Is GSA Search Engine Ranker Still Relevant?

For White Hat SEO, I personally don't use it on my tier 1 and tier 2 websites.

GSA is still good for churn and burn sites. Also good to spam youtube videos.

10 private proxies? Lol... You better add a zero on the end there. You won't get anywhere with 10 with GSA.

It's really only going to build low quality links. If you have a strategy to harvest spammy links in some low competition niches, it could be useful. It's mostly only going to be useful in churn and burn situations.

.edu and .gov links do not carry any special ranking value. That is an old myth that just will not die.

If all you want to do is scrape information, Scrapebox or GScraper are better alternatives than GSA.

It's not just about the number of links that a page has that helps it rank. It's about the number of high quality and relevant links it has. You can outrank many pages with far fewer links if they are good links. You do not have to match them link for link.

GSA is still useful as a spam tool. But you need to know what you're doing with it to see any results. There is also a monthly cost of operating it, dedicated server, proxies, indexing service, gscraper/scrapebox to scrape targets, proxies for scraping etc. I think most people who try and use it probably waste many hundreds of dollars without seeing any worthwhile results, and that's not even mentioning the potential to burn your site.

GSA is awesome tool for tier2, tier3 etc only..

GSA can still be effective, but best off churn n burn and results will depend highly on your lists.

If you want to improve your rankings at a faster pace, good guest posts or PBN links are the way to go.

They are good for one thing, penalizing your website.

GSA SER is not only good for churn and burn of course, it`s a tool like any other, one of the best ones but it all depends on this how the people using them. Of course you can use them as a churn and burn source of backlinks but you can also use them as a part of your normal SEO strategy. This how you use any tool is important. You can even use GSA SER as a source of your 1st tier backlinks if you have a good verified list of not spammed to death target contextual sites. I can assure you it is worth the money. There are a lot of people who own 20+ licenses and VPSes which runs 24/7 , not only for churn and burn purposes. GSA SER works perfect as a 2nd tier source of backlinks. This what I do is to build my 1st tier in tools like FCS Networker and then build lower tiers in GSA SER, you can set up it the way you want. But you should know GSA SER is not the only expense you will get, you have to buy Captcha Breaker, you have to invest into good content scrapper like (Seo Content Machine or Kontent Machine) and spinner like Word AI for example. If you want to read more about such tools use my footer links, I am using all of them in daily basis so if you have any question PM me.

Exactly (:

Learning curve is a very long jurney but it is worth it. Google is changnin it`s mind all the time so the techniques must evolve, but GSA SER is a very sophisticated tool you can use the way to fulfill the SE current needs (:

Yo u can set up GSA SER the way you want and purpose you want, a lot of features, you will spend months on learning it but once you do it will be a money machine used propertly, of course not alone.

PBN`s are pricey and a risky way to go, cos not set up and used propertly you can burn them in couple of weeks. You can go the chepar route by building your PBN on web 2.0 and then use tools like GSA SER to pass the link juice to them, it needs time cos PBN`s web 2.0 based don`t work at once, you must fill them with quality content frequently, not link from them at the 1st posts etc. there are many factors which are necessary to make them stick, build backlinks to them ,it just needs time to get them stronger, once they get stronger they will be your gold mines.

So if you are asking is it worth to invest into GSA SER - well, I am in this industry since 2005, tested a lot of tools since then and can say YES, the alternative is to buy services from WSO`s and other places, it all depends how work you have with your projects every month, try to count it if you have to buy such services and compare with investing into those tools.

short answer....GSA ROCKS when you know how to use it properly. As mentioned there are real maintenance costs involved along with a significant learning curve through trial and error.

-Dennis

So, you guys are saying if GSA can be used properly it can Rank tier 1-2 sites and we can bank good?
Though all the points got explained above, still, which would be a better spend ; PBN or GSA ? Provided you wanna make a site from which you are going to bank few 1000 bucks a month and then Flip it..

GSA Search Engine Ranker is still effective if you can use it in proper way. It has a lot of options, so before using it one should have proper SEO knowledge. When I first started using the tool, I got confused with so many options, it seemed to me like I am sitting on the cockpit of a Jet, so many switches around me. Later, I tested them in different combinations and the output I got was awesome. After every Google update, I just change the combination to make my campaigns compatible with the update. And I am happy to say that, GSA Search Engine Ranker still works successfully.

I have ranked many sites with SER on page 1 using Copyscape pass content and Tier 1 links using strategy templates I design specifically for SER. It's not just for spamming, it can be as powerful for ranking as SE nuke

As faisalmaximus said you must have knowledge of the settings on SER they are learning process and won't be the same for every campaign. Plus you always must change up your link building with every update of you're a sinking ship in the water.

for me its good for youtube spamming and for trending keywords, i usually use GSA when i need hell amount of backlinks to hijack a trend for a few days.... for long term or business SEO cliens i never use it.

GSA Search Engine Ranker will rank your money pages if you're willing to spend money on Virtual Private Servers,Proxies,Site Lists and additional software (GSA Captcha Breaker for example).

Like they say,it takes money to make money.

I have been using GSA Search Engine Ranker since it launched, it still creates relevant backlinks if you can setup the campaign with proper settings. There are hundreds of features and options, so it is very important to setup everything to get the best result.