After more than a year in development (whew!!), one of my applications is nearly complete. Now I seek advice from others who are qualified and willing to test this program and expose its shortcomings and/or errors on different operating systems and environments. In exchange for testing the application, I'll grant full license rights (including version upgrades) to those who do qualify (please read the end of the post regarding those who do and those who do not qualify for this software beta version release).

About the program: Keyword Examiner 1.0 (written in Visual Basic 5.0 Professional) was designed to be the ultimate non-opinionated, unbiased research tool to fully examine websites that attain high search engine rankings per selective keywords. It enables the end user to analyze those websites and adjust their own websites accordingly.

A tutorial is included and the Help File is complete for those who need assistance.

About the author: With 7 years experience as a programmer and 5 years experience in search engine placement, all of the clients who've sought my advice now enjoy high search engine rankings for the keywords which they've targeted. I have tested and experimented with search engine algorithms for the past 5 years and have been using my application to help my clients achieve success for the past year. After exhaustive redundant checks, my program has performed flawlessly for me for the last 2 weeks but I need a broader analysis. I realize that my program may not perform as anticipated on other machines.

Qualifying Candidates Include: Those people with 3 or more years experience programming with Visual Basic and have developed successful (by successful, I mean popular... including freeware) software applications themselves, providing links that are available to download samples of those applications.

Unqualified Candidates Include: People who are highly critical of every shortcoming in software applications (i.e., You should only use CTRL + V for pasting, this menu item should be disabled when... etc.). I'm sure that these overlookings exist and in your opinion, it's important, but please advise me of those items that are critical and detrimental to the integrity of the application only.

Product Availability: This product will be available by 12/17/03 and I anticipate (at least I hope for) a very positive response. Please email me at [email protected] for more information.

Concluding: My sincerest thanks to all that visited this thread and I wish you much success as a fellow programmer (sometimes, programming can be tough!).