Comments on: Getting Started With GTrends SE

By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:10:11 +0000

Even though the basic functionality is the same, these two tools are very different in details and additional features.

Things that GTrends SE is better at :

* Configurability – GTME has only a handful of options; GTrends SE is an order of magnitude more configurable.

* Speed – GTME uses one processing thread. GTrends SE uses 3+3 by default (configurable), which translates to greater speed.

* Proxy support – GTrends SE can use a proxy. GTME doesn’t have this feature.

* Detecting Web 2.0 competitors – GTrends SE can determine if there are any popular Web 2.0 sites (e.g. YouTube) in the top 10 search results for a keyword.

* Interface – the clean and cohesive GTrends SE interface is more intuitive than the colorful, unsophisticated design of GTME. This metric is largely subjective though.

* Raw feature count. There’s likely a dozen more small options and convenient features that I didn’t mention here.

Things that GTME is better at :

* Filtering – GTME has result filtering. GTrends SE doesn’t (though the “Negative threshold” feature and configurable “good keyword” criteria partially make up for this).

* Wordze support – GTrends SE doesn’t support Wordze (but can support WordTracker’s free kw tool with the help of a FireFox extension).

The decision is yours

By: wave

wave — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:18:53 +0000

hi,
what is the difference between this tool and Gtrends Made Easy? Other than the color coding of good results, why would someone pay $27 versus using the free Gtrends Made Easy tool?

By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:43:19 +0000

“male yeast infection” already had some problems a few months ago, so I’m not using it anymore for this tool. It now comes with a different reference keyword by default (which works – tested today).

You can also set your own baseline, if you have one. I’d actually recommend doing this – if GTrends SE gets over a few thousand active users (hey, I can dream, right? ), any “default” keyword would eventually be killed off by Google.

However, that’s a long way off by my estimate.

By: Edmund Pelgen

Edmund Pelgen — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:17:01 +0000

Hi Awesome tool. Just a quick question..how are you estimating search traffic? Ed Dales baseline phrase “male yeast infection” just got removed from the results…are you using that phrase or some other appraoch to calculate your est searches…just trying to understand where the data is soruced so if things go belly up I know why.

Thanks again..this is a fab tool

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By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:58:34 +0000

I’ve responded to you in email.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:33:51 +0000

The tool is great!

But unfortunately I have a problem: I used the tool with the default settings and after a while I’ve got “permitted”-results and the process stopped.

Apparently Google doesn’t allow me searches any more, although it don’t seem as if I’m banned (I can access Google with my browser).

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Eddie

By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:32:07 +0000

Oh, good point. I’ll do that for the next update (might take a few days because I have implemented some new features and need to test them).

By: Income Hero

Income Hero — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:11:40 +0000

No, what I mean is, take a look at this screen-shot:
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1746/saveopenqe4.gif

The Floppy Disc for me associates with “Save” but here it means “Open”.

It’s not that big a change, but made me few times click a wrong icon once I started to use this soft. BTW, great tool! The more I use it, the more I like it!

By: Janis Elsts

Janis Elsts — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:43:41 +0000

Hmm, no, probably not. That would only confuse other users who are used to this layout.