really?? thats bad...
So this tool is only usefull to index a new website, not to climb in serps as I previously thought... (or just for a few days until links stick)
Huh? That's not bad. Think about it mathematically.
Let's assume there's 100,000,000 vBulletin forums on the internet using the recent visitors script. Now let's assume there are an average of 1,000 members per forum, that's 100,000,000,000 potential backlinks.
So the chances of 10 people knocking you off of every single profile is slim to nil.
If some of the features I mentioned were implemented that entire situation would be a non-issue because first of all if the bot scraped only the member links from the forum homepage, it would ping completely different people than anybody else because the odds of the exact same profiles being online are slim. Second, you could load your own link list, for example scrape a list of high PR threads/profiles and the app would scrape member links from those pages. So you could create a unique network of links on that page. Third, if you were able to schedule when the service ran, then you could re-index your links whenever.. Once a day, week, month, etc. Fourth, really the only way for 10 people to knock you off of the profile pages is for 10 separate people to ping every single profile on that forum. I'd imagine that would take forever, assuming it takes a few hours to run through one forum... Most people have THOUSANDS of XRumer profiles. So a few hours multiplied thousands of times makes it highly unlikely for this situation to occur.
PHPBuilt, people would definitely pay for something like this. How many subscribers does Linklicious and Lindexed have? Not to mention every mom and pop indexing site on the web? This method is pure genius and I would say you have two routes here. A.) Service. $20/month for X links per day, just like them. B.) Sell the app for $50-100 a copy and protect it well against pirates. (Maybe take notes from some existing apps, such as running this by way of a service that is always hosted on your machine and folks are paying to access the service file or something).
If you have several hundreds of dollars in software that are, at the current time, mainly useless for the majority of users, then of course this would sell. I would buy this software today for anything under $100.. And that's only because obviously I've not personally seen the results from this method, have not heard any third-party reviews of this method and of course the app is one dimensional; I'd honestly be worried about running this even on my campaign just based on how unnatural it would appear should this method become mainstream and Google starts piecing together profile->profile links.
I'm all about being as natural as possible.. And loading link lists, specifying custom ranges, and IMO the most powerful one would be "X percent of existing URLs chosen at random." So if there's 100,000 members, it randomly pings selects 10,000 of them and pings. This way, scheduling would serve a bigger purpose than simply re-indexing.. If you pinged 10% of members at random, then the next time you indexed there, you could end up with 20,000 profile links.
But I digress... Again, powerful platform.