I don't think you need a custom robot to do this. I know that altavista had an advanced search option that would allow you search for pages that referred back to your site. I haven't looked at altavista for ages, but Google may have something like this.
HTH Erick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 11:22 PM Subject: [Robots] need robot to search for my webpage links > Is there a way to program a robot to search every USA webpage permissable for my old webpage address and when it finds one to have it email me the URL of that page? That would enable me to alert people of my new web address and to change their webpage with the new address info. > > If this were possible, then possibly we could go one step further and have the robot search for email contact info in the webpage found to have my link in it and to automatically send an email alert that my address has changed. The robot could possibly be programmed if it found several email addresses to send alerts to the most likely webmaster's email address based on certain logic parameters. > > I've changed my webpage to a new server, I still have a redirect on my old server, but I hate for someone to have to be redirected especially considering they may not even get redirected if my old server is down or too congested. > > I created my webpage years ago when the public internet first started, so there weren't that many options and essentially what happened is I gradually built up a good business reputation and have many cross-links, directories, and search engines with my old web page address. My old address is long and bulky and is with compuserve > > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MIDIMAGIC/ > > My new web address is my own domain: gprecordingstudio.com > > I would think that a robot like this would be invaluable to anyone that has had a non-domain name web address and has decided to change or even worse has been forced to change because the company went out of business > > Any suggestions where I can find this? > > Gerry Peters > gprecordingstudio.com > A Songwriter Resource Center > > > -- > This message was sent by the Internet robots and spiders discussion list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). For list server commands, send "help" in the body of a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". -- This message was sent by the Internet robots and spiders discussion list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). For list server commands, send "help" in the body of a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
