Unfortunately SEO is not just about building tiered links and expecting to rank. You've got things like link loss, indexing, authority of link sources, anchor ratios as well as changing on page seo factors that will effect the results you see. The niche and competitiveness of the keywords will of course play a major role too.
On top of that you've also got Google changing their algorithm more often than ever where they hand pick who they want to boost in rankings such as recent updates giving sites such as Reddit and quora extra boosts in rankings.
In some niches, all I'm seeing ranking on page 1 are social media sites like twitter, facebook, instagram, and tik tok. It's a good time to be using these as parasites to rank for your keywords. Will be easier and quicker than trying to rank your own money site.
Keyword Competitiveness Long tails will be the easiest to rank and that's where I'd recommend anyone to focus on their seo. You'll see much higher conversion rates and quicker rankings versus high competition 1 word/2 word phrases. With Google focusing on "relevancy" I've seen better results when a page is optimised with the exact target keyword (or group of related keywords). The exact match keyword in the url, meta title and meta description.
Historically, I would have had one landing page covering a range of related keywords on one topic and building tiers to this page would result in hundreds of related keywords ranking. But now a page with the exact match keyword in the url, meta title and meta description will rank higher than a page with longer content but the exact match keyword is not in the url, meta title and meta description. Simply because it's deemed to be more relevant to the users search query.
Domain Authority/Page Authority This is a really important metric to focus on. It represents how easily your site can rank for your keywords. The problem with this metric though is that no one has any idea what Google percieves your DA to be. Since they abandoned page rank, this metric is only being provided by 3rd party tools. In reality all SEO's are working blind on this metric.
Relying on metrics provided by services such as moz DA or ahrefs DR or even majestic SEO TF/CF is just no good. They do not coincide with Google. Boosting your DA/DR and TF does not necessarily increase your rankings.
These tools use caching so the data they represent is always out of date.
They don't crawl the entire web - only a fraction of the web is crawled by these tools versus what google crawls.
The data they show has no correlation to the links in google's index. They don't solely show you google indexed links, they show you both indexed and non-indexed links.
Plus with many sites having bot blocking plugins installed, these tools will never be able to have the same database of links that Google has.
This means their metrics are based on an incomplete data set, making their metrics pretty useless for making business decisions. Still many SEOs are hung up on the data from these services, despite them providing crap data.
As SEOs, we do know that links from unique domains will boost DA/PA. The amount of link juice that's passed will be impacted by the number of external links the site has. More external links means less link juice is passed from the site overall.
So heavily spammed sites that sit inside automated software will pass less and less link juice the more they are spammed. This is exactly what's happenning with tools like GSA SER and RankerX. Unspammed sites or even a PBN could in theory pass more link juice if it has less external links than these spammed platforms.
Indexing Whilst this may be an obvious factor as being important for rankings, it's important to understand that as links get indexed and deindexed, your DA/PA value held by Google will fluctuate up and down. Unfortunately no one can see this data - Google no longer share this.
The DA/PA metrics provided by 3rd party tools don't change as links are indexed or deindexed. Even links that die can take months to be reflected by 3rd party tools as they use caching to save on costs.
Link Loss Dead links will be impacting your google ranking everytime google refreshes their index. You need to have a system in place to monitor the indexing and live status of your links. Whilst GSA SER has a reverify option, it's not 100% accurate (although it's still pretty good) and won't be able to continuously monitor the link status of a project, unless you leave that project running indefinitely.
I use another tool which I've mentioned before for managing the link loss. https://www.inspyder.com/products/BacklinkMonitor With this I can stay on top of any link loss and laser target my tiered link building. Makes building and powering up a 3 tier structure much easier. Plus if you build each tier separately, you can have a very strong link profile with just do follow live links, removing the dead links/no follow links from each tier as you build them and link check them.
