"Michael D. Crawford" wrote: > The way I imagine this would work is that I could type up a file full of search > query words and phrases, and another file with some URL's or domain names of the > pages I want to monitor. Then once a week or so I would submit the search > queries to a number of the search engines and get back a log file showing where > any of my pages placed in the ranking. > > If I repeated this once a week or so I could make a graph of a page's progress > in advancing or retreating in the ranking for a particular search query. > > One can get search queries to use by using analog's SEARCHQUERY report after a > site has been online for a while. One could also type in keywords that one > simply hopes a surfer will be able to use to find one's pages.
Using SEARCHQUERY keywords only would limit the ranking to the keywords visitors already use when coming to your site, and those are likely to be the keywords where your site gets placed in the first few results, i.e. rank well. > You can do this either by scraping the HTML output from any search engine, which > I imagine is difficult and error prone but can be gotten to work. The Perl WWW::Search modules provide an easy to use interface for querying search engines programatically, without having to parse the HTML yourself (as long as you are satisfied with the search engines supported, adding other search engines means some programming of course). > It would be great if there were an open source tool but a reasonably priced > proprietary tool would be OK too. It can run on any operating system but Linux > would be most convenient to me. See <URL:http://www.wilsonweb.com/webmarket/searchengine.htm> for a few search engine placement tools. -- Klaus Johannes Rusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/ +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
