If you are just starting out your business, you know how important it is to have an email list of prospective clients and customers who you could potentially reach out to, to sell your product or service. Now, we know that with social media and the internet there is so much valuable data out there that can be utilized for a lot of use cases.
In this easy to follow guide, we will show you how to use Google to scrap over 1,000 email address for free within seconds without the need to sign up for any web scraping services, plus you do not have to be tech savvy to follow along.
Initial Set-up Configuration on Google Search
To begin, with you will have to use Chrome as you web browser. If you do not have it installed, you can follow the link here to download Chrome on you local system. Download Chrome here.
Now, once you open Chrome go to Google, that page will look something like this.
In the bottom right, click the settings options and then choose the 'Search search' option.
Then you will have a page that looks like this, select 'Other settings'. Choose 'Language & region'. Under 'Results region' choose 'United States' or any region you would like to target and confirm. I am choosing United States as there is more opportunities for business.
Toggle the switch to ON for the 'Continuous scroll' option.
Now, that you have the setup completed we can head over to step number two.
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Searching for you Ideal Client Emails
Let's say you have a business that is targeting construction companies in USA. In the Google Search bar we type in 'construction companies in USA "gmail"'. On the results page we scroll all the way to the bottom and then click 'Ctrl+A' and 'Ctrl+C'.
Then we head to a website to extract all the email in the search, Email Extractor. Here paste your text and click 'Extract Email'.
Once you fit that you will have all the emails extracted from the google search within seconds.
Through this you will be able to finds email of potential customers/clients for you business by scraping off Google search.
While with this method you can easily get email addresses. It is important to check for bounce back from these emails. So, to check the autheticity of these emails you can use free online tools such as Email Checker, Hunter.io, Zero Bounce
While this is a simple way on how to scrape Google to get email address, if you know what your ideal client looks like and would like to get scraped data. You should check out the folks at DataHen who specialise in such services. Click the link here to get a quote on your next big deal.