Competitor Price Monitoring F.A.Q.s

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Competitor Price Monitoring F.A.Q.s
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How do you monitor competitor prices? I have
heard that it is scraping data from web pages or
crawling the sites like spiders and robots do..?

• Yes, in order to monitor the prices and stocks of
  your products across different platforms or for
  monitoring your competitor, we do scrape data of
  websites. Our scraping solutions are highly
  advanced and are non-intrusive and capture the
  data anonymously. The following terms are often
  used interchangeably to define Competitor Price
  Monitoring

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The following terms are often used
interchangeably to define Competitor Price
Monitoring

• Competitor price scraping
• Automated agents to capture prices
• Spidering sites for prices
• Price information Data extraction
• Competitor Price extraction
• Competitor Price Watch
• Competitor Price Tracking
• Price comparison
• Price comparison scripts
• Price scraper
• Competitive pricing services and software

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What will I need to do to capture the price data
of the products sold by my competitor..?

• In order to capture the price and stock
  availability data of your competitor, you need to
  prepare a corresponding list of the actual
  product pages from your competitor website. This
  is needed even if you have the SKU's / SKN's
  /ISBN's or part numbers or product codes. Our
  experience tells that this is the most neglected
  overlooked aspect and is cause of poor quality
  or mismatched data.

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I have to monitor the prices of 1000's of
products but it is difficult for me to create a
directory or list of webpages from my competitor
site. Can you help me..?

• Yes, we can help to build you the list and
  provide you with data containing the hyperlinks,
  product code, and product name from your
  competitor website. However, compiling and
  matching the products with your own codes will
  need to done at your end. This is especially
  useful if you wish to monitor prices from
  multiple sources and get a consolidated price
  comparison file from us on a regular basis.

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I sell many products through channel partners
such as amazon, ebay, and other similar e-stores?
Can you also scrape this data for me..?

• Yes. We can scrape any data. We need a list of
  the product codes and the product pages hyperlink
  to capture the data.

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Do I need to do any programming in order to
monitor the prices of the competitor's..?

• No. You do not need to do any programming in
  order to monitor the prices of your competitor's
  nor install any software on your computer. Just
  provide us with your list of pages from which
  data is to be monitored and our experienced team
  of programmers will write applications to capture
  the data in best possible manner. All
  applications will then run on our high speed
  servers to capture / web-scrape the data
  anonymously and non-intrusively, providing you
  with final data in a format of your choice.

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So your solution is "hosted" i.e. you will
provide me with price information of the
competitor product's that I specify? How
frequently can you scrape and provide me with
data..?

• Yes. Our price comparison solution is completely
  "hosted" and you can get the data daily, weekly,
  bi-weekly or monthly, as per your requirement.

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I need to capture prices that change multiple
times during the day. Can you meet this
requirement..?

• Yes. Our price monitoring solution is extremely
  scalable and we can web scrape the data and send
  it over to you multiple times during the day.

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Is web scraping a legal way to capture data for
monitoring prices..?

• Yes. Web scraping the data to monitor prices is
  legal provided the data is in public domain and
  done ethically i.e. taking measures so as to not
  overwhelm the target site resulting in "Denial of
  Service" (DoS) messages to other users and
  visitors of the site or to the extent of bringing
  it down completely. We closely monitor all the
  scrapes and make sure our scraping solutions do
  not disrupt the site in any way, while staying
  anonymous and non-intrusive.

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Can my competitor block your access to the
website..?

• Yes. A website can block scraping. There are a
  number of ways scraping can be blocked, such as
  adding image verification (CAPTCHA) system before
  results are displayed or blocking the IP
  Addresses from which requests are coming, by
  monitoring traffic etc. However, we utilize a
  sophisticated proxy network that anonymised our
  traffic. Using our years of experience, we also
  balance the traffic so as to not get noticed and
  stay below the below the radar.

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• Query for pricing and scraping services.
• India 91-9654653433
• US Canada [phone]
• UK 020 3239 7570
• Email info_at_itsyssolutions.com
• Web http//www.website-scraping.com