To give you an example of what these automated tools are doing. My automated 1-3-9 strategy with just do follow contextuals results in about 30% link loss/dead links when checked through backlink monitor. Bear in mind that I don't have any delays in GSA SER - It builds the next tier as soon as there are 100 live links. Using delays would definitely give better results, but I'm in a hurry lol
But by running each tier separately with a link check after each tier is built, the link loss/dead links is reduced to almost 0%, as they are removed before building the next tier. A much more efficient approach to doing SEO. Ofcourse there will be additional link loss over the following months, but as it's being managed by another software, this is quite easy to monitor and plan new campaigns to replace those lost links in the tiers. Replacing these lost links and repowering the tiers with indexed links is how to recover/boost rankings. The ranking power comes from indexed links in your tiers. Authority Of Link Sources This is another critical factor that will effect the results you see. The higher authority link sources should be in your T1 and also your T2. If you are using just GSA SER as T1/2/3, then you are already limiting the results of the strategy. If your T1/2 link sources have DA0-DA20, then your foundation doesn't have a lot of link juice to start with. Powering up these further with tiers isn't going to do much to your rankings as there is not a lot of link juice in the tiered structure to start with.
For long tails it works good, and also site wide campaigns building links to hundreds of urls is another good strategy that will rank long tails quite easily to page 1. Whilst I do run T1/2/3 links with GSA SER with my 1-3-9 strategy, that's not all I do, as it's not enough to rank on it's own.
I'll outsource to other services, use my own PBN network, use rankerx which gives about 300 do follow links from high DA unique domains.
There is also manual link building on high DA sites and even outreach link building. You need to think beyond just 1 set of link sources. The more unique domains with high DA that you can place links on, the higher and quicker you will rank. Knowing this, why would you rely on just 1 software? SEO is about being competitive so continuously be on the lookout for new link sources. Anchor Ratios The ratios are tough to control. Although these 3rd party tools like ahrefs and seo spyglass have anchor clouds which make it very easy to visualise your anchor ratios, their data is based on indexed/non-indexed links combined. As links are deindexed or become dead, your anchor ratios will be changing with what Google see in their index. An over optimised (too many keyword anchors) anchor profile will make your rankings go backwards.
Whilst exact match anchors in your links will boost specific keyword rankings they need to be balanced with generics, branding and other variations of related keyword anchors. To play it safe, your top anchors should be variations of branding anchors only. Your keyword anchors should be less than 1%.
WOW! Good Starting. But this result generated in how much time? and my problem I am not getting good results. Can anyone please tell me Am I required to use proxies ??? Because currently I am using free proxies.
The SER project was set up in spring 2023. I don't have the ahrefs values of then as comparison as I am not looking at these.
1) Verify your links regularly. This way you are not building links on higher tiers which point to lost links on lower tiers. 2) Check the links built are indexed. If not indexed, there won't be an impact on rankings. 3) Private proxies will improve your submission and approval rates.
Ref 2): I could just win a new customer these days who had spend a decent amount of money for backlinks ($50-100/ea.). These links were shown in ahrefs but he did not see any improvements in rankings and traffic lol. Some initial checks showed that the links he bought were either total crap (press releases on sites with no traffic) or not indexed at all (22 out of 123 indexed). I'll now tackle these first to bring him some quick results and satisfaction.
Ref 3): Stable and unbanned proxies are important for the success of your campaign. I am even going one step further and only use proxies of a specific region for submission. The reason for this is trust on manual approvals. Let's say I want to build links on a German or a Swiss site but using proxies from all over the world. The site admin will most likely pay attention to the region when reviewing the link request, be in doubt and reject. The same applies to names and emails. It is unlikely that a "Jonathan R. Palmer" with a mail.ru email address writes articles about dog training in a Swiss alps village (using ChatGPT German content which is different from Swiss German). By being consistent, you can improve your chances for link approval a lot.
1] yestarday I have edited all my tiers that I verify once a day and I stop after 10 days, I guess, that is wrong approach? could you please help me out with this setting? 2) I stopped verifying last tier, since there is no point 3) can you recommend decent proxies?
