GSA SER still works amazingly in 2023. But pay heed to the following: - Update July 2023
Note before reading: This is not an attempt to take a cheap shot at "experts" not is it meant to be put down anyone. Everyone has their own experiences. These opinions are just my own, and I wish to share them with any people so they don't have the same doubts that I did and so that they can save their time.
Search engine marketing forums (black hat, grey hat, white hat etc) are full of alleged experts insisting that you cannot use automated tools to build your money site. I have learned this is nonsense and I wish to share something I have learned.
GSA is amazingly powerful if you know how to use it right. Even while not going nuclear, I am getting 70+ LPM a minute while targeting high-quality sites and the links are getting indexed and staying live. One myth that is common is that its easy to get google slapped for having some bad links.
It is not, otherwise think about how lucrative the market would be for taking out all the competition if it was so easy to get them banned from the search engines. It may be true that low-quality links give you zero benefit, but they are unlikely to de-index you. There is a difference between getting zero benefits from something and getting penalized for it. Get as many backlinks to your site indexed as possible and in general, the risks to your rank are to the upside.
So how can you make these backlinks get indexed and give you juice? Three mistakes people make:
1.) Emails.
2.) Content.
3.) Indexing.
Do not use generic throw-away emails. Your accounts will get banned and then all your work has been in vain. This is the most crucial part before going anywhere else. I have learned the following methods are very effective:
1.) Buying gmail accounts.
2.) Buying cheap domains and set up your own catch-all. (This is the most economical and works)
3.) Buying old yahoo accounts.
Not only do the accounts get registered more smoothly, but they do not get banned and hence you can reuse the article and social network and bookmark ones over and over. This not only saves you money on captchas but also significantly increases your LPM. Give it a try. You will see a 10X increase once you have your accounts all made.
Use at least decent quality content and you can get it indexed. It is that simple. It may be more expensive but it works. The most important thing that I have realized is the use of spinners. Spinrewriter and Word AI work wonders and have a far higher index rate than generic built-in junk which will not get indexed.
Use the filters that GSA offers to fine-tune your verified list. If you are targeting UK traffic, build your links onto UK-hosted sites. GSA gives you the option to use it. I know this sounds petty, but trust me, it makes a difference. There is a dating term that has 10x more UK traffic than the US and I have noticed a significant gain already in google.co.uk just by making this tuning. I'm sitting just outside of the top 10 and hope to break the first page for this 20k+ searched term in the next month.
Now the final part how do you Index? A link that isn't indexed has no value, we all know this song and dance. However, Indexing is harder now than in was in 2015. However, in all cases, Indexing starts with getting your link in front of the web crawlers. That is the goal of this next part.
Well, I have a really neat and almost free trick(it will cost if you use paid hosting but still be a fraction of the so-called indexing services, which do not seem to work anymore) that I have been trying for the last two weeks and it has worked more than any of the indexing services I have used. (Yes, I was bored enough and had enough free time to do multiple control testing).
Here is all you need to do:
1.) Get some hosting (it can even be free with a free subdomain).
2.) Install the free Yourls PHP script (it is a URL shortenter and redirected).
3.) Batch upload your created links into it using a custom PHP script. I'm happy to post the code I use here, if the admins allow it.
4.) Generate a sitemap from this script.
5.) Use IndexNow (which takes two minutes to set up) to batch submit the URLs. (I have noticed there is a 10k limit per submission, which you can get around by using a loop to do multiple submissions).
6.) You will see the bots crawling your URLs within minutes and following the redirects. Note, despite what people say, google always does this.
Sit back and enjoy the results. If the link created is decent enough (content is what matters more so that the domain in 95% of cases), it will be indexed within a few days.
I hope you all benefit from this post as I feel it adds way more value than all the naysayers on BHW who I am convinced now have no idea about what they are talking about in 99% of all cases.
GSA does not get enough credit, it is amazing and has:
Disclaimer: I have zero affiliation with any of the products mentioned and am simply a customer/user. I am sharing this as a way of giving back to this community that has helped me a lot in the past.
Disclaimer 2: As I said, I'm happy to post open source code here for the above, but won't do so without the green light from the forum owners. I want to respect protocol.
Search engine marketing forums (black hat, grey hat, white hat etc) are full of alleged experts insisting that you cannot use automated tools to build your money site. I have learned this is nonsense and I wish to share something I have learned.
GSA is amazingly powerful if you know how to use it right. Even while not going nuclear, I am getting 70+ LPM a minute while targeting high-quality sites and the links are getting indexed and staying live. One myth that is common is that its easy to get google slapped for having some bad links.
It is not, otherwise think about how lucrative the market would be for taking out all the competition if it was so easy to get them banned from the search engines. It may be true that low-quality links give you zero benefit, but they are unlikely to de-index you. There is a difference between getting zero benefits from something and getting penalized for it. Get as many backlinks to your site indexed as possible and in general, the risks to your rank are to the upside.
