Google or Yahoo Keyword Ranking Tool
Hello,
I found this tool online: http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/
It checks the current position of a given keyword on different search engines. As I have several websites and they use hundreds of keywords, checking manually for each keyword will be very time consuming. So I want to write a similar tool using .NET (C#) that will be doing it for multiple keywords.
I don't need it for all sites, even just Google would, but having Yahoo and MSN will be nice. I first thought it was using Google API, but on the other hand, there're so many different search engines, so I think it's just some kind of scripting. And I'd like to know how to do it.
So, all I need to do is to know how to:
1. Send a request to a search engine (e.g. Google) with a given search query
2. Retrieve the contents of the result that you get.
Thank you,
Yurich
I found this tool online: http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/
It checks the current position of a given keyword on different search engines. As I have several websites and they use hundreds of keywords, checking manually for each keyword will be very time consuming. So I want to write a similar tool using .NET (C#) that will be doing it for multiple keywords.
I don't need it for all sites, even just Google would, but having Yahoo and MSN will be nice. I first thought it was using Google API, but on the other hand, there're so many different search engines, so I think it's just some kind of scripting. And I'd like to know how to do it.
So, all I need to do is to know how to:
1. Send a request to a search engine (e.g. Google) with a given search query
2. Retrieve the contents of the result that you get.
Thank you,
Yurich
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ASKER
Thank you for your reply.
I know about Google API and about their new AJAX search tool. I'm not sure that it's what I'm after. Just pointing me there is nice, but not very helpful in my case. I'd really like more substantial input, e.g. code snippets etc.
Regards,
Mik
I know about Google API and about their new AJAX search tool. I'm not sure that it's what I'm after. Just pointing me there is nice, but not very helpful in my case. I'd really like more substantial input, e.g. code snippets etc.
Regards,
Mik
Understandable, if thats what you'd like, give me (or anyone else here) some more time to whip up a snippet for you. Thanks for the further input/redirect
ASKER
Yes, that what I'd like and I can wait for a while.
Thanks,
Yurich
Thanks,
Yurich
I'm sorry Yurich, but it seems that Google is no longer giving out API keys for their SOAP & REST search APIs (moving instead to use only the AJAX compliant one). While you don't have to use AJAX to use the Google AJAX Search API, you do have to be making a web application.
Since my feeling is that you a) dont already have an API key, and b) are trying to make a traditional non-web application, it looks like Google search is out of the picture. From my quick peekings around it seems that Yahoo! is still offering their API without web-user-only restrictions.
I've personally only used the Google API and ot the Yahoo! one, but I am sure it will work for you. Unfortunatly, I am as new to the Yahoo API as yourself and can't grab enough free time right now to get to learning it enough to make examples.
That being said, there are some excellent C# and VB.Net examples in their Dev center at http://developer.yahoo.com/dotnet/ which work quite well.
I'm sorry that I couldn't get you that example, but I think the ones that you can directly access from that link I just gave you should be of some help.
Good luck on your project.
Since my feeling is that you a) dont already have an API key, and b) are trying to make a traditional non-web application, it looks like Google search is out of the picture. From my quick peekings around it seems that Yahoo! is still offering their API without web-user-only restrictions.
I've personally only used the Google API and ot the Yahoo! one, but I am sure it will work for you. Unfortunatly, I am as new to the Yahoo API as yourself and can't grab enough free time right now to get to learning it enough to make examples.
That being said, there are some excellent C# and VB.Net examples in their Dev center at http://developer.yahoo.com/dotnet/ which work quite well.
I'm sorry that I couldn't get you that example, but I think the ones that you can directly access from that link I just gave you should be of some help.
Good luck on your project.
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If you are interested, there are also more tools than the one you found that are also good.
Software to track ongoing results:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/
http://www.webceo.com/
Valuable site tools:
http://www.seomoz.org/rank-checker
Maybe you can reopen and accept this as the solution too. ;)
Software to track ongoing results:
http://www.advancedwebranking.com/
http://www.webceo.com/
Valuable site tools:
http://www.seomoz.org/rank-checker
Maybe you can reopen and accept this as the solution too. ;)
ASKER
Yeah, there're tons and tons of SEO tools online and frankly I don't even have time to try them all - only when I need something.
I have actually found how to do what I was asking about. Not exactly, but to extend. And it didn't require any special Google or other API. You just create a web request, send it to google search with the search query string specify, then get a response back and parse the contents. I got stuck on parsing as the contents is quite big or even huge you can say. As I had already found the tool, I just didn't bother any further exploring for now.
I think I'll keep the question closed.
Cheers,
Yurich
I have actually found how to do what I was asking about. Not exactly, but to extend. And it didn't require any special Google or other API. You just create a web request, send it to google search with the search query string specify, then get a response back and parse the contents. I got stuck on parsing as the contents is quite big or even huge you can say. As I had already found the tool, I just didn't bother any further exploring for now.
I think I'll keep the question closed.
Cheers,
Yurich
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The google APIs site has full documentation and even code downloads for you to look over. It should get you just what ya' need.