Monitoring prices on the Internet - be aware of how competitors are trading

Monitoring prices on the Internet is a search and systematization of data on the cost of goods sold by your competitors. It is an indispensable step in the formation of competent and reasonable pricing.

Competitors trade at an undervalued price while you are looking for ways to expand!

Automatic monitoring of pricing policy will allow you to stay informed and make appropriate decisions. The work of the proposed system aims to:

1.     Generate the most justifiable product price for you as a seller.
2.     Coordinate the pricing of items as a whole.
3.     Identify the very moment after which discounts and bonuses can be offered to customers.
4.     Apply price pressure on competitors in a timely manner to combat dumping.
5.     Select product suppliers in the most profitable way for yourself.

Competitors can underprice, give gifts, offer bonuses for volume purchases, provide coupons for products, run promotions, etc. You need to be aware of how your competitors are trading and make appropriate decisions to maintain and grow your business.

How do you protect yourself from competitor parsing?

•     As a classic protection practice, dynamic content delivery with the use of AJAX requests is practiced today. In this case, on request of GET type, the web server returns a "framework" without any data (empty). After that, an additional dynamic POST request is made. This is what the price list receives.
•     Limiting requests from one IP address per minute. This action will help to eliminate the possibility of so-called "hammering" the site.
•     "Mixing" random javascript requests into the page. Most parsers can not execute this type of code, which will be a serious obstacle to their work.
•     Embedding some sort of traps (hidden fields) into the HTML page. In fact, these very fields can't be filled in by an ordinary user, but by bats - quite.

There are a number of other methods of protection, including fixing the user's actions on your site from the cursor on the elements to the timeout fill string in the store.

All of these things, of course, complicate the work of monitoring systems, and a program made "by hand" is unlikely to take them into account!

In the experience of Helecos specialists, there is no protection that cannot be bypassed! The result will be always up-to-date information about how your competitors trade with a guarantee of data reliability. More about the program: +38 (073) 072 1221.