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Matthew Woodward

GSA Search Engine Ranker Review & Step By Step Tutorial

My GSA Search Engine Ranker review & tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to get the most outof the sof tware.

GSA Search Engine Ranker was heavily f eatured in my tiered link building series and has had a bunch ofawesome new f eatures added across the past year.

A lot of readers have asked f or a more detailed tutorial and how to use it to build links directly to your moneysite rather than using Ultimate Demon.

So here it is

What You Will Learn

How to use the sof tware properly

What all of the advanced options mean

How to build high quality links

How to setup a tiered link building campaign

How to remove links saf ely

This tutorial is pretty detailed so let’s just get into it!

GSA Search Engine Ranker Interface

First let’s look at the interf ace bef ore we get into the nitty gritty stuf f .

On your main panel, you can see your list of projects created, tools, colour coded verif ied links and a real t imelog with statistics.

The stats along the bottom tell you-

How many submitted links there are and which ones submitted today

The amount of active proxies

Number of verif ied links f rom today

How many submitted links a minute

How many solved captchas

Memory & CPU usage

If you ever need a reminder of what they mean, hover over with your mouse f or an explanation to pop up.

To see more options, right click the project and you have lots of things to change here such as status, priority,type of active mode and modif ying the project.

Show URLs will allow you to look at both submitted and verif ied links which you can export or look at morespecif ic statistics about them in charts and graphs.

You can even sort them out by engine, internal/external, f ollow or no f ollow and link type.

Remember, a submitted link is one that has not been verif ied if it is live and a verif ied link is one that issubmitted and currently live.

Other project options include making changes in bulk and importing target URLs. You can import your own URLsthat you’ve scraped or you can import f rom a site list.

Settings

On top of the last verif ied URL list, there is an option button to change the settings f or your project. Thesetting options you have are thread count, proxies, and various other things.

The thread count def aults at 50 which is f ine unless you have a more powerf ul computer. Mine is quad corewith 16 gigs of rams so I can set it up to 250 threads.

If you don’t, 50 will work just f ine.

Proxies

Make sure you have checked the box to use proxies and GSA SER will scrape public proxies f or you. Set it tosearch f or new ones every 60 minutes if there are less than one hundred active.

Test all of them and take out the f ailed proxies if they’re older than a f ew hours.

The problem with public proxies is that they aren’t 100% reliable and you normally receive a high f ailure ratewhich ends up wasting your t ime.

If you spend a f ew dollars on Buyproxies and buy semi-dedicated proxies, the success rate is much greaterand is really worth your money.

To input your own proxy list, click Add proxy, import them f rom clipboard and set them to private. Af ter you addthem, go back to settings and decide which proxies to use, private or public and when.

I use my private proxies f or search engines, PR checking and submissions.

Captcha Solving

Although GSA can support a large range of captcha solving services, there are two types that you really needto know.

The f irst is a sof tware based solution such as GSA Captcha Breaker. It will try to automatically solve them f oryou which saves on human based captcha services.

The second one is a human based solver like Death By Captcha and these are really cheap, around $1.39 f or athousand solves.

The best way to set it up is to select a sof tware based service as your primary and then a human based asyour secondary.

That way your primary will help reduce the captcha costs and your secondary can pick up any f ailed ones and ismuch cheaper.

To set it up click Add and select the services of your choice. Test to check your balance, set up your retry limitand the rest of the options.

If you don’t want GSA to ask you when solves aren’t successf ul, untick the box that says to ask the user ifeverything else f ails.

Indexing

GSA will automatically ping all the backlinks it makes but you can integrate them into the supported indexingservices if you want.

Although some people like using the indexer services, I don’t believe they’re really all that necessary. Insteadyou can build more links to them with GSA SER but if you’ve got them and want to use them, then f eel f ree tointegrate them.

Some of the indexers are GSA SEO indexer, Linklicious, Nuclear Link Indexer, Link Pipeline, Lindexed and BackLinks Indexer. Just select the ones you want and enter the API key f or each one.

Another option is the f ilter which allows you to skip submissions if the URL if appearing in your blacklist. Youcan leave all these at def aults.

Advanced – Site Lists

Sites lists allow you to keep a log of dif f erent types of links GSA Search Engine Ranker discovers and submitsto.

You can then reuse these lists in other projects to speed up the overall submission process.

There are 4 types of site lists-

1. Identif ied sites to post to

2. Sites that have been successf ully posted to

3. Successf ully submitted and verif ied links

4. Failed links

I recommend keeping a record of successf ul and verif ied submissions so you can use them later on in f utureprojects.

One of the options f or a new project is to import target URLS and you can do that f rom a previous site list.

Af ter a f ew months of using GSA, you’ll end up having a huge site list of verif ied and successf ul links that youcan save and import quickly in various projects. So tick verif ied and successf ul to save these two lists.

