It's also worth noting, that using the API for commercial purposes is against Google's terms. I'm not 100% sure on that though, you would have to find it to check. I don't see any terms linked from Google's front page, or search pages. I would think (but I'm no expert) that for terms to be enforceable, they would have to be actually agreed to, or at least visible before using a service? Again, I'm no expert, I could be wrong, please don't flame me. Thanks
There is also some stuff about it in the TOS:http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html Just something to watch out for. He he.. you havent actually told us how you are getting the information. Here is some feedback: On the new url screen the "Email alerts: (on/off)" could be better labeled "Receive email alerts" I don't want to monitor a search term at the moment. I just want to track backlinks, pagerank and number of indexed pages etc. I am not sure if a search term is required. Maybe a note could be added if this field is optional. I added my blog site (http://developernews.blogspot.com) and it says that it has 3,920,000 pages indexed. I wish! This seems to be the results for blogspot.com rather than my subdomain. Ross
Thank you riziko, some valuable advice. No, I haven't. Heh. Next question.. Agreed. Yes, the field is optional, I will mention that somewhere. Correct, It checks the indexed page count for the second level domain. Do people think this a logical default? I will probably add a preference to change it, but I'd still like to know which would be the best default; include subdomain(s) or not? Thanks for the feedback.
No, not really. If I enter www.my.cheap.free.webhost.com then that is the site I want to monitor.. not webhost.com. If I want to monitor webhost.com then I will enter that. I don't see how that gets complicated.
Thanks for the input. Either way, I'll be adding the option to have both, so it shouldn't be a major problem. I'm undecided as to what is best solution. But, I will probably stick to the current, not because I've decided it's the best default, but because if I change it now, people using the tool who are monitoring a URL with a subdomain might get confused as to why their indexed-page stats have suddenly dropped.
Sorry to bump up an old thread. Since the tool track stats over time, I wanted to know what people think now they've had the opportunity to use it a while? I've done some improvements based on feedback here, and other places, I still have a lot more to do though. Any new input would be appreciated. Thanks.
I would like to see my results actually in the e-mail or at least an encrypted link within the email that automatically allows me to sign in. I would prefer to see that my keyword phrases moved up whatever or moved down whatever. I would also like to know what datacenter you are pulling the information from... Just some sugggestions.
Heh, a lot of people have asked for this. The reason I can't afford to offer it is the site is AdSense supported, without the incentive to visit the site (to check your stats), the ads probably will not support the site's cost. But, a link to auto-login (as you suggested above) *is* being implemented, so that should save users some time. Currently it queries www.google.com directly, so the datacenter will be whatever the Google DNS server decides to point to. Datacenter selection is a possible feature for the future. Thanks for all the feedback you've given me, Wayne. You've really helped me improve the tool.
Will you add the option mentioned relating to the idea of "email monitoring"? It might even draw more and more customers to your site if there is the ability to just watch stuff via that and not have to recieve the emails
What I am desiring as had been suggested earlier in the thread is for the ability to have it set that I or another member on this site will not recieve the email notifications, but can log in to the site to see the results. Does that help? or were you asking how I think it may bring others also?
You can do this already. Click edit (under "URL Actions" column) next to the the URL(s) you are tracking, and un-check "Receive email alerts?". You also have this option when you first add the URL.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. I know I have a desire to look at multiple pages in something like this for now, at least until or unless I build my own, if I do that. Is there an automated way for us to add URLs like via curl or something?
The tool has a five URL limit at the moment, if you need to monitor more than that, the tool really can't help you at the moment. I'm considering offering premium accounts with a much higher URL limit, and maybe also offer the actual stats in the email notifications (for those that enable them). If have the time to program your own client (using CURL or whatever), then this can be done. But, with the current 5 URL limit, it doesn't seem that it would be very time-efficient to do so. Thanks for the input!
I don't suppose you would be willing to share some of the code you use for getting the stuff from G or Y!? That way we could also implement it if we have a desire to integrate it with other stuff.
No, this tool is part of a suite of tools, some of which have been purchased by another company, since the tools owned by them have some code in common, I can't do that. Sorry to disappoint.
No dissappointment, I was just thinking about the thing that retrieves the PR value and the # of backlinks for a specific URL and lets you put it in a database.
If you look around this forum, I think there a few coders looking for work. I'm sure someone will be able to help you.