GSA Course
Gscraper Configurations – Finding Targets

a) Gscraper Setting 1

 

[0:22] “Your power is in your list with GSA.” This means that the higher quality your verified links are, the better GSA will work for you. Keep your list clean and up to date by verifying your links, which will ensure this system runs smoothly.

[1:00] Install your user key (see video how). Upon successful user key entry, blue text will appear on the right-hand side of the window that says, “Status: Signed Up”.

 
Proxy Tab Settings

[2:28] “Use Proxy (Scraping and checking)” checkbox should be checked.

[2:37] Red flashing “Get proxies from GScraper server” radio button should be clicked. Click “Yes” on the popup box that appears.

[3:20] The dropdown choice “Change and retry (More Results)” should be selected under “Proxy Options”.

 
Options Tab Settings

[3:41 - 5:16] Under the options tab, the settings should be prepared as such:

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Scrape Tab

[5:19] Note: GScraper looks for and will find properties with specific footprints, which GSA will use to post to. 

 

b) Gscraper Setting 2

 

[0:20] To put the footprints that you’ll want to use in GScraper, go into the GSA Search Engine Ranker program and click “Options” (the icon looks like a little speech bubble). Then click “Advanced” on the left-hand side of the Settings window. Then click the “Tools” button on the right-hand side of the window and a dropdown menu will appear where you will select “Search online for URLs”.

 

For a “safe” method of list generation: In the “Search Settings” window that appears, click the “Add predefined footprints” button and choose the selections shown in the video between 0:55 and 1:53.

[2:06] Highlight and copy the entire list that was populated in the [Footprints] window and paste the text into a Notepad file and save it as something recognizable to you.

 

For a more aggressive method of list generation: In the “Search Settings” window, click the “Add predefined footprints” button and choose the options shown in the video between 3:27 and 5:13.

[6:00] Like the safe method, copy the URLs collected in the [Footprints] window and paste them into a new notepad. Save the file with a recognizable name.

 

Importing Footprints into GScraper: Return to the GScraper window (where the “Scrape” tab should still be selected) and click the “Clear” button under the “footprints” window.

[7:35] Click the import button under the “footprints” window and select your “safe” footprints and click the open button.

 

Keywords Box: A discussion on how to best utilize the Keywords box goes from 7:58 to 10:15. This also covers how to import a keyword list from a notepad file.

 

[10:19} After setting this all up, click the "Start scrape" button on the bottom right portion of the GScraper window. To save memory click "No" on the popup to save memory. Let the results run for 2-3 days on its initial run to grow a large list of sites that GSA can post to.

 

[12:02] After clicking “Stop scrape”, it’s time to filter your results. In the dropdown box on the bottom middle portion of the window, choose “Remove duplicate domains” and click the “Do” button. In the same dropdown menu, choose “Check Google page rank” and, in the smaller dropdown, select “Domain” then click the “Do” button again.

To filter domains, go to the “Filter” tab in GScraper and follow the instructions talked about between 14:11 and 15:08.

 
Export the GScraper List for Use in GSA:

[15:08] Click the “List Export” button on the bottom left part of the GScraper window and save the file as something recognizable to you.

[15:45] Depending on how you want to set up your footprints, your list will yield varying degrees of URLs.