Start ing Your Project

When you’re done setting everything up and all the options are how you want them, click Start to get yourproject going.

As soon as you do that, GSA will start going out and f inding targets and submitt ing and verif ying links.

During the process, you might get pop ups f rom GSA that needs you to answer random questions. To preventthese pop ups which can get annoying, hit Stop and double click the project.

Select Options tab and you’ll see a line that says if a f orm can’t be f illed to Ask User or Choose Random. Tostop pop ups, change it to Random.

You’ll have to change this f or every project so remember to do that bef ore you start a new one!

So that is an overview of the GSA interf ace and the specif ic f eatures and options it has.

Now let’s look at a sample project!

Sample Project – Quick Tour

I’m going to show you around a sample project quickly so you get an idea of how everything f its together.

Then we are going to create a project together

The lef t side column is a list of links to where you want to submit to such as:

Blog comment

Directory

Forum

Image Comment

Pingback

Social Bookmark

Social Network

Video

Web 2.0

Wiki

Compared to SENuke XCR, this list may not look like a lot. Even when you click on the plus, you’ll see all theoptions underneath but it still doesn’t look like there’s many places GSA posts to.

This is because all of these are platf orms used by thousands of dif f erent sites. WordPress f or example is awidely used platf orm so if you choose WordPress article, GSA will post to all sites using that platf orm which isin thousands.

Don’t be f ooled by your f irst impression, there’s endless supplies of sites to post to behind the scenes!

In the main window you have to input all the data f or your campaign. The options panel gives you great controlover how links are built which has gotten a lot better in recent t imes.

So now you know what you are looking f or let me take you through creating your f irst project.

Creating Your First Project

To start a new project, click New and a new project will pop up. First you have to choose which link types to usewhich will depend on the type of campaign your running.

A good rule to stand by is that if you’re making your money site central to your link building structure, you haveto use high quality contextual links which are links surrounded by relevant content.

We can tick some of these options here such as Article, Wikis, Web 2.0′s, and Social networks. I’m going toleave it f airly simple f or this example.

Af ter you’ve selected your link types, you can start on the rest of the settings.

1. Enter URL

2. Enter keywords

3. Fill in anchor text

You can enter multiple URLs which GSA will just rotate through at random and make variations of capital andlower case letters.

For keywords, there is the option to collect more f rom target sites and to use those collected words to f indnew target sites.

The anchor text should be based on your main keywords and must be in spintax f ormat.

Your keywords (used to f ind sites to submit links to) can be the same as your anchor text if you want, just t ickthe box that says use keywords as anchor text.

Create A Natural Looking Link Prof ile

Now the next f ew options are important f or building a natural looking prof ile in GSA so you reduce the risk ofbeing penalized by Google Penguin.

Please see the main tutorial video if you get conf used here.

Partial match: A partial match is one that includes the main keyword with something else. I really recommendkeeping a list of partial anchor text.

Branding anchor text: Some examples of branded anchor text f or my blog, matthewwoodward.co.uk would beMatthew Woodward, Matthewwoodward and Matthewwoodward.co.uk.

LSI anchor text: Use scrapebox or Google wonderwheel to get some new words and paste that into here.

Generic anchor text: words like “click here” or “see more”.

Citation: Creates a naked URL of your site which makes your prof ile look much more natural.

Anchor text variation: varies the uppercase and lowercase letters of anchor text

Combined, these settings will help you build a very natural looking prof ile.

For your About Me, you either drop in a def ault prof ile or use Kontent Machine to generate several about me’s.

For the log in and passwords just t ick the randomization box and GSA will generate them f or you. Enter thewebsite t it le, categories, either suggested or root, f orum comment and a description.

I keep my descriptions the same as the 250 description and leave the f orum comment at def ault. Forumnickname and f orum password will be randomized if the box is t icked.

Don’t f orget to properly spin any content your adding to your campaign.

Even More Options!

Don’t think we’re done yet! Under the options tab, we have even more stuf f to f ill out.

The options you have are:

1. Choose to pause your project af ter a certain amount of submissions or verif ied links a day

2. Leave the verif ied link options at def ault and tick the box to send verif ied link to indexer services.

3. Do not t ick the box to use character spinning!

4. Choose to randomly have spelling mistakes or typos

To avoid pop ups like bef ore, remember we have to select the box to randomly choose a selection. Have allservices f ill captchas if you set up captcha solving services.

To use tags, you have a choice between keywords or anchor text.

To tell GSA how to get target URLs, you’ll need to tell it where to look.

First, pick the search engines. Right click to search by country which I usually do and this will depend on yourtarget audience and language so I’m going to pick UK and United states.

I also like to use keywords to f ind target sites. Even though it comes back with less, the results are usuallymore accurate and relevant which is what you want when building links.

Quality over quantity!

