markchivs
Joined: Nov 10, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Nov-12 13:51
Shawn
This is really impressive. Are you developing this in .NET? You got it up and running very quickly as well as adding the charting functionality in quickly too.
I bet there would be people prepared to pay/invest in the further development of this tool, especially if there was an API for developers 
I'd buy a licence and save myself a load of work, as well as get all the great ideas you've had 
Keep it going mate. its inspirational.
Mark
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digitalpoint
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2003-Nov-12 17:06
This is really impressive. Are you developing this in .NET? You got it up and running very quickly as well as adding the charting functionality in quickly too.
No, I've developed in .Net before and did not care for it at *all*. I don't like being bound to a specific platform and the rapid application development tools really aren't all that rapid. 
It was done in PHP with MySQL on the backend (which means it will run on any server I want pretty much... Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac, etc.) Everything was coded from scratch for it (charting functions, SOAP gateway, etc.) that way I have the ultimate control over it and don't have to rely on others sloppy code. hehe
I bet there would be people prepared to pay/invest in the further development of this tool, especially if there was an API for developers
I've added some things based on feature requests (charts, daily/weekly/monthly change, back link tracker, pages in URL tracker, multiple languages [English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese and Russian so far, with a couple others in the works], etc...), but I'm not sure what kind of API could be added for external use, since I'm using Google's API to begin with. Probably would be better for developers to skip the middle man and go right to Google's API.
I'd buy a licence and save myself a load of work, as well as get all the great ideas you've had
Well, at this point it's not for sale as a product... I've had 15-20 companies make inquiries about buying it (3 of them wanted the system *with* the existing user base), but it's not really for sale, so...
- Shawn
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Webmaster-Toolkit.com
Joined: Jul 18, 2002
# Posts: 1098
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Posted: 2003-Nov-28 13:14
Just spotted a little issue when using Mozilla Firebird and trying to sort by clicking on one of the headings. It just displays 'true' on an otherwise blank page. I'm having to resort to sorting manually eg.
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/?new_sort=serp
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digitalpoint
Joined: Eons Ago
# Posts: 61
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Posted: 2003-Nov-29 05:44
Looks like Firebird doesn't like JavaScript in some cases... Oh well... I changed mode switching and sorting to use mod_rewrite stuff on the backend instead of JavaScript... let me know if that fixes it for you..
- Shawn
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digitalpoint
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2003-Dec-10 06:39
Ended up making a bunch of changes this morning and doing away with all the remaining use of mod_rewrite, and eliminated as much JavaScript as possible (all gone I think except for the need to pop confirmation dialogs). Can you let me know how it works with your version of Firebird?
- Shawn
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Webmaster-Toolkit.com
Joined: Jul 18, 2002
# Posts: 1098
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Posted: 2003-Dec-10 10:13
It works fine from what I can see digitalpoint, thanks
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e10
Joined: Dec 10, 2002
# Posts: 409
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Posted: 2003-Dec-10 14:23
I have just signed up to use the Keyword ranking tool. It looks great and I could see where it is going to save a lot of time.
Can the use of this tool be detected by Google and cause any backlash? I remember advice on the forum against using the position checker of Web Position Gold to check ranking on Google because of potential penilisation and (if I remember correctly) I think Googs even warns against using WPG on their FAQ.
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digitalpoint
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2003-Dec-10 18:27
No... since it uses the Google API, it's completely within their terms of service.
- Shawn
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scannist
Joined: Oct 20, 2003
# Posts: 178
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Posted: 2003-Dec-22 23:15
Excellent tool!!! Thank you!!!
I have a stupid question... Google limits use for 1000 "queries per day". I presume that means if I'm tracking four websites, each with one set of keywords, and I check it once a day, I'm using 4 queries for the day?
I also tried to bookmark the "http://login:password@www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/?action=lookupall" so I could simply click the link to check my stats. Of course, I replaced "login" with my login name and "password" with my password. This doesn't seem to work. Should it?
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digitalpoint
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2003-Dec-23 00:00
Depends on how deep in the SERPS you are... The Google API only is able to return 10 results per query. So if you are #45 for example, it would take 5 queries initially to find it (anything 1-10 would be a single query). The tool is as efficient as possible... so for subsequent queries, it will start looking around the last known position. So if you were #45 initially, and still between 41-50 the next time, it would just take a single query.
As far as bookmarking it, you could bookmark it as: http://login:password@www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/ where login/password is your login and password (don't include the action part).
- Shawn
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scannist
Joined: Oct 20, 2003
# Posts: 178
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Posted: 2003-Dec-23 08:06
Thanks for the reply, Shawn.
If you're waiting (hoping) for your website to (re)appear in Google's top 50, and you're getting "9999" for the moment, how many queries does that add up to each time you run the query? 5 queries per website and keyword combination assuming it isn't in the top 50?
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digitalpoint
Joined: Eons Ago
# Posts: 61
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Posted: 2003-Dec-23 16:13
Yes, if you have your account setup to go 50 deep, it would be 5 queries.
- Shawn
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digitalpoint
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Posted: 2004-Jan-22 20:14
Keyword tracker got an upgrade recently... (new dedicated server... which was needed, as there are 5,000 registered users now). But while I was doing it, upgraded PHP... which let me do some other things (charts are antialiased, legends on the chart are alpha blended (transparency), etc.)
- Shawn
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digitalpoint
Joined: Eons Ago
# Posts: 61
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Posted: 2004-Mar-25 21:38
For the PageRank junkies, the keyword tracker now also tracks PageRank historically for URLs (in the back link tracker section). Once some historical data is in the system, users will be able to generate charts on the PageRank trends as well...
- Shawn
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2e2
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Nov-09 19:19
so good as before,i like all of your tools
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2e2
Joined: Nov 09, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Nov-09 20:55
i think you need to write a brief tutorial
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digitalpoint
Joined: Eons Ago
# Posts: 61
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Posted: 2005-Nov-09 22:25
Are you having a specific problem?
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spider_ninja
Joined: Jan 14, 2006
# Posts: 22
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Posted: 2006-Jan-27 04:44
whoa...historical thread ;-)
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kingradar
Joined: May 27, 2007
# Posts: 3
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Posted: 2007-May-28 04:15
I generated an API key, but its getting rejected. Any ideas?
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