My friend and I have been working on a very fast url submission script. Currently, it uses 30+ engines in 3 dat files to submit to. It will give a response based on the submission and provide hyperlinks to the engine's success page so you can check up to see if really your url has been submitted and a hyperlink for bad submissions to see a problem. Each problem will be provided a tip to help the user out. The dat files are easy to update with possibly of users adding new ones to it and award sites. A technical forum such as this will be on the main site to fix problems and add modifications to it.

About how much do you think this script would be worth if this is all possible? I've seen a script at cgi-resources.com running for $250 and only 10 engines supported!

And what is needed to sell this script? For example, do I need a license, merchant account, etc.


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[This message has been edited by XanthisHP (edited July 22, 1999).]

Hi:

One script at CGI-Resources submits to 420 search engines and costs $250.00 (US). The rest are from 'free' to $40.00. I'd suggest $25.00 (US).

You do not require a license except maybe a municipal business license. You may also want to register your company with your province or state. I'd recommend both but you can get away without neither.

Merchant accounts are expensive to setup - 4 figures. I'd suggest you use a third party billing company like iBill. I use them on all my sites for gross sales revenues of $7-10,000 per month. Very easy setup and you can accept credit card, online cheque and 1-900 (web900) payments. But they do take 15% (20% for web900 processing) off the top for service charges.

Dan