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Issue # 203 (09-02-2003)
Have You Seen Me Lately ?
Last week (August 18-24), The Search Engine Strategies Conference (SES) was held in San Jose, CA, at The Doubletree Hotel. Nearly 2000 attendees made the trek to Silicon Valley to dance with Google, soak in the sun, suck in the drinks; and network their rear-ends off. Oh, there were tons of very educational presentations as well… Read on.
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Coders Corner
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Pull up a seat, boys and girls... this one's worth the price of admission.
We're going to work this week on a cool tool that uses the GoogleAPI. My intent here is to show you just how easy it is to use, and how you can do something cool, if you just think outside the box a bit. This code sample was done in PHP, but can be easily replicated in Perl, or any other language that has simple opject access protocol (SOAP) support. The relevant libraries that you need are listed at the end of this article. Note that in most cases, your ISP's installation of Perl or PHP will not include the SOAP extensions by default, so you'll have to ask that they be installed for you. If you run your own machine, you should be able to install the necessary core libraries by yourself in just a few minutes. The "SOAP_Google" class listed below, which is the basis for this article, is free for your use by visiting the author's Web site. You can install it into the same directory as your GoogleAPI scripts. Ok, here we go...
One of the things essential to any SEO, and really, to anyone who operates a Web site, is to know where they rank at Google for a given search term or phrase. Using the GoogleAPI, we can very easily find out where a site ranks, without having to visit Google.com and going dizzy reading the results. The source code for "test.php" follows, and is commented so that you can follow the logic. Happy position checking!
Warning: main(google.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sites/websites/jimworld/jimworld.com/gazette/issue-203/1053114675.html on line 172
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'google.php' (include_path='/home/sites/website-applications/php:/home/sites/website-applications/php') in /home/sites/websites/jimworld/jimworld.com/gazette/issue-203/1053114675.html on line 172
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