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The best and probably only good solution for scraping emails is a custom script. All whois finders use the whois registries. Which are made to be queried by scripts and will return the results.
Some Common servers are:
whois.publicinterestregistry.net
whois.nic.uk
whois.internic.net
I would recommend you go to a free scripts download place like hotscripts or something and download a simple whois script in your favorite language (ie perl or php) and then open it up and snag the code that grabs from the whois registries and prints it to the screen. Then take the portion of the response that says email and parse it into a variable to be stored in whatever database you're using.
Indeed some registries limit the number of queries by ip per day, but those are easily fooled through the conventional gateway and proxy methods. There are some who don't allow it, but at the same time don't enforce it. So if you can find those, that would be optimal.
In the retail world and much of the business world they enforce whats called a cross training policy. Which basically means they believe every employee, even the specialized ones, should have at least some knowledge of how to operate in all the other departments. I'm a firm believer in that. I'm not the greatest coder in the world, in fact I'm pretty pathetic at it, but I can get done whatever needs to get done without too much outside help. I can at least know where to find the information I need. But I strongly believe that in order to be successful in your business you are required to at least be adequate in every aspect of the business. The same goes for internet marketing. Needing to hire someone to code something for you, should be an optional solution based on your own time tables. It shouldn't be an act of desperation or a requirement for almost every project you do. If you really want to be good at what you do, and make some money I'm sorry to say but you're going to have to dig into a couple programming books and/or tutorials. At least get to the point of understanding what you want before you ask for it. That only comes through some knowledge of programming. In my office I'm mostly specialized in the coming up of the ideas, the testing, and producing the projects. Bobby is the master of coding and can make things happen. However he also is proficient enough in SEO, at least well enough so I don't have to spell things out for him and visa versa for me with coding.
So go download some tutorials buddy. Trust me, you'll understand my techniques a hell of a lot better once you do.
Wow that whois post was gold. Seriously, I don't know why I thought I was going to reinvent the world. I was going to write a script to scrape whois for a bunch of domains I have next week, but your post made me realize not to waste me time and just download a premade scraper. Thanks for saving me a couple hours Eli. 
Also, to add on to your answer to JamesH's question. I've only been trying to make money online for a couple of months, but I've been programming for a few years and designing even longer. I can design fairly well, program proficiently, and understand how to put the two together. I have to say that I have found these two skills to be INVALUABLE in this internet marketing world.
Seriously, I have friends who have none of those skills and they will spend hours getting hungup on one line of code that could easily be fixed in a couple minutes if they had some basic programming knowledge. Not to mention the fact it eliminates a huge overhead since you can do everything yourself.
But you don't always want to for time's sake...which leads me to a question: back before you had any employees, what was your best method of finding reliable programmers? Forums, freelance sites? Every time I've tried I've just given up and done it myself because all I get are Indians who can't communicate well and scammers. Is it basically just luck - and when you stumble upon a good programmer to keep him?
Thanks
Also, to add on to your answer to JamesH's question. I've only been trying to make money online for a couple of months, but I've been programming for a few years and designing even longer. I can design fairly well, program proficiently, and understand how to put the two together. I have to say that I have found these two skills to be INVALUABLE in this internet marketing world.
Seriously, I have friends who have none of those skills and they will spend hours getting hungup on one line of code that could easily be fixed in a couple minutes if they had some basic programming knowledge. Not to mention the fact it eliminates a huge overhead since you can do everything yourself.
But you don't always want to for time's sake...which leads me to a question: back before you had any employees, what was your best method of finding reliable programmers? Forums, freelance sites? Every time I've tried I've just given up and done it myself because all I get are Indians who can't communicate well and scammers. Is it basically just luck - and when you stumble upon a good programmer to keep him?
Thanks
Here's one, if you're still answering questions.
What's a good video ad network that isn't click-to-play, but rather pay per view? I want to play video ads before the user downloads something.
Or would my best option be just to make some quick promo video for my site and put invideo advertising on it? Basically what I want is NOT click-to-play, but PPV.
What's a good video ad network that isn't click-to-play, but rather pay per view? I want to play video ads before the user downloads something.
Or would my best option be just to make some quick promo video for my site and put invideo advertising on it? Basically what I want is NOT click-to-play, but PPV.
Here's a question. I have some websites sitting around with various page ranks, and they are from various niches. Since these websites aren't being used for anything to make me money, I'd like to figure out a way to at least use their PR to help boost a couple sites that are. My question is though, since they are not directly related to the niche the new websites are, should I NOT use them for text linking to the new sites, or does 'any little bit help'? I was thinking I could change the text around on the PR'd websites to fit the websites I was linking to, but I wasn't sure if that would fuck up the current PR by updating the websites and removing the current content. Or is that not an issue?
Thanks for answering this if you do, I've saved every Q&A you've had so far in a microsoft word document. Priceless information man. I appreciate it.
Thanks for answering this if you do, I've saved every Q&A you've had so far in a microsoft word document. Priceless information man. I appreciate it.
I'm still in this same debacle so I'll leave this question to anyone who has some good experience they can help out with.
I think it's just like anything else. You either get lucky and find somebody who you can trust or you have to know somebody who has worked with a developer and your trust in that person leads to a good relationship.
I'd consider myself an excellent developer (it's my full time job) but who am I? Some guy on a free forum with about 10 posts? Until I build up a reputation here you'd have no reason to contact me.
On a freelance site you're probably going to have to make a decision based on their previous work or reviews from other unknown people. On a forum you'll at least have the chance of finding someone who's been suggested by members of the forum who's opinion you value. Compared to a freelance site, while you may not know the "forum elders" it is easy to determine that they are to be trusted.
While possibly more expensive finding a local developer takes a lot of the risk out of the equation since you'll be able to meet them.
