Web Scraper Shortcode WordPress Plugin Review

This short post is on the WP-plugin called Web Scraper Shortcode, that enables one to retrieve a portion of a web page or a whole page and insert it directly into a post. This plugin might be used for getting fresh data or images from web pages for your WordPress driven page without even visiting it. More scraping plugins and sowtware you can find in here.

To install it in WordPress go to Plugins -> Add New.
Usage

The plugin scrapes the page content and applies parameters to this scraped page if specified. To use the plugin just insert the

[web-scraper ]

shortcode into the HTML view of the WordPress page where you want to display the excerpts of a page or the whole page. The parameters are as follows:

    url (self explanatory)
    element – the dom navigation element notation, similar to XPath.
    limit – the maximum number of elements to be scraped and inserted if the element notation points to several of them (like elements of the same class).

The use of the plugin is of the dom (Data Object Model) notation, where consecutive dom nodes are stated like node1.node2; for example: element = ‘div.img’. The specific element scrape goes thru ‘#notation’. Example: if you want to scrape several ‘div’ elements of the class ‘red’ (<div class=’red’>…<div>), you need to specify the element attribute this way: element = ‘div#red’.
How to find DOM notation?

But for inexperienced users, how is it possible to find the dom notation of the desired element(s) from the web page? Web Developer Tools are a handy means for this. I would refer you to this paragraph on how to invoke Web Developer Tools in the browser (Google Chrome) and select a single page element to inspect it. As you select it with the ‘loupe’ tool, on the bottom line you’ll see the blue box with the element’s dom notation:


The plugin content

As one who works with web scraping, I was curious about  the means that the plugin uses for scraping. As I looked at the plugin code, it turned out that the plugin acquires a web page through ‘simple_html_dom‘ class:

    require_once(‘simple_html_dom.php’);
    $html = file_get_html($url);
    then the code performs iterations over the designated elements with the set limit

Pitfalls

    Be careful if you put two or more [web-scraper] shortcodes on your website, since downloading other pages will drastically slow the page load speed. Even if you want only a small element, the PHP engine first loads the whole page and then iterates over its elements.
    You need to remember that many pictures on the web are indicated by shortened URLs. So when such an image gets extracted it might be visible to you in this way: , since the URL is shortened and the plugin does not take note of  its base URL.
    The error “Fatal error: Call to a member function find() on a non-object …” will occur if you put this shortcode in a text-overloaded post.

Summary

I’d recommend using this plugin for short posts to be added with other posts’ elements. The use of this plugin is limited though.



Source: http://extract-web-data.com/web-scraper-shortcode-wordpress-plugin-review/

Microsys A1 Website Scraper Review

The A1 scraper by Microsys is a program that is mainly used to scrape websites to extract data in large quantities for later use in webservices. The scraper works to extract text, URLs etc., using multiple Regexes and saving the output into a CSV file. This tool is can be compared with other web harvesting and web scraping services.
How it works
This scraper program works as follows:
Scan mode

    Go to the ScanWebsite tab and enter the site’s URL into the Path subtab.
    Press the ‘Start scan‘ button to cause the crawler to find text, links and other data on this website and cache them.

Important: URLs that you scrape data from have to pass filters defined in both analysis filters and output filters. The defining of those filters can be set at the Analysis filters and Output filters subtabs respectively. They must be set at the website analysis stage (mode).
Extract mode

    Go to the Scraper Options tab
    Enter the Regex(es) into the Regex input area.
    Define the name and path of the output CSV file.
    The scraper automatically finds and extracts the data according to Regex patterns.

The result will be stored in one CSV file for all the given URLs.

There is a need to mention that the set of regular expressions will be run against all the pages scraped.
Some more scraper features

Using the scraper as a website crawler also affords:

    URL filtering.
    Adjustment of the speed of crawling according to service needs rather than server load.

If  you need to extract data from a complex website, just disable Easy mode: out press the  button. A1 Scraper’s full tutorial is available here.
Conclusion

The A1 Scraper is good for mass gathering of URLs, text, etc., with multiple conditions set. However this scraping tool is designed for using only Regex expressions, which can increase the parsing process time greatly.



Source: http://extract-web-data.com/microsys-a1-website-scraper-review/

Visual Web Ripper: Using External Input Data Sources

Sometimes it is necessary to use external data sources to provide parameters for the scraping process. For example, you have a database with a bunch of ASINs and you need to scrape all product information for each one of them. As far as Visual Web Ripper is concerned, an input data source can be used to provide a list of input values to a data extraction project. A data extraction project will be run once for each row of input values.

An input data source is normally used in one of these scenarios:

    To provide a list of input values for a web form
    To provide a list of start URLs
    To provide input values for Fixed Value elements
    To provide input values for scripts

Visual Web Ripper supports the following input data sources:

    SQL Server Database
    MySQL Database
    OleDB Database
    CSV File
    Script (A script can be used to provide data from almost any data source)

To see it in action you can download a sample project that uses an input CSV file with Amazon ASIN codes to generate Amazon start URLs and extract some product data. Place both the project file and the input CSV file in the default Visual Web Ripper project folder (My Documents\Visual Web Ripper\Projects).

For further information please look at the manual topic, explaining how to use an input data source to generate start URLs.


Source: http://extract-web-data.com/visual-web-ripper-using-external-input-data-sources/

Using External Input Data in Off-the-shelf Web Scrapers

There is a question I’ve wanted to shed some light upon for a long time already: “What if I need to scrape several URL’s based on data in some external database?“.

For example, recently one of our visitors asked a very good question (thanks, Ed):

    “I have a large list of amazon.com asin. I would like to scrape 10 or so fields for each asin. Is there any web scraping software available that can read each asin from a database and form the destination url to be scraped like http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/{asin} and scrape the data?”

This question impelled me to investigate this matter. I contacted several web scraper developers, and they kindly provided me with detailed answers that allowed me to bring the following summary to your attention:
Visual Web Ripper

An input data source can be used to provide a list of input values to a data extraction project. A data extraction project will be run once for each row of input values. You can find the additional information here.
Web Content Extractor

You can use the -at”filename” command line option to add new URLs from TXT or CSV file:

    WCExtractor.exe projectfile -at”filename” -s

projectfile: the file name of the project (*.wcepr) to open.
filename – the file name of the CSV or TXT file that contains URLs separated by newlines.
-s – starts the extraction process

You can find some options and examples here.
Mozenda

Since Mozenda is cloud-based, the external data needs to be loaded up into the user’s Mozenda account. That data can then be easily used as part of the data extracting process. You can construct URLs, search for strings that match your inputs, or carry through several data fields from an input collection and add data to it as part of your output. The easiest way to get input data from an external source is to use the API to populate data into a Mozenda collection (in the user’s account). You can also input data in the Mozenda web console by importing a .csv file or importing one through our agent building tool.

