Ah Ok. Is there maybe a macro for the campaign name? I'm trying to pass a variable so when people unsubscribe I can see which campaign to unsub them from.
Sven www.GSA-Online.de
You really should skip the whole thing then to not mess with them.
Could we use the #file macro to keep a blacklist on dropbox?
It means that it's much easier than the solution @coneh34d suggested.
"For your Global Blacklist across a few VPS's first I'd create a folder on one of my webservers. Next I would place the global-blacklist.txt in that folder. Finally I'd go to Options > Filter and add the Blacklist URL there. Do this on all your servers. Update the blacklist text file periodically in hxxp://mywebserver/folder/global-blacklist.txt. Use FTP for automating this update task from your local global-blacklist.txt to the server copy."
JudderMan UK
Wow Loopline, that's some serious method there - I need to borrow it
Can I chime in and ask a related but separate question - how can we make one project post TO the global blacklist/filtered list for a separate offer? I can't see how to do this without wrecking everything.
@loopline do you run multiple licenses on the same server or a server per license? I used to do this with SER but for GSAWC it's a different ballgame. Still seeing a 20% sign up rate and 10% conversion, but (sorry) to say affiliates just sent junk so I've shut it down completely.
I don't post to the blacklist, but couldn't you just export it and import it into a new project? I see an export button on the global blacklist screen.
your only allowed to run 1 license of any GSA product (any product I have ever used) per server and so thats what I do. I already have more then a dozen servers so it fits right in for me.
Glad your signup and conversions are good, I wound up with as much work as I can handle, and all is going well for me.
Cheers!
AlexR Cape Town
@JudderMan - that 20% signup rate what's it based on? E.g. if you send 1000 contact form submits, how many visit the site, how many signup?
I'm getting a really bad signup rate.
Currently doing a win a website competition, but very very low take up.
JudderMan UK
@AlexR Ah sorry, I meant the people that actually visit my site it's 20% and 10%. I haven't worked out the GSACF data, something mental like every 10k I get 1 customer from it.
My site is a B2B service, so if you're running a competition and you're hitting website content forms, I can't see that really converting, I might be wrong. You're getting in front of website owners, marketers, admins who already have a website. I appreciate there may be some greed involved in wanting a new one, but most people I speak to (I run an SEO company), are so attached to their shit looking site and can't see that a fresh new modern one is going to be any different. That's a hard sell there dude, even if the competition is for a free one.
AlexR Cape Town
@Judderman - thanks. That does make sense. I'll retry my strategy with something else and see if it changes anything.
AlexR Cape Town
I'd like to check my formatting for the global blacklist. 1) Can you just list domains like this: 412signs.com
2) or should it be !412signs.com
3) !*.gov* Will this exclude ALL urls with .gov in them?
Sven www.GSA-Online.de
the list you add to the global blacklist should only have domains in it.
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Could we use the #file macro to keep a blacklist on dropbox?
It means that it's much easier than the solution @coneh34d suggested.
"For your Global Blacklist across a few VPS's first I'd create a folder on one of my webservers. Next I would place the global-blacklist.txt in that folder. Finally I'd go to Options > Filter and add the Blacklist URL there. Do this on all your servers. Update the blacklist text file periodically in hxxp://mywebserver/folder/global-blacklist.txt. Use FTP for automating this update task from your local global-blacklist.txt to the server copy."
- that 20% signup rate what's it based on?
E.g. if you send 1000 contact form submits, how many visit the site, how many signup?
I'm getting a really bad signup rate.
Currently doing a win a website competition, but very very low take up.
1) Can you just list domains like this:
412signs.com
2) or should it be
!412signs.com
3) !*.gov*
Will this exclude ALL urls with .gov in them?
1) What is the correct format?
412signs.com OR !412signs.com
2) I don't want to submit to any .gov domains or have it scrape any domain like *gumtree* *crasiglist* or *yelp* etc.
Will this work?
!*.gov*
Can it look like this:
412signscom
!*.gov*
But for files/urls only domains from what I understand.
So I can use:
412signscom
*.gov*
in my list to not submit to any .gov sites? (I need to leave out the !)