1] yestarday I have edited all my tiers that I verify once a day and I stop after 10 days, I guess, that is wrong approach? could you please help me out with this setting? 2) I stopped verifying last tier, since there is no point 3) can you recommend decent proxies?
@onlineopti This thread is a year old. I am not using SER for linkbuilding these days. Maybe someone else can answer your questions.
1] yestarday I have edited all my tiers that I verify once a day and I stop after 10 days, I guess, that is wrong approach? could you please help me out with this setting? 2) I stopped verifying last tier, since there is no point 3) can you recommend decent proxies?
@onlineopti This thread is a year old. I am not using SER for linkbuilding these days. Maybe someone else can answer your questions.
Yes, Xrumer. Version 19 was already a beast, version 23 is just brutal.
It would be unfair to go into details here in the GSA forum, so I won't.
I'm glad I used forum links early on. Especially now after the Google AI overview my traffic remains constant, is qualified and converts into sales.
In fact, despite numerous #1-3 rankings on my own websites, Google traffic only makes up about 20%, the majority comes from forums and other search engines as well as OpenAI, lol.
I also use GSA SER again from time to time. Both for blog comments with my own Python scripts behind a Flask server, as well as for 'special' customers who know all the Chris Palmer YouTube videos by heart and want to tell me what I should do for $5 a month. Instead of counting successes in their wallets, these boys are more interested in ahrefs statistics.
I have also stopped offering backlinks from my own sites. In this case, of course, DA and DR are interesting because they drive up the price.
GSA SER is a great tool, no question about it. I am always happy when there is an update and that Sven implements many suggestions directly.
GSA SER is great when it comes to filters and reporting, no question about it. Xrumer can't keep up by far. But SER places too few links in comparison, especially on non-English language pages. Xrumer is, as mentioned at the beginning, brutal and sets the links. And no, I don't need links from Web 2.0's, job boards or github copies. My Xrumer list comprises around 3 million unique domains - domains, not URLS - including contact forms.
GSA SER is comparatively easy to use and the videos are so convenient and promising. But with the default settings, hundredfold copied link lists and cheap .xyz, etc. tlds catchall emails, no success can be achieved.
Ultimately, the question is what you want to achieve. Qualified traffic to your site? High numbers in ahrefs and moz? Spam on the competition?
Yes, Xrumer. Version 19 was already a beast, version 23 is just brutal.
It would be unfair to go into details here in the GSA forum, so I won't.
I'm glad I used forum links early on. Especially now after the Google AI overview my traffic remains constant, is qualified and converts into sales.
In fact, despite numerous #1-3 rankings on my own websites, Google traffic only makes up about 20%, the majority comes from forums and other search engines as well as OpenAI, lol.
I also use GSA SER again from time to time. Both for blog comments with my own Python scripts behind a Flask server, as well as for 'special' customers who know all the Chris Palmer YouTube videos by heart and want to tell me what I should do for $5 a month. Instead of counting successes in their wallets, these boys are more interested in ahrefs statistics.
I have also stopped offering backlinks from my own sites. In this case, of course, DA and DR are interesting because they drive up the price.
GSA SER is a great tool, no question about it. I am always happy when there is an update and that Sven implements many suggestions directly.
GSA SER is great when it comes to filters and reporting, no question about it. Xrumer can't keep up by far. But SER places too few links in comparison, especially on non-English language pages. Xrumer is, as mentioned at the beginning, brutal and sets the links. And no, I don't need links from Web 2.0's, job boards or github copies. My Xrumer list comprises around 3 million unique domains - domains, not URLS - including contact forms.
GSA SER is comparatively easy to use and the videos are so convenient and promising. But with the default settings, hundredfold copied link lists and cheap .xyz, etc. tlds catchall emails, no success can be achieved.
Ultimately, the question is what you want to achieve. Qualified traffic to your site? High numbers in ahrefs and moz? Spam on the competition?
I have been a user of Xrumer since 2013. I completely agree with everything you have said. I read some of your other posts and I saw your screenshot of Xevil. There was a lot of forum registration going on. Sniffed it out haha
Yes, Xrumer. Version 19 was already a beast, version 23 is just brutal.