Once the data is loaded into the cloud, you simply initiate building a Mozenda web agent and refer to that Data list. By using the Load page action and the variable from the inputs, you can construct a URL like http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/%asin%.
Helium Scraper

Here is a video showing how to do this with Helium Scraper:

The video shows how to use the input data as URLs and as search terms. There are many other ways you could use this data, way too many to fit in a video. Also, if you know SQL, you could run a query to get the data directly from an external MS Access database like
SELECT * FROM [MyTable] IN "C:\MyDatabase.mdb"

Note that the database needs to be a “.mdb” file.
WebSundew Data Extractor
Basically this allows using input data from external data sources. This may be CSV, Excel file or a Database (MySQL, MSSQL, etc). Here you can see how to do this in the case of an external file, but you can do it with a database in a similar way (you just need to write an SQL script that returns the necessary data).
In addition to passing URLs from the external sources you can pass other input parameters as well (input fields, for example).
Screen Scraper

Screen Scraper is really designed to be interoperable with all sorts of databases. We have composed a separate article where you can find a tutorial and a sample project about scraping Amazon products based on a list of their ASINs.

Source: http://extract-web-data.com/using-external-input-data-in-off-the-shelf-web-scrapers/

How to scrape Yellow Pages with ScreenScraper Chrome Extension

Recently I was asked to help with the job of scraping company information from the Yellow Pages website using the ScreenScraper Chrome Extension. After working with this

simple scraper, I decided to create a tutorial on how to use this Google Chrome Extension for scraping pages similar to this one. Hopefully, it will be useful to many of you.
1. Install the Chrome Extension

You can get the extension here. After installation you should see a small monitor icon in the top right corner of your Chrome browser.
2. Open the source page

Let’s open the page from which you want to scrape the company information:

3. Determine the parent element (row)

The first thing you need to do for the scraping is to determine which HTML element will be the parent element. A parent element is the smallest HTML element that contains all

the information items you need to scrape (in our case they are Company Name, Company Address and Contact Phone).  To some extent a parent element defines a data row in the

resulting table.

To determine it, open Google Chrome Developer Tools (by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I), click the magnifying class (at the bottom of the window) and select the parent element on the

page. I selected this one:

As soon as you have selected it, look into the developer tools window and you will see the HTML code related to this element:

As is seen from the highlighted HTML line, you can easily define a parent element by its class: listingInfoAndLogo.
5. Determine the information elements (columns)

After you have learned how to determine the parent element, it should be easy to specify the information elements that contain the information you want to scrape (they

represent columns in the resultant table).

Just do this in the same way that you did it for the parent element -  by selecting it on the page:

and looking at the highlighted HTML code below:
As you can see, the company name is defined by businessName class.
6. Tune the ScreenScraper itself

After all the data elements you want to scrape are found, open the ScreenScraper by clicking the small monitor icon in the top-right corner of your browser. Then do the

following:

    Enter the parent element class name (listingInfoAndLogo in our case) into the Selector field, preceding it with a dot (*see below for why)
    Click the Add Column button
    Enter a field’s name (any) into the Field text box
    Enter the information item class into the Selector text box, preceding it with a dot
    Repeat steps 2-4 for each information item element you want to be scraped

*You need to put a dot before the class name because the ScreenScraper requires element definition in CSS Selector format only (with a dot before it)

After you enter all these definitions you should see the preview of the scraped data at the bottom of the extension’s window:

If the result is satisfactory you can download it in JSON or CSV format by pressing the corresponding button.


Source: http://extract-web-data.com/how-to-scrape-yellow-pages-with-screenscraper-chrome-extension/

A simple way to turn a website into JSON

Recently, while surfing the web I stumbled upon an simple web scraping service named Web Scrape Master. It is a kind of RESTful web service that extracts data from a specified web site and returns it to you in JSON format.
How it works

Though I don’t know what this service may be useful for, I still like its simplicity: all you need to do is to make an HTTP GET request, passing all necessary parameters in the query string:
http://webscrapemaster.com/api/?url={url}&xpath={xpath}&attr={attr}&callback={callback}

    url  - the URL of the website you want to scrape
    xpath – xpath determining the data you need to extract
    attr - attribute the name you need to get the value of (optional)
    callback - JSON callback function (optional)

For example, for the following request to our testing ground:

http://webscrapemaster.com/api/?url=http://testing-ground.extract-web-data.com/blocks&xpath=//div[@id=case1]/div[1]/span[1]/div

You will get the following response:

[{"text":"<div class='name'>Dell Latitude D610-1.73 Laptop Wireless Computer</div>","attrs":{"class":"name"}}]
Visual Web Scraper

Also, this service offers a special visual tool for building such requests. All you need to do is to enter the URL of the website and click to the element you need to scrape:
Visual Web Scraper
Conclusion

Though I understand that the developer of this service is attempting to create a simple web scraping service, it is still hard to imagine where it can be useful. The task that the service does can be easily accomplished by means of any language.

Probably if you already have software receiving JSON from the web, and you want to feed it with data from some website, then you may find this service useful. The other possible application is to hide your IP when you do web scraping. If you have other ideas, it would be great if you shared them with us.



Source: http://extract-web-data.com/a-simple-way-to-turn-a-website-into-json/

Selenium IDE and Web Scraping

Selenium is a browser automation framework that includes IDE, Remote Control server and bindings of various flavors including Java, .Net, Ruby, Python and other. In this post we touch on the basic structure of the framework and its application to  Web Scraping.
What is Selenium IDE


Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium scripts. It is implemented as a Firefox plugin, and it allows recording browsers’ interactions in order to edit them. This works well for software tests, composing and debugging. The Selenium Remote Control is a server specific for a particular environment; it causes custom scripts to be implemented for controlled browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and iOS. How various Selenium components are supported with major browsers read here.
What does Selenium do and Web Scraping

Basically Selenium automates browsers. This ability is no doubt to be applied to web scraping. Since browsers (and Selenium) support JavaScript, jQuery and other methods working with dynamic content why not use this mix for benefit in web scraping, rather than to try to catch Ajax events with plain code? The second reason for this kind of scrape automation is browser-fasion data access (though today this is emulated with most libraries).

