I'm starting to think that maybe the sites that load fine with the download failed messages might have actually blocked/banned the IP address. The reason i'm thinking this is because a couple sites I opened up I actually seen a "Your ip banned" message or something similar to that.
But here is a list of download failed sites that open up fine with out proxies for me.
Are you guys all running lists from the global site lists directly? In your project, if you disable the "use urls from global site lists if enabled" and instead save the project then right click > import target URLS > from site lists, then choose the global site lists folder, does it work any better?
Another user reported it ran better when doing it that way.
@s4nt0s I'm importing raw scraped lists Right click > Import target urls > From file (My ready to process scraped list .txt file) > Randomize URLs (Yes) > add some to all projects (YES)
I have been using Cheap Private Proxies for most of 2014 and never had a problem until the same issue surfaced for everyone else a few weeks ago. I also load updated proxies about every other day.
Yeah, these are the errors I'm getting. This is the contextual tier I'm running. Literally getting 0 LPM ATM. When I run full spam I don't usually have problems. Using a good list. Built 200 contextuals last night in like an hour and a half. not sure what's going on now
edit: also I keep seeing the same links in the log report as well.
Doubt that its very useful, but you can see no download failed on my end. These are the platforms I have selected in the vid: http://pastebin.com/wyAcM6Yv
Does restarting SER and or your VPS make any difference with the download failed?
@Brandon Hmm Ill look into it. I mean SER is doing all the verification and kicking out the found lists, so I presume that the links were on that page at some point and the pages changed. Not sure, I did have a member today buy the new SERlist that just came out and do side by side comparison with my list in several test with numerous variables and the download failed rate was the same.
Anyway he is helping me do a lot of troubleshooting in hopes that I can learn from it and improve my lists as well as perhaps provide some useful data to Sven to improve SER. Thanks for the feedback.
I've been working at this all day and still no luck. Getting a damn headache messing with this. Maybe, MAYBE someone can help.
Still getting a bunch of download failed errors when importing new SERList. This only happens on the contextual tier. On full spam tier, everything is great. www.snag.gy/OmuSe.jpg
But when I choose ONLY contextual targets, I get about 200 verified links and no more. I keep seeing the same URLs in the log for download failed so I am believing the list is just recycling. Surely I can get more than 200 verified contextual links!
My tier 1 project has several URL's on different domains (my web 2.0's) it's posting to. I've tried importing the site list every way possible with the same results. Ive made a new project and it gets to 200 verified links and it makes no more.
90% of the URLs that have the download failed error DO NOT load for me on my home computer.
I'm using 30 semi dedi fresh proxies, 10 fresh email accounts, fresh articles, the only filter I have is contextuals only.
@markhoward - if 90% of the URLS that have download failed don't load for you on your computer, they aren't going to load in SER, hence the download failed message.
Also, if you reimport and run the list again you should get more submitted/verified. I usually run the list a 2-3 times and always get more links.
Other difference, is that the links I'm getting today are 86% nofollow. Before, I usually got more dofollow than nofollow, using the same lists of today
Ive done some more testing and like 50% of my SERLists (blue) that say download failed are working.
It's crazy I can only build 200 links on the contextual layer before it builds none. And then I look at the log I see download failed everywhere. I notice the same domains so I believe the list is recycling itself. Not sure why after I only got only 200 contextuals.
It's funny because when I put it on full spam engines, it runs crazy. But on all my contextual tiers It builds 200 and its over with. ugh
Yes, it is contextual only, and has been this way for about the last 3 weeks. No matter what list I use, I get around 300-400 verifieds and then it falls apart with download failed.
Do any of the sites open up when you double click the message?
If they don't the message is correct and the site is down, if it does, try browsing the site going through one of your proxies. I did this and was seeing IP blocked messages.
Maybe @Sven can figure out how to show a different message for these errors so we have more of an idea as to what's actually happening.
Yeah we pretty much have the same issues. Glad to know it's not my list or proxies or something.
As far as how many actually time out - some of them actually do, some of them load though. I tested 10 sites with download failed error last night and only 1 was actually working.
I checked 10 more download failed sites today and more 6 loaded. So not sure what's going on
@markhoward Please see my reply just above yours. I did the same thing but I also tested the working sites that had the error through proxies and found out that the proxy was blocked.
I don't think this is a SER problem, but an actual proxy problem. Maybe it will be possible for @Sven to figure out if he would be able to give actual reason for the download failed.
@Trevor_Bandura so you think the fact that we're all using proxies is the culprit? I have 500 semi-dedicated proxies and maybe we're all recycling the same proxies?
@Brandon Yes i'm sure that sites are now starting to block ip's. Proxy providers only have so many different ip's and with all the people using them i'm sure sites start to see the same ip many times creating accounts so they just ban that ip. Even with Dedicated proxies, the ones I have this month, someone else will have next month. They all just rotate until the proxy providers build a new batch of ip's.