So how can you make these backlinks get indexed and give you juice? Three mistakes people make:
1.) Emails.
2.) Content.
3.) Indexing.
Do not use generic throw-away emails. Your accounts will get banned and then all your work has been in vain. This is the most crucial part before going anywhere else. I have learned the following methods are very effective:
1.) Buying gmail accounts.
2.) Buying cheap domains and set up your own catch-all. (This is the most economical and works)
3.) Buying old yahoo accounts.
Not only do the accounts get registered more smoothly, but they do not get banned and hence you can reuse the article and social network and bookmark ones over and over. This not only saves you money on captchas but also significantly increases your LPM. Give it a try. You will see a 10X increase once you have your accounts all made.
Use at least decent quality content and you can get it indexed. It is that simple. It may be more expensive but it works. The most important thing that I have realized is the use of spinners. Spinrewriter and Word AI work wonders and have a far higher index rate than generic built-in junk which will not get indexed.
Use the filters that GSA offers to fine-tune your verified list. If you are targeting UK traffic, build your links onto UK-hosted sites. GSA gives you the option to use it. I know this sounds petty, but trust me, it makes a difference. There is a dating term that has 10x more UK traffic than the US and I have noticed a significant gain already in google.co.uk just by making this tuning. I'm sitting just outside of the top 10 and hope to break the first page for this 20k+ searched term in the next month.
Now the final part how do you Index? A link that isn't indexed has no value, we all know this song and dance. However, Indexing is harder now than in was in 2015. However, in all cases, Indexing starts with getting your link in front of the web crawlers. That is the goal of this next part.
Well, I have a really neat and almost free trick(it will cost if you use paid hosting but still be a fraction of the so-called indexing services, which do not seem to work anymore) that I have been trying for the last two weeks and it has worked more than any of the indexing services I have used. (Yes, I was bored enough and had enough free time to do multiple control testing).
Here is all you need to do:
1.) Get some hosting (it can even be free with a free subdomain).
2.) Install the free Yourls PHP script (it is a URL shortenter and redirected).
3.) Batch upload your created links into it using a custom PHP script. I'm happy to post the code I use here, if the admins allow it.
4.) Generate a sitemap from this script.
5.) Use IndexNow (which takes two minutes to set up) to batch submit the URLs. (I have noticed there is a 10k limit per submission, which you can get around by using a loop to do multiple submissions).
6.) You will see the bots crawling your URLs within minutes and following the redirects. Note, despite what people say, google always does this.
Sit back and enjoy the results. If the link created is decent enough (content is what matters more so that the domain in 95% of cases), it will be indexed within a few days.
I hope you all benefit from this post as I feel it adds way more value than all the naysayers on BHW who I am convinced now have no idea about what they are talking about in 99% of all cases.
GSA does not get enough credit, it is amazing and has:
- The friendly community.
- The constant updates.
- The one-off price for the software.
- The ease of use. It literally is like a well-oiled machine and can just keep going.
Disclaimer: I have zero affiliation with any of the products mentioned and am simply a customer/user. I am sharing this as a way of giving back to this community that has helped me a lot in the past.
Disclaimer 2: As I said, I'm happy to post open source code here for the above, but won't do so without the green light from the forum owners. I want to respect protocol.
Comments
Post the code please!
I am not able to index my sites on Bing with 1,5k words unique and well-formatted content on its homepages.
Yes, it sends a bot, but simply refuses to index sites for weeks with weird errors such as -
i'm back to GSA since a while
i just followed your steps
I hope it work
for the bulk upload
i just found a plugin you can add to your Yourls website :
https://github.com/vaughany/yourls-bulk-import-and-shorten
Just to confirm you're building Tier 1 with GSA to your money site directly ?
Did you use any verified list service or you are crawling your own ?
Thanks
I am.
"Did you use any verified list service or you are crawling your own ?"
Combination of both (most bought) as I found scraping to not be worth it. I then import lists into each project tier. I break down which sites I choose after using Scrapebox's page authority checker.
Thanks for openly sharing your experience !
From what I see (in indexnow.org) Google is not supporting indexnow ?
Most importantly, I see the pages submitted in such a way indexed by google and that's the most important thing. Costs literally nothing and is 1,580% better, as per my tests, than services that charge people hundreds to thousands of dollars per yet for junk that hasn't worked for years. Naturally none of them will admit it, they earn their bread and butter of such ignorance, like the same people on BHW who say GSA SER does not work, yet sell services for hundreds of dollars per month by using their GSA SER programs to build links.....
i get lost with any sort of coding/db stuff
whats the point of putting all the links into the redirect thing vs just posting them all in a blog post to get that post into the sitemap and using that sitemap to submit to indexnow?
