Wordtracker / Trends Tool
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Garrett Valdivia has made a great tool for you which allows you to have Google search and trend results side by side by entering your phrase into the search box. This is a great tool, and truly in the spirit of the Thirty Day Challenge.
First of all watch the video here, the click here to install the search plugin.
You should also check out Garrett’s blog here
Thanks mate.
Dan
August 9th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Garrett, This is a wonderful tool. I’m sure I will be using it heaps, not only now, but even after the Challenge finishes.
Thank you,
Grahame
August 9th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
This tool is spectacular! It saves me plenty of time. Results display well on my wide screen laptop.
Thanks,
William
August 9th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Great stuff this is a real time saver! Thank you.
Makes me want to do more research!
Thanks again
Lynne
August 9th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
This is really great! Thanks Garrett.
Ruth
August 9th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
That is brilliant!
Thanks, mate!!!!
Cheers
Aaron
August 9th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Holy cow you just saved me loads of time!!! Thanks so much Garrett, brilliantly clever!!
Jackie
August 9th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Garrett, you rock! Thanks!
August 9th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Cheers Garrett! I’ll be using that for sure.
August 9th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Garrett,
you’re a lunatic. That is so terrific!
Long story, but trust me, this is a real blessing.
Thank you!
Ed
August 9th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Lovin’ the tool - thank you Garrett –you must be psychic! I was wondering if there was a tool that did that exact same thing!!
August 9th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Thank you Garrett! It sounds as if you’ve created this in no time, and am simply amazed (and grateful).
August 9th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Kudos Garrett! What a huge timesaver. Thank you, thank you.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Wow Garrett, thanks for the awesome tool bar, this is going to save my fingers!!! thanks again!
Andy
August 9th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Thanks for the compliments guys! I hope it helps.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
where is the tool? When I click on the “click here: link all I see is:
“Automagically does a split-screen comparison of google phrase search and google trends (against MYI)”
August 9th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Garrett, just think if you just charged $1 or less for this great tool bar, you could already have met the challenge. Thanks for making it available for us.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Garrett I can’t figure out how to load this. I clicked on the link up top and brought me to the page I saw in the video -then nothing….no blinking green light for me. Now what?
Thanks for your help. Gail
August 9th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Oh, and I love your site. You’ve explained a bunch of things that I wasn’t understanding - in real English. I had to subscribe to your blog……a great big THANK YOU
August 9th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Oh wait I didn’t watch the video. It’s Add TDC Comp and Trend! cool.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Way cool!
Thanks Garrett - this tool rocks big time
Happy Dancing around my room at less clicking I have to do
Caro
August 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
[...] You can find the blog post here. [...]
August 9th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
A I missing something? I don’t get any install, just a page that says:
Automagically does a split-screen comparison of google phrase search and google trends (against MYI)
Anybody know what’s up?
Scott
August 9th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Scott Lyons: Watch the video first…
Dan
August 9th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Shouldn’t the MYI be enclosed within quotation marks on the Google Trend Page?
August 9th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
[...] Wordtracker / Trends Tool - Thirty Day Challenge Garrett Valdivia has made a great tool for you which allows you to have Google search and trend results side by side by entering your phrase into the search box. This is a great tool, and truly in the spirit of the Thirty Day Challenge. [...]
August 9th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Garrett, You’re the Man! Awesome time saver. Thanks to you. And don’t we just love 30 Day Challenge for opportunity of learning and gaining tremendous tool like this.
Resty
August 9th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Thanks, Awesome, groovy, far out….I know lost in the 60’s
August 9th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
That is the coolest Garrett, thank you so, so much! Brilliant, just Brilliant! (and my hands are killing me too!)
JