Small business can have a difficult time staying competitive especially online.  When almost every large brick and mortar store has a website keeping up with their prices and their inventory you can be hard pressed to keep track of it all. There is a solution though. Mozenda is a web harvesting service which goes through the sites of your choice to gather prices of the products you sell for example. This information can be transferred into different types of files such as XLS, CSV, XML, RSS or text.

Bloggers can also use the data extraction tool to gather information on trending information such as an upcoming holiday. You can go through forums to capture what is being written about Easter. Save it as text and images. Learn what people want to know about Easter crafts for example or meals for Easter Sunday. Then use that to write posts for two weeks to one month in advance of the holiday.

There is a free 14 day trial offered by Mozenda, community support, complete information about the product and the pricing and help available with your free trial. You can read some example of how web scraping can be used to help you earn more money, stay competitive, be a better blogger, gain information on how people are perceiving your product and much more.

Here is a video review:

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