Blog Research

I need someone to do some basic online research and data collection. This should be a simple enough job for someone who knows what they are doing. I expect it will take between 10-20 hours to complete the entire task. Although this is an estimate, I would not want you working much more than this on the project. You task will be to: 1) find active blogs on specific topics (active = must have more than 3 posts posts within the last 2 weeks) 2) record their URLS - the root URL of the site, not the URL of a post (e.g. [login to view URL] NOT [login to view URL] ) 3) record the dates of the last 3 posts 4) Record if there are on average NO, FEW (0-10), or Many (10+) comments on posts 5) I also want you to report to me how many hours total you spent working on this project, if you did it by hand, or using special software (you don't need to tell me the software if it is private). This information will be provided to me in an excel file. I will provide you the template excel file. I will provide you with a basic set of keywords to work from, but then it will be up to you to find the blogs. I am looking for a MINIMUM of 300 active blogs. If you do this job correctly and promptly there will be additional work of the same kind. ## Deliverables Completed excel spreadsheet containing the relevant data. ## Platform excel web browser of your choice.