June 22, 2005
An idea to make us rich, RICH!
As long as I can remember, the only way to check how your website is ranked in foreign markets of interest to you is to go to every important search engine in that national market and search on your keywords, your company name, your product, etc. (Assuming you've registered the site here and there, of course.)
A huge pain this is and a great consumer of time, depending on the breadth of coverage. To get a sense of "breadth of coverage" visit Search Engine Colossus if you have never been there.
It blows my mind that no one has built a front-end scraper to collect and display such results on demand. Think "Dogpile." Think of the consulting fees for providing weekly ranking reports by national markets. Deliverable by email. Compiled in a minute. Charged for out the wazoo.
(I'm sorry, seekers, I was talking to the SEO consultancies among us.)
It's so easy. Write the software. Sell the service. Send me half the money.
Posted by at June 22, 2005 04:39 AM