My test results
Hi guys,
I've been lurking here and decided it would be a good idea to share my progress with GSA. If this isn't the right venue to share this please let me know.
My setup: I'm running a macbook pro with XP running in a VM
Tools: GSA Ranker, Captcha Breaker, Auto Content Writer, TBS, 10 semi-private proxies
Background: I have some experience with using previous tools such as SENukeX and BMD
My plan: Unfortunately, I've never been very scheduled or strict as to my planning an actual strategy. I have spent the past 3 weeks reading everything that I can here along with a few other forums. I've watched the videos and read as much as I could before diving in. I have mapped out my tiered link stragegy. For the articles that GSA will be posting, I have written a few 500 word articles, which I have then super spun (In TBS, I have manually re-written each sentence 2x, and then spun text variations of this - it is very unique).
I plan on testing 2 different strategies for 2 different sites I own. 1) Using GSA direct to the money site for site #1 and 2) Using GSA to target 5 separate Web 2.0 sites that I created which link to my money site for site #2. On each Web 2.0 site I have 3-4 unique content articles which then link to the moneysite.
Strategy 1: Directly targeting a moneysite - 1.5yr old domain. No previous SEO or backlinking. Site has been up for 1.5 years with no changes made to it since then.
Strategy 2: Linking to (5) Web2.0 sites - I have created these sites over the past 2 weeks. The moneysite in this strategy is about 5 months old with no previous SEO or backlinking.
In GSA I have set up a separate profile for each strategy. For instance, each Web 2.0 site that I am targeting is set up in a separate profile.
I have been running GSA every day for about 2 hours/day for the past 7 days in both strategies. I have started seeing up and down movement on Google over the past 48 hours. Bing and Yahoo movement has picked up over the past 24 hours. The movement has not been significant, and in some cases the movement has dropped 30 spots. I am continuing to build links during this process.
Once again, I started using GSA approximately 6 days ago (2/16). Here is some of the serp movement at the actual moneysite in Strategy 2. Remember, I'm only targeting the Web2.0 sites that I created, which then link to the moneysite.
I will share my GSA setup & settings with you hopefully tomorrow if time permits. Looking forward to your thoughts!
Comments
do a re-check in 4 weeks. 30-50% are gone then :-(
and why use articles for Tier 2???
1. Why are you running the projects 2 hours per day and also setting dripfeed settings, AKA "Pause Project settings"?
2. Is your plan to build a lot of links in Project 1? Because those settings of "Pause project after 8 verifications for 1440 minutes" combined with "Verify links every 3000 minutes" will create a lot of links. Basically, I don't think you would ever hit your pause criteria. I would suggest changing it to something like 30 submissions instead of 8 verifications.
Keep us posted on your progress.
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