This is the only logical explanation I can think of. Why else would a site having a download failed message open up in your browser when you go to it from your server?
If you know how to use proxies through your browser, go to that site through a proxy and you'll see the exact reason why it failed to load in SER.
You can also make a search for the ip address of your proxy in Google and see if it's in any spam database online. You might be surprised as to what you find.
@Trevor You make an interesting point about the proxy IP addresses, but that still doesn't figure into why my campaigns start off flying, creating Verifieds like crazy, then after 20-30 minutes everything falls apart with download fails.
I have been running tests with SER Lists and Loopline lists, and the results are darn near identical with each list, the same time frame plays in.
So, if the proxy IPs were problematic to start, why so many successes at the start? Just posing a trouble shooting question.
@blakew1251 That might be because the sites, contextual's, might be blocking ips after you join so many different times. I'm sure if you look at plugins available to these contextual sites, there are many that block ip's after so many hits, accounts created or something.
I'm sure your running the list with many different projects and each one creating accounts on the same sites, just like everyone else does. And these site owners need to do something to stop us from creating links on their sites.
@Trevor You make some good points. I saw those plugins listed on some of the search results that I did for my proxy IPs, and like you said I use WordPress plugins on my business and client sites as well to protect everyone against people like me.
Still, the change just seems so abrupt. Also, it seems that with our lists changing on a regular basis, the timing routine for successes would change as well.
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So yeah it's looking like BuyProxies is still blocking websites.
I have been using Cheap Private Proxies for most of 2014 and never had a problem until the same issue surfaced for everyone else a few weeks ago. I also load updated proxies about every other day.
Blake
Yeah, these are the errors I'm getting. This is the contextual tier I'm running. Literally getting 0 LPM ATM. When I run full spam I don't usually have problems. Using a good list. Built 200 contextuals last night in like an hour and a half. not sure what's going on now
edit: also I keep seeing the same links in the log report as well.
Hmm Ill look into it. I mean SER is doing all the verification and kicking out the found lists, so I presume that the links were on that page at some point and the pages changed. Not sure, I did have a member today buy the new SERlist that just came out and do side by side comparison with my list in several test with numerous variables and the download failed rate was the same.
Anyway he is helping me do a lot of troubleshooting in hopes that I can learn from it and improve my lists as well as perhaps provide some useful data to Sven to improve SER. Thanks for the feedback.
Still getting a bunch of download failed errors when importing new SERList. This only happens on the contextual tier. On full spam tier, everything is great. www.snag.gy/OmuSe.jpg
But when I choose ONLY contextual targets, I get about 200 verified links and no more. I keep seeing the same URLs in the log for download failed so I am believing the list is just recycling. Surely I can get more than 200 verified contextual links!
My tier 1 project has several URL's on different domains (my web 2.0's) it's posting to. I've tried importing the site list every way possible with the same results. Ive made a new project and it gets to 200 verified links and it makes no more.
90% of the URLs that have the download failed error DO NOT load for me on my home computer.
I'm using 30 semi dedi fresh proxies, 10 fresh email accounts, fresh articles, the only filter I have is contextuals only.
Anyway if I open the "aborted" websites by my laptop, they are working
I have 40 private proxies, and very fresh, just changed yesterday
It's crazy I can only build 200 links on the contextual layer before it builds none. And then I look at the log I see download failed everywhere. I notice the same domains so I believe the list is recycling itself. Not sure why after I only got only 200 contextuals.
It's funny because when I put it on full spam engines, it runs crazy. But on all my contextual tiers It builds 200 and its over with.
Yes, it is contextual only, and has been this way for about the last 3 weeks.
No matter what list I use, I get around 300-400 verifieds and then it falls apart with download failed.
Blake
Yeah we pretty much have the same issues. Glad to know it's not my list or proxies or something.
As far as how many actually time out - some of them actually do, some of them load though. I tested 10 sites with download failed error last night and only 1 was actually working.
I checked 10 more download failed sites today and more 6 loaded. So not sure what's going on
@Trevor You make an interesting point about the proxy IP addresses, but that still doesn't figure into why my campaigns start off flying, creating Verifieds like crazy, then after 20-30 minutes everything falls apart with download fails.
I have been running tests with SER Lists and Loopline lists, and the results are darn near identical with each list, the same time frame plays in.
So, if the proxy IPs were problematic to start, why so many successes at the start?
Just posing a trouble shooting question.
@Trevor You make some good points. I saw those plugins listed on some of the search results that I did for my proxy IPs, and like you said I use WordPress plugins on my business and client sites as well to protect everyone against people like me.
Still, the change just seems so abrupt.
Also, it seems that with our lists changing on a regular basis, the timing routine for successes would change as well.