Yes, Selenium works to automate browsers, but how to control Selenium from a custom script to automate a browser for web scraping? There are Selenium PHP and other language libraries (bindings) providing for scripts to call and use Selenium. It is possible to write Selenium clients (using the libraries) in almost any language we prefer, for example Perl, Python, Java, PHP etc. Those libraries (API), along with a server, the Java written server that invokes browsers for actions, constitute the Selenum RC (Remote Control). Remote Control automatically loads the Selenium Core into the browser to control it. For more details in Selenium components refer to here.



A tough scrape task for programmer

“…cURL is good, but it is very basic.  I need to handle everything manually; I am creating HTTP requests by hand.
This gets difficult – I need to do a lot of work to make sure that the requests that I send are exactly the same as the requests that a browser would
send, both for my sake and for the website’s sake. (For my sake
because I want to get the right data, and for the website’s sake
because I don’t want to cause error messages or other problems on their site because I sent a bad request that messed with their web application).  And if there is any important javascript, I need to imitate it with PHP.
It would be a great benefit to me to be able to control a browser like Firefox with my code. It would solve all my problems regarding the emulation of a real browser…
it seems that Selenium will allow me to do this…” -Ryan S

Yes, that’s what we will consider below.
Scrape with Selenium

In order to create scripts that interact with the Selenium Server (Selenium RC, Selenium Remote Webdriver) or create local Selenium WebDriver script, there is the need to make use of language-specific client drivers (also called Formatters, they are included in the selenium-ide-1.10.0.xpi package). The Selenium servers, drivers and bindings are available at Selenium download page.
The basic recipe for scrape with Selenium:

    Use Chrome or Firefox browsers
    Get Firebug or Chrome Dev Tools (Cntl+Shift+I) in action.
    Install requirements (Remote control or WebDriver, libraries and other)
    Selenium IDE : Record a ‘test’ run thru a site, adding some assertions.
    Export as a Python (other language) script.
    Edit it (loops, data extraction, db input/output)
    Run script for the Remote Control

The short intro Slides for the scraping of tough websites with Python & Selenium are here (as Google Docs slides) and here (Slide Share).
Selenium components for Firefox installation guide

For how to install the Selenium IDE to Firefox see  here starting at slide 21. The Selenium Core and Remote Control installation instructions are there too.
Extracting for dynamic content using jQuery/JavaScript with Selenium

One programmer is doing a similar thing …

1. launch a selenium RC (remote control) server
2. load a page
3. inject the jQuery script
4. select the interested contents using jQuery/JavaScript
5. send back to the PHP client using JSON.

He particularly finds it quite easy and convenient to use jQuery for
screen scraping, rather than using PHP/XPath.
Conclusion

The Selenium IDE is the popular tool for browser automation, mostly for its software testing application, yet also in that Web Scraping techniques for tough dynamic websites may be implemented with IDE along with the Selenium Remote Control server. These are the basic steps for it:

    Record the ‘test‘ browser behavior in IDE and export it as the custom programming language script
    Formatted language script runs on the Remote Control server that forces browser to send HTTP requests and then script catches the Ajax powered responses to extract content.

Selenium based Web Scraping is an easy task for small scale projects, but it consumes a lot of memory resources, since for each request it will launch a new browser instance.



Source: http://extract-web-data.com/selenium-ide-and-web-scraping/

Online Data Entry Positions From Home - Know What Is Required

Some of the hardened data entry workers are earning a lot of money each and every day, the opportunity to earn hundreds of dollars per day are not a myth. Many people started out just entering data in a part time role. Once they got into the swing of things they soon realised that it was well within their power to take this part time job to the next level and earn some serious money.

As an online data entry worker you no longer have to worry about financial issues, you can quite easily give up your day jobs and stay at home to earn money. The time is right for considering such a change of life style, increases in interest rates and the cost of living means that a standard salary just isn't enough any more. People with steady 9-5 jobs are barely scraping by every month. The reason I started this home was to be able to spend time with my young children and to earn a little bit of extra cash. I never realised that the potential was available to actually make a full time living from it, let alone a very good living.

There are no free data entry work from home jobs which are even worth signing up for, save your time and keep looking for companies which actually give you all the information you need to get started. I signed up for a few free schemes and they weren't worth the time it took to fill in a subscription form. Good data entry from home positions are available, just be careful while researching. Many companies promise you the earth but far from deliver, unfortunately this means that genuine people have to search a lot harder to earn money online.

If you want to know how I earn money online then keep reading.

Any job can have its ups and downs, just try to keep focusing on the reason you started and the goals you wish to achieve. If you start to feel stressed or under pressure take a walk or do something else which will clear your head for a couple of hours.

Only you can decide how much or how little you can achieve in one day, so you don't have to push yourself to the limit every day or it will soon become hard work, which isn't why you want to start data entry from home




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Business Intelligence Data Mining

Data mining can be technically defined as the automated extraction of hidden information from large databases for predictive analysis. In other words, it is the retrieval of useful information from large masses of data, which is also presented in an analyzed form for specific decision-making.

Data mining requires the use of mathematical algorithms and statistical techniques integrated with software tools. The final product is an easy-to-use software package that can be used even by non-mathematicians to effectively analyze the data they have. Data Mining is used in several applications like market research, consumer behavior, direct marketing, bioinformatics, genetics, text analysis, fraud detection, web site personalization, e-commerce, healthcare, customer relationship management, financial services and telecommunications.

Business intelligence data mining is used in market research, industry research, and for competitor analysis. It has applications in major industries like direct marketing, e-commerce, customer relationship management, healthcare, the oil and gas industry, scientific tests, genetics, telecommunications, financial services and utilities. BI uses various technologies like data mining, scorecarding, data warehouses, text mining, decision support systems, executive information systems, management information systems and geographic information systems for analyzing useful information for business decision making.

Business intelligence is a broader arena of decision-making that uses data mining as one of the tools. In fact, the use of data mining in BI makes the data more relevant in application. There are several kinds of data mining: text mining, web mining, social networks data mining, relational databases, pictorial data mining, audio data mining and video data mining, that are all used in business intelligence applications.

Some data mining tools used in BI are: decision trees, information gain, probability, probability density functions, Gaussians, maximum likelihood estimation, Gaussian Baves classification, cross-validation, neural networks, instance-based learning /case-based/ memory-based/non-parametric, regression algorithms, Bayesian networks, Gaussian mixture models, K-means and hierarchical clustering, Markov models and so on.




