OK, fixed the problems and overall made the script far more robust. It works ligtning fast now and should be happy on both IE and Firefox. If you have any troubles with it, please let me know by leaving a comment!
One serious one that will stop it working for anyone, and others that may or may not affect most people.
In the comments of the script (the top part where I explain the versions, etc.) each line is supposed to start with a semicolon ; but one line starts with a colon : and it will cause the script to break. OOOOPS!!
So, feel free to edit that colon into a semicolon.
Well, like any good software tester would, I found some bugs. The unfortunate thing is they were in my own code!! D’oh!
So, I fixed some things and updated the script to version 1.1. If by chance you downloaded the previous version, PLEASE get the newer one, as the bugs I fixed could prevent that script from doing much of ANYTHING for some people.
I just used this to check the indexing in the 4 big search engines on roughly 75 sites or so, and it took maybe 15 minutes tops.
If you don’t know how well you’re indexed, how can you know what you need to do next? If you build portal sites especially, pages = income, and therefore more pages = more income. But if you don’t know from day to day how many pages you have (or have lost!) in the search engines, you really aren’t taking care of business.
So, I have been using the Index Checker at www.marketleap.com for a while now, and it’s very handy (and free!) But, I wanted to check lists of URLs in a more automated fashion. It can’t be TOTALLY automated at this time because they do have a manual CAPTCHA-like security code required, but you can do 6 at a time and with this script, the security code is the ONLY bit of human interaction required.
So far I must say I am VERY impressed. Though far more sophisticated (and therefore, challenging to learn) than most Macro programs, I’m finding that the logic in its design, plus the built in help file, has me creating flawless macro scripts in nothing flat. You can get it a www.downloads.com by clicking here –> AutoHotKey
It will be helpful if you have at least some familiarity with programming languages and logic trees, since AutoHotKey can handle conditional events and If-Then logic as well as Do While loops. But the help file is very thorough and has lots of examples to help you along.