they feel almost like a thief", or that really thay need some strong Ser updates, just go up and click on Donate.
I just have done it, $10 are sent by that button
Merry Christmas to the Gsa-Forum Community!
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I think Sven has already given his reply, he don't want to change from one-time payment to monthly-fee, so why keeping asking and asking it? Only Sven or Gsa company can decide it, so when they say "No" I think the meaning is only "No".
But, as I said in another post, donate is not prohibited, and has never been prohibited.
So, after so many words.... have you already donated something?
I just wanted to say that, sometime, less words and more actions are better, do you agree?
I noticed in the past that donations works, and can push to find solutions more than only posts.
Again Merry Xmas :-)
And as for you having Svens GSA entire suite... Yeah me too, multiple times over.
You will need to purchase SER and CB twenty times over before saying anything about you owning nearly all of GSA products.
Talk is cheap, I'm an SEO, not a developer of an SEO link building tool, whatever I do in my spare time is completely gratis, I sent sven some data, over 1000 unique domains which I now have to narrow down further which I will do, eventually.
I have my own businesses to promote so if it means debugging or persevering with the best I can with an older version, I will choose my business.
Your mentality is all wrong, if something isn't working you don't just throw more money at it and then demand it to work, Sven knows what he's doing and he knows how he wants to structure his business, do you really think anything would be better if there was a monthly subscription in place? I certainly don't.
Sven is a good guy and he tells things straight, if he has said he doesn't want to work for anyone then why try to force him into having to deal with more pressure with additional whiney customers, you will soon change your thoughts if you did have to pay a monthly fee and you were still achieving low lpm, but oh what, because you're throwing pennies to Sven every month he should fix it for you ASAP!
I suggest that you save up your money and hire a developer yourself to code you your own SEO tool and then see if you can get 100% dedication/support with updated engines constantly for a low fee each month, that won't happen anytime soon.
Enough with the throw money at something attitude and instead put some time into providing Sven what he requires so that he can investigate.
He is also very willing to help, FYI.
The price of his service is worth it.
Thanks to all who did a a donation. Though I do my best to make everyones wishes come true. The to-do list is growing but some time I will manage to get all sorted I guess.
No problem mate, it's good to talk of the problems, I just left here my humble opinion and my suggestion on a way to get what you need.
Mejor te voy a escribir un mensaje privado, asi quizas nos entendimos mejor :-)
Abrazos!