[thelist] Search engine position query script

[Andrew Maynes]

are you saying that there is a way to definitively checking where your site is
ranked on search engines?

Andrew

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Morgan wrote:

Subject: Re: [thelist] Search engine position query script


> > Does anyone know of a script that can be set to run maybe monthly that
> > queries search engines for predefined key phrases and then reports on
the
> > relevant position of your site compared to others.  I aware that
> > WebPositionGold can do this but would rather something Open Source
and/or
> > free, ideally in PHP or Perl.
> >
>
> check out google's APIs:
> http://www.google.com/apis/

Thanks, that'll certainly be useful for Google but I was hoping to check a
range of the most popular search engines.  I guess I'll have to write my own
script with a separate parser for each search engine so that I can
deconstruct the pages to find my url and to determine it's ranking.

Phil

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