Thank you so much for sharing! Loop code would be very helpful
As far as my installation is concerned, only Yandex has crawled in the last several days.
There's been no Bing or Google - and from what research shows Google is not a participant in Index now - only Microsoft Bing, Yandex, and Seznam.
Would like to show you something:
Here is a site, I started juicing with GSA and using this 301 redirection sitemap method in the second week of May. Already the Googlebot has discovered 140k+ links and has crawled them as directed by the 301. Now some may ask why does it not index on my domain, well the reason is simple:
The sitemap is there to feed Tier links to the google bot. It then crawls them and indexes them. Magic, free and easy, as you can see below.
Using this method you can literally throw more new links in front of the SERPS than the competition. Already have some top 10s in 100k monthly volume competitive niches, competing with the "Kings" who have been there 20+ years, and all in a few months.
I hope to soon combine this with a Scraper I am building that will target platforms only used by GSA SER and then rank them based on social signals. Picking the best of these, I hope to throw out millions of links per month in lots of new niches and see how far I can go.
Core message: Don't listen to people who spread fear and doubt. GSA works very well and all you need is GSA SER, A good list to link build on and then to use the above free script I made to get those links in front of the search engine bots to be indexed. It really is that simple (assuming you actually have content on your site). Don't be discouraged by the average black hat expert on certain forums, they literally have no idea what they are talking about and earn bread and milk money hustling fiver gigs with scrapebox and senuke spam. Took me ages to accept that fact. Once I did, I'm getting results.
I don't have a paid version of GSA, is it still working in 2023?
My installation is still running.
There's very very little Googlebot activity on my installation.
[1] Have you made any changes to your original script though?
[2] How are you getting Google to crawl your Yourls installation so well?
[3] Have you changed the script to include multiple sitemaps? I see mention of multiples in your screenshot, is all.
I'd love to get these same results. It sounds like you've made changes since your original post, a year ago though.
Anyone having success and/or suggestions?
[Tue Jul 04 06:41:47.234973 2023] [php:error] [pid 5548] [client 95.91.221.5:7128] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Unknown column 'row' in 'order clause' in /var/www/html/sitemap.php:13\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/html/sitemap.php(13): mysqli->query()\n#1 {main}\n thrown in /var/www/html/sitemap.php on line 13
You didn't add the row column to the SQL database as instructed above. Please see the very fist sentence written:
"The first thing you will need to do is edit the database table for Yourls, this one 'yourls_url' so it has the following structure"
Regarding:
[Tue Jul 04 06:41:41.039095 2023] [php:error] [pid 5550] [client 95.91.221.5:7164] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected variable "$line", expecting ")" in /var/www/html/crawlme.php on line 47
Thanks for pointing out. It is missing a comma. Have updated.
Good luck!
Sitemap has been submitted, so I am waiting for the crawlers now
thanks for all the work. I do have a couple of questions if you could help.
do you submit every link in the database or just the new additions when using the python script to send new links to indexnow
right now i set it up to only send the new entries by adding a where row > x in the dynamic sitemap generator php script
i also made a robots.txt file that refers to a full sitemap.xml holding every entry in the database
python doesnt work on my hosting so i run the php scripts on the hosting but run the python script on another computer.
and i am getting the 200 success response.
does what i am doing sound reasonable,
thanks again,
george
one other question, do you open a google webmaster account on the site hosting the redirects and then submit that full sitemap?
thanks again,
george
Regarding a full stiemap.xml bear in mind that search engines bots stop reading a sitemap after a certain size. So you are better off dividing into multiple smaller ones when you have tens of millions of links. I usually go with 5000 mapped to another 5000 and mapped to another 5000. I found that this works.
If you are getting the 200 success response, it means that the submission worked well. The best way to verify would be via your logs though. Look for evidence of the crawlers coming.
i will drop the webmaster account,
i really appreciate your response,
thanks,
george
You are just filling the sitemap with links from another domain.
Won't they get ignored by Google if the sitemap contains non-domain links?
Requirements:
Python.
Installation:
pip install momositemaps
Code:
Enjoy everyone.
For some reason I though that google has made it so we cant use SER with gmail a year or so ago..? Gmails are working again?
It could be possible that google did something for newer accounts or accounts which aren't verified by mobile. I always buy aged accounts for things like twitter, gmail etc. I find they raise less flags.
I read this post a few days ago and sat tonight to get this sorted as indexing was a problemo for me.
Would appreciate a PM witht he code @Momo, in advanced thanks for all the knowledge sharing!
There will always be some people who spoil it for others.
I've certainly appreciated your contributions @Momo
btw if you want the modifications I made to your code, please ask. Happy to share those back to you
thank you again!