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Basics of Web Data Mining and Challenges in Web Data Mining Process

Today World Wide Web is flooded with billions of static and dynamic web pages created with programming languages such as HTML, PHP and ASP. Web is great source of information offering a lush playground for data mining. Since the data stored on web is in various formats and are dynamic in nature, it's a significant challenge to search, process and present the unstructured information available on the web.

Complexity of a Web page far exceeds the complexity of any conventional text document. Web pages on the internet lack uniformity and standardization while traditional books and text documents are much simpler in their consistency. Further, search engines with their limited capacity can not index all the web pages which makes data mining extremely inefficient.

Moreover, Internet is a highly dynamic knowledge resource and grows at a rapid pace. Sports, News, Finance and Corporate sites update their websites on hourly or daily basis. Today Web reaches to millions of users having different profiles, interests and usage purposes. Every one of these requires good information but don't know how to retrieve relevant data efficiently and with least efforts.

It is important to note that only a small section of the web possesses really useful information. There are three usual methods that a user adopts when accessing information stored on the internet:

• Random surfing i.e. following large numbers of hyperlinks available on the web page.
• Query based search on Search Engines - use Google or Yahoo to find relevant documents (entering specific keywords queries of interest in search box)
• Deep query searches i.e. fetching searchable database from eBay.com's product search engines or Business.com's service directory, etc.

To use the web as an effective resource and knowledge discovery researchers have developed efficient data mining techniques to extract relevant data easily, smoothly and cost-effectively.

Should you have any queries regarding Web Data mining processes, please feel free to contact us at info@outsourcingwebresearch.com





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The Benefits of Data Mining

Data mining can truly help a business reach its fullest potential. It is a way to assess how business is being affected by certain characteristics, and can help business owners increase their profits and avoid making business mistakes down the line. Essentially, through this process, a business is analyzing certain data from different perspectives in order to get a full rounded view of how their company is doing. Business owners can get a broad perspective on things such as customer trending, where they are losing money and where they are making money. The information can also reveal ways that can help a business cut unneeded costs and can help them increase their overall income.

Data mining software is one tool that can help a company assess and analyze their data in more efficient terms. It can be extremely user friendly and allow people to delve into their data from a variety of different angles and points of view. In more technical terms, data mining software allows you to see the correlations and patterns of one's own data compared with those across many other regional databases.

People have been using data mining for many years in different formats. Only since the technology has become available has data software been used. But there have been many ways in the past for companies to assess their data and use it to their advantage. By taking polls, or using store scanners, product codes and bar codes, people have been able to gather data, analyze it and use it to their advantage. But it cannot be denied that the availability of greater technology has greatly increased the ability to store or gather data, make predictions about outcomes and use customer trend reports to greater advantages. The ability to store infinite amounts of data has given business owners a great advantage and truly has helped increase sales and lower costs. This data mining has actually led to data being stored in data warehouses. In data warehouses, various organizations will integrate their mined data into one large data warehouse. The information accessible in data warehouses is available to further help companies reduce risk taking and integrate proper selling techniques to improve business.

Data mining also can allow companies to see where their best selling points are and give them the opportunity to take advantage of this information. For example, if a pharmacy places a display of lip balm at the cashier counter, data mining can detect how many people bought lip balm from the cashier counter rather people who bought the lip balm when it was placed at another point in the store. Data mining can determine where the most effective points of sale are throughout a store or if a certain promotion went well one time of the month, but did not go well at another time of the month. Companies can make offers based on the buying habits of their customers as well.

Data mining can truly help businesses reach their highest profitability by paying attention to customer trending.

Improving your overall business performance is never easy. However, new innovations in data mining software can increase your information forecasting capabilities and enhance your profit drivers as well!




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Data Entry Services From India - Definitely Boon-Rich

Whatever the opinion of the US presidency concerning outsourcing to India, the practice is sure to continue for a long, long time. The monetary benefits from outsourcing become crystal clear when you look at this statistic for the pay of entry level accountants. For a US worker, the hourly wage is $23 but for a company in India, it is only $11.22. The scope of data entry services from India is really wide with centers in the country offering their assistance for finance, academic, insurance, healthcare, website and legal related applications of these services. Read more of this article and understand why outsourcing of the back office task to the world's largest democracy is definitely boon rich.

Data Entry Services from India - the Benefits

The first important benefit as discussed in the first paragraph is the monetary benefit. US companies can cut their operating expenses by at least 30 percent when they outsource to India. This is because of the reduced operating expenses of companies in India, which in turn is because of the lower costs for leases, rents, utility rates, taxes and so on. More benefits are discussed below:

• Experts in the English language - India excels many other countries in English language competence. Thus use of language in the output and communication is not a problem. A lot of companies in India are giving their staff training in US accent, so that too is not a problem.

• Advantageous Time Difference - Some people may see the time difference between the US and India as disadvantageous because they wouldn't be working at the same time. However, the time difference is actually advantageous because US companies can function for more number of hours. When the employees of the US companies sleep, the employees of the Indian companies would be hard at work to finish the back office task by the specified deadline.

• Quality Output - You can expect to get practically error-free output from the country because of the employees being highly educated. These employees (a lot of them in the 16 to 25 age group) also have exceptional knowledge of software and other Information Technology. Quality levels are consistently maintained through the process of double entry which is very beneficial in identifying and correcting arbitrary miskeyed strokes that even experienced data entry staff would miss.

• Reduce Risks - Indian providers of data entry services are known for their expertise. So while you're busy taking care of your everyday core business responsibilities, they're giving you error-free output that can reduce error-related risks for your business.

• Favorable Turnaround - This is a benefit which many Indian business process outsourcing companies highlight on their websites. Whatever the volume of your project, it would be within a favorable turnaround without compromising quality.

More Advantageous Services

It's not just data entry services but also medical transcription, medical billing and coding, website design, search engine optimization, call center operations and other services from India which are boon rich. Companies across the globe know this and continue to benefit from the fact.

As a leading outsourcing company, Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) can help you streamline your data entry processes and improve the overall functioning of your organization.




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The A B C D of Data Mining Services

If you are very new to the term 'data mining', let the meaning be explained to you. It is form of back office support services that are being offered by many call centers to analyze data from numerous resources and amalgamate them for some useful task. The business establishments in the present generation need to develop a strategy that helps them to cooperate with the market trends and allow them to perform well. The process of data mining is actually the retrieval process of essential and informative data that helps an organization to analyze the business perspectives and can further generate better interests in cutting cost, developing revenue and to acquire valuable data on business services/products.

