You must own a few components to run GSA Search Engine Ranker, whether or not you are using our Link Lists service. These components are essential when working with GSA SER.

You don’t need to own a Dropbox premium account to use our service. If you don’t have a Dropbox account, simply register for a free one.

You will be notified by Dropbox when your email is added to our Dropbox folder. This usually takes 1-12 hours after your purchase.

First, you need to install the Dropbox Windows application on your Server/VPS. Click here to install it from their official website.

Once the installation is complete, open Dropbox and sign in to your account.

After you are logged in, click “Next.”

Then choose “Make files local” and click Continue.

Then, you may skip backing up your PC. Simply click “Not Now.”

Confirm that by clicking “Continue to Dropbox.”

Now, head over to Dropbox web and click on “Shared” from the left menu. Hover over the GSASERLists folder, and you should see the “Add” button. Click on that.

Confirm your request by clicking “Add to Dropbox,” and you’re all set to go.

Now, click on the Dropbox icon in the Windows Taskbar (System Tray). The status should show as “Syncing.”

Wait until Dropbox downloads and syncs all files and folders. This process may take up to 1 hour, depending on your internet connection and server/VPS specifications.

If Dropbox doesn’t sync, please follow the steps below:

First of all, close your Dropbox Windows app and try opening it again to see if that solves the problem. If that doesn’t work, please follow these steps:

1. Click on your Dropbox profile (in the Dropbox Windows application) and go to Preferences.
2. In the Account tab, click on Sign out.
3. Log in again to Dropbox using your email address.

Please note: You should always keep the Dropbox Windows application open to ensure we can deliver our updates directly to your SER.

 

Make sure your Target URL Cache is cleared:

a. Highlight all of your projects

b. Right-click the selection, then select Modify Project and click Delete Target URL Cache

Then, follow the configurations below:

We will go through GSA search engine ranker global options in this section. These settings have a high impact on the performance of your SER.

Threads to use:

Your server/VPS resources and the number of your proxies determine the maximum threads you can use.

10 threads per proxy is a wise choice. So with 50 proxies, you can set your threads to 500.

But also, you have to check your server/VPS resource usage through the task manager. Run all of your software and monitor CPU and Memory usage. Find the sweet spot by raising and lowering the number of threads.

Automatically decrease threads on CPU usage above

Check this option and set it to 90 – 95 percent.

If your server/VPS CPU is powerful, you can ignore this option. Also, if you find the best number of threads to use based on your server/VPS resources, you will never reach this threshold.

Automatically decrease threads on Memory usage above

Bear in mind that GSA SER is a 32-bit windows software, so it can not use more than 3 GB of your memory.

So regardless of how much RAM your server/VPS has, check this option and set it to 2800 – 2900 MB

HTML timeout

set the HTML timeout to 180 seconds and make sure you are not losing the backlinks from low-speed websites.

Use Proxies

definitely! You should use proxies along with your SER software to get the most out of it.

It’s highly recommended to use Private Proxies.

Don’t waste your time with free proxies as they’re alive for a limited time, and you always have to search for them while others are doing the same, and it slows down everything.

Set your proxy settings according to the above image. Then click on “Configure” and add your Private proxies here. Don’t forget to toggle your proxies as Private Ones. It should look like this:

After you have added your private proxies, Click on “Test Proxies” and test them all against “ProxyJudge URL” to make sure they are working fine.

In the Options Tab, set everything like the below picture:

To buy our recommended dedicated proxies, head over to the “Recommended services“.

You need to have captcha solvers to be able to post to many websites. You can use captcha services here as well, but we recommend adding GSA Captcha Breaker as your first and XEvil as your second captcha solver [Cheapest method with High captcha solving rate].

Set GSA Captcha Breaker Retry to 2 and XEvil to 3. You can set your XEvil settings based on below picture:

Enable this option to notify various services about the backlinks you have created. While pinging these URLs is not as effective as it used to be, it is still recommended to keep this option enabled. Additionally, you can integrate third-party services to improve the indexing rate.

Note: Many indexing services are no longer reliable. If you are considering purchasing such services, be sure to evaluate their quality first.

It’s Important to skip submissions to blacklisted URLs. So Enable this option here and Select all.
Also, set the “maximum size of a website to download” to 50 MB.

