Software companies and page discovery

What is actually going wrong

Software companies complicate page discovery, for a reason specific to them. Software companies are the easiest category to enrich and the hardest to qualify, because everyone looks alike from outside, which shapes page discovery. What catches people out on software companies, page discovery included: firmographics separate a 20 person agency from a 20 person product company not at all. If you would rather try it than read about it, Page Finder Extractor does page discovery for software companies today.

Why anyone bothers

The question about software companies is simple and the work is opening several hundred websites and clicking around each one.

Traditional Search Tools

• Their pricing page, for software companies. Free, and whether it exists tells you the sales motion in one look.
• Google with a site operator. Free and precise. Fine for twenty companies, and rate limited into uselessness past that.
• Screaming Frog. Crawls a whole site and finds every page matching a pattern. Built for one site at a time rather than a list of hundreds.
• Guessing the URL. Try slash pricing. It works surprisingly often and fails silently, which is the problem.
• Search the site. A site search in Google with the term you want gets you there in one query per company. Reliable, and it is still one query per company.

Preconfigured tasks

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• Find the API Reference for Software Vendors

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• Page Finder Extractor1 preconfigured task on this page's job.