Why Does Scrapebox Achieve Higher Verified Blog Comments Than GSA SER?

April 12

I have a question regarding the difference in results between Scrapebox Poster and GSA Search Engine Ranker.

When I use Scrapebox Poster, I’m able to get around 15,000 blog comments approved and verified (mostly on WordPress sites). However, when I use GSA SER on the same list of 15,000 URLs, I only end up with about 300 to 400 verified comments.

I would like to understand why there is such a significant difference in verified results between the two tools when using the same targets.

Thank you in advance for your insights.

April 13

I cant tell without further details, please send the URLs you did with scrapebox in private message and I have a look which one fails and why and update the scripts.

April 14

Okay perfect @Sven , i will send the details in a private message. Thank you!

April 14

I had a chance to look at this and found the following:

1. The default filter to download a website is set to 1MB in size. Most of the sites you gave me are way bigger in size (10MB or more). That results in a incomplete download and usually the form to submit comments in at the bottom. So these sites will not be identified correctly
2. Many URLs are duplicate domains. From 19xxx URLs, only 1380 are from unique domains. So many get skipped either to being previously submitted to or they failed before.

Why I think this is still correct:

1. Submitting your URL to a totally spammed and then large site seems meaningless to me. I would not submit there as it could hurt your ranking.
2. Spamming a domain on different URLs is also not worth it in terms of SEO.

If you still want to submit there:

1. Increase the global filter setting form 1MB to like 20MB. Also decrease threads as many threads will now waste a lot of memory while parsing the sites.
2. In project settings set it to allow submitting on the same site again

April 14

Googlebot will only crawl max 2MB of any supported file type, html included: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/googlebot
Considering G will also only look at the first 100 ext links on a page, even 1MB is probably too big.

April 14

Thanks for this! I’m going to review and apply these updates now. I'll keep you posted on the results, especially as I integrate them into the tiered link building stages.

Thank you very much!

April 15

@cherub ones posted, the link will sometimes appear at top of listing so for a short time it may be visible by google on such spammed sites, but even then it's not worth it in my eyes.

April 19

Yes, He is really right. I tested three software, the first winner is PTCS, 2nd - ScrapeBox, 3rd - GSA SER. I think SER blog comment engine, penetration, submission, and verification are unlike the other two software.

April 19

@MasumKhan well you can configure SER to post there, but you need to make changes to default settings. BUT I don't think it's worth it!

April 20

MasumKhan said:

Yes, He is really right. I tested three software, the first winner is PTCS, 2nd - ScrapeBox, 3rd - GSA SER. I think SER blog comment engine, penetration, submission, and verification are unlike the other two software.

What does PTCS stand for ?

April 20

Hi @Sven , thank you very much. I have updated the settings and I’m now getting better results, especially with more verified links in Tier 2 and Tier 3.

I have one question regarding Tier 3. At the moment, the Tier 3 indexer is generating roughly the same number of backlinks as the Tier 2 blog comments.

What I would like to achieve is a higher ratio for Tier 3. For example, if the campaign creates 1,000 Tier 2 blog comments, I would like Tier 3 to generate around 3,000 indexer backlinks.

I will share the screenshot in inbox. Could you please guide me on which settings I should adjust in GSA SER to achieve this kind of scaling?

Thank you!

April 20

Well, not much to see on that screenshot. I can only guess that the "per URL" checkbox is not checked.

April 20

royalmice said:

MasumKhan said:

Yes, He is really right. I tested three software, the first winner is PTCS, 2nd - ScrapeBox, 3rd - GSA SER. I think SER blog comment engine, penetration, submission, and verification are unlike the other two software.

What does PTCS stand for ?

Yeah, you come to the point. This is a very old SEO application, PingBack, Trackback, Comment submitter. This application is no longer available.

April 20

seo_ranker said:

Hi @Sven , thank you very much. I have updated the settings and I’m now getting better results, especially with more verified links in Tier 2 and Tier 3.
I have one question regarding Tier 3. At the moment, the Tier 3 indexer is generating roughly the same number of backlinks as the Tier 2 blog comments.
What I would like to achieve is a higher ratio for Tier 3. For example, if the campaign creates 1,000 Tier 2 blog comments, I would like Tier 3 to generate around 3,000 indexer backlinks.
I will share the screenshot in inbox. Could you please guide me on which settings I should adjust in GSA SER to achieve this kind of scaling?
Thank you!

Where are the settings, because I need to update SER for blog comment settings.

April 20

MasumKhan said:

royalmice said:

MasumKhan said:

Yes, He is really right. I tested three software, the first winner is PTCS, 2nd - ScrapeBox, 3rd - GSA SER. I think SER blog comment engine, penetration, submission, and verification are unlike the other two software.

What does PTCS stand for ?

Yeah, you come to the point. This is a very old SEO application, PingBack, Trackback, Comment submitter. This application is no longer available.

I am an old SEO guy, and I never heard of a tool called PTCS
There used to be a tool called Bookmarking Daemon, but I guess it is not the same.

to answer your question to @Sven

You could set the Tier 2 to stop when it reached 1000 verified links, and then set Tier 2 to stop when it reached 3000 verified links. That is the very first setting under the project options tab.

April 20

Thank you @Sven @royalmice, I have updated the settings and now it's resolved.

Thank you again.

April 22

@Sven, please check the inbox. thank you!

June 10

cherub said:

Googlebot will only crawl max 2MB of any supported file type, html included: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/googlebot
Considering G will also only look at the first 100 ext links on a page, even 1MB is probably too big.

just for the sake of geeking out a bit here, not for any real application these days but...

its pretty wild when u look at an 'average' web page, a couple thousand words of text along with a couple images and a video or two...is only a couple hundred kb.

ill ask A.I. next time I get more curious about this about the differences but...was looking over that link where it references 2mb for googlebot specifically...then looked at a linked page from there where it says:

"https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/overview-google-crawlers#crawl-technical-props

By default, Google's crawlers and fetchers only crawl the first 15MB of a file, and any content beyond this limit is ignored. However, individual projects may set different limits for their crawlers and fetchers, and also for different file types. For example, a Google crawler like Googlebot may have a smaller size limit (for example, 2MB), or specify a larger file size limit for a PDF than for HTML."

im not sure what the practical difference is between the 'crawlers and fetchers' that will go 15mb deep vs the specific crawler googlebot 'only' going 2mb deep.

size aside...and i see they updated that first page a couple months ago so it seems really up to date...im pretty sure they officially recanted the 100link max.