GSA SER Unique Domains vs URLs: Why a Million-URL List Still Runs Out
GSA SER unique domains vs URLs is the reason a “million URL” list can still throw no targets to post to after a few hours. Vendors often advertise millions of URLs. Truth is SER, on most engines, will not post 40 URLs on the same host. Comments and guestbooks are the usual exceptions. The number that feeds a project is unique domains the enabled engines can still use.
A URL is one path on a site. /blog/page-1, /blog/page-2, /guestbook.php, /forum/thread/99. A domain is the site those paths sit on.
List vendors often inflate verified URL counts and falsely advertise these”10 millions verified list pack”. You can scrape forty article URLs from one blog network and call it forty targets. SER sees one host. On article, blog, wiki, web 2.0, and most other engines it posts once and is done with that domain.
Comments and guestbooks will take more than one post per domain. That is why a comment-heavy folder feels fatter than an article folder with the same domain count.
What a verified list is is about live confirmation, not about how many URLS sit on each domain.
Most engines: one post per domain. The extra URLs on that host get skipped, already-posted, or never queued depending on options.
That is how “no targets” shows up on a file that still looks huge in Explorer. GSA ran and processed the unique targets it could use. The remainder is duplicate paths, engines you did not enable, or domains that already took a post from this project (or from another project sharing the same site list history).
Do not confuse this with a dead list. How to tell a list is recycled or dead
When you review any vendor:
- Is there a date on the stats?
- Do they show domains, or only URLs?
- Do they break out platforms, or one dump number?
- Does the Dropbox folder look broken down into engines or just one text file?
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