Hello I'm currently working on an application for affiliate marketers and one feature I would like to add is the ability to get traffic estimates for keywords. The problem seems that every example I see requires a developer token or adwords account. I do not want my users to have to sign up for adwords or get a developers token. I know its possible because there is a program called Micro Niche Finder that does just this without the requirement for the user to enter any adwords information. It's usable right out of the box. So far it appears that the Sandbox API is what it uses http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/sandbox.html The main API requires a developer token and charges you per X API requests so I'm sure that program doesn't use it otherwise the author would be getting enormous bills for the users of the program. There is an option to enter adwords account but is only required to get the CPC for keywords - not the actual traffic estimate itself. I'm just looking for the resources as to how its done and if it really is the Sandbox API I should be looking at as well as if I would need a developers token that is linked to my account but that every user would then use. Doesn't sound like a good idea as it would be in a plain PHP file that anyone could see and further use the token for their use. Thanks for any help.
Google just bans your IP now, if you make too many requests. The ban lasts anywhere from 24 hrs to a week. Google started cracking down hard on requests a few months back, and it killed or severely limited a lot of apps that were scraping the free data.
Miro Niche Finder works perfectly. I can get traffic estimates for hundreds of keywords in a matter of minutes and repeatedly do this.
100's is nothing.. try scraping 1000's. And then recursively. *edit* my bad.. I was talking about grabbing kw's...
I don't need thousands of keywords. I'm looking to replicate the functionality of Micro Niche Finder so users will not have to buy a separate program. I want to keep my application simple as it is designed for beginner internet marketers with no experience. From my own use of MNF I search for a niche. I enter one keyword which gets expanded into all related - typically 200-800 total keywords in that niche. I can get the traffic estimates of those. From start to finish it only takes a few minutes and can be repeatedly done on new niche keyword groups without getting IP banned. This is the most my application would need to return. However if it is linked to a single API key, say mine and I have thousands of users making hundreds of requests at a time then I could see that being a lot. This is why I don't think that is how MNF is doing it. MNF has been established for years so I don't believe its a hack or anything.
I assume you mean using some kind of program to view requests/traffic of MNF but I got no clue how to go about that. I do however think I found a solution. I remembered MNF does provide a captcha sometimes when getting results for a group of keywords. I'm guessing they are using the Google Keyword Tool to get results. I think I can use curl to do the same and just return the captcha for the user to enter which is isn't too invasive. All I'm after really is to return local search counts to get a basic idea if a niche is worth pursing. If the user decides it is then an advanced option could be for them to register for adwords with their google account to get the rest of the details like CPC and whatnot like MNF does.