Patent ID: 8312015

Claim:
A system configured to affect a website's position on at least one Internet search engine's page ranking, the system comprising: one or more processors configured to: load at least one search term into a program running on the one or more processors; load a target list comprising at least one website that is to be promoted; create an Internet connection; request a search of the at least one search term on the at least one Internet search engine; receive a set of website search hits generated by the requested search from the at least one Internet search engine; identify at least one of the website search hits that matches at least one website on the target list; and access the identified at least one website a plurality of times without modifying website content, wherein such access without modifying website content affects the at least one website's position on the at least one Internet search engine's page ranking, and wherein accessing the at least one website a plurality of times comprises: (i) creating a unique anonymous connection to the Internet; (ii) opening, using a unique source internet protocol (IP) address, one of the identified at least one website without modifying website content, wherein the unique source internet protocol (IP) address is created in response to operation (i); (iii) navigating the open website automatically without modifying website content; and (iv) repeating operations (i)-(iii) a plurality of times.