Here we have provided best practices for GSA SER, which you should use along with our service to get the best result out of your GSA search engine ranker and GSAserlists. Let’s dive into our GSA SER tutorial.
GSAserlists Dropbox setup
You don’t have to own a Dropbox premium account to use our service. Register for one free Dropbox account if you don’t have one already.
You will be notified by Dropbox when your Email is added to our Dropbox folder. It usually takes 1-12 hours after your purchase is made.
First of all, you need to install the Dropbox windows application on your Server/VPS. Click here to install it from their official website.
After installation is completed, 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 on “Continue to Dropbox.”
Now head over to your Dropbox web and click on “Shared” through the left menu. Hover over the GSAserlists folder. You should see the “Add” button. Click on that.
Confirm your request by clicking on “Add to Dropbox,” and we are ready to go.
Now click on the Dropbox icon in the Windows Taskbar (System Tray). The status should be “Syncing.”
Wait until Dropbox downloads and syncs all files and folders. It may take up to 1 hour based on your internet connection and server/VPS specs.
If Dropbox doesn’t sync, please follow the below steps:
First of all, please close your Dropbox windows app and try to open it again, and see if it solves the problem. if that did not work, please follow these steps:
1. click on your dropbox profile (in the Dropbox windows application) and then go to the preferences
2. on the account tab, click on sign out
3. login again through your Dropbox with your email address
If none of the above solutions work, please follow the steps below:
1. Open Dropbox web. Then, go to “Shared” on the left menu
2. Use 3-dot icon at the right side of our shared folder. Then, select “Remove from Dropbox”
3. pause Dropbox from syncing (indefinitely)
4. run syncing again (The status should change from “syncing” to “Your files are up to date”)
5. Again, go to Dropbox web. Head over to “shared” and click on the “Add to Dropbox” button next to our shared folder
6. let Dropbox run for a while and detect the files (It may last for 1 day!)
Please note: You should always keep the Dropbox windows application open to let us deliver our updates directly in your SER.
Let’s start setting up SER while the files are getting synced.
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 below configurations:
GSA SER global options
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.
Submission tab
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” section.
Captcha tab
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:
Indexing tab
Use nowadays Indexing methods to force your backlinks to get indexed. We don’t recommend using SER indexing services as they slow down SER and are ineffective. So uncheck everything in this tab.
Note: Many indexing services are not working these days. If you are thinking about buying those services, first check the service quality.
Filter tab
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.
Advanced tab
This is where you have to configure GSAserlists into your SER.
1. Make two new folders for your own submitted and verified targets and set their locations inside Submitted and Verified fields. check their boxes the same as in the above picture.
2. Set “Verified TopTier Targets [minDA-15]” folder’s location inside Failed field (The same as the above picture)
3. Check Custom List and click on Configure. You have to add both “Verified Targets [24H – Real-Time]” and “Submitted Targets [Real-Time]” folders here the same as in the below picture
Then, click on OK.
Again click on OK and let SER save your settings. You need to restart your SER after changes are made.
Then, you have to go to each Project’s Options tab and check “Use URLs from global site lists if enabled” and check “Submitted”, “Verified”, and “Custom”.
select Failed inside your first-tier projects. In this way, SER will use our “Verified TopTier Targets [minDA-15]” folder.
All Search engines should be unchecked (The same as the above picture).
GSA CB and XEvil configurations
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.
Project settings
We will cover project settings in this section. let’s dive into it
Where to submit
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.
Options tab
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 Custom to use GSAserlists in this project. You also can use your own-made lists by selecting Submitted and Verified.
select Failed inside your first-tier projects. In this way, SER will use our “Verified TopTier Targets [minDA-15]” folder.
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.
E-mail verification tab
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 catchall emails.
To buy our recommended catchall emails, head over to the “Recommended services” section.
You can set the other options the same as the above picture.
Recommended services
1. Dedicated Server or VPS
Don’t waste your time and SER’s power on your own laptop/computer.
Think about buying a dedicated server (for best performance) or VPS (economical) for running your SER and other software 24/7.
To view our recommended company for dedicated servers/VPS click here.
Contact their friendly support and ask about the best option regarding your budget.
2. GSA SER Proxies
You should use proxies to get the most out of your GSA SER. 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 really slows down everything.
Dedicated proxies are the best option. To buy our recommended dedicated proxies click here.
3. Captcha Solver
GSA Captcha Breaker is a must-have tool for GSA SER, but it can not solve many types of captchas, including Google Recaptcha. So you need to use one more captcha solver as a backup, which can also solve Google Recaptcha.
XEvil is what we recommend. To buy and view more details click here.
4. XEvil Proxies
You need proxies for Recaptcha solving inside XEvil. Captcha images don’t need proxies and proxies are used just for Recaptchas. We recommend one high-quality service with the cheapest prices: click here
5. Catchall Emails
Emails are essential for account creation and have a significant impact on your SER. We highly recommend using Catchall Emails for optimal SER performance. That’s why we created CatchE—our powerful software for creating and managing unlimited catchall emails. It’s our top recommendation for boosting your results! To purchase and view more details, visit the following link: GSA SER catchall email