Wondering about Failed Global List

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I have been playing with various set-ups for Global Lists.

I am presently using the failed global list  [ ] unchecked, as a read-only Global List pointing at a purchased list.

But I am wondering: Wouldn't Failed be a rich source of potential targets to post to? Running Global Failed list through a project again as a way to be sure everything that can be posted to, was?

Sven

Actually not really. This is usually only there to debug things and see why certain engines failed a lot.

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backlinkaddict said:

Also, I'd keep in mind that these sites have already failed sometimes more then once, so unless you have updated a script on certain engine with changes to work with reason it failed in first place, you will see same result most likely.

Sven said:

Actually not really. This is usually only there to debug things and see why certain engines failed a lot.

OK. I get it. I am guessing that Purchased Lists for GSA would always work with the boiler-plate engines SER comes bundled with, else how would SER recognize platforms that the list owner scraped using SER engines with added phrases for identifying platforms? (Not sure on this, though, as maybe simply having URLs in a list sub-folder in sufficient for SER to try using that type of engine? Unclear on this!)

I guess, also, whatever is in the Global Failed list that came from from SER scraping, or SB scraping, also  won't later be a good source of targets if I add identifying phrases to engines, because such targets would have never even made it so far, having just been skipped and not recognized, whichever program was scraping.

What about instances where proxy fails? I am not sure of how that works, I am guessing SER tries a new proxy? What if the next proxy fails, also, and max number of tries is reached? Does that potential link target also go to Failed Global list?

Many THANKS, @Sven and @backlinkaddict, for the info!