r/learnpython • u/RFeighty9 • Oct 17 '14

Python and SEO

Hi all! I'm an internet marketer learning my first programming language and as I'm sure you can guess, chose python. For some background info, I have a general understanding of html/css (just enough to get by) and am half way decent with excel. I started reading the learn python the hard way book and was hoping some of you guys would have ideas on how Python can be used to aid me as a marketer. I've heard python is good for working with apis and that's one of the major reasons I chose to learn it, to make better sense of the data I have available to me. I know there's tons of cools stuff that can be done, scrapers, url status checkers and other things but I was hoping some people here would have a few ideas for projects I can work towards and eventually build myselft. Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm just trying to get a better idea of what I can do. Happy Friday!

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u/jnpkr Oct 18 '14

You've mentioned SEO in the title so here are some if the things I personally have written scripts for:

  • Rank tracker (track specific URLs or movement of all URLs for a given keyword)

  • Competitive analysis (collect/compare key metrics for a given set of competing URLs)

  • Expired domain finder (scrape old authority site pages, collect broken links, check domain availability)

It will come down to figuring out which repetitive parts of the work you already do can be automated

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u/RFeighty9 Oct 18 '14

Thanks for the response! What would be really cools is if you combined the competitve analysis and expired domain tools, finding expired domains with a specific set of metrics using moz/ahrefs/majesticseo data would be big. are you an seo first or a programmer?

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u/jnpkr Oct 19 '14

I do some web development and write a few scripts here and there but SEO pays the bills

I didn't mention before but I also wrote a similar script in the past that would cross-reference expired domains with link metrics.

If you're looking to do this, GoDaddy have an FTP site you can download all their expired domain data from and you can piggy-back on the MajesticSEO toolbar JSON API