As someone who's freelanced before that's my advice for finding people like me.
These types of sites are AWESOME for seo. I try to collect them like they're hot. I wouldn't worry too much about their relevancy for new projects. Often times when i enter a niche and look at the competition and see that its nothing to be worried about I'll just put up a sitewide link on these types of sites or two and be automatically ranked within a couple weeks. Having a high PR sites are a great thing to have in your arsenal. I wouldn't worry a bit about their actual content. Even though they may not be relevant their linking power can give huge boosts to new sites and save you a ton of time building up links to a site that really only needs a couple from these types of sites.
Building links is my number one struggle right now. Your posts have really really opened my eyes. Priceless information.
The only thing I am hanging up on right now is the automated process of building links. This is something I could have developed for me, if I just knew what to tell them to do?
If I wanted to automate building links, what should I be focusing on?
The only thing I am hanging up on right now is the automated process of building links. This is something I could have developed for me, if I just knew what to tell them to do?
If I wanted to automate building links, what should I be focusing on?
Read Link Laundering if you haven't already. If you get a little creative and build a couple of those you should be setup just fine.
Thank you for this opportunity to ask questions that have bugged us or we needed to ask!!!
Ok, this may sound like lame noob questions, but I have to ask them:
Setup: main keyword is "birthday party"
You end up with tons of variations featuring age, who the person is, themes and so on.
Subterms
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Age:
1st birthyday party
...
70th birthday party
Person:
infants birthday party
child birthday party
teen birthday party
teenager birthday party
adult birthday party
senior birthday party
girls birthday party
boys birthday party
mom birthday party
dad birthday party
grandmother birthday party
grandfather birthday party
aunt birthday party
uncle birthday party
friend birthday party
coworker birthday party
...
Themes:
spongebob birthday party
doro birthday party
winnie the pooh birthday party
mickey mouse birthday party
disney birthday party
spiderman birthday party
mad scientist birthday party
pajama birthday party
...
Add in other terms (hats, games, supplies, ideas, cakes, candles, gifts, etc...) and you end up with a ton of keywords for each subterm.
HOW do you end up grouping them into adgroups correctly?
My understanding is to make sure that the keywords in the adgroup match the ad, and the ad matches the landing page/theme of the site.
Do you end up with a whole bunch of adgroups, and a whole bunch of landing pages?
Am I overthinking this too much? Is this just the way it is?
Thanks!
Ok, this may sound like lame noob questions, but I have to ask them:
Setup: main keyword is "birthday party"
You end up with tons of variations featuring age, who the person is, themes and so on.
Subterms
--------
Age:
1st birthyday party
...
70th birthday party
Person:
infants birthday party
child birthday party
teen birthday party
teenager birthday party
adult birthday party
senior birthday party
girls birthday party
boys birthday party
mom birthday party
dad birthday party
grandmother birthday party
grandfather birthday party
aunt birthday party
uncle birthday party
friend birthday party
coworker birthday party
...
Themes:
spongebob birthday party
doro birthday party
winnie the pooh birthday party
mickey mouse birthday party
disney birthday party
spiderman birthday party
mad scientist birthday party
pajama birthday party
...
Add in other terms (hats, games, supplies, ideas, cakes, candles, gifts, etc...) and you end up with a ton of keywords for each subterm.
HOW do you end up grouping them into adgroups correctly?
My understanding is to make sure that the keywords in the adgroup match the ad, and the ad matches the landing page/theme of the site.
Do you end up with a whole bunch of adgroups, and a whole bunch of landing pages?
Am I overthinking this too much? Is this just the way it is?
Thanks!
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Hi Eli !
I'd have a question regarding the 'making money with a video blog' you published some time ago. I've followed the method, made a site, have around 40 videos (allmost all watermarked and on Youtube) , got some stumbles trough DP and stumblexchange, uploaded videos on myspace with no luck, signed up with some social bookmarking sites and promoted my site, but after the initial spike from stumbleupon, my traffic has droped a lot. I average around 50 visits a day now, and wanted to ask what method could I apply to increase that .
Thank you !
Hi Eli !
I'd have a question regarding the 'making money with a video blog' you published some time ago. I've followed the method, made a site, have around 40 videos (allmost all watermarked and on Youtube) , got some stumbles trough DP and stumblexchange, uploaded videos on myspace with no luck, signed up with some social bookmarking sites and promoted my site, but after the initial spike from stumbleupon, my traffic has droped a lot. I average around 50 visits a day now, and wanted to ask what method could I apply to increase that .
Thank you !
That wasn't written by Eli, it was a guest post.
Incidentally, I tried a video blog last week too. I branded and uploaded 20 pretty funny videos, but they've gotten a total of <500 views on YouTube. Google video has gotten a total of about 3 views. MySpace video has gotten <200 views. Not great results.
I think part of it is that my branding image doesn't show up for long enough. When I get some more time I'll have to download 20 more videos and get all 40 branded. Just try one more time.
It takes a lot of time though.I know Eli did not write the post ( Mark did ).
About the watermarking, I applied the method described by a user in the comment section ( used ffmpeg to display the link to my site at the top of the video from beginning to end).
Seems like the hard part is to get your material to the ones that will actually spread it to others. So far I see that people coming from social bookmaring sites don't really send the videos to their friends, though I expected the opposite(since they're web savvy ).
It seems I still have much to learn about viral marketing .
). About the watermarking, I applied the method described by a user in the comment section ( used ffmpeg to display the link to my site at the top of the video from beginning to end).
Seems like the hard part is to get your material to the ones that will actually spread it to others. So far I see that people coming from social bookmaring sites don't really send the videos to their friends, though I expected the opposite(since they're web savvy ).
It seems I still have much to learn about viral marketing .
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