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Hi,

I am designing an application that:

1. Goes to the Google Keyword Tool and from a seed keyword, creates a list of Y keywords, with their search and CPC numbers.

2. Then searches on Google and gets the top X results for each keyword and then finds contact details for those domains, either from the site or whois.

3. Then sends an email to each of those domains, with an 'intelligent' spam compliant email.

Now, here is my question:

Because the project has three distinct skill sub-sets, do you think I would be better off splitting the project into 3 or to get 1 person to do it? It appears to me it would be quite hard to get one person who is knowledgable in all aspects, especially when you apply larger numbers to X and Y. For example, if X = 100 and Y =100, and email find rate is circa 50%, then that would be 5,000 emails sent for every seed keyword. That's a lot of processing power. Could one person have the sufficient knowledge to put all 3 aspects together?

Any thoughts? This has been worrying me so I would appreciate some good advice from the coal face.

Thanks Allen
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  • actually that depends on the developer..

    However the keyword tool part would have to been in a language that enterprets the javascript on it.. "I know since i tried to access it through cUrl and php approx a year ago". You would have to find an "Adobe Air" programmer to do that part. As for the other parts those should be a bit easier if the developer knows what he does.
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  • Hi Allen,

    I'd say get 1-2 people max.
    this project will be better handled by 2 people or one pro.

    Big picture problems off the bat are:
    spidering of the sites (using proxies - but it requires checks for proxies are live or down)
    queuing emails
    sending emails (some companies have 50-150 / hour limit)
    so if you're using one hosting at 100 emails / hour your limit would be 2 400 emails / day

    An idea solution would be to get 5-6 different VPS and IPs which get data from 1 central data server.
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    • Actually you could do this with one vps and set a cron to send the emails.
  • The major problem is not the coding but sending the mail since the whole work of the script is to send huge mails and you wont be able to send more than 500-1000 mails per day using any hostings first find one that lets you send spam mails 1000s per day then it would be better to start developing the script
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    • Hi - Thanks. These would not be Spam emails (they would be Spam Act Compliant) and I think the solution is that we would find Y hostings that would allow X per day each and then route the replies to one place. I think that could work... regards Allen
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  • Hi Allen,

    According to your explanation of your project, it seems to be a lot for one developer to do it. As per my experience, it can be done, but it takes a lot of time. You can get a professional team to get it done, as they will consume less time and work on the three things at the same time and get it integrated quickly. As n3r0x says, it depends on the developer, but things do take time for even a skilled developer.

    Good luck with your project
    Mohit
  • You wouldn't need more then one IP on a VPS to send alot of email. The only time you would need more then one IP to send mail is if you are doing something illegal.
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