2levelsabove Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 I have seen certain applications do it successfully and yet certain applications fail miserably. Any thoughts on this matter? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/160938-using-php-to-calculate-backlinks/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gevans Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 care to explain further 'calculate backlinks'? what do you want to do? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/160938-using-php-to-calculate-backlinks/#findComment-849351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2levelsabove Posted June 4, 2009 Author Share Posted June 4, 2009 Developing a tool for a client marketing company that wants to determine on the fly how many back-links a website has or somehow automate that process. For example AllTheRides.com has 4300 sites that have a link pointing back to it. Now how could one approach the problem of trying to calculate that efficiently. Google "Link" command is unreliable at most Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/160938-using-php-to-calculate-backlinks/#findComment-849363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gijew Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 I did something like this way back when. Look up doing this using curl. Basically all you do is throw the back links into a db and use curl to crawl the page and see if the link exists. Write an if/else and update the db accordingly . Kind of a resource hog but not horrible if run as a cron job. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/160938-using-php-to-calculate-backlinks/#findComment-849410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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