Hey recently, I have made some scripts and found some to check ranks and stuff on google. One of them is a script where it opens google Query using a file open function, and then calculates the page rank or something... http://www.designplanet.biz/index.php?q=PR
However, since it uses an automated query type method, isn't that against google Tos?
I also have a script that does sort of the same thing, but this time it detects the keyword position of your website. I haven't tested it yet since it might not be allowed, but it is pretty much the same as the pagerank checker.
I am wondering if automated queries like that are not allowed, or if it is possible to somehow use Google API with PHP, but I have found no examples of that using PHP. (Something to do with SOAP in XML, but i dont know SOAP)
Then again, I think, they don't detect for automated queries, they just block you when your tool becomes popular etc. But still maybe i should email google and ask permission? O.o
The reason i ask this question is because there is this one website for example: http://www.twospots.com/keyword-position-checker/
and they use PHP to do this, although they do not give out the source code, they do a file opener most likely. How are they allowed to do this? Did they get permission? |