It is a powerful analytical tool that permits the user to customize a wide range of data in different formats and categories as per their necessity. The data mining process is an integral part of a business plan for companies that need to undertake a diverse research on the customer building process. These analytical skills are generally performed by skilled industrial experts who assist the firms to accelerate their growth through the critical business activities. With a vast applicability in the present time, the back office support services with the data mining process is helping the businesses in understanding and predicting valuable information. Some of them include:

    Profiles of customers
    Customer buying behavior
    Customer buying trends
    Industry analysis

For a layman it is somewhat the process of processing some statistical data or methods. These processes are implemented with some specific tools that preform the following:

    Automated model scoring
    Business templates
    Computing target columns
    Database integration
    Exporting models to other applications
    Incorporating financial information

There are some benefits of Data Mining. Few of them are as follows:

    To understand the requirements of the customers which can help in efficient planning.
    Helps in minimizing risk and improve ROI.
    Generate more business and target the relevant market.
    Risk free outsourcing experience
    Provide data access to business analysts
    A better understanding of the demand supply graph
    Improve profitability by detect unusual pattern in sales, claims, transactions
    To cut down the expenses of Direct Marketing

Data mining is generally a part of the offshore back office services and outsourced to business establishments that require diverse data base on customers and their particular approach towards any service or product. For example banks, telecommunication companies, insurance companies, etc. require huge data base to promote their new policies. If you represent a similar company that needs appropriate data mining process then it is better that you outsource back office support services from a third party and fulfill your business goals with excellent results.

Katie Cardwell works as a senior sales and marketing analyst for a multinational call center company, based in United States of America. She takes care of all the business operations and analysis the back office support services that power an organization. Her extensive knowledge and expertise on Non -voice call center services such as Data Mining Services, Back office support services, etc, have helped many business players to stand with a straight spine and thus making a foothold in the data processing industry.




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Autoposting Content on Your Website - Beware the Pitfalls

With the demands on your time as a business owner, you may be very tempted to auto-post content to your site. After all, you have heard of the benefits of having content on your site -- in fact, many would say that unless your site has thousands of pages, you won't even register on Google's radar... That is true to some extent. But auto-posting content to your site is like carrying a knife to a gunfight.

What is auto-posting? Very simply, there is software you can get for a site that will automatically troll the Internet for content in public domain areas based on keywords you choose, and then post that content to your blog or website. This could be in the form of videos, RSS feeds, articles, etc. You can literally put thousands of pages a week on your site, or just a few a day. You're probably thinking, "Thousands of pages of content on keywords that are relevant to my website? What's could be bad about that?" The short answer -- everyone else is posting that content, too. That's what Google calls duplicate content. Google does not appreciate duplicate content, which is Internet speak for showing up at a cocktail party and repeating verbatim what the host is saying. Pretty irritating... Duplicate content is an issue with degrees of offense. If you put two identical articles on your website, that has a "large footprint" to Google. It's obvious that you're posting duplicate content, and it's easy for them to see that.

Even if you just change one word in an article -- for example, changing "Los Angeles" to "Santa Clarita, CA" -- it's still duplicate content. If you think Google is just a group of stupid servers on a farm somewhere, those computers are driven by sophisticated algorithms that have seen a thing or two... Not to mention the thousands of engineers and content cops Google employs to keep the Internet an intelligent place to be. A lesser duplicate content offense is using content in multiple places on the Internet. It's not clear how much Google rewards or penalizes duplicate content here, nor is it clear who is clearly rewarded and punished. This is where the fuzzy logic side of Google kicks in (read: content cops); if you scrape content from a Page 1 site, and you're a Page 1000 site, the Page 1 site will get the boost and you will lose. If the Page 1 site steals from the Page 1000 site, that's less known, but it's surmised that the higher ranking site will have higher buoyancy factors that will make the damage minimal. When you're a Page 1000 site, you just don't need penalties of any kind... Please note I'm specifically not using "Page Rank" to talk about sites, because Page Rank is merely an expression to describe the relative importance of a site, and it's usually based on how many backlinks (and the types of backlinks) a site is getting, rather than other factors. Rather, I'm speaking in very practical terms of where your site ranks for any given keyword in your niche, not Page Rank or PR.

The other problem with scraping content and auto-posting it is the lack of control you may have. Even the best filters and plugins are still vulnerable to content spammers. Consider a case in point with a recent site I worked on. The site was filled with dozens of posts of unsavory content that the site owner did not even know they had scraped and loaded onto their site! Imagine their customers arriving for useful information and finding barely clothed women instead. NOT good for branding! The owner did everything right -- they installed the content scraper, chose appropriate keywords, etc. But there are forces on the Internet who play a game; if they know there's a large audience for a given keyword, they will usurp that keyword and include it with their spam content. The content gets scraped, loaded onto your site, and you are now spamming your own customer. Even if the content source deletes the spam content from its website, you still have it on yours!

These are a few of the pitfalls of autoposting content on your site. Saving time and finding shortcuts are good goals, just be sure you're not alienating your site's visitors in the process. You're responsible for what is on your website, no one else.

John Flynn is an online marketing consultant for real business, specializing in creating profitable websites for brick & mortar businesses and finding hidden niches of revenue for his clients. Mr. Flynn managed his first web property in the Internet's infancy in 1999, and combines his years of online expertise with over 12 years operating a chain of specialty retail stores and over 9 years in a successful service-based business prior to starting his business consulting firm [http://kineticswebpro.com]. Mention this article for $100 discount on consulting services for your web business.




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Data Conversion Services - Transform Your Data Professionally

Data is least comprehensible when it is in a format unsupported by many of the usual data reading systems. This leaves us with a prudent choice - to convert data, which are in different formats to one or many of those commonly used formats. However, conversion shall get tricky and tedious if done by people who don't have any proficiency in transforming the formats. Data conversion services are being done by a team of experts who form a company and do this quite professionally. Resorting to such professionals would mean a lot to your business since they are the ones who are capable of producing desires output with the least possible proportion of error in the documented files that they submit at the end of the conversion process.

Many service providers especially from India have proven their capabilities of handling bulk projects quite regularly yet being able to deliver error-free documented forms of the desired output. To add, they have got the right mix of technological resources in the shape of few domestic systems in conjunction with a few resourceful application software with which they are able to deliver results every time. Plus, they also tend to put a line of validating systems in place so as to make sure there is not any undesirable change effected in the output once the conversion process is done. Once they manage to find a few mistakes or anomalies in the conversion system, they don't hesitate to overcome those by putting them under check and removing the bugs at necessary instances.

