Here’s the setup guide: http://grindlists.com/guide.pdf The GSA SER optimization guide is in video form and only available to subscribers.

Unfortunately, no. There’s only 24 hours in every day. We have a great easy to follow guide for setup. Takes less than 2 minutes to set up correctly. Maybe 5 if you go step by step through every image in the guide doublechecking yourself before you wreck yourself. If that’s not enough, this probably isn’t the service for you.

Again, no. Not enough time in the day to give one on one GSA performance troubleshooting. Subscribers do have access to our excellent optimization guide. This plus a little searching on the GSA SER forums should be more than enough for most people to be fine. Subscribers to the GrindLists 5000 plan and larger have access to skype chat where troubleshooting of GSA SER seems to be a daily occurrence. #sventhings

Yes and no. We guarantee to UPLOAD 2000 or 5000 freshly verified links to your feed, which then will be called from your GSA SER software. At that point, the results you’ll get are dependant on multiple factors, not limited to: your settings, platforms you chose, your internet connection, your proxy health, your emails, any filters you have in place, your knowledge and general ability regarding GSA SER. None of which we have any control over. Advanced users running both our Verified and Identified feeds have reported the ability to produce 30,000+ verified links/day on a single project. Your results will most likely vary from this.

Some will be. Some won’t be. We only actually cache links for 24 hours before they drop out of our system and your feeds. We don’t spend time or resources analyzing links against other links, only if they’ll either Identify or Verify. At the scale we’re operating at, it’d be impossible to make and maintain master lists daily.

It’s important that you 1) Save your verifieds to a global folder so you can access you all the links that have come through your feed and resulted in a successful link and 2) Run the Identified feed. It’s been verifying at close to 36% on internal tests for the better part of two months now. That’s a lot of links you want want to miss

Shouldn’t ever happen. We dedupe by URL at the indentification stage before sending them to our internal verifying servers. Verifying servers range from 1 post per domain (shooting for contextuals) to up to 15 posts per domain (comments/trackbacks/image comments/etc). These verified links are then randomized before going out into user feeds. So you might from time to time see URLs from the same domain, you should never see URLs from the same domain on a daily basis.

Also asked as “Is there max number of projects I can run simultaneously using the feeds?”

No and no. Your feed will have whatever amount of links your subscription package supports uploaded to it daily. At that point, you can do whatever you want with it. Run 1,5,10,500, etc projects. Run projects with different filters and parameters. Run tiers. Run tiers to your tiers. Get wild.

No. As links come out of our verifying servers, they get uploaded to our webserver. Our webserver detects who has space in their feed and pushes fresh links to them. If your feed is full (ie, 2000 or 5000 verifieds already uploaded in the past 24 hours), you won’t receive any fresh links until your links start to drop off from age (ie, have been in your feed for 24 hours). This sysem ensures that our subscribers are not all hitting the same links all day long.

This is good for link quality as well as the sites in our lists health. Why do you think some link list vendors recommend a 180 second timeout? Might be that 100 people hitting the same exact link list at the same time each running 15+ projects with a 100+ threads produces a server load that cripples most hosts. BTW, with our feeds and optimized settings, we recommend 20 seconds HTML timeout. BIG difference!

Is This Limited To 50 People Like Most Lists Claim?

We’ll sell as many as we can while keeping the quality high. Our internal goal is for no more than 10 subscribers to ever see the same verified link in any one day. Most days, that ratio is between 3:1 and 8:1. As it approaches 10:1 and we can’t scale up any further, we’ll close the service to new subscribers until someone drops out (hasn’t happened yet but you can hope!).

Additionally, our Identified feed has been producing ~36% verification rate on our internal testing for weeks on end. When you combine the fact that each identified list is completely different, we feel comfortable in asserting that no other service comes close to providing the diversity that GrindLists does.

No and no. We only cache links in your feed until they’ve been there 24 hours. At that point, they drop out and are replaced with fresh links. We don’t keep them. You probably should (you are saving your verifieds, right?).

Your best bet to get every possible link is keep a project running full time that pulls from both feeds and save your verified links to a global linklist you can easily send to other projects.

No. No service alive exists that can supply 5000 fresh contextual targets daily. Our experience suggests that’s there’s only 30-40k domains at any given time that GSA can hit where you can place a contextual link. We’ll try to find them all for you. No guarantee this is human (or technically) possible.

Best practice (again) is to save your verifieds to global files, then run contextual only projects calling those, use the GrindLists feed only projects to tier your contextual links. Enjoy.

No. How natural would that be? No follow links might not pass Page Rank but they’ll definitely help you rank, if used correctly. See the optimization guide for more info.

Not at this time. We’re actually approaching capacity and considering another price bump. Our users tell us we’re hands down the most productive GSA SER list service they’ve ever used. We aim to keep it that way by not overselling the service and watering down results for existing subscribers.