@ShaunmI took a read of your content before starting all of this, and it helped me a lot specifically with getting familiar with the tool. My main objectives for this is to get familiar for what it takes to rank in this niche, and scale up to make my money back. I'm only using my personal desktop at the moment for GSA SER, Scrapebox and everything that comes with this - so large statistics are out of the window, which I'm okay with.
What I'm wondering is how many submissions I should be building up to. I know it depends on quality, so my question is like asking the length of a piece of string - but do I blast these 2.0s with 10,000 links - or should I keep it steady with say 5-10 verifications/day, and slowly build up?
Glad it helped

. Regarding submissions, I have a bunch of different setups right now and its looking like I will have to totally change my style of MNS now. In the past, I would knock up a 20-100 page site and use SER on all of the pages ran from a single server. Out of my latest money pages the lower submissions pages are staying pretty still or not in the top 300 at all, the ones that are climbing are the 50+ submissions per day pages with a few 25 submissions per day.
This causes a problem as running a large number of money pages on the same server quickly out grows its link output at that link count. For example, you have your money site, a T1 of 25-50 manual web 2.0s, and a T2 of SER pushing 50 submissions per day to each manual T1 and thats unique submissions, not including the insert additional link settings. Then you need a T3 to help index the T2.
Say you have 25 manual web 2.0s, after a week, depending on link retention, you have a T2 of 62,500 for a single money page. That means on the 7th day with my current system my T3 has to build 1,562,000-3,124,000 links per day depending on how I Have set it up and that is for a single money site page after only a week. I have managed to tweak a few dedicated servers to knockout 1,500,000 links per day pretty easily with a personal best of around 1,750,000 but these are $80-$120 a month servers.
If the pages I currently have climbing reach the top three and hold I have penned a new stratergy of basically targeting one money page on a MNS that is affiliate based and then topping it up with other low spec content to help avoid a thin content penalty. Thats my current plan for the automation site of my new network anyway, as I Said eariler, all but one of the domains in my new network are still young and in the sandbox time frame in my opinion so time will tell.
Also, surely listen to what
@Shaunm has to say. If someone can help you out, it's him.
Cheers man

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@Shaunm I have a few Web 2,0 properties which I'm actively building links to, but what other link building strategies can I employ to improve rankings when I start building money links to my site?
I don't have much experience with BH SEO, so what sort of timeframe should I be working with? I don't want to get too impaitent, and judging by your screenshots it appears your waiting months before climbing out of the sandbox.
I can remember the very first kindle parasite page I ranked back in 2013 or early 2014 and it literally took around three weeks or so but those days are gone from what I have seen with my own sites and methods as I always use a fresh domain as my money site. Until around Feb this year I used nothing but SER on about 90% of my pages and the other 10% had some FCS or RX on it so I was more of a link builder than an SEO.
One thing that I have seen the past 6 weeks or so is that the pages that use a T1 of web 2.0s are climbing much quicker than anything else I have on the automation site. I have about 20 pages that are using nothing but links from SER as a test and last time I check 5 of them were climbing with one of those climbing pretty well. The initial batch of pages I made around April time for my journey thread used RX links as a T1 with SER links doing the heavy lifting and around 50-60% of the pages are climbing with a fair few of them climbing pretty nice. My latest bunch of pages all have a T1 of manual web 2.0s and they were created around 6-8 weeks after the RX pages and they have already over taken the pages with RX as their T1.
I am toying with the idea of starting a new round of money pages that have a manual web 2.0 T1 with 100% unique human made articles (the ones I made in my last batch had human spun content) with a T2 of manual web 2.0s with human spun content and a T3 of contextual SER links with a T4 of non contextual SER links. From seeing the different the manual T1 has made I am interested in seeing how having that as a T2 would push the site too.
BTW, when I say manual web 2.0, I don't beleive that it is the fact the account and link were made by hand that is making thedifferencet but the domains the links are on. I am currently looking at using Zennoposter to make my own scripts for these platforms with an end goal of releasing my own automation tool in the distant future if everything comes togeather. Although RX says it supports platforms like WordPress and Tumblr, it is very rare I actually have any pages on those domains when alive checking my batches.