GTrends : The Second Edition

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

December 14, 2007 on 10:19 am | In News |

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 the first to find out about new updates, tutorials and other news.

Now, lets see how GTrends SE has been improved…

It’s Faster

How about getting more work done in the same time? The main new feature in this release is the “negative treshold” option. In essence, this feature allows you to set a treshold (both for searches and competition) and apply special treatment to keywords that are below that treshold. You can make GTrends SE remove those keyword phrases from the list automatically, or simply not analyze them any further. This frees up resources and can significantly decrease the time required to process a keyword list.

Here’s an example - lets say you set the search treshold to “Less than 10 searches per day” and the action to perform to “Don’t check the keywords any further”. As soon as the tool discovers that a keyword has only 5 searches/day, it will mark the keyword as “Below Treshold” and move on to checking other keyword phrases. It won’t waste time looking up competition data for a keyword that is useless to you.

You can configure this feature in the “Criteria” tab of the “Settings” window. And don’t worry, I’ll post a proper tutorial soon

On a related note, there’s now a “Speed” tab as well, which gives you greater ability to fine-tune speed-related aspects of GTrends SE.

It’s More Reliable

Not to say that it wasn’t reliable before , but the new version has had several bugs fixed. For example, when adding keywords, GTrends SE will now automatically filter out commas and other special characters. This will prevent the application from repeatedly trying (and failing) to process an invalid keyword.

Furthermore, the treshold feature, in conjunction with proper speed settings, should eliminate most of the “Forbidden” errors that some users have been getting. This is because the negative treshold can significantly decrease the number of searches GTrends SE has to do, thus ensuring it doesn’t look as suspicious to Google. I still recommend to keep the Google grace period to 7 or more seconds (though feel free to experiment if you want).

It’s More Customizable

In addition to the new options mentioned above, you can even set the colors that are used to highlight good/not good/below treshold keywords. You can find all appearance-related settings in the “View” tab of the “Settings” window.

Anything else?

By popular request, I’ve added the ability to re-check selected keywords - you can right-click the keyword list and select the aptly named “Recheck keywords” command from the popup menu.

There are probably other things I forgot to mention here, small interface changes, simple fixes and so on. Go and see for yourself

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