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Hi everyone, can anyone help a newb here?

by ubotstudio
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I am starting out in the SEO money making adventure. I am planning on learning a programming language to make bots etc.. can anyone give me a pointer on where to start?
#newb
  • Profile picture of the author johnnyN
    if you really want to learn bots, you should learn perl . It is good for that. My second choice would be PHP.
    there are very few books on the subject, but I have read one called "webbots, spiders and screen scrapers" , it is based on PHP, and comes with the code library that does most of the work.

    my ultimate suggestion would be to not learn to program it, rather buy one of the 2 top software packages that runs on your own computer and acts like a bot. It is kindof like a super macro program. Sorry I forget the names of those software programs.
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  • Profile picture of the author lowridertj
    bots - C#, peryl
    web programing - Rails, Php
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    Web Automation Software - http://botguru.net
    1000s of software sold over the past 8 years. What can I build for you?
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  • Profile picture of the author kStarDacTeam
    C# is very well documented and easy to learn, however I agree with johnnyN: you'd better buy a ready software.
    Coding a bot as first program is maybe a bit too 'tricky'.
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  • Profile picture of the author majick
    I use PHP with Curl for anything botlike, it can do a lot with a little trial and error.
    Makes page retrieval and data processing relatively easy but of course with
    programming it's going to take a little time to learn.
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  • Profile picture of the author StudioArtha
    Do a search for bot programming. See what developers are using. See if you can find open source programs and dig into what they have used. In addition, you can see it has already been accomplished, how someone else has programmed it.

    One of the great things about programming: almost everything has been done before, if you can just get your hands on the source code examples, you can borrow inspirations.
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