Hello all! I am currently trying to come up with a good way to measure the performance of real estate listings submitted via Google Base and appearing in the real estate search results.
For example, if we submitted a series of listings for Townsville, CA from a web site called, say, realestatewebsite.site, then I would like to be able to pull data to generate a report on how prominently results from realestatewebsite.site are appearing when someone searches for "houses in Townsville, CA". It has been suggested to me that, using the Google Base Data API, we could write a tool to run searches against Base programmatically and receive a structured xml file in return, which we could then parse to find the rankings of properties. I know this wouldn't be 100% accurate given the ability of Base users to set their listings to not appear via the API, but it is the best solution that has been suggested thus far. So, my first question is... do folks here who are familiar with the Base API agree that this is the best way to approach it or is there another approach I'm overlooking? Secondly, does anyone have or know of a tool already in existence to accomplish this, before we attempt to "re-invent the wheel?" And, third, if no tool does exist and we have to begin from scratch, does anyone have any suggestions or pointers that we should be considering as we begin? Thanks! - Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Base-data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
