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Thanks for all the idea and comments. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply.
reddawg,
I am not sure if I believe they are useless after #20, but I bet they decrease rapidly in usefulness the further into the results you go.
rowan,
the program isn't "raping" the search engines for all my customers. The program I am using is a personal project, not a commercial venture. Also, all it does is do a search and go through the pages of results, just like a person would.
EscortBiz,
The problem is, I don't know what I am doing. not when it comes to getting a page to #1, anyway. I am sure I can turn a profit if I start off with sites that have decent rankings, but I havenever had the patience to take a site from #200 to #1. Mostly, I want them for their ability to help the PageRank of my other domains, plus to grab sales from them if I can.
SquarePants,
That's basically the principle behind it. Search engines don't have time to bust expired domains as soon as they become dormant.
stocktrader23,
I hadn't considered making it for sale. Right now it is pretty user-unfriendly. It doesn't have a web iinterface or anything and you need to know at least a little bit about PERL regular expressions in order to keep the search engines up to date. For instance, to find a domain name, the program has to look for a pattern of text in the results. I just updated it last night to work with Google, Search.com, AOL, Netscape, Yahoo, Webcrawler and Altavista, but in a few months it may need to be updated again. Updating the engines only takes a few minutes, if you know a little about regular expressions. Otherwise, I would also have to provide an updating service. If you want tot alk more, you can ICQ me at 8106140.
Dildozer,
Basically, you seem to be saying grab what I can, right? Do you have an opinion of how deep into the results I should go? I can have the script go 100 pages deep as easily as 5 pages, it's just a matter of how long it will take.
SpaceAce
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