Re: 2 out of topic questions

Bob,

Regarding your 1st question...

Try places like rentacoder.com, elance.com, guru.com, etc. There are lots of sites that specialize in just such things. Even more traditional sites like monster.com and careerbuilder.com work well, depending on your needs.

Regarding your 2nd question...

There are several sites like the one you mentioned. KeyCompete.com and SpyFu.com are two that come to mind. SpyFu.com is, in my opinion, the best of what's out there for competitive bidding resources.

And there are far more advanced systems that go quite a bit further... Google Cash Detective, for example, is like a business-in-a-box for tracking and swiping profitable ad campaigns.

While the information they collect is entirely legal, the way they do it is usually against the TOS of sites like Google that prohibit screen scraping, spiders, and electronic storage.

It is possible to do it yourself... but really not worth the effort. Much easier to simply subscribe to a service like SpyFu.com to get your information. Otherwise you're getting into massive keyword databases with multiple Google requests daily for each keyword to build your database.

I have quite a bit of experience with it (from a marketing standpoint) and what kind of information you'd need to gather and track. There's no shortcut to the information either. You figure out the keywords by brute force... run as many searches as you can and see who shows up where.

There are a handful of tricks you can use to discover the actual search terms they're bidding on... but it's still just like a brute force attack on Google to determine what advertisers are bidding on.

It would be a whole lot easier if you had a meta-search database to start from. But you would still run into TOS issues with Google and likely need either a very wide network of servers to do the searching or a reliable private proxy network to do the grunt work if you didn't want Google to block you very quickly.

If you still have specific questions on how they work behind the scenes or the actual technical requirements needed to do something similar in Delphi I'd be happy to fill in the blanks.


Wealth and Abundance,

Matt Harward


Bob D. wrote:
Hello,

sorry for the out of topic question but that's the only place/forum I read/post/monitor...

a) we are looking to hire some people for our company tech-support needs. is there any site that companies or people post for jobs? the issue is that we need people to work remotely not in real office.

b) there are some sites (like that one http://ci.trellian.com/index.html) that can collect information from your competitors domains and tell you what keywords are used and which search engines refers to. Is that legal? Is that possible to retrieve that information by myself? Anyone has some experience on that please guide me.

Thanks
Bob


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