Thanks for this great thread t0mmy. I joined here in Oct 2014 as a noob and made a few hundred by manually promoting my Amazon affiliate store on facebook. I now have a great passion for seo and have spent the last few weeks devouring information. I have read through this entire thread post to post about 4 times and after watching numerous tutorials on GSA and SB and Breaknbrix' Morpheus like posts, I have decided to just do it. I know it will be painful as a noob, I know it will be frustrating dealing with SB and GSA SER, but I want to go through this to LEARN and EQUIP myself for the necessary skills I need go become successful. A lot of people said not to bother with link building yourself but as I said, I want to learn and equip myself with this skillset so I can reach bigger things in the future.
As I am just getting my feet wet and learning, I want to keep my expenses as low as possible. My set up will be as follows:
GSA SER
GSA CB
Scrapebox
WAC
VPS
I will scrape my own target urls to feed into SER. I was planning on using the scrape feature in SB and SER for public proxies and BreaknBrix also said he used public proxies when he first started with GSA.
My vps specs will be 2 CPU, 20GB SSD Space, 2GB DDR3 Dedicated RAM, Unmetered Bandwidth
I have a few questions though please:
- I have read about needing to purchase verified urls list but is this needed if I will be scraping my own target urls on SB?
- I know 2gb ram is the bare min but I can't afford anymore right now. Can I still achieve the same results though?
- Will using public proxies via the scrape feature be okay?
- I will not be using serengines as I want to keep expenses down in my learning noob phase. Is this ok?
- Regarding the 301 redirect, can I do this through my domain registrar (because I see the option) or is hosting needed to edit htaccess? Is editing the htaccess different from just doing it through the registrar by filling in the url in the redirect section?
-Lastly is there a free equiv of serpbook/serpwoo?
Thanks, I really appreciate the help. Hoping that this is the start of a long and successful journey and that one day I can advise and contribute here.