{"id":6291,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/?p=6291"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"proxies-for-gsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/proxies-for-gsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Proxies Should I Use for GSA SER (Search Engine Ranker)?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GSA Search Engine Ranker is a powerful tool when used appropriately. When used poorly, it can come back to bite you in the ass, hard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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GSA Search Engine Ranker is a powerful tool when used appropriately<\/strong>. When used poorly, it can come back to bite you in the ass, hard. Unfortunately, it\u2019s incredibly easy to use poorly, particularly if you\u2019re not used to the relatively arcane program and its features.<\/p>\n

GSA SER<\/a><\/strong> works on a simple premise. One of the most potent of all forms of SEO is the backlink. In order to gain a powerful boost to your SEO, you need a number of valid, useful backlinks. The more the better (generally speaking).<\/p>\n

Building these backlinks<\/a> is a long and time-consuming process that partially involves luck and persistence. It\u2019s also where many young webmasters make their first dangerous mistakes, falling victim to thin schemes on Fiverr or a black hat web forum. They end up with a ton of spam backlinks, which hurt their site overall.<\/p>\n

Ideally, you would find a way to automate this process, without risking black hat penalties or linkspam flags. GSA SER is a tool that does just that. It\u2019s essentially an automated scraper and link submission tool, though using it specifically for website scraping is a terrible idea. There are better scrapers<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0specifically scrapers that have additional useful features.<\/p>\n

Most similar pieces of software require you to build a manual list of sites to submit, but GSA allows you to build one through the program. More importantly, that database is dynamic and ever-changing. When a site dies or is delisted, making it useless to you, it\u2019s removed from the list. When a scan shows a new site that\u2019s a ripe target for a link, it\u2019s added to the list. You can even rank sites in di\ufb00erent value tiers, so you can put your careful and valuable links on the high tier sites.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>Proxies Matter<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Here\u2019s the thing about GSA Search Engine Ranker, and why it\u2019s risky for inexperienced users; it throws links and content on a wide variety of sites, very quickly. If you\u2019re not using a content spinner \u2013 bundled with the software \u2013 and a list of proxies, it looks like hundreds or thousands of posts with similar or duplicate content are all coming from the same user<\/strong>. This brings up a number of problems.<\/p>\n

First, the lack of content spin means you immediately cause duplicate content penalties<\/strong>, all of which point back to your site. This is an immediate Google penalty, because Google hates duplicate content.<\/p>\n

Second, when all of your submissions come from the same IP, it\u2019s easy for that IP to be banned. This temporarily kills the utility of GSA SER until you\u2019re able to use a di\ufb00erent IP, and causes the same problem or Captchas issues. This is where you need proxies.<\/p>\n