There you are sitting in your home office staring that ugly ass UI of GSA Search Engine Ranker and wondering where it all went wrong. Is spam dead? Did Cutts crush everyone and retire? Well don’t worry, before you start punching someone in the face, realize that there are plenty of SEOs out there in your same shoes. GSA SER isn’t some magical solution for ranking sites with spam, it’s a very powerful piece of software but the results are determined by the sophistication of the operator. So you should get excited actually, if you’re willing to hustle hard enough you can still beat all those other assholes who aren’t willing to see it though. After personally running GSA for hundreds of hours and over 2 years I can tell you many reasons why people suck with it, here are some of the big ones…
1. You’re using GSA to scrape sites.
Do you use GSA to scrape sites? Not wise, that is what Scrapebox or Gscraper is for bro.
2. Your proxies suck.
What proxies, how many, and what thread count are you running? 1:2 proxies to thread ratio is what I roll at. Also remember that having a quality set is key to running GSA properly, if your proxies are all burned out then they will error upon submission, stopped at the gates. You didn’t spam Google and pass go, no collecting your $200.
3. Your site lists suck.
Back to that using GSA to scrape sites thing, just because you’re scraping on your own doesn’t mean you’re doing a good job of it. Also how are you filtering your list and deciding what to actually run per each tier? If you’re spamming 1000s of links without giving a shit at all then it’s not surprising GSA isn’t working out well.
4. Your engine selections suck.
Take a nice long look at all the different engine possibilities in GSA. Also notice that you can right click the engine area and batch select some engines based on a few different options like nofollow vs dofollow links.
Now if you’re just going at it and ticking everything then you’re probably not gonna be having a good month, let’s fix that.
5. You suck.
Let’s get real, maybe you just suck. We can’t all be good spammers and most people just won’t work hard enough.
Like I mentioned above, if you expect results with GSA, you better expect to put in the grind to get there.
6. You’re checking PR.
Did you know GSA will check PR for you if the option to save PR is ticked in your advanced options? Yeah it kind of takes up a lot of resources, especially if you’re already checking PR with your scraper. Also fun fact, they stopped updating PR a long ass time ago.
7. You’re running a shitty version.
Keep an eye on what updates roll out, there has been some versions that didn’t work well for me. Seriously, I’m all stoked on a new update and then my verified count goes down the damn drain, no bueno. I recommend keeping a backup of the latest copy that has been running the best for you. Also take a peak at the update log Sven provides and see what he actually did before just pushing the green button.
8. You’re not using enough authority links relative to your domain.
It’s 2015, can’t just spam angela and paul’s backlinks anymore bros. Linkvana, BMR, those days have long gone. GSA is still a crucial part of the ranking puzzle, but you need other links to establish some authority to your domain. Then you have parasite pages like a Facebook page for example where you can get more aggressive but still need authoritative links to power ranks and keep things from getting to close to the danger zone.
9. Your content sucks.
Surprising to most people that we don’t need anything spectacular here, but it does have to be unique and on topic. If you’re running some super small spin and it’s outputting dupe content like crazy don’t come crying to me when the ranks aren’t busting through the roof.
10. You’re not using DBC or some secondary captcha service.
How are you solving captchas? Just using GSA captcha breaker? If so, you need a secondary solver bro, I use Deathbycaptcha. It costs money yes, but if I want to get enough verified to get the job done I need it. Especially when you consider a lot of higher quality sites are going to be using recaptcha and tougher methods of spam prevention.
I could go all day guys, but that is all for now. Hopefully these tips will help you get some more green arrows in your life and less banging of your head into the wall.
Ha, funny post Jacob I thoroughly enjoyed it.
So basically what you’re saying is that you use all contextual dofollow links when building with GSA, at least on tier 1?
That has been my approach lately and the results seem to have improved.
Regarding content, where are you getting it, is it software generated, what’s the deal?
Articlebuilder and KontentMachine don’t seem to be ranking much these days so the only other viable option seems to write unique articles and pay someone to manually spin them, which is the very thing that probably keeps most people from ranking.
What do you think, how does the unwillingness to generate unique, manually spun content factor into this lack of ranking with GSA?
Yes primarily I use contextual dofollow links for my tiers, some nofollow slip in but I focus mainly on dofollow. That doesn’t mean I only build those links with GSA, cuz I surely spam other types as well.
