So a bit of background - I know enough VB that I could probably make this in VB 6 or .net but I haven't touched VB in a long time. I am good with HTML and CSS and I am ok with Javascript. I understand the VERY basics of PHP and c# (not very relevant) in that I can read code to get the gist of it's function rather than actually know anything about it but I want to learn and my goal is to make a specific program.
The program would have 3 lists. List 1 the beggining of a phrase like "how can I", "what is a", "how do you" ect. List 2 would contain the end of the phrase like "Cook pancakes" "build a house" "program in PHP" ect. The program would combine list 1 and 2, looping list 1 for every entry in list two. The program would then (using a wrapper because I want to make this as simple as possible for myself) search Google for a phrase being the combination of list 1 and two and post the result in list 3.
It doesn't seem like this should be too hard to do, it wouldn't be in VB or even c# with a wrapper. Am I right in thinking this? I would also ideally like to save the titles and meta descriptions to a file. Or make a second function where list 1 contains one word and the program saves how many times this word is found in the coding for the body of the website.
The reason I want to make this is I work in SEO and this would help me get data on how google populates it's listings for different searches. I would like to make this program public because it could be useful for all sorts of SEO case studys. I am trying to work out if I am better relearning VB which I haven't used in years or if I could probably achieve this with a bit of help.
I am not asking for somebody to walk me through how to do this because I imagine it would be quite time consuming. I just don't even really know where to start. The lists presumably wouldn't have to be made in PHP? What should I be learning about and can you recommend an easy to use HTTP wrapper. If anyone can help me and wants any SEO advice in return I am more than happy to help,
Thanks a lot