Why don't I see any benefit from GSA?
I've been using this program for a year now. Over the course of this year, I have become well versed in all the functions and settings.
I use 1000 good proxies, GSA captcha breaker, Xevil. Paid link indexers.
I probably have the largest database of sites, since I bought all the databases that are sold, and also ran my database of several Billions of links through the program.
Now the question! What am I doing wrong???
1) I take an optimized website, build normal natural links to it through link exchanges and crowdmarketing.
2) through the GSA, there are another 5,000 article links to these hundred natural links. not some kind of spam, but normal articles written by Open AI (and spin them)
3) I send all these articles to paid inspectors.
all these stages are carried out systematically for several months in a row
and the result is zero!
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Hello @Zeto
It sounds like you've put a lot of effort into mastering GSA and incorporating various tools and strategies in your process. I'd like to point out that if GSA has successfully built backlinks for you, then it is indeed fulfilling its intended purpose as a link-building tool. It's important to remember that GSA specializes in creating backlinks, but it's not a tool designed to directly influence your website's ranking in search engine results.
As you know, backlinks are just one of the many elements search engines consider when ranking sites. While automated link building can be a part of your strategy, it might be beneficial to also focus on other critical aspects. One key area is enhancing the quality of your website itself. Ensuring that your site offers valuable, engaging, and useful content to visitors can make a significant difference. This approach not only improves user experience but can also contribute positively to your site's organic ranking over time.
Hope this helps, and best of luck with your website!
Look at it this way: If you drive a car and crash into a tree. You don't blame it on the car; it is not the car that, on purpose, drove into the tree ( well, maybe if it is a Tesla :-) ), but the car's driver steered the car into the tree, so the fault is with the driver for not correctly steering the car.
You can use the available filters to tell GSA SER where you don't want it to post.
You mentioned your GSA SER is posting to WordPress sites with 3000 other posts. To avoid that, use the below filter. For example, you can set it to tell GSA not to post to sites that have more than X number of outgoing links on it. Set it to whatever you are comfortable with; for me, 50 - 100 would be a good number.
Take some time and study all of the available filters; if you are unsure exactly what each does, then ask.
Is it traffic, conversions, rankings, moz/ahrefs/semrush/majestic figures?
Are the pages on your website index at all? Are the links built with SER being indexed? Sending to an indexer is one thing, getting indexed another. If your desired result is organic traffic, discovered links by moz/ahrefs/semrush/majestic don't matter, only the indexation in the search engine counts. Use SER and/or Scrapebox to verify.
I had been at the same point of frustration but learned a lot from the forums posts here made by SER veterans @sickseo, @cherub, @royalmice and others.
I would also suggest not to rely on SER T1 links based on link lists only. Scrape your own lists, buy T1 links, buy T2/T3 links and expand your verified list with these. Below a screenshot from one of my sites where I was running SER only for quite some time. Beautiful articles, indexed, but not a significant change in rankings and traffic. End of October, I bought 5 T1 links from a vendor in a Facebook group, $1 each, used SER to get these indexed and powered up. Organic traffic improved immediately since then. $5 vs. expenses for VPS, proxies, captcha, content, time ...
You can see that rankings overall have not improved, but impressions and clicks have grown a lot.
This is for a site in English language, target US traffic (Adsense). The situation is different for websites in other languages, I've learned. Most of my sites are in German language. What I am doing for these is a) adapt the SER footprints for specific platforms with the German translations, b) scrape target sites with the site:.de (.ch/.at) operator, c) build lots of relevant blog comments directly to my site and d) build only few links from sites in other languages with generic anchors. This does help traffic wise but still needs to be improved.
Next step for me is on the content of my site(s). I was used to rely on Semrush for keywords. Recently, I stumbled on a comment from @Sven about GSA KR being underestimated. Having evaluated it with the trial, I bought the license and am more than happy with it. Semrush is nice to get KW ideas and difficulty estimations. But you need to spends lots of manual time to do a competitor research, etc.. Working nice for English KWs, same poor situation for my language. So, with KR I can automate this process, use my time for other things than starring at a screen, waiting, exporting etc.. And avoid having to pay a monthly subscription or the hazzle to get another 14 day trial for free or some dollars. Time is money.
Keep on going with SER and use it to your benefits!
This is how I found these:
1) Join the Facebook group "Guest Posting" (or another group with a decent number of members and activity). (https://www.facebook.com/groups/3007238042823581)
2) Look out for the various offerings and ask the respective sellers to send you a site list. Be aware of the numbers in the FB posts - many vendors post prices in PKR, not USD. 1 USD = 280 PKR.
3) Check the site list in your favorite tool.