It would be unfair to go into details here in the GSA forum, so I won't.
I'm glad I used forum links early on. Especially now after the Google AI overview my traffic remains constant, is qualified and converts into sales.
In fact, despite numerous #1-3 rankings on my own websites, Google traffic only makes up about 20%, the majority comes from forums and other search engines as well as OpenAI, lol.
I also use GSA SER again from time to time. Both for blog comments with my own Python scripts behind a Flask server, as well as for 'special' customers who know all the Chris Palmer YouTube videos by heart and want to tell me what I should do for $5 a month. Instead of counting successes in their wallets, these boys are more interested in ahrefs statistics.
I have also stopped offering backlinks from my own sites. In this case, of course, DA and DR are interesting because they drive up the price.
GSA SER is a great tool, no question about it. I am always happy when there is an update and that Sven implements many suggestions directly.
GSA SER is great when it comes to filters and reporting, no question about it. Xrumer can't keep up by far. But SER places too few links in comparison, especially on non-English language pages. Xrumer is, as mentioned at the beginning, brutal and sets the links. And no, I don't need links from Web 2.0's, job boards or github copies. My Xrumer list comprises around 3 million unique domains - domains, not URLS - including contact forms.
GSA SER is comparatively easy to use and the videos are so convenient and promising. But with the default settings, hundredfold copied link lists and cheap .xyz, etc. tlds catchall emails, no success can be achieved.
Ultimately, the question is what you want to achieve. Qualified traffic to your site? High numbers in ahrefs and moz? Spam on the competition?
I was always hesitant to use xrumer on my moneysites but after reading your post I am compelled to test it out. Can you recommend any good guides or other information for using xrumer for SEO purposes?
Yes, Xrumer. Version 19 was already a beast, version 23 is just brutal.
It would be unfair to go into details here in the GSA forum, so I won't.
I'm glad I used forum links early on. Especially now after the Google AI overview my traffic remains constant, is qualified and converts into sales.
In fact, despite numerous #1-3 rankings on my own websites, Google traffic only makes up about 20%, the majority comes from forums and other search engines as well as OpenAI, lol.
I also use GSA SER again from time to time. Both for blog comments with my own Python scripts behind a Flask server, as well as for 'special' customers who know all the Chris Palmer YouTube videos by heart and want to tell me what I should do for $5 a month. Instead of counting successes in their wallets, these boys are more interested in ahrefs statistics.
I have also stopped offering backlinks from my own sites. In this case, of course, DA and DR are interesting because they drive up the price.
GSA SER is a great tool, no question about it. I am always happy when there is an update and that Sven implements many suggestions directly.
GSA SER is great when it comes to filters and reporting, no question about it. Xrumer can't keep up by far. But SER places too few links in comparison, especially on non-English language pages. Xrumer is, as mentioned at the beginning, brutal and sets the links. And no, I don't need links from Web 2.0's, job boards or github copies. My Xrumer list comprises around 3 million unique domains - domains, not URLS - including contact forms.
GSA SER is comparatively easy to use and the videos are so convenient and promising. But with the default settings, hundredfold copied link lists and cheap .xyz, etc. tlds catchall emails, no success can be achieved.
Ultimately, the question is what you want to achieve. Qualified traffic to your site? High numbers in ahrefs and moz? Spam on the competition?
I was always hesitant to use xrumer on my moneysites but after reading your post I am compelled to test it out. Can you recommend any good guides or other information for using xrumer for SEO purposes?
There are no guides. There is a manual that will teach you how to use it. Botmaster has a forum and there’s plenty of content on there. But outside of that there’s no videos worth anything, and there’s really no spoon feeding with Xrumer.
Botmaster is very responsive on telegram. If you’re stuck sometimes he will help you. But mostly he will tell you to read the manual and the forum.
I was always hesitant to use xrumer on my moneysites but after reading your post I am compelled to test it out. Can you recommend any good guides or other information for using xrumer for SEO purposes?
