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Search engine delay vs. harvester timeout - chilly_bang - 06-12-2016
Hello!
I'm new with Scrapebox: could somebody point me to correct usage of the both settings in the threads title? There is a delay setting in the settings of search engines, and there is a timeout setting in the whole settings.
For me are the both settings the same, and i don't know, how the both are handled by Scrapebox:
- does the one shoot off the second?
- Or are the both added one to the second?
- Or is one more important as a second and Scrapebox prefers one for the second?
Thanks
RE: Search engine delay vs. harvester timeout - loopline - 06-12-2016
timeout is how long to wait with no response before the connection is aborted. It has nothing to do with delay at all whatsoever.
Delay is how long to wait inbetween requests.
So if you query a search engine for the term
car
and your proxy is dead or slow and your timeout is 10 seconds then Scrapebox will wait up to 10 seconds. If it gets a response before 10 seconds great, if not then it will abort the connection after 10 seconds and try again.
Timeout is after the term "car" is successfully retrieved and we are moving to the next keyword, how long do you want to wait in between keywords/requests.
So delay is useful to not get your ips blocked timeout is just a choice of making your general process not take longer then it has to by waiting on dead proxies forever but at the same time setting it high enough that it can still function when a proxy is just slow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadX5AXiW34