Forum Monitoring

[Jack Gordon]

Is there a way to monitor certain forums for specific keywords, without it being extraordinarily labor-intensive?

For instance, if I was in the used car business, and there were a number of forums where people post their cars for sale, I want to be alerted anytime the word "pinto" comes up in any of them because I have a long list of buyers for that make.

Can that be done?

 

[Chuck]

Interesting and not a bad idea!

I'll have a look around and see if there is any way or hack out there.

 

[draggar]

I'm sure vBulliten has a plugin for it, maybe phpBB, too?

It might be called something like "keyword alerts"?

 

[Jack Gordon]

ah... you guys inspired me to get off my duff and look around

Just found this... I'll give it a test run.

http://www.website-watcher.com

Thanks!

 

[Chuck]

I've used this before but not for a forum based site........

http://www.copernic.com/

 

[jdk]

WHT uses such a hack for corporate memberships