There are no guides. There is a manual that will teach you how to use it. Botmaster has a forum and there’s plenty of content on there. But outside of that there’s no videos worth anything, and there’s really no spoon feeding with Xrumer.
Botmaster is very responsive on telegram. If you’re stuck sometimes he will help you. But mostly he will tell you to read the manual and the forum.
The Botmastersupport Forum is a great place to start with. Don't expect step-by-step instructions but dig yourself through the various posts in Russian language. Use the right mouse button for a first translation. Some guys there also link to their sites and videos. Again, don't worry about the language. With the help of AI, you can easily transcribe the videos and translate into a language you understand. Contact Botmaster on Telegram once you have done your homework and you will get an answer.
Another thing that helped me a lot, not only with Xrumer but also with GSA SER, was to set up my own forums to better understand the other side of the game. Let's take a look at this screenshot with new user registrations waiting for admin approval:
It is a forum in German language about mental health, in particular of children. It's very unlikely that there are so many 'users' with English names interested in joining the forum. Or with these email addresses. These accounts won't ever reach beyond the first step and become activated and able to post.
Lesson learned: Use a decent catchall domain and usernames adapted to the local language. Not only for XRumer but also for GSA.
Next step on forum posts is the user groups. By default settings, phpbb puts you into the 'new users' group with restricted rights until the first 3 posts went through moderation.
Lesson learned here: Warm up the account first and don't post junk and links immediately. XRumer let's you do this with the Anti-Spam mode and now with AI.
Once you have passed a) registration and b) moderation observation, you can go for it. Be it posts containing links or mass-PMs to other forum members. Imagine you want to sell SEO services and you manage to send PMs to all members on a forum like BHW ... There is no more need for scraping URLs, sending out cold emails or messages through contact forms. You reach the audience directly.
AI has changed the game and Google changed the game even further with its AI overviews. It does not really matter which automation tool is being used to reach top rankings in the SERPs as these do not guarantee qualified traffic to your money site anymore.
I've also been reluctant to use Social Media so far to drive interest and traffic. Market conditions made me change my mind. A few posts and interactions in groups can generate more traffic than a Google #1 ranking. We all have to adapt. SERP rankings only matter to SEO agencies and tool vendors these days.
Key is to be consistent and somehow 'honest', no matter the tool, and to use other traffic sources than Google only to your money sites. Quit using the $20 GSA link lists, posting articles on .kr websites and become excited about LpM. There is no need for 3 million backlinks to a small money site about nano aquarium filter cleaners or whatever. What we want is qualified and converting traffic.
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On top of that you've also got Google changing their algorithm more often than ever where they hand pick who they want to boost in rankings such as recent updates giving sites such as Reddit and quora extra boosts in rankings.
In some niches, all I'm seeing ranking on page 1 are social media sites like twitter, facebook, instagram, and tik tok. It's a good time to be using these as parasites to rank for your keywords. Will be easier and quicker than trying to rank your own money site.
Keyword Competitiveness
Long tails will be the easiest to rank and that's where I'd recommend anyone to focus on their seo. You'll see much higher conversion rates and quicker rankings versus high competition 1 word/2 word phrases. With Google focusing on "relevancy" I've seen better results when a page is optimised with the exact target keyword (or group of related keywords). The exact match keyword in the url, meta title and meta description.
Historically, I would have had one landing page covering a range of related keywords on one topic and building tiers to this page would result in hundreds of related keywords ranking. But now a page with the exact match keyword in the url, meta title and meta description will rank higher than a page with longer content but the exact match keyword is not in the url, meta title and meta description. Simply because it's deemed to be more relevant to the users search query.
Domain Authority/Page Authority
This is a really important metric to focus on. It represents how easily your site can rank for your keywords. The problem with this metric though is that no one has any idea what Google percieves your DA to be. Since they abandoned page rank, this metric is only being provided by 3rd party tools. In reality all SEO's are working blind on this metric.