Tick the box to use URLs f rom your global sites list if you have one and you can also choose to analyze andpost to competitor ’s backlinks.

This option will try to replicate the backlinks f or sites that rank f or your target keywords. It ’s not perf ect butyou are able to get some substantial value f rom it.

It doesn’t dif f erentiate between good links and spam links so the risk is if the link prof ile is pretty spammy, thenGSA SER will try to grab those links f or your own as well.

GSA Search Engine Ranker allows lets you set up a posting schedule so you don’t get banned if you’re buildingmultiple links f rom the same site. Try to space it out so your links don’t get deleted or anything like that.

I don’t normally use it but it can be handy.

Under the Filter URLs tab, it ’s important to set these options up.

Skip sites with more than X amount of outgoing links on one page. Normally, sites have about 125 linksso you can saf ely increase this to 100

Skip sites with a PR of X

Types of backlinks to create

Skip sites that have bad words, f rom dif f erent countries or languages and the f ollowing words in theURL or domain

Consider creating multiple projects to get a variation of PRs to look more natural. Try to skip sites with a PRless than 0 and unknown PR.

Email Verif icat ion

There’s three types of email addresses that we can use.

1. Disposable

2. Web mail based

3. Self hosted

Disposable sites are widely available but many sites will block those so you’ll end up with a high f ailure rate.

Webmail based emails don’t f ail as much but there are still some sites out there that block web mail basedaccounts.

Self hosted email is something like name@yourdomain.com but using a gmail or hotmail account will be f ine f ormost. You can take the time to make your own or buy a bunch on Fiverr.

Enter your email of choice and at the bottom are several more options to choose f rom. I want to wait f if teenminutes between two dif f erent log ins but the rest is lef t at def ault.

Make sure you test this!

If anything doesn’t work here, your campaign is in danger of f ailing as it ’s running.

Art icle Manager

Now let’s choose some articles to add but make sure you spend time creating quality content to use in your

link building.

If you don’t know how, I suggest you check out my advanced spinning tutorial because you need have to havesome high quality hand spun content.

If you already have articles ready, just click Add and paste your content directly into there with a t it le. It ’ll grabthe f irst paragraph automatically to use as the summary.

Once that’s ready, you can preview it, complete with links and all.

Repeat the same steps to add a second article. Easy as that!

On the bottom are some more options f or edit ing your articles in terms of links and such.

Insert ing Links

You can either insert a link with a sentence at the bottom, a sentence in the article, or No link.

To be honest, these options don’t give you as much control since the link seems randomly placed. To make itlook more natural, directly add your links when you are spinning the article.

I talk about this in the spinning tutorial but you can do this with a tag in GSA Search Engine Ranker.

Next you can insert media randomly with GSA and that saves you some time. One last thing I change on here isto not duplicate content anywhere instead of per account.

Click OK to f inish your campaign setup and you’ll see it get added to the list!

Tiered Link Building

Setting up a tiered link building campaign is f airly easy and is similar to creating a new campaign. First we haveto create a new campaign like we did bef ore.

The one dif f erence is to t ick the box that says use verif ied URLs of another project (multi t ier/link wheel). Assoon as you select that box, a pop up will appear.

Choose your project, the money site.

Now your new campaign is going to build links to the campaign you chose earlier, t ier 2 to t ier 1.

To add another t ier, repeat the steps to set up another project, t ick the same box and pick the second tier.

Building tiered link structure is quite easy in GSA SER!

Removing Links

We all know that Google is constantly changing. What worked perf ectly a year ago, may not work so well now.So you always need the ability to remove links you have built, just in case!

GSA Search Engine Ranker can help you clean your backlink prof ile as long as they were created by GSA SERwhich is extremely usef ul.

All you have to do is right click on the project, hover on status and click Active (remove links). GSA SER will gothrough and remove all the links created as it is running.

It can’t remove ones such as blog comments since there was no registration/account created but it can removea large amount of them.

Integrating Kontent Machine

GSA Search Engine Ranker allows you to integrate with various services to help you set up campaigns quickly.

One of the best tools I like to use f or this is Kontent Machine. Just f ollow my tutorial here to learn how toprepare your content.

Once you’ve f inished preparing your content with Kontent Machine, there’s an option to build and export.Choose the GSA Search Engine Ranker template, select export and save it.

When it ’s done saving, you can go back into GSA SER to import the content.

Select Tools, import, data f ield, your f ile and f ields you want to f ill. Right away all of the data has beenexported and f illed in all of the boxes.

You could also use Kontent Machine to generate hundreds of articles to import into the article manager.

Wrapping It Up

The GSA Search Engine Ranker team has been constantly working and updating this tool in the last year andit’s miles ahead of what it used to be when it f irst came out.

They have come a long way in the past year to make it one of the most powerf ul and diverse link building toolson the market. It really is a crucial tool to have in your arsenal.