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Something Like GTrends – a Free Google Trends PHP Script

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

The author of the Russian SEO/IM site ProfitHunter.ru has created a free PHP script that calculates competition/searches for a list of keywords – nTrendsMaster. Details and a download link can be found here. The script is fairly basic, but it might be useful for those interested in a web-based, free alternative to GTrends SE. The [...]

Google Blocks Another Keyword

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Google has banned the default reference keyword used by GTrends SE from Google Trends. Damn. Therefore, I just uploaded a new version, which uses a different keyword. Note that if you already have GTrends SE installed, downloading the new version will not automatically change your ref. keyword (this is by design). You need to change [...]

GTrends SE Major Update – Now With 140% More <Something>!

Friday, December 14th, 2007

After lots of coding and some lots of days of testing, I proudly present GTrends SE 1.5. You can read about the new features below, or go ahead and get the update. On a related note, make sure you sign up for the GTrends SE newsletter (on the same page)! This way you’ll be among [...]

Getting Google Errors? Try Using A Proxy.

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Looks like Google have gotten a bit trigger happy lately – some GTrends SE users have been getting errors in the “Competition” column yesterday, me included. This is because Google doesn’t want any automated tools checking their search results. I looked around for a solution and made a few minor changes to GTrends SE to [...]

GTrends Update : Two New Features

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

New version is out, get it here! I implemented two new features that were suggested by users – Launch new instance Now you can open more than one GTrends SE window. You can do this using the aptly named “Launch new instance” Start Menu shortcut. Note that as a tradeoff windows opened in this manner [...]

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