Relying on metrics provided by services such as moz DA or ahrefs DR or even majestic SEO TF/CF is just no good. They do not coincide with Google. Boosting your DA/DR and TF does not necessarily increase your rankings.
- These tools use caching so the data they represent is always out of date.
- They don't crawl the entire web - only a fraction of the web is crawled by these tools versus what google crawls.
- The data they show has no correlation to the links in google's index. They don't solely show you google indexed links, they show you both indexed and non-indexed links.
- Plus with many sites having bot blocking plugins installed, these tools will never be able to have the same database of links that Google has.
- This means their metrics are based on an incomplete data set, making their metrics pretty useless for making business decisions. Still many SEOs are hung up on the data from these services, despite them providing crap data.
As SEOs, we do know that links from unique domains will boost DA/PA. The amount of link juice that's passed will be impacted by the number of external links the site has. More external links means less link juice is passed from the site overall.So heavily spammed sites that sit inside automated software will pass less and less link juice the more they are spammed. This is exactly what's happenning with tools like GSA SER and RankerX. Unspammed sites or even a PBN could in theory pass more link juice if it has less external links than these spammed platforms.
Indexing
Whilst this may be an obvious factor as being important for rankings, it's important to understand that as links get indexed and deindexed, your DA/PA value held by Google will fluctuate up and down. Unfortunately no one can see this data - Google no longer share this.
The DA/PA metrics provided by 3rd party tools don't change as links are indexed or deindexed. Even links that die can take months to be reflected by 3rd party tools as they use caching to save on costs.
Link Loss
Dead links will be impacting your google ranking everytime google refreshes their index. You need to have a system in place to monitor the indexing and live status of your links. Whilst GSA SER has a reverify option, it's not 100% accurate (although it's still pretty good) and won't be able to continuously monitor the link status of a project, unless you leave that project running indefinitely.
I use another tool which I've mentioned before for managing the link loss. https://www.inspyder.com/products/BacklinkMonitor
With this I can stay on top of any link loss and laser target my tiered link building. Makes building and powering up a 3 tier structure much easier. Plus if you build each tier separately, you can have a very strong link profile with just do follow live links, removing the dead links/no follow links from each tier as you build them and link check them.
To give you an example of what these automated tools are doing. My automated 1-3-9 strategy with just do follow contextuals results in about 30% link loss/dead links when checked through backlink monitor. Bear in mind that I don't have any delays in GSA SER - It builds the next tier as soon as there are 100 live links. Using delays would definitely give better results, but I'm in a hurry lol
But by running each tier separately with a link check after each tier is built, the link loss/dead links is reduced to almost 0%, as they are removed before building the next tier. A much more efficient approach to doing SEO. Ofcourse there will be additional link loss over the following months, but as it's being managed by another software, this is quite easy to monitor and plan new campaigns to replace those lost links in the tiers. Replacing these lost links and repowering the tiers with indexed links is how to recover/boost rankings. The ranking power comes from indexed links in your tiers.
Authority Of Link Sources
This is another critical factor that will effect the results you see. The higher authority link sources should be in your T1 and also your T2. If you are using just GSA SER as T1/2/3, then you are already limiting the results of the strategy. If your T1/2 link sources have DA0-DA20, then your foundation doesn't have a lot of link juice to start with. Powering up these further with tiers isn't going to do much to your rankings as there is not a lot of link juice in the tiered structure to start with.
For long tails it works good, and also site wide campaigns building links to hundreds of urls is another good strategy that will rank long tails quite easily to page 1. Whilst I do run T1/2/3 links with GSA SER with my 1-3-9 strategy, that's not all I do, as it's not enough to rank on it's own.
I'll outsource to other services, use my own PBN network, use rankerx which gives about 300 do follow links from high DA unique domains.
There is also manual link building on high DA sites and even outreach link building. You need to think beyond just 1 set of link sources. The more unique domains with high DA that you can place links on, the higher and quicker you will rank. Knowing this, why would you rely on just 1 software? SEO is about being competitive so continuously be on the lookout for new link sources.