For content I have my own system which is using a ton of scraped content, but KM is still getting the job done if you use it right. You need a fairly broad keyword for it to use in order to generate a good template, definitely keep that in mind. I don’t manually spin shit these days.
Just real simple, if you’re outputting dupe spins then G can catch it, my main point there.
GSA in more projects just simply exchange incorrect domains. It is rubbish software.
You’re rubbish software
Jacob,
Nice job with the simple, basic list of what to correct! Thanks for putting it together.
Quick questions regarding using GSA for local SEO in top 20 U.S. cities (e.g. New York, Chicago, Houston): are you seeing any benefit to:
* proxies coming from (or not coming from) the geographic area?
* on the scraped sites from GScraper or Scrapebox, using those with relevance to the niche (e.g. plumbing) or the geographic area (e.g. Chicago)?
* GSA directly to the Parasite URL’s like basic citation pages (e.g. Kudzu or InsiderPages)? Or using GSA to build links to a web 2.0 page (or do-follow social bookmark account) which then links to the citation URL’s?
Yes, I will be testing like you mentioned in the previous post on Black Hat (your paragraph about Eli and people being too lazy to test)! I just wanted some guidance on local SEO (for competitive local phrases) as I circle back to using GSA again.
Many thanks, and great job with your posts!
Sure thanks Matt, I can’t get to detailed of course but these are easy.
*doesn’t matter, the end result is no different with the link you create (unless it was like a guestbook that showed the IP which would be pure trash anyway), the proxy allows you to register and do so, then do it multiple times.
*You could try that, but likely won’t get any links. We go for good domains, no mind of relevance at the domain level, the content is relevant though remember.
*Spam directly at those fuckers for sure.
I can dig it, you’re hustling but need a little guidance. These things you’re stressing about don’t matter much tho, just start beasting some links.
Thanks for the feedback, especially the GSA directly to the citation pages! Hope that your 2015 is going great, and will PM any success stories I have so you can use them as needed.
Thanks again!
I know one of my biggest issues with GSA is building a decent site list. Any tips on how to go about it? I’m a big fan of scrapebox for this but any additional queries or methods would be awesome. Keep killin’ it Jacob!
Thanks a lot Nick, I have a zillion tips on scraping, a quick one would be to analyze your existing verified more and build out from there. See what you’re already getting success with and try to build more footprints based on those.
Haha great read :D but nothing new to be fair. You could make a survey to messure how much do You suck. :D Suck meter :D just simple yes no and some stats at the end
Yeah maybe a little quiz at the end, shit that would have been a good idea.
Dude I always enjoy reading these posts.
I am probably guilty of doing all those things you mentioned in your top 10. Now I just like to hire someone to blast the shit outta my social properties and use GSA for reputation management.
Do you have a good source you could recommend for hiring someone to run all these spamming for me?
Thanks bro, and keep em coming!
Nah, I always just recommend learning the ropes yourself, and now I refer people to my forum which has a training series.
Hi Jacob – Would like to hear a more detailed explanation of how you create content for tier 1 links. I have KM and best spinner but I still find the simplest way is to manually rewrite but it’s so boring.
Cheers
Simon
I really like reading about this stuff. I fucking hate Google, hell I hate most super corps…I digress. Anyway, I’ve done the whitehat crap and it is simply a pain in my ass and not making any money to be frank. I’ve had to look up some of the terms both here and BHW to be honest, yes I am that green.
The thing is that I wonder how much money can be made using blackhat vice whitehat tactics. If it is better than $550 a month then shit I am in regardless of the learning curve. Well, as long as it does not get me sent to whistle with your asshole prison anyway. Broke down hoe don’t get paid much. And considering I am out of work I have lots of time to learn :D
So summarize this book, thank you posting this stuff. It is both educational and funny.
That’s a really tough question but in the short term I’m going with BH to pay the bills. Whitehat anything IMO is a long term play, might take a couple years to get the traction needed to really take off and be making good money organically. But I think $1-$2k per month is a reasonable goal for someone getting started with some serious determination.
Am learning Senuke and have been trying to scrape a list using ScrapeBox without much success.
Am leaning towards GSA since it is capable of scraping a list on its own which you advise against in this post.
Thus I am back to GSA vs Senuke decision. What is your advise?