- I used Semrush to filter and sort by traffic. You don't want to push DA / DR but make your site's content rank, thus backlinks need to come from a site where content + links are being indexed.
- Check anchors to this site (Semrush)
- Check number of pages indexed using the site: query (Google)
4) Pick the site(s) you want backlinks from and place your order.
5) Once the link is active, wait for some days and then use GSA to power it up. Not too much, a couple of links to it shall be sufficient.
6) Check the bought backlinks are being indexed. I had no issue with any of the 250 PKR links, even without GSA links to these. 150 PKR links (my greed greater than reason) did not index easily or at all.
Google Search Console is showing this:
Semrush is showing this (for US):
The initial results from the cheap backlinks motivated me to do some Onpage-SEO, showing significant improvements in the number of keywords and positions.
My site has 800 blog posts published, all pure AI content (GPT3.5). I am now reworking the blog posts one by one. Formatting, external links (mainly to scientific, governmental, NGO sites), adding (AI) images. Internal links are build automatically with ILJ free version (https://wordpress.org/plugins/internal-links/). For those blog posts with significant traffic potential, I am using GSA Keyword Research and its article builder + GPT4-turbo to optimize the content. I am in no hurry nor aiming to become mad by doing this work, so I am doing just 5 posts a day, 7 days a week. Google seems to appreciate it plus the patience of not doing massive changes in a day or two.
Whilst doing this, SER is working in the background to build new links to the homepage. Next step will be to build links to the inner 800 URLs.
In summary, I appreciate building SER links for a year without significant improvements can be frustrating. Giving up is not an option though, in particular after a year of work.
Give it another try with some other link sources than those in the link lists used by hundreds of people for thousands of projects. (I found the list I subscribed to as I could not resist the Black Friday offer is being shared with 70 accounts. A good number of these will resell the list, so even more users. Google is a machine, but not that stupid to identify link patterns.) 250 PKR - less than 1 Dollar!
And scrape you own list, specific to your site, and build links on it. Even blog comments will help. Create your own blog comments and profiles rather than using the default settings in SER. OpenAI is your friend to create these in bulk and matching your site + content. Use generic anchors and URLs rather than 100 % exact match keywords. If your site is in a, let's call it difficult, niche, use NLPCloud or another AI platform with no harsh content filters to generate individual and specific content. Create a Facebook page for your site, instruct AI to create posts about your site's content, create Reels. You'll see a massive reach and some traffic coming through it. Google seems to like it, too, and indexes your content in no time.
Do you think you would have had the same results, without GSA blasting the links you bought on that FB group?
PA of the $1 links to my site is growing nicely.
1) Verify your links regularly. This way you are not building links on higher tiers which point to lost links on lower tiers.
2) Check the links built are indexed. If not indexed, there won't be an impact on rankings.
3) Private proxies will improve your submission and approval rates.
Ref 2): I could just win a new customer these days who had spend a decent amount of money for backlinks ($50-100/ea.). These links were shown in ahrefs but he did not see any improvements in rankings and traffic lol. Some initial checks showed that the links he bought were either total crap (press releases on sites with no traffic) or not indexed at all (22 out of 123 indexed). I'll now tackle these first to bring him some quick results and satisfaction.
Ref 3): Stable and unbanned proxies are important for the success of your campaign. I am even going one step further and only use proxies of a specific region for submission. The reason for this is trust on manual approvals. Let's say I want to build links on a German or a Swiss site but using proxies from all over the world. The site admin will most likely pay attention to the region when reviewing the link request, be in doubt and reject. The same applies to names and emails. It is unlikely that a "Jonathan R. Palmer" with a mail.ru email address writes articles about dog training in a Swiss alps village (using ChatGPT German content which is different from Swiss German). By being consistent, you can improve your chances for link approval a lot.
Having upgraded to Xrumer23 earlier this month and created thousands of forum profiles since then and a few hundred forum posts just this week, it is showing great results. Perfect to power up a PBN or a couple of expired domains with 301s redirects to your money site. The GPT prompts out of the box need to be adapted to your needs & niche but links built are high DA, deliver direct traffic and get indexed - no comparison to funny new Web2.0-sites stuff.
I'm in much the same situation as you
I just can't seem to get the needle to move up on 2 well-established dating sites.
2 million backlinks on each with a DA of 60 (I know Google doesn't use DA)
My business partner has repeatedly asked why bother with all the effort, expense and resources with creating these backlinks and increasing DA when Google seemingly takes no notice of our sites.
I'm now beginning to wonder myself actually. It's just frustrating at this point.
For me i cant think anything without gsa and other automation tools and. I am going to buy one more copy of gsa today for my new projects. Everything depends on the niche you are working