Lists can be used over and over and over, the effectiveness of that list will deteriorate as time goes by due to being spammed, It's quite impossible to give an exact time frame or even a general time frame unfortunately.
You could try your best to keep the list clean and working by checking to see if the root domains are still in googles index (or which ever search engine your targetting) so you can weed out the domains that have been de-indexed and just work with indexed domains, if the main root domain isn't indexed in the search engines you're working with, then there's no point building a link from it from an inner page.
Thanks that sounds more promising maybe i should build my own by the sounds of it. Any advice on building my own list for the future how i should go about this for future reference.point me in the right direction i have scrape box do i need anything else.
It is fairly easy to scrape targets yourself, it's good that you have scrapebox, that's a starting point.
You just need some footprints and some keywords, and then literally it's a click and waiting game...
If you need some help with footprints, for now you can grab the ones that are preinstalled in SER, they'll do, for getting targets, here's how to do it.
1.
Options > Advanced > Tools > Search Online for URLs.
2.
Select which ever platforms you want to scrape for here, and they'll get added to the main window as you're adding them.
3.
Once you've added all of your platforms, literally copy them and past them into a text file for future use, then just import them into scrapebox and get nice big keyword list and merge them together using scrapebox and then scrape! It's that easy.
Moving onto another level of scraping would be to begin to create your own personal custom footprints so you can yield a better verified ratio, find out which elements/footprints of a page that SER likes and then rinse and repeat... You can also scrape using only the keywords related to your niche too but this will bring less results depending on your niche popularity.
You're going to need some proxies as well, you don't need to go for expensive private proxies, there's a service by BanditIM which is good, you would need to install scrapebox v2 to get it to work properly.
My experience with purchased lists is around the four week mark, by the six week mark they are all but dead. Its amazing what taking that $49 and getting a VPS, some proxies and learning how to scrape your own list can do.
@Tim89 Great stuff. Love Scrapebox- I would add that GScraper with their proxy service is worth the investment- this is good until tomorrow (not affiliate link):
@dwwwb The 50 port plan currently at $52.50 would suffice, works upto 500 threads and they rotate every 10 minutes, actual recommendations would be pretty vague because everyone can adjust their number of threads/delay per proxy/port in their scraping tool which would increase or decrease their functionality when it comes to burning them out..
I'd suggest starting with 50 port plan though, for 1 installation running 24/7 it'll sure scrape you a ton of urls without having to wait the full 10 minutes for rotating dead/burned proxies, but experimenting your own setup is the only real way to find out the cost to yield ratio.
I agree with @shaun... scraping really doesn't require that much effort nor does it require an amazing VPS to run, it can even easily be run in the back ground while running SER and if your budget can stretch a little further GSA Platform Identifier would make it even easier for processing raw scrapes into identified site lists which are easily imported into SER which saves even more time.
- Cheap vps (or current ser vps) = $40 - $70 depending on your VPS plan - Proxies = $30 - $50 - Scrapebox or Gscraper whichever you go with = $97/$68 one off payment - GSA SER PI = $57 one off payment
Recurring cost of around $70~ and a life time of scraping millions and millions of potential targets, it's really not that expensive.
@Tim89 Thanks! Currently break up 100 buyproxies to scrape and feed other tools. I guess I'll try on a third machine to test head to head and see what the results are. Once configured do they need to be changed out manually every month?
@dwwwb When you purchase the subscription, you're given static IPs which you import into your scraping tool once... these are personal IPs that only you will have and IPs are rotated and funneled/routed to your static IP:PORT.
So no, you will not have to change them out, they run on their own and refresh by themselves, but yes, definitely test them to see if they work with your setup requirements.
@Tim89 That sounds like a better solution. Not having to monitor and change them out constantly would be extra valuable time for creating good content and building sites. This works for any application using ip:port:user:pass configuration?
Yes they should, I would recommend contacting @BanditIM for further information and set up procedures for additional tools though, just to make sure they will work with the tools you need them to work with.
