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Blog Searches

Overview

Blog searches are a way to directly interface with the database to pull only the exact type of blogs that you are looking for. While the possible uses of this are nearly endless, they are most often used as a way to find cheap and unowned, but potentially valuable blogs. Searches are limited to two per day, with a maximum of two stored results sets. This limit does not exist for Premium members.

Where can I find the search interface

The search interface is listed in both the Members Area and in your Profile. It can be directly accessed here.

Setting Up a Search

Search List Information

• Title - The title of this search - for your information
• Max. Results - Number of results to limit to, either 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, or 500

Search Criteria

• Blog Title - Title of the blog, partial matching.
• Blog URL - Full or Partial URL of the blog.
• Valuation - Base Valuation of the blog. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)
• Share Price - Price per share. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)
• P/E - P/E Ratio. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)
• Incoming Links - Number of incoming links. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)
• Outgoing Links - Number of outgoing links. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)
• Outgoing Link Value - Value of an outgoing link from the blog. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)

Trading Criteria

• Publicly Held Shares - Unowned shares. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)
• Total Shares - Total shares in the blog. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)
• Buy Market Order - Blogs with buy orders that meet the listed criteria. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)
• Sell Market Order - Blogs with sell orders the meet the listed criteria. (Note: inclusive, values must be different.)

Sorting

• Sort By - Sort by either blog valuation, share price, or P/E ratio - either ascending or descending.

Confirm your search

• Confirm your search - Check that the details are just as you want them and then press confirm.

Saving Search

• Create Search Done - You will now receive a message which tells you that the search has been created. Click on the highlighted link to go to your saved searches.

Searches List

• Searches Table - You will now see a table of the different potential searches that are available for you. Just click 'generate search' in the left hand column to create the results. Once generated, use the links in the tables to browse the relevant blogs.