This discussion has thoroughly been beaten down in other comments and maybe even a post. Senuke is a complete piece of shit compared to GSA, water pistol compared to a real gun. Get GSA my brother, SENuke is old news.
Another thing.. most people spam 1000’s of guestbook links and then wonder why they didn’t ranked! These are the type of links on which every refresh results in thousands of more links – and your link get pushed back to page 10/20/30 and so on.
Yes sirrr, thanks for dropping in btw, I like your blog/style.
Quick question about the proxy ratio you mentioned. If i’m running 80 threads for example, does that mean 40 proxies is a good idea?
Great post by the way, I really need to start learning GSA.
Yes exactly. Thanks Craig, and get your ass to Blackhatstacks if you want to learn GSA properly ;-)
I like the way you dance with Google , Jacob…. I am trying to search the net for a (discount) code to join your forum as I see there is a box assigned for it in your signup page….. i thought I’d ask…maybe you can direct me to where I can find one ….
Yeah we just have the box there to tantalize people lol. Still haven’t offered any actual coupons though.
King Jacob…I’d be honored sire, to received your first ever coupon….you have my email :)
Hahaha… That’s fucking great. Fuck the free loaders. FULL PRICE FOR EVERYONE!!!
Hi Jacob, i have a few questions:
1. For tier 1 what is more important: readable content or unique content?
2. Dedicated proxies or semi dedicated (shared)?
3. How many retires do you recommend for DBC?
1. Unique for sureee.
2. Doesn’t matter that much.
3. CB at 2 and DBC at 2 (running T1, might change to 1 retry on DBC or none at all on lower tiers)
CB at 2 and DBC at 2 ? What they stand for?
Content base and data content base?
Captcha brekaer and Deathbycaptcha
Hi Jacob,
Does spamming thousands of links directly at a parasite page still work? I think that Google may find it highly suspicious that a page is getting thousands of links without any actual traffic to that page. Or maybe traffic still hasn’t factored into the algo??
Yes it does, anchor text is more important than ever, and timing is also important.
I have plenty of pages with 2k+ links ranking just fine.
Can you elaborate on timing? If I’m building 3000 contextual links to a parasite page, how long should I take to build that? What about kitchen sink links in the tens of thousands?
Roughly 1-3 weeks, maybe longer. Tough to say cuz it depends on the quality of your links. If you have a really shitty list then it doesn’t matter how you time the 3k links. I will say that you want the better shit up front tho.
Thanks Jacob. One more thing: Can you dedicate a post to keyword research and niche selection? Would really like to know your methods for fishing out those low comp niches.
Might get to that one day, lately I’m going for really competitive shit, dumping a couple big brands into Semrush and going from there.
Jacob one final question on anchor text for parasites: Basically would you recommend using the same ratios that you would normally use for your money site?
Roughly yes, but of course you should be able to me more aggressive with the parasite.
Jacob it would also be really great if you could dedicate a post completely to keyword research and niche selection.
I got everything right with regards to GSA (including the high authority links part), but my site is still stuck on page 3 for a really long time because I completely messed up the keyword research process. I chose a overly high competition keyword centered around a clickbank product with very few long tail variations.
That’s when I realized I didn’t build the foundation. Keyword research and niche selection is a whole big monster to slay in and of itself. If you mess that up, looks like you are pretty much F-ed.
I am still going to try to rank that site in the long term. But I am currently diversifying and looking for lower competition keywords, local keywords and niches with many long tails.
Hi Jacob! :)
I just want to ask your personal opinion about this. In your opinion, which one is better for scraping purposes only? Scrapebox or Gscraper?
Thanks in advance!
Sure no prob, Gscraper crushes scrapebox 1.0 away when it comes to scraping, *but that is when using the gscraper proxy service which s $66 per month.
With that said you’re going to need to pay for proxies with Scrpabeox regardless and need at least 25-50 proxies to do any real scraping, so you’ll be spending damn near the same amount. I still use Scrapebox for quite a few tasks, might even use it for some real small scrapes. But for GSA, gscraper all the way.
In my experience you don’t really need private proxies for scraping (especially if you are on a budget). You should try Scrapebox v2 beta, which is MUCH faster than Gscraper: http://www.scrapebox.com/v2-beta
SB v2 beta allows you to use free server proxies for Bing and Yahoo (which are good for scraping as well). Proxies are pulled directly from Scrapebox servers. You can harvest at a few hundred to 1000 URLs per second with that.