@dwwwb - We simply give you a list of static proxies that are ip:port that authorize to your IP. @loopline, a respected list seller on this forum, uses my proxies to build his lists... here's a video he made to show the incredible speed:
@BanditIM Just bought 50 ports to test with. Seems to work well with GSA. Figuring out different aspects of Scrapebox- there are some tools that don't function normally.
as someone who purchases that actual list, you will see declining performance from the list, as one would expect. that list gets beat to hell pretty quickly.The first week, expect excellent results with high verification rates, second week good results, and then just toss the list as you will be spinning your wheels at that point. remember the whole reason for buying a list is to spam high tiers with massive links. It is a time saver not to have to scrape your own list. But as others have already said, you need to get in the habit of scraping your own lists. I build my own tier 1 manually, use ser list for tier 2, and blast with my own lists at tier 3. seems to work for me. good luck.
Just here to let everyone know that tonight we will be doubling our pool size for proxybandit users, and by mid next week we will have our "fail-safe" algorithm implemented that will ensure that 90%+ of the proxies you use are alive (not necessarily Google-passed, but simply alive... but nearly all of our proxies pass Google anyways)
Not sure why you're doing it that way, but it really looks like a broken strategy. The way you're doing it now your tier 2 will consist of spammed to death domains -and because of it- it will result in a almost completely broken tier 2 in a couple of weeks.
Regarding the question of the OP, I can't comment on that since I don't use bought lists anymore, but my own scraped list lose about 10% of targets each week. I think that's pretty normal.
I can also vouch for Proxybandit. Currently using the 25 ports package and I'm up to a solid 300 URL's/s. Using their ultrafast webscraper as well for the advanced operator footprints.
If you are willing to spend your time and resources to make your own list! This is the best option to choose rather for buying verified list.
However, I am using a monthly subscription service by @IdentifiedURLs which scrapes links for me every 4 hours and get them IDENTIFIED as a working platform for GSA SER. It automatically injects links into the folder on my server which I have set as IDENTIFIED URLS.
Please read MY POST to discover how the service works which helped me accumulate 8000 unique domains from contextual engines.
^ I can second sabahat. IdentifiedURLs is a whole diff ball game. $35ish recurring, definitely cheaper than what you would incur if you were to scrape yourself
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If the list is sold to 50+ users. 1-2 weeks most of the time...
You could try your best to keep the list clean and working by checking to see if the root domains are still in googles index (or which ever search engine your targetting) so you can weed out the domains that have been de-indexed and just work with indexed domains, if the main root domain isn't indexed in the search engines you're working with, then there's no point building a link from it from an inner page.
You just need some footprints and some keywords, and then literally it's a click and waiting game...
If you need some help with footprints, for now you can grab the ones that are preinstalled in SER, they'll do, for getting targets, here's how to do it.
1.
Options > Advanced > Tools > Search Online for URLs.
2.
Select which ever platforms you want to scrape for here, and they'll get added to the main window as you're adding them.
3.
Once you've added all of your platforms, literally copy them and past them into a text file for future use, then just import them into scrapebox and get nice big keyword list and merge them together using scrapebox and then scrape! It's that easy.
Moving onto another level of scraping would be to begin to create your own personal custom footprints so you can yield a better verified ratio, find out which elements/footprints of a page that SER likes and then rinse and repeat... You can also scrape using only the keywords related to your niche too but this will bring less results depending on your niche popularity.
You're going to need some proxies as well, you don't need to go for expensive private proxies, there's a service by BanditIM which is good, you would need to install scrapebox v2 to get it to work properly.
http://www.gscraper.com/gscraper-for-2015.php
I'd suggest starting with 50 port plan though, for 1 installation running 24/7 it'll sure scrape you a ton of urls without having to wait the full 10 minutes for rotating dead/burned proxies, but experimenting your own setup is the only real way to find out the cost to yield ratio.
- Cheap vps (or current ser vps) = $40 - $70 depending on your VPS plan
- Proxies = $30 - $50
- Scrapebox or Gscraper whichever you go with = $97/$68 one off payment
- GSA SER PI = $57 one off payment
Recurring cost of around $70~ and a life time of scraping millions and millions of potential targets, it's really not that expensive.
So no, you will not have to change them out, they run on their own and refresh by themselves, but yes, definitely test them to see if they work with your setup requirements.
If you are willing to spend your time and resources to make your own list! This is the best option to choose rather for buying verified list.
However, I am using a monthly subscription service by @IdentifiedURLs which scrapes links for me every 4 hours and get them IDENTIFIED as a working platform for GSA SER. It automatically injects links into the folder on my server which I have set as IDENTIFIED URLS.
Please read MY POST to discover how the service works which helped me accumulate 8000 unique domains from contextual engines.