Scraping Web Pages with cURL Tutorial – Part 2

In Scraping Web Pages with cURL Tutorial – Part 1, I demonstrated how to create a web spider class that uses the cURL library to transfer any type of data from the web direct to your server.
In this tutorial we are going to talk about how to parse that data into some sort of usable [...]

SEO Art of WAR – 3 Ways to Spy on Your Competitors

Let’s face it, to succeed in the world of online marketing you need to know exactly what your competitors are up to otherwise you could find yourself falling down Goolge’s search results faster than Senator Larry Craig’s pants in an airport’s bathroom.
SUN TZU wrote the ART OF WAR during the 6th century BC as a [...]

Building A Web Spider – Part 2

In my last post, Building A Web Spider – Part 1, I covered how to analyze a website so that you can build a very simple web spider to collect the data that you want, and then I showed you how to use PHP to download that page to your server. In [...]