Only quite a few types of conversion are beholden as to be the primary ones having superior importance to several conversion mechanisms. In fact, the scenario is that the large scale and medium scale businesses demand only quite a few conversion mechanisms such as the PDF Conversion, XML Conversion, Book conversion, HTML Conversion to end with the OCR conversion. Through such a scattered set of primary data conversion practices, they lend their hand to assist in converting, extracting relevant amount of data from the sources, transcribing the rich set of essential information relevant to the current needs of the client and consolidating data so that on the whole the entire set of converted data is compatible to be read by the systems incorporated in the client's place.

No doubt, the data presented to them regardless of its format will be returned as a readily usable piece of information that can be customized to any form that we need it to see in. In most of the cases, they do not consume much of the time than what they should be given since they are dealing with several processes concurrently whose progress reflects on the output you receive from them. Moreover, they also shunt the possibility of these important data to be hacked by any third party by providing enough protection. Till niow, you have been reading about some benefits that you enjoy about the data conversion services, which do not charge much for working on your documents. Isn't it the biggest of all benefits?

Isn't it something important to catch hold of a reliable data conversion services provider? If you think so simply follow this link and you would get close to having a high-quality data conversion services transform raw data into usable piece of official information.



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Web Data Extraction Services and Data Collection Form Website Pages

For any business market research and surveys plays crucial role in strategic decision making. Web scrapping and data extraction techniques help you find relevant information and data for your business or personal use. Most of the time professionals manually copy-paste data from web pages or download a whole website resulting in waste of time and efforts.

Instead, consider using web scraping techniques that crawls through thousands of website pages to extract specific information and simultaneously save this information into a database, CSV file, XML file or any other custom format for future reference.

Examples of web data extraction process include:
• Spider a government portal, extracting names of citizens for a survey
• Crawl competitor websites for product pricing and feature data
• Use web scraping to download images from a stock photography site for website design

Automated Data Collection
Web scraping also allows you to monitor website data changes over stipulated period and collect these data on a scheduled basis automatically. Automated data collection helps you discover market trends, determine user behavior and predict how data will change in near future.

Examples of automated data collection include:
• Monitor price information for select stocks on hourly basis
• Collect mortgage rates from various financial firms on daily basis
• Check whether reports on constant basis as and when required

Using web data extraction services you can mine any data related to your business objective, download them into a spreadsheet so that they can be analyzed and compared with ease.

In this way you get accurate and quicker results saving hundreds of man-hours and money!

With web data extraction services you can easily fetch product pricing information, sales leads, mailing database, competitors data, profile data and many more on a consistent basis.




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Know What the Truth Behind Data Mining Outsourcing Service

We came to that, what we call the information age where industries are like useful data needed for decision-making, the creation of products - among other essential uses for business. Information mining and converting them to useful information is a part of this trend that allows companies to reach their optimum potential. However, many companies that do not meet even one deal with data mining question because they are simply overwhelmed with other important tasks. This is where data mining outsourcing comes in.

There have been many definitions to introduced, but it can be simply explained as a process that involves sorting through large amounts of raw data to extract valuable information needed by industries and enterprises in various fields. In most cases this is done by professionals, professional organizations and financial analysts. He has seen considerable growth in the number of sectors or groups that enter my self.
There are a number of reasons why there is a rapid growth in data mining outsourcing service subscriptions. Some of them are presented below:

A wide range of services

Many companies are turning to information mining outsourcing, because they cover a wide range of services. These services include, but are not limited to data from web applications congregation database, collect contact information from different sites, extract data from websites using the software, the sort of stories from sources news, information and accumulate commercial competitors.

Many companies fall

Many industries benefit because it is fast and realistic. The information extracted by data mining service providers of outsourcing used in crucial decisions in the field of direct marketing, e-commerce, customer relationship management, health, scientific tests and other experimental work, telecommunications, financial services, and a whole lot more.

A lot of advantages

Subscribe data mining outsourcing services it's offers many benefits, as providers assures customers to render services to world standards. They strive to work with improved technologies, scalability, sophisticated infrastructure, resources, timeliness, cost, the system safer for the security of information and increased market coverage.

Outsourcing allows companies to focus their core business and can improve overall productivity. Not surprisingly, information mining outsourcing has been a first choice of many companies - to propel the business to higher profits.




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Data Entry Services For Organization - Outsource Data Entry Services

It is unimportant that you have a small business or big organization to serve large audience. Information is an important aspect for any size or kind of company. In business, profitability is main focus. Currently, there is constant fluctuation in business world. Every business has to be dynamic with high tempo.

In such a high pressured business environment, quick accessibility of accurate and detailed information is essential. If you know more about your customer, industry, trend and other factor which affect your business, you can quickly compare your business and increase the value. To manage such requirements, data entry services are the best option. Typing services not only control all information but also control information management effectively.

For any business that wants to extract data from any source, data entry services are necessity. Different types of businesses require different services. Some organizations choose offline data typing services while other gives significance to online data typing services. The main purpose of data typing services are same - organizing data properly for future use. Data typing services also include image entry, book entry, card entry, hand-written entry, legal document entry, insurance claim entry and other.

The general idea about data entry services are entering data into business database. But it's not just; it also includes data collection, extraction and processing. Such typing task is very time consuming. These tasks can be performed quickly and efficiently by data typing expert. So, such professionals are in high demand.

Some years ago, it was assumed that only in-house personnel could really understand the company's products or services. But today, various business process outsourcing companies are having typing experts who are quite knowledgeable in almost every field of business. They can easily manage your requirements and deliver the best result.

Typing service companies can manage your information with higher efficiency and produce quicker result. In current scenario, business organizations do not waver to outsource the typing task. Now, most of the companies are outsourcing their typing task and getting benefit of higher productivity and profitability.

Business organizations have understood the importance of managing information and necessity of data entry services.

Bea Arthur is a quality controller at Data Entry India that provides Data Entry Services, Data Conversion Services and Data Processing Services. They are having more than 17 years of experience in data entry services.




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Data Conversion Services

Data conversion services have a unique place in this internet driven, fast-growing business world. Whatever be the field - educational, health, legal, research or any other - data conversion services play a crucial role in building and maintaining the records, directories and databases of a system. With this service, firms can convert their files and databases from one format or media to another.

Data conversion services help firms to convert their valuable data and information stored and accumulated in papers into digital format for long-term storage - for the purpose of archiving, easy searching, accessing and sharing.