If you really want to use Google, then what I do is use No Hands Proxies. No Hands Proxies works great for scraping proxies, but it really sucks with Scrapebox v1 because v1 stops working even if there are a few proxies that don’t work (always the case with large public proxy lists). Scrapebox v2 is much better at filtering through the proxy list on the fly and picking the proxies that do work. You can get few hundred URLs per second with this method as well.
Hope that helped!
ALSO, you don’t anonymous proxies for scraping. Transparent proxies are fine. Google doesn’t really check the IP behind the transparent proxy for Google searches. I have done a lot of scraping on transparent proxies and never got my IP banned.
I use Gscraper proxy service, crushes.
I’m finding that No Hands Proxies and the google proxies it puts out under the gscraper settings isn’t so great.
I get up to 20ish proxies working, but when it’s loaded into gscraper the actual ones that “work” comes down to 10 average. Sometimes luckier to get more, but even then with such a small amount of proxies the thread count in gscraper has to be adjusted downwards and it takes a long time to scrape anything – for me at least.
I just pay for Gscraper’s proxy service, extra expense sure but it’s justifiable if you’re doing a lot of scraping.
Yeah haven’t really played with it much but I need Google scraping, not bing. So that doesn’t really help me much.
Pretty much check on all of them except a few. Haha. About number 3 and 4. Do you have a guide/resource for building contextual quality site lists? I currently have Scrapebox and GSA SER/CB.
I do on my forum BlackHatStacks, nothing public though.
I see. Can’t afford the site membership yet. Will save up.
The biggest misconception is that you need hundreds of thousands of links to rank for big keywords. Not true at all. Relevancy and uniqueness are the biggest factors and should be the first thing on your checklist before spamming away.
Hi,
What about setting GSA to make about 25 accounts on the same contextual so you get multiple links from the same domain?
I saw a post on the GSA forum where he said doing multiple posts was working well for him.
Just clone your project and re-run the list through if you want to do that, sounds retarded though. But hey, a lot of wild shit that works does.
Hi Jacob. Very nice post. What i like in your post is straight to the point no mumbo-jumbo explanation on how the world started and how will it end. Keep that up, that’s an edge!
Anyway, been a user of GSA since it came up. Was too busy to even actually take meticulous tweaking. But what i like about GSA is it is like Scrapebox, you can tweak it and be anle to use as a whitehat tool.
Nowadays the LPM seems to be lower and having quite a blast with errors. Since you’ve mentioned “not using GSA to scrape sites to post to” if you input a pack of sites then do you literaly monitor it and if it runs out then stuff some new pack to post to?
Actually got a lot of question on the tool, just like Scrapebox, it’s a vast tool. Would really love to see a share of an advance settings on it.
I have my specific lists I run, I might break off a few hundred URLs and run those through for example. I feed the machine what I want.
Hi,
How can I use GSA for long terms without any risk of penality ?
Tks
What about those annoying “prove you’re human” spam-prevention questions (“who’s the current vice president of the United States?”)? How do you handle them? Skip them? Answer them manually? Is there a service that takes care of them?
Thanks.
You have that setting to use a random answer, definitely not manually, never ever lol. There is a setting in the project to ignore those, then I have always used the askmebot api but I’m honestly not sure how much that does lol.
I use Captcha breaker 1, DBC 2 with retry on 2 or 3, then that askmebot key in there also.
What do you think about Ultimate Demon?
It’s shit, don’t waste your money.
OK, What software you recommend?
Man get out of here with that bullshit trying to manually get a nofollow link. You’re asking this on a fucking post about GSA SER, move along before I rip 10k GSA at your URL just for being a tool.
Hey there,
I landed on this page while I was searching for churn and burn seo and then link building.
Would you consider doing SEO/key word ranking for me for a fee ? I am looking for more churn and burn key word listing.
Nah sorry, I only rank my own shiz
A lanky, socially awkward looking kid trying to play the hard man on the internet. LMFAO. Run along little boy.
Come at me in the comment section bro, I’m ready.
Just considering the article to beef upward my GSA settings. You’re web sites looking boss man. Keep in the great work!