This is where you configure GSASERLists in your GSA SER.

1. Save your own submitted and verified site lists to speed up link building across all your GSA SER projects. To do this, check the Submitted and Verified boxes as shown in the image above.

2. Click Add in the right-hand menu. In the pop-up window (as shown in the screenshot below), add each of our link list folders as a “Custom” site list. Be sure to select Read Only. Leave the option set to New Format and deselect Add PR – URL | PR.
Then, click OK. Repeat this process for each of our link list folders.

Once done, click OK again to save your settings in GSA SER.

Next, navigate to the Options tab of each project and enable the Use URLs from global site lists if enabled option. Then, check the “User Defined” option. When the new window pops up, select the link lists you previously added as custom site lists. Make sure the Submitted and Verified site lists are enabled.

select “Verified TopTier Targets [minDA-15]” folder inside your first-tier projects only.

After completing this process, you need to restart your project for the changes to take effect.

 

All Search engines should be unchecked (The same as the above picture).

Now we will focus on GSA Captcha Breaker and XEvil configurations.

Go to GSA Captcha Breaker’s Options. In the “Simulate/Emulate” tab, uncheck “run as Webserver”. You don’t need to activate this option if you are using GSA CB with your SER.

In the “settings” tab, set the options the same as the below picture:

You can lower the percentage of “Only try to solve if success rate is at least” to 50 – 60.

We want to use GSA Captcha Breaker just for easy and high success-rate captchas, and we will pass the others to our second captcha service (XEvil), which is more accurate in solving captchas. GSA Captcha Breaker is much faster with SER, and also, it can solve some captchas which XEvil can’t. That’s why we are using CB as our first captcha solving service. But if CB isn’t successful at breaking that captcha, It will be passed to XEvil.

To use XEvil, you need to run their XAuth application first for authentication purposes. then head over to the settings tab and click on “+Hosts” while you have chosen “Antigate (Anti-Captcha).”

You can set your settings like the below picture:

set your Recaptcha proxy settings the same as in the below picture:

We highly recommend using this service for ReCaptcha solving inside XEvil.

We will cover project settings in this section. let’s dive into it

Selecting more engines results in more LPM/VPM.

If you are facing the below alert, it may be because of not selecting enough engines.

No targets to post to (no search engines chosen, no URL extraction chosen, no scheduled posting)

We recommend Tiered Link building. You need to have High-Quality backlinks on Tier 1, which point to your money site, and then build backlinks to them, which makes your Tier 2. Tier 3 is building all types of backlinks pointing to your Tier 2 links.

You can find the complete guide here.

Activate “Pause the project for.”

Once SER reaches this limit, it will automatically stop building more backlinks for that project. Don’t build more than 20 – 30 backlinks/daily if you are building them directly to your money site.

Activate “Ask all services/user to fill captchas”

Check the above option and set choose random for “if a form field can’t be filled”

Set the other options the same as the above picture and then head over to “How to get Target URLs”

All search Engines should be unchecked.

Right-click on the “Search Engines to use” box and select “Check None.”

Activate “Use URLs from global site lists if enabled”

Select “User Defined” to use GSASERLists in this project. When the new window pops up, select the link lists you previously added as custom site lists. Make sure the Submitted and Verified site lists are enabled.

select “Verified TopTier Targets [minDA-15]” folder inside your first-tier projects only.

After completing this process, you need to restart your project for the changes to take effect.

Deactivate the “Use URLs linking on same verified URL” option. important!

Deactivate the “Analyze and post to competitor backlinks” option. important!

Activate the “Skip sites with more than outgoing links on one page” option.

You can set this option between 60 – 100. The more close to 100, the more backlinks can be built. You also can disable this option in your Tier 3.

Activate the “Avoid posting to sites just IP and no domain” option

You can deactivate this option for less important projects

Activate the “Skip sites where the following words appear” option unless you are configuring your Tier 2 and 3 campaign.

Deactivate the “Skip sites from the following countries” option.

Deactivate the “Skip sites in the following languages” option.

Use 5 – 10 Emails per project. You don’t have to import many Emails as it takes a lot of resources.

We highly recommend using CatchE to automatically manage GSA SER project emails: GSA SER Emails

GSA SER verified list