Now there are many big and small highly competent business process outsourcing (BPO) companies providing a full range of reliable and trustworthy data conversion services to the clients worldwide. Most of these BPO firms are fully equipped with excellent infrastructural facilities and skilled manpower to provide data conversion services catering to the clients' expectations and specifications. These firms can effectively play an important role in improving a company's document/data lifecycle management. With the application of high speed scanners and data processors, these firms can expertly and accurately convert any voluminous and complex data into digital formats, all within the specified time and budget. Moreover, they use state-of-the-art encryption techniques to ensure privacy and security of data transmission over the Internet. The following are the important services offered by the companies in this area:

o Document scanning and conversion
o File format conversion
o XML conversion
o SGML conversion
o CAD conversion
o OCR clean up, ICR, OMR
o Image Conversion
o Book conversion
o HTML conversion
o PDF conversion
o Extracting data from catalog
o Catalog conversion
o Indexing
o Scanning from hard copies, microfilms, microfiche, aperture cards, and large-scale drawings

Thus, by entrusting a data conversion project to an expert outsourcing company, firms can enjoy numerous advantages in terms of quality, efficiency and cost. Some of its key benefits are:

o Avoids paper work
o Cuts down operating expenses and excessive staffing
o Helps to rely on core business activities
o Promotes business as effectively as possible
o Systemizes company's data in simpler format
o Eliminates data redundancy
o Easy accessibility of data at any time

If you are planning to outsource your data conversion work, then you must choose the provider carefully in order to reap the fullest benefits of the services.

Data conversion experts at Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) provides full conversion services of paper, microfilm, aperture cards, and large-scale drawings, through scanning, indexing, OCR, quality control and export of the archive and books to electronic formats or the final imaging solution. MOS is a US company providing managed outsource solutions that are focused on several industries, including medical, legal, information technology and media.



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Effective Online Data Entry Services

The outsourcing market has many enthusiastic buyers who have paid a small amount to online data entry service providers. They carry the opinion that they have paid too low as against the work they have got done. Online services is helpful to a number of smaller business units who take these projects as their significant source of occupation.

Online data-entry services include data typing, product entry, web and mortgage research, data mining as well as extraction services. Service providers allot proficient workforce at your service who timely deliver best possible results. They have updated technology, guaranteeing 100% data security.

Few obvious benefits found by outsourcing online data entry:

    Business units receive quality online entry services from projects owners.
    Entering data is the first step for companies through which they get the understanding of the work that makes strategic decisions. The raw data represented by mere numbers soon turns to be a decision making factor accelerating the progress of the business.
    Systems used by these services are completely protected to maintain high level of security.
    As you increasingly obtain high quality of information the business executive of the company is expected to arrive at extraordinary decisions which influence progress in the company.
    Shortened turnaround time.
    Cutting down on cost by saving on operational overheads.

Companies are highly fascinated by the benefits of outsourcing your projects for these services, as it saves time as well as money.

Flourishing companies want to concentrate on their key business activities instead of exploring into such non-key business activities. They take a wise step of outsourcing their work to data-entry-services and keep themselves free for their core business functions.

One such company they opt for is Offshore Data Entry who provides 99.995 % accuracy for projects.



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Text Data Mining Can Be Profitable

There are billions of search terms performed on the internet every year,and the companies which make use of this vast amount of information are the ones who will be able to market effectively in the future. It is here that text data mining comes into its own, a technique which enables researchers to find patterns within groups of text which will enable them to make predictions as to how customers or other groups of people will act in the future. This article will take a look at text data mining and how we can help various groups of people to find the best things in the data analysis.

It is always a good idea to do some study of the text mining techniques before going on to text mining implementation, and this can be said to be especially true of the insurance industry where not only text mining but also generic data mining using in statistics can be a great help in determining profitability and also showing actuaries how to make future calculations.

Consultancy is an important part of text data mining, and the text mining consultant can bring a huge amount of knowledge to a company whatever the service or services that are providing, particularly if he has an extensive knowledge of text data mining technology and can help to build a system around it.

Of course it is not only commercial applications that can use text mining, because it also has used in security, in that it can help to track criminal intent on the Internet. There are also applications in the biomedical world, in order to help find clusters of data in the right way. But it is in the online world and in the field of marketing that text mining is being used extensively, particularly in customer relationship management [CRM] techniques, where the tools are among some of the most advanced.

Knowing how text mining algorithms work is essential for any consultant who works in this field, because it is an important tool in the marketing technique possibilities. By understanding how text data mining can help an organization a consultant or marketer can make great strides in profitability and this is something that most organizations would be glad for.



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Basics of Online Web Research, Web Mining & Data Extraction Services

The evolution of the World Wide Web and Search engines has brought the abundant and ever growing pile of data and information on our finger tips. It has now become a popular and important resource for doing information research and analysis.

Today, Web research services are becoming more and more complicated. It involves various factors such as business intelligence and web interaction to deliver desired results.

Web Researchers can retrieve web data using search engines (keyword queries) or browsing specific web resources. However, these methods are not effective. Keyword search gives a large chunk of irrelevant data. Since each webpage contains several outbound links it is difficult to extract data by browsing too.

Web mining is classified into web content mining, web usage mining and web structure mining. Content mining focuses on the search and retrieval of information from web. Usage mining extract and analyzes user behavior. Structure mining deals with the structure of hyperlinks.

Web mining services can be divided into three subtasks:

Information Retrieval (IR): The purpose of this subtask is to automatically find all relevant information and filter out irrelevant ones. It uses various Search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc and other resources to find the required information.

Generalization: The goal of this subtask is to explore users' interest using data extraction methods such as clustering and association rules. Since web data are dynamic and inaccurate, it is difficult to apply traditional data mining techniques directly on the raw data.

Data Validation (DV): It tries to uncover knowledge from the data provided by former tasks. Researcher can test various models, simulate them and finally validate given web information for consistency.



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Data Entry - Why Are Data Entry Services So Cheap?

Data entry has become a requirement these days for a lot of company that need to have their physical data input in order to make digital files out of them. This is turn makes the documents more manageable and accessible and saves a lot of time and space whilst improving efficiency. So how can companies that offer data entry charge such a low rate for the services?

Well it can all depend on the type of data that is being input. For example, if the data that needs making digital is already from a document which has been typed and printed or typed using a typewriter then sophisticated software can be used in order to extract the data quickly and simply. This means that because the process is automated, this saves a lot of time and man power. Often this software will have been developed in-house or especially for the company themselves.