Anchor Ratios
The ratios are tough to control. Although these 3rd party tools like ahrefs and seo spyglass have anchor clouds which make it very easy to visualise your anchor ratios, their data is based on indexed/non-indexed links combined. As links are deindexed or become dead, your anchor ratios will be changing with what Google see in their index. An over optimised (too many keyword anchors) anchor profile will make your rankings go backwards.
Whilst exact match anchors in your links will boost specific keyword rankings they need to be balanced with generics, branding and other variations of related keyword anchors. To play it safe, your top anchors should be variations of branding anchors only. Your keyword anchors should be less than 1%.
2) I stopped verifying last tier, since there is no point
3) can you recommend decent proxies?
If I can be of any help, I’ll be happy to assist you.
In fact, despite numerous #1-3 rankings on my own websites, Google traffic only makes up about 20%, the majority comes from forums and other search engines as well as OpenAI, lol.
I also use GSA SER again from time to time. Both for blog comments with my own Python scripts behind a Flask server, as well as for 'special' customers who know all the Chris Palmer YouTube videos by heart and want to tell me what I should do for $5 a month. Instead of counting successes in their wallets, these boys are more interested in ahrefs statistics.
I have also stopped offering backlinks from my own sites. In this case, of course, DA and DR are interesting because they drive up the price.
GSA SER is a great tool, no question about it. I am always happy when there is an update and that Sven implements many suggestions directly.
GSA SER is great when it comes to filters and reporting, no question about it. Xrumer can't keep up by far. But SER places too few links in comparison, especially on non-English language pages. Xrumer is, as mentioned at the beginning, brutal and sets the links. And no, I don't need links from Web 2.0's, job boards or github copies. My Xrumer list comprises around 3 million unique domains - domains, not URLS - including contact forms.
GSA SER is comparatively easy to use and the videos are so convenient and promising. But with the default settings, hundredfold copied link lists and cheap .xyz, etc. tlds catchall emails, no success can be achieved.
Ultimately, the question is what you want to achieve. Qualified traffic to your site? High numbers in ahrefs and moz? Spam on the competition?
Nice to see another user of it
Another thing that helped me a lot, not only with Xrumer but also with GSA SER, was to set up my own forums to better understand the other side of the game. Let's take a look at this screenshot with new user registrations waiting for admin approval:
It is a forum in German language about mental health, in particular of children. It's very unlikely that there are so many 'users' with English names interested in joining the forum. Or with these email addresses. These accounts won't ever reach beyond the first step and become activated and able to post.
Lesson learned: Use a decent catchall domain and usernames adapted to the local language. Not only for XRumer but also for GSA.
Next step on forum posts is the user groups. By default settings, phpbb puts you into the 'new users' group with restricted rights until the first 3 posts went through moderation.
Lesson learned here: Warm up the account first and don't post junk and links immediately. XRumer let's you do this with the Anti-Spam mode and now with AI.
Once you have passed a) registration and b) moderation observation, you can go for it. Be it posts containing links or mass-PMs to other forum members. Imagine you want to sell SEO services and you manage to send PMs to all members on a forum like BHW ... There is no more need for scraping URLs, sending out cold emails or messages through contact forms. You reach the audience directly.
AI has changed the game and Google changed the game even further with its AI overviews. It does not really matter which automation tool is being used to reach top rankings in the SERPs as these do not guarantee qualified traffic to your money site anymore.
I've also been reluctant to use Social Media so far to drive interest and traffic. Market conditions made me change my mind. A few posts and interactions in groups can generate more traffic than a Google #1 ranking. We all have to adapt. SERP rankings only matter to SEO agencies and tool vendors these days.
Key is to be consistent and somehow 'honest', no matter the tool, and to use other traffic sources than Google only to your money sites. Quit using the $20 GSA link lists, posting articles on .kr websites and become excited about LpM. There is no need for 3 million backlinks to a small money site about nano aquarium filter cleaners or whatever. What we want is qualified and converting traffic.
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