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🛠� GSA for Local SEO: Cheap Citations – Building in Public, Day 370
AKA: Can You Still Game the Map Pack in 2024?
🎯 The Experiment
I'm 370 days into building a local SEO agency from scratch, and today I'm diving into one of the most controversial shortcuts in local SEO:

Using GSA Search Engine Ranker to blast citations for dirt cheap.

Yup. I'm talking bulk, automated NAP listings — the kind SEOs argue over in Facebook groups.

💸 The Why
Manual citations are slow and expensive.

Services like BrightLocal charge $2–4 per listing.

GSA costs $20/month (one-time license + VPS setup).

You can build 1,000+ citations in a week.

Perfect for testing fast rank boosts in lower-competition local niches.

🧪 What I Did
✅ Scraped NAP info
✅ Cleaned it with ChatGPT
✅ Spun custom citation descriptions
✅ Built 500+ listings with GSA on:

Web 2.0s

Free business directories

Social profile sites

Doc shares / PDF embeds

All linked back to the GMB landing page (geo + keyword-rich).

📈 Early Results (30 Days In)
🟢 Red Pin Turned Green
🔼 Ranking up from position #20 → #4 for "emergency plumber [city]"
📞 GMB calls increased 4x
🧭 Started showing up in Map Pack for 3 nearby ZIPs

And yes — zero manual verifications or paid citations.

⚠️ The Risks
GSA is not for white-glove brands.
Google might ignore or devalue spammy links over time.
If your NAP isn't consistent, it can backfire.

But for:

Rank & rent sites

Low-risk lead gen

Clients who "just want results"...

...it can be a dirty little SEO weapon 🔧

📚 My Stack (GSA Citation Style)
GSA SER (on solid VPS)

Cleaned proxies

Custom NAP citation templates

Tier 2 indexing via SEO Autopilot

Citation audit every 90 days w/ Whitespark

🔮 What's Next?
➡️ Testing geo-embedded PDFs + image citations
➡️ Automating local schema in the same blast
➡️ Tracking 3-pack rankings weekly with Local Falcon

💡 Final Thought
"Don't build everything the clean way — just what the client can see."
– Some shady-but-effective SEO I met in 2016

🧵 Want a breakdown of my GSA campaign settings?
📥 Need a plug-and-play citation template?
💬 Curious how to automate this whole thing?

Drop a comment — I'll open-source it in Day 371.