If the data is handwritten then it will need to be input manually, and this is where things can get a little more expensive. But amazingly, not by much. Data entry has become increasingly cheap over the last few years and the main reason for this is outsourcing. A lot of companies, whether admitting it or not, may be outsourcing the work to the east where the work can be done at that same level or quality for significantly less. A lot of companies are fine with admitting this, but others are not so sure, primarily because this may put people off the service. However in our experience, the data capture staff that we have used have excellent English skills and offer work done to a similar level to that of an English-language based company.

If you're not sure you like the idea of this and are looking at getting data entry or data capture completed, ask the company where they have their data captured from. Most companies will be honest and tell you, but it's usually fairly obvious by the rate that they charge for the data entry itself. Ask how long they have worked with the data capturing company for and also make sure to request a sample of their work and perhaps the data entry company will be willing to get a sample made especially for you. But make sure to look for companies which have secured the ISO 9001:2000 as this ensures that work is checked over by a third-party to ensure quality.

Steve Wright is marketing manager with Pearl Scan solutions a document scanning and data entry company from the UK. We offer top quality data entry services for our clients with a 98% accuracy rating. Ask us about our data entry staff if you'd like to know more and we'd be happy to tell you more.



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Facts on Data Mining

Data mining is the process of examining a data set to extract certain patterns. Companies use this process to determine the outcome of their existing goals. They summarize this information into useful methods to create revenue and/or cut costs. When search engines are accessed, they begin to build lists of links from the first page it accesses. It continues this process throughout the site until it reaches the root page. This data not only includes text, but also numbers and facts.

Data mining focuses on consumers in relation to both "internal" (price, product positioning), and "external" (competition, demographics) factors which help determine consumer price, customer satisfaction, and corporate profits. It also provides a link between separate transactions and analytical systems. Four types of relationships are sought with data mining:

o Classes - information used to increase traffic
o Clusters - grouped to determine consumer preferences or logical relationships
o Associations - used to group products normally bought together (i.e., bacon, eggs; milk, bread)
o Patterns - used to anticipate behavior trends

This process provides numerous benefits to businesses, governments, society, and especially individuals as a whole. It starts with a cleaning process which removes errors and ensures consistency. Algorithms are then used to "mine" the data to establish patterns. With all new technology, there are positives and negatives. One negative issue that arises from the process is privacy. Although it is against the law, the selling of personal information over the Internet has occurred. Companies have to obtain certain personal information to be able to properly conduct their business. The problem is that the security systems in place are not adequately protecting this information.

From a customer viewpoint, data mining benefits businesses more than their interests. Their personal information is out there, possibly unprotected, and there is nothing they can do until a negative issue arises. On the other hand, from the business side, it helps enhance overall operations and aid in better customer satisfaction. In regards to the government, they use personal data to tighten security systems and protect the public from terrorism; however, they want to protect people's privacy rights as well. With numerous servers, databases, and websites out there, it becomes increasingly difficult to enforce stricter laws. The more information we introduce to the web, the greater the chances of someone hacking into this data.

Better security systems should be developed before data mining can truly benefit all parties involved. Privacy invasion can ruin people's lives. It can take months, even years, to regain a level of trust that our personal information will be protected. Benefits aside, the safety and well being of any human being should be top priority.



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Beneficial Data Collection Services

Internet is becoming the biggest source for information gathering. Varieties of search engines are available over the World Wide Web which helps in searching any kind of information easily and quickly. Every business needs relevant data for their decision making for which market research plays a crucial role. One of the services booming very fast is the data collection services. This data mining service helps in gathering relevant data which is hugely needed for your business or personal use.

Traditionally, data collection has been done manually which is not very feasible in case of bulk data requirement. Although people still use manual copying and pasting of data from Web pages or download a complete Web site which is shear wastage of time and effort. Instead, a more reliable and convenient method is automated data collection technique. There is a web scraping techniques that crawls through thousands of web pages for the specified topic and simultaneously incorporates this information into a database, XML file, CSV file, or other custom format for future reference. Few of the most commonly used web data extraction processes are websites which provide you information about the competitor's pricing and featured data; spider is a government portal that helps in extracting the names of citizens for an investigation; websites which have variety of downloadable images.

Aside, there is a more sophisticated method of automated data collection service. Here, you can easily scrape the web site information on daily basis automatically. This method greatly helps you in discovering the latest market trends, customer behavior and the future trends. Few of the major examples of automated data collection solutions are price monitoring information; collection of data of various financial institutions on a daily basis; verification of different reports on a constant basis and use them for taking better and progressive business decisions.

While using these service make sure you use the right procedure. Like when you are retrieving data download it in a spreadsheet so that the analysts can do the comparison and analysis properly. This will also help in getting accurate results in a faster and more refined manner.




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Outsource Your Work To Data Entry Services To Convert Your Paperwork To An Electronic Format

Among the many services that are outsourced, data entry services are much in demand. While the job profile might seem simple it does in fact require a certain degree of exactness and an eye for detail. Maintaining and handling the client confidentiality is also very important. Data needs to be processed and the first step is always entering the information in the system. An operator needs to be careful while entering information in the system as often this data is used to collate data and for statistical reports and is also the foundation for all the information on the company. These services include much more than just basic information in this technology driven age. An operator today has projects that require Image entry, card Entry, legal document's entry, medical claim entry, entry for online survey forms, online indexing, copying, pasting and sorting of data etc.

A Data entry operator is competent at handling online as well as offline data and even to excel. Specialized services like Image editing, image clipping and cropping services are also available with this service. BPO companies offer these services at very cost effective rates and the work is processed 24x7 ensuring that the work is constantly auctioned. Many data sensitive projects are also completed even in a 24 hour. There are many online services to choose from and each specializes in various features with ample industry experience. These services use the latest technology to ensure that paperwork is processed in the shorted possible time and is converted into electronic data that is easier to store.

A professional service must be able to offer the following features like data conversion and even storage, effective management of databases and an adherence to turnaround times, 100% accuracy of the data entered, 24x7 webs and phone support, a secure and accurate data capture, data extraction and data processing and importantly a cost effective solution for quality data services. A professional company will also ensure that there is a Quality Assurance department monitoring the quality of the work being handled with relevant feedback to both the client and to the operator.

Before deciding on outsourcing your work to a data entry service ensures that the company is known for its reliability and quality. A company that offers data backup is also a good option as it will take care of all the paperwork while forwarding the converted electronic data back. This paperwork could be extracted in the case of a claim or any legal requirement. There are many BPO companies online advertising their services, browse through their features and find one that suits your requirements.




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