I am running few dropshipping sites for specific countries (EU / specifically one specific country from 3rd world where I'm spending my vacation few times a year and my entire traffic is based on Google and DuckDuckGo / Bing. And I can 100% vouch and give more trust to directories than you thinking, specially if you are targeting selected countries... Plus if you are planning to use GSA SER you can do more than that since it does have many platforms and I love forums nowadays more than articles tbh. But some Web2.0s (one of rarest and high effort to get success with GSA) and worth pennies...
Don't do never ever outsource these things to sellers instead grab yourself its cheaper and more over you know its going genuinely effect or not.. I am on a vacation and for some reason i had to pause my GSA SER campaigns due to i am on vacation and my access to server from here super duper slow so i outsource those links with specific note and none of them deliver while 2 of them deliver with super shit content , anchor ratios and none got index but when i create myself i can see the results in weeks and they are 50% more than index without using even tiers or indexer ...that much my content , chosen links , platforms are good than them.. Nobody wants to offer a service if they really know how to rank tbh so i don't trust on those services instead spend some one time money and it may not cheaper than 1$ shit links but we have control we know genuinely its going to help... Lesson learnt here..
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100% do it yourself.. grab some private proxies, setting up the campaign with Codex/Claude import or ask AI to import directly to GSA SER and hit start and you are good to go...