Comments on: Scrape Yahoo Search Results Page http://www.halotis.com/2009/08/12/scrape-yahoo-search-results-page/ Entrepreneurship in the 21st Centruy Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Warren http://www.halotis.com/2009/08/12/scrape-yahoo-search-results-page/comment-page-1/#comment-15817 Matt Warren Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:30:19 +0000 http://www.halotis.com/?p=627#comment-15817 Scraping search engine results will not directly put cash in your wallet but it could be useful for tracking SEO efforts - say you download the top 100 results for a keyword you're targeting everyday and see how your position changes over time as you work on your website. Or get notified of new competitors for that keyword, or when you get kicked out. You could also use these sites as a starting point for some web crawling software that would go to each of the top sites and pull out some of the content. I have used interesting tools that will allow you to quickly skim through the content of all these sites - by going through them all quickly you can find patterns and maybe get some ideas for your own site. I'm writing these scripts for a goal of building a business intelligence application that will allow you to see at a glance how well your business is doing. Scraping search engine results will not directly put cash in your wallet but it could be useful for tracking SEO efforts – say you download the top 100 results for a keyword you’re targeting everyday and see how your position changes over time as you work on your website. Or get notified of new competitors for that keyword, or when you get kicked out.

You could also use these sites as a starting point for some web crawling software that would go to each of the top sites and pull out some of the content. I have used interesting tools that will allow you to quickly skim through the content of all these sites – by going through them all quickly you can find patterns and maybe get some ideas for your own site.

I’m writing these scripts for a goal of building a business intelligence application that will allow you to see at a glance how well your business is doing.

]]> By: Ralph http://www.halotis.com/2009/08/12/scrape-yahoo-search-results-page/comment-page-1/#comment-15816 Ralph Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:15:02 +0000 http://www.halotis.com/?p=627#comment-15816 Thank you for the great how tos? But can you please explain how all this can be monetize? I am having difficulty thinking of ways how to make money. Than you! Thank you for the great how tos? But can you please explain how all this can be monetize? I am having difficulty thinking of ways how to make money.

Than you!

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