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Search Engine Submission

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I've bene asked to create a script that allows customers to submit their sites to the various search engines. Obviously, this is quite complex and an ever changing world, but does anyone have any experience and/or suggestions on how best to get this up and running?

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Take a look at the process for submitting to each of the major engines. Then see if they have an API you can hook into. That might put you in the right direction. I do think, however, that this will end up being much more than a 'collect data and throw it at the engine' type of app. I would suggest looking into API's.
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That's about where I got to in my thinking... although how often do they change their API's - for instance with the changes to google recently I'm expecting it might be quite often?
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Changes are inevitable. But good development works through changes with a minimum of fuss. I would imagine that a good API would be more obect calls than procedural code, so that if the code changes, the core changes and not the way it interacts with your hook. Look into it a little. But I would suspect there would be considerable extenibility built in to the various API's. At least I'd hope so.
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