Yes Jacob king, I like your style :-) in written. I noticed that my GSA is giving me alot of dofollow exit page backlinks and scrapebox is another story by it self..
I am serious about spamming the hell out of google, of course with high quality content by finding those juicy links can be hard, so far SEO spyglass is the best simple and straight forward.
Anyway keep you the got work, and whats the name of your theme, please buddy lol ?
It’s the platforms you’re submitting too, you’re likely doign some that are nofollow and get good volume, then it seems like you’re only getting nofollow stuff. Custom theme on genesis framework, called “The SEO King”
Hi Jacob, nice post you have here, do you have any suggestion about GSA version that still good to use? thanks
Not sure the exact number but I’ve been running the latest version and doing fine.
Hi Jacob
I read your post and its funny somehow. Still I got some answers which I needed about captcha solving and proxies.
Thanks Bro
Hi Jacob, nice post!
Damn straight son
Hi,
Does GSA still works to rank on Google? If so, is there set up making a campaign for certain time like run it for 15 to 30 days campaign sort of? How do you run GSA correctly?
I run GSA like it stole something.
You should run (somespamshit.com) on the other side (your site) to see how your backlinking is affecting your site.
Oh yeah brah?
Hi,
I am a total rookie when it comes to SEO matter. However, I am willing to go the long run to learn. I have been running Senuke and I have just purchase a GSA package. I am not clue about how to use proxies with GSA. I have also purchase scrapebox but I haven’t even used it as yet. I will appreciate any guidance from you. Thanks,
KJ
Well I’ve beaten this horse to death but apparently not quite enough yet. Senuke is a joke, can’t believe people are still even buying that shit.
You sound like you’re in trouble lol.
Where i can find verified gsa list?
Scrape your own boss.
Great stuff.i am on low budget.should i use indexing service?or is it possible our backlink indexed naturally with tiered link building?is it make a big diffrence when using indexing service?
Well as of not too long ago the indexing services have stopped working nearly as well. So tiering is essential now more than ever if you want a substantial indexation rate…
Hi Jacob, Finally found answers for my long time questions on GSA. My GSA projects so often ask to add new articles. It completely annoys. Do you know what’s the reason? I don’t use any paid software to spin articles. I spin articles using bestspinner free online version.
Hrmm, maybe that setting for don’t use article more than x number of times…I haven’t seen that tbh.
What version are you running also? That’s weird.
Nice post jacob..
i did enjoy to read your content..
give us more content about GSA please..
^^ thank u jacob..
Well, you can say all you want, we all know GSA’s dead, and you saying it’s still working only proves how much fucking comissions you get from reffs to GSA sales page. GSA stopped working a year ago, and now that the new captcha shit has rolled out, it got a hell a lot harder to get verified links. Good luck with your GSA dreams…
Ok buddy, whatever you say.
why so rude? gsa os perfect for low comp keywords and building up a few backlinks here and there. as for ranking no1 gsa can getyiu there I won’t last long though. content and relevancy is key to ranking. jacob is correct dont go emo on his ass
Great content,I hope to see more of this very soon bro’s.
Hi,
I am selling one single genuine licence of GSA for 80$. If someone is interested, please contact me pfsoft100@gmail.com.
Thanks
I can’t take anyone seriously that makes such a moronic statement for #1, obviously you have no idea how to use GSA Search Engine ranker. You should probably consider trying to use it more before writing embarrassing blog articles like this.
I remember in 2015 I used it to only find wordpress sites, I could download a list of every single.com .org and .net account I found and then import them into Gsa search engine ranker. Then I could load the text file, and let it sit for a long long long time.
A few days later I walk back with a nice list of wordpress sites that I can enter into a contact form submitter to automatically contact over 1,000,000 WordPress site owners in a matter of a few days.
You sir need to learn how to use GSA search engine ranker before writing another article, it’s obvious to me that your skill level with it is considered “rookie”
Woa so much aggression, I can’t take it.
You’re about as badass at SEO as my cat is at Algebra.
Hi Jacob King, nice post btw..
But, I really do have question about GSA…
1. is it still good in 2016?
2. in 2015, I try to use 10 proxy, and always change email everyday because it’s need to register etc using different email right? And, even after many many backlinks, my site didn’t event ranked.. Not even close to ranked. And, my backlinks are not indexed too ( I did this about 3 months ). So, what do you think?
