GSA SER OBL Filter: Outbound Links vs a Verified List
A GSA SER OBL filter skips pages that already have too many outbound links. OBL is a count on the page you are about to post to, so if you want a tighter subset, you set the filter on your project and you accept fewer targets.
OBL is outbound links on the page you post to
Outbound links are leaving that page: other sites, other properties, sometimes a pile of commenter URLs. The practical issue is footprint and whether the page still looks like a place a link has any weight. You can have a live, verified guestbook with a high outbound count. You can have a clean, low-OBL article page that no longer takes GSA posts.
Why T1 projects use it
Tier 1 is buffers you care about. Users tighten what those properties sit on: contextual engines, sometimes DA, often an OBL cap so you are not the 400th comment on a page of spam. That is reasonable for T1.
Tier 2 / Tier 3 is where a wide verified list belongs. T2 pointing at T1 URLs. T3 pointing at T2. Volume. An OBL cap is optional there, and a tight one is usually a mistake.
Guestbooks, blogs with comment sections, profiles, old articles with related-link blocks: most of those fail a 10 OBL filter. The verified check still passed. The page still took a post last time someone confirmed it live. Your filter threw it away.
Verified does not mean low OBL
Verified means posted AND also confirmed live. Check out this post on Verified vs identified vs submitted if those three are still blurry. Identified has no live confirmation. Submitted was sent and never checked. None of those statuses count outbound links.
A verified page can be a link farm. A verified page can be a quiet wiki. The live check does not sort them. If you want low OBL, you can filter it directly in GSA SER.
Mixing identified into a file named verified makes OBL filtering worse. You spend threads on URLs that may not even post, then skip them for OBL, then wonder why the project is slow. Better to keep the folders apart. Know when to use identified on a separate project.
Use OBL on your project if you want a tighter subset of the verified folder. Watch the log. If everything skips on outbound count, raise the cap or split the campaign.
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