How Do I Scrape For Outdated Websites?

[Aomiya26]

Hello everyone,

Can someone guide me how do I scrape for thousands of outdated wordpress websites?

I can scrape yellowpages and google maps but how do I find if those websites are outdated or not?

Is there a way of doing that?

 

[razharov]

Hello everyone,

Can someone guide me how do I scrape for thousands of outdated wordpress websites?

I can scrape yellowpages and google maps but how do I find if those websites are outdated or not?

Is there a way of doing that?

What does outdated means to you?

That the website isn't new and old style/technique ?
Or if a domain is expired and just hangs in the listing wrong

 

[Aomiya26]

What does outdated means to you?

That the website isn't new and old style/technique ?
Or if a domain is expired and just hangs in the listing wrong

Outdated in the sense website isn't new and has old style. You know the ones that haven't been updated in years and look very old.

 

[razharov]

Outdated in the sense website isn't new and has old style. You know the ones that haven't been updated in years and look very old.

So the plan is to cold marketing them to sell them a website.

sounds good, does not work.

don’t waste your time on cold marketing tools in 2022-23

 

[Aomiya26]

So the plan is to cold marketing them to sell them a website.

sounds good, does not work.

don’t waste your time on cold marketing tools in 2022-23

How do I get leads then?

 

[Steptoe]

You could use a tool such as PublicWWW and search for strings that old website builders used to include in their source code. Apps like Microsoft Frontpage and Dreamweaver used to put specific comment tags and meta author/generator tags - if you can find some of them and search on PublicWWW you'll get websites from the stone age. Be aware though that a lot of such websites were designed by the website owner, and criticising a website for being outdated can make a lot of them cranky

 

[Aomiya26]

You could use a tool such as PublicWWW and search for strings that old website builders used to include in their source code. Apps like Microsoft Frontpage and Dreamweaver used to put specific comment tags and meta author/generator tags - if you can find some of them and search on PublicWWW you'll get websites from the stone age. Be aware though that a lot of such websites were designed by the website owner, and criticising a website for being outdated can make a lot of them cranky

I looked up PublicWWW. Thanks, that's exactly what I need. I'm also planning to scrape business with no websites from yellow pages and cold call them. Do you think that would be a good way to go about it?

 

[TJ_Ana]

So the plan is to cold marketing them to sell them a website.

sounds good, does not work.

don’t waste your time on cold marketing tools in 2022-23

Why does not work?
Why it's wasting our time to do that in 2022-23?
You must have solid and proven facts/data about it, mind sharing it with us? Thanks

 

[razharov]

Why does not work?
Why it's wasting our time to do that in 2022-23?
You must have solid and proven facts/data about it, mind sharing it with us? Thanks

Tell me the last time you bought something from an e-mail that you got from a stranger.
Also the fact that the average opening rate if MOST (which is rare) emails would go to the inbox and not to the spam is around 20% and the average RESPONSE (not buying) rate for untargeted cold nails are 1%. meaning you need to send 500 emails for 1 reply on average.

While google ads (for example for me) works with 10-20% click to buy rate.

 

[TJ_Ana]

Tell me the last time you bought something from an e-mail that you got from a stranger.
Also the fact that the average opening rate if MOST (which is rare) emails would go to the inbox and not to the spam is around 20% and the average RESPONSE (not buying) rate for untargeted cold nails are 1%. meaning you need to send 500 emails for 1 reply on average.

While google ads (for example for me) works with 10-20% click to buy rate.

Ok, you got your point. I appreciate that but what if I say that it's not those kinda "cold emails"? I even don't mention of selling anything, I just tell them some suggestions to make their website looks more appeal to today's minimum requirements, demands and trends. When they response, then I can start giving them some thought or urgent actions to get it done (keep following up). Then the sales process begins

 

[pindarots]

You can either scrape version of WordPress website and/or scan it with wpscan

 

[soooted]

Look for old versions or other Wordpress plugins that leave a fingerprint in HTML source. Or even something as simple as searching for old Copyright text: (c) 2010

 

[hellohe]

U have Shodan? Search for pagebuilders that beginner web devs use:

"PHP/5" + platform=wordpress
"PHP/7.0" + platform=wordpress
http.component:"wpbakery"
http.component:"divi"
"wp-content/themes/Avada/"
"wp-content/themes/betheme/"
etc...

 

[mark734i]

You could use a tool such as PublicWWW and search for strings that old website builders used to include in their source code. Apps like Microsoft Frontpage and Dreamweaver used to put specific comment tags and meta author/generator tags - if you can find some of them and search on PublicWWW you'll get websites from the stone age. Be aware though that a lot of such websites were designed by the website owner, and criticising a website for being outdated can make a lot of them cranky

Can you please tell me more technologies which can be used to find outdated websites like frontpage?

 

[Steptoe]

Can you please tell me more technologies which can be used to find outdated websites like frontpage?

There was another tool posted here: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/f...e-a-javascript-snippet.1471609/#post-16084001