3. Do you have tutorial for GSA White Hat Technique?
4. I see many videos that GSA can post amazing backlinks within a minute. Whatever I do, I can’t get those number of backlinks.. Are that real?? I mean, about 1.000.000 backlinks within 2 days or so… I just get about 2000 in 3 days.. That’s all.
5. Is this because I’m sucked at GSA? LoL.. And even it’s true, I don’t mind. Do you have a guide for me? Thanks :)
try out paid ads bruh.
Hey Jacob, as you advised i am using kontent machine and GSA , everything is good but when it (GSA) submit the content on any blog or article directory it looks like this : We also download a lot of mobile applications >ff t»5 world wide web. Wq }Uq tºqm t carry >ut 0 lot f things. ª couple οf apps t»at a5 uUe Vn finance. Obviously its not readable . do you have any idea how to sort it out ?
Hrmm, maybe that junk is in the template you generated with KM?
Open that file, and ctrl + f to some of it. If it’s there in your spin then you that’s why it’s outputting. Remove that shit or create a new template.
This is Shit. Do you waste all that time with the software?
Go buy a life man.
a good list but not enough detail on each. you mention picking all engines is bad but that is obvious. what engines do you stay away from? why? personally i have found K2 to have terrible indexation rates and PHPWeb is 90% korean/japanese/chinese garbage
also if you run DBC on your identified lists you are feeding in you are going to spend a shitload of money FAST. how can you afford this?! i use reverseproxies OCR for recaptcha and it solves a good % of them.
Finally found answers for my long time questions on GSA. My GSA projects so often ask to add new articles. It completely annoys. Do you know what’s the reason? I don’t use any paid software to spin articles. I spin articles using bestspinner free online version.
Maybe you have that don’t use article more than once setting on?
Does GSA search engine ranker really work to rank on google? I am looking for the best search engine ranking tool..
On Google? What about Bing?
Question on no follows and dofollow’s. In July 2016, just how many sites allow dofollow backlinks and more importantly backlinks with anchors. I write my own vb seo stuff and thought I would try to verify my results with scrape box and gsa. The answer that I have come up with is an extremely low percentage of dofollows exist. Anyone else find the same.?
I dunno, less than half
Thought I would run a test on GSA Search Engine Ranker. It seems that it cannot post properly on wordpress sites. Further investigation, GSA has a problem with verifying the accounts that it creates. It seems outdated in July 2016. I’m guessing that it could verify years ago, but it looks like wordpress and other forums seem to have updated and beaten the software by asking for extra verifcation. Can anybody else shed any light on this.
That type of shit is a never ending battle with GSA, I’ve had new versions mess things up and fix things, also consider that changes with the platform effects things. There has been many badass CMS exploits over the day that have been patched and then GSA is shit out of luck.
Thanks friend, get me a quick doubts regarding the lists, I have a supplier of urls verified but the list is organized by PR, how do I separate this list the urls wikis, articles, directories, social networks etc.
Is there any tool to do this ??
Lol they are separated by PR? Your supplier is full of shit then.
Hey nice post, but I have a question, if I use GSA Without private proxy then what happened?? Plz reply
Google will come to your house.
When you say “You’re using GSA to scrape sites”, what do you mean?
When you creates project, you use selected engines. So how the scraping part relates to GSA SER?
I’m pretty new to GSA (2 weeks only), so I’m not sure how do you apply scrapebox scrapings to GSA?
GSA scrapes search engines for you to find sites, which slows it down like a mofo. Better to scrape your own
Thanks for the read buddy. I don’t suppose you know of a guide that’s simplified so much that a dumb ass like me can follow it?
By simplified i mean a really dumbed down version, where only a few links are created a day using public proxies etc.
I refuse to waste money fucking it up in the learning process. Most guides i find are full on guides requiring investments.
No, just need to guide yourself my friend.
HEY Jacob ( my father name is also Jacob)
like your content and your writting more…
have a few question hope you can help me here
1. does a link from a non english site to an engslih site works ? or from an engslih site to non english ? ( texual link )
2. do you like trump ? ( hope so … heheh )
Thanks man
1. Yes
2. Like him? Not really.
Thanks for the write-up have definitely caught myself doing some of the mistakes you listed. GSA SER has quite the learning curve in my opinion