Settings Question for Ron, Ozz, Lee, who ever
I'm mosting working on TXA ( rons method, where X is a 1 or 2 or 3 )
I've got mine set to use proxies for everything BUT verification. I feel I dont need to proxy myself on verification, but Im feeling that maybe I dont need it for posting either or for checking PR ( since Im not going for PR ) and just need it for search. What are your guys thoughts on this?
2. How about Skip Hard To Solve Captchas? Since Im working on TXA stuff and sending it all to CB anyways and it cant solve it, does this sound OK to skip? I was sending them to DBC, but found it slowed me down too much and just decided to do CB with 0 retries.
3. Skips sites with bad words in HTML, Skip sites with bad words in domains: are you using this on lower tier stuff? I had enabled it and noticed a large % of sites were always blocked and not submitted to. Curious about your lower tiers as well.
4. Avoid posting to same domain twice - Again lower tier stuff. I have it NOT checked as I thought it would limit me on lower tiers.
Im not mad crazy about getting high LPM or submissions, but I would like to move up from 12 LPM and 15k submissions a day. My proxies are all private and under 2 seconds ( actually most are under 1 second ) so I am thinking these 4 settings could help me boost submissions and LPM per day.
Comments
Some general food for thought for you...
I don't use proxies at all
100 threads. Try lowering your threads, I'm on a pretty powerful server, and I notice I get best performance at 100 vs 150 or 200+..or for that matter less.
I only have a few of the main country googles selected, faaaaaaaaaaaaar from just checking everything. I also do a lot of my own separate scraping and importing of new sites. I plan on testing this exclusively ie using sbox or ref to do all new harvests and just letting gsa do nothing but post, to see how many more lpm I can get
Here are the platforms I use, though on some projects (mainly indexing projects or direct on sites on bproof servers) I also have blog comments enabled. And of those, one of the biggest/best tips I got from this forum was to see which ones were performing the best and disabling the duds. I won't list my setup specifically though....but you need to open up the main platforms and disable the subsets that arent performing well.
I do not use any filters, no bad word lists,pr min, or any of that. I have the malware blacklist enabled but that's it.
A couple things that I need to retest separately to be sure they had a worthwhile effect...disabled log/autoscrolling, and I do all indexing separately so all those api options and pinging are turned off.
Another thing I need to keep testing is verification time, right now its set at 2880 but I'm gonna test it with another day added as the only time my lpm drop down is when everything starts to verify, naturally.
Save Identified/failed sites boxes are both unchecked
html timeout 180
captcha breaker 1 retry
There are some other data/option settings that I may have different than others I don't know but that's a real good start there and fills my good karma generation for a while hehehe.
And for any questions about lack of filters etc, all of my projects are either #1 or for newer projects still on the way they will be soon. And my rankings last long term too. GSA is a big part of my overall plan but I do other stuff too fyi.
And finally, while I'm not a record holder or anything, I have maxed out at 146 lpm and generally speaking, when not verifying I power along at 136 lpm consistently
Take a look at the Tips/Resouces/etc thread that I set up at the top of the forum. It lists a lot of the best threads about tweeking SER. If you are willing to spend the time (a day or so), one of the best boosts I have gotten is when I went through all the engines and figured out which ones were getting poor results and I quit using them. It takes a while to run the reports and analyze the results. I took these results and put them in an Excel spreadsheet to see what was working.
I don't remember if there is a link in the Tips/Resources/Etc for threads that talk about specifics of doing this, but I know there are one ow two that have talked about it. It they are not listed, you could do some searches to find those threads. I got a 2-3x boost when I did this.
I don't fret too much about LpM much any more. I'm sure I could tweek some more and boost it and I probably will at some time. But for now, I am content to run consistent between 70-90 LpM every day. And I do this from a home PC with a 25Mbps internet connection.
One other thing you don't mention is how many projects you are running. That has a huge effect on how many total links you can push. A lot of people can't figure out why the LpM is not higher and they only have 2-3 projects. Duh...!!!
Hey @eliquid
1) I use my proxies for everything, and it works great. In theory, you need them for the important things like searching and posting, but I found that my life is 10X simpler when I use them for everything.
2) On T1A, T2A, T3A I only use CB with Zero retries. The only time I use CB + DBC (as the second option) is for special projects like bookmarks or web2.0. Never waste your money on the junk tiers - only for links that go directly to your moneysite, and only for those that need them like web2.0 and bookmarks.
3) I do use the bad words list on all tiers, but I think a great argument can be made for dropping it on the junk tiers. I can't tell you how many websites got passed on the word 'ass', like massive, passive, grass, and a million other words.
4) I avoid posting on the same domain on T1 links (except for bookmarks). I always post on the same domain for T1A, T2A, T3A.
Lastly, I only have T1, T2 & T3 set to verify every 1440 minutes. I have disabled verification of T1A, T2A, T3A, and only do those once a week, usually on Sunday. In order for SER to run efficiently, it needs to spend less time verifying.
from your explanation above, you separate bookmarks from T1A, T2A, T3A, right? You set up bookmarks as a standalone project.