GSA Ser noob wants to know

marketing_enjoyer · Thursday at 11:18 AM

Hello dear BHW community,

As I mentioned in the title, I recently started using SEO tools and experimenting with them. I have been building a fully automated news/blog website to generate some quality backlinks. To increase my domain authority, I started using GSA SER recently.

I purchased GSA SER, Captcha services, and an indexer, but I'm not happy with the results. Most of the "backlinks" I've generated are just 301 redirect links, and the article comments I submit are either not visible or are still waiting for administrator approval.

So far, I haven't managed to create a single successful backlink using the tool.

I couldn't find many useful tutorials besides those from the Thai company behind the software and a few self-proclaimed "marketing geniuses," so things haven't worked out very well for me.

Also, the links I scraped from Semrush, Ahrefs, and similar tools don't seem to work at all.

So I have a couple of questions:

What project settings should I use?
What's the deal with proxies? It seems like everyone is using them. Why are they important, and should I use them as well?
Most importantly, how can I create an effective campaign?

Thank you all in advance!

cherub · Friday at 10:52 AM

marketing_enjoyer said:
Hello dear BHW community,

As I mentioned in the title, I recently started using SEO tools and experimenting with them. I have been building a fully automated news/blog website to generate some quality backlinks. To increase my domain authority, I started using GSA SER recently.

I purchased GSA SER, Captcha services, and an indexer, but I'm not happy with the results. Most of the "backlinks" I've generated are just 301 redirect links, and the article comments I submit are either not visible or are still waiting for administrator approval.

So far, I haven't managed to create a single successful backlink using the tool.

I couldn't find many useful tutorials besides those from the Thai company behind the software and a few self-proclaimed "marketing geniuses," so things haven't worked out very well for me.

Also, the links I scraped from Semrush, Ahrefs, and similar tools don't seem to work at all.

So I have a couple of questions:

What project settings should I use?

What's the deal with proxies? It seems like everyone is using them. Why are they important, and should I use them as well?

Most importantly, how can I create an effective campaign?

Thank you all in advance!

fyi the company behind GSA SER is a german company, not thai, so im not sure where you were looking. if youre just getting started with the software i would recommend a list service, as most of them come with tutorial pdfs and quick-start project files, along with the list itself of course, so you have plenty of targets to submit to without scraping (backlink exports are not a good source tbh). there are a couple of list sellers in the marketplace here if you have a search.

OpalDigital · Saturday at 8:27 PM

don't judge a campaign by submitted links alone.
the verified links report is usually the metric worth paying attention to.
a lot of submissions never become live backlinks.

XSMMDoctor · Sunday at 4:11 PM

@marketing_enjoyer if you are running gsa without proxies that is 90% of your problem right there. your home ip probably got blacklisted in the first ten minutes and now every site is just blocking your requests. you need private proxies for posting, otherwise you are just wasting your bandwidth. i made the same mistake when i first tried ser years ago and wondered why nothing was verifying...

also like @cherub said, scraping ahrefs exports is a waste of time. those sites usually have tight security or don't even allow comments. you need to scrape actual footprints for platforms like blogengine or wordpress, or just buy a cheap verified list from the marketplace to see how a working campaign actually looks.

marketing_enjoyer · Sunday at 7:18 PM

XSMMDoctor said:
@marketing_enjoyer if you are running gsa without proxies that is 90% of your problem right there. your home ip probably got blacklisted in the first ten minutes and now every site is just blocking your requests. you need private proxies for posting, otherwise you are just wasting your bandwidth. i made the same mistake when i first tried ser years ago and wondered why nothing was verifying...

also like @cherub said, scraping ahrefs exports is a waste of time. those sites usually have tight security or don't even allow comments. you need to scrape actual footprints for platforms like blogengine or wordpress, or just buy a cheap verified list from the marketplace to see how a working campaign actually looks.

I am using internet found proxies provided by gsa software it seems to be working, should i buy them ?

Sone · Sunday at 11:42 PM

marketing_enjoyer said:
I am using internet found proxies provided by gsa software it seems to be working, should i buy them ?

Try reading this tutorial for starters all you need to get started properly https://www.serverifiedlists.com/resources/

dozome · 2026-06-08T18:01:16+0100

you need verified lists of actually active platforms not scraped URLs from Ahrefs since those are mostly dead or irrelevant for GSA.

marketing_enjoyer · 2026-06-08T21:35:28+0100

Sone said:
Try reading this tutorial for starters all you need to get started properly https://www.serverifiedlists.com/resources/

Thank you i have been looking something like this for a very long time !

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