How bad email and username settings kill your verification success
Have you encountered a good number of successful submissions but very poor verification success? The reason might be your project settings.
Take a look at this screenshot showing new forum profiles waiting to be approved by a moderator:
This is taken from one of my own forums, running phpbb.
What does it show?
1. GSA SER can successfully submit to the platform. The phpbb engine is working fine.
2. Wrong email settings in the GSA project like: %spinfile-names.dat%-%spinfile-lnames.dat%@gmail.com, %spinfile-names.dat%%spinfile-lnames.dat%@gmail.com
3. Email domains that indicate spam from the first look at it: @smallbutnaughty.com, @rambler.ru, @prrrvt.fun
4. (Very) poor email addresses: huikfgbgtfdhtr@gmail.com, dfgsgtrehytrehtyreh@gmail.com, po.s.tingm.eg.a.s.t.o.pla.y@gmail.com, po.s.ting.m.e.g.a.st.oplay@gmail.com, post.in.g.me.g.a.stopl.a.y@gmail.com, etc.
5. Obvious usernames: XRumer23Bic
6. Usernames not matching the forum language (German in this case)
These profiles will obviously never be approved by a moderated forum or when tools like StopForumSpam are activated (not the case on my forum shown here).
Link automation can work great but you need to put at least some effort into setting up your project.
1. Rather than buying spammy gmail addresses you can create your own or, even better, use a decent domain with catchall on it.
2. Adapt the usernames to the target language and topic/audience rather than using the default settings in the tool.
And this is just the 1st step to create a forum profile only. No content nor link has been published at this mandatory stage.
The same applies to blog comments. Invest some minutes to set-up a proper project or you'll waste money on link lists, gmail accounts, proxies, CPU time but only achieve frustration because of a low success rate.
Take a look at this screenshot showing new forum profiles waiting to be approved by a moderator:
This is taken from one of my own forums, running phpbb.
What does it show?
1. GSA SER can successfully submit to the platform. The phpbb engine is working fine.
2. Wrong email settings in the GSA project like: %spinfile-names.dat%-%spinfile-lnames.dat%@gmail.com, %spinfile-names.dat%%spinfile-lnames.dat%@gmail.com
3. Email domains that indicate spam from the first look at it: @smallbutnaughty.com, @rambler.ru, @prrrvt.fun
4. (Very) poor email addresses: huikfgbgtfdhtr@gmail.com, dfgsgtrehytrehtyreh@gmail.com, po.s.tingm.eg.a.s.t.o.pla.y@gmail.com, po.s.ting.m.e.g.a.st.oplay@gmail.com, post.in.g.me.g.a.stopl.a.y@gmail.com, etc.
5. Obvious usernames: XRumer23Bic
6. Usernames not matching the forum language (German in this case)
These profiles will obviously never be approved by a moderated forum or when tools like StopForumSpam are activated (not the case on my forum shown here).
Link automation can work great but you need to put at least some effort into setting up your project.
1. Rather than buying spammy gmail addresses you can create your own or, even better, use a decent domain with catchall on it.
2. Adapt the usernames to the target language and topic/audience rather than using the default settings in the tool.
And this is just the 1st step to create a forum profile only. No content nor link has been published at this mandatory stage.
The same applies to blog comments. Invest some minutes to set-up a proper project or you'll waste money on link lists, gmail accounts, proxies, CPU time but only achieve frustration because of a low success rate.
Comments
One of my main gripes with SER and Xrumer has always been how they handle usernames and other automated features like link placement, text around link placement etc. I put in a lot of work on project setup to avoid these common problems. Ai now makes it a lot easier and faster
The screenshot I shared is just the standard phpbb view. This can be extended by IP + country and I am pretty sure big forums with traffic - the ones we want to post to - are doing this. Signing up with an English name, Russian email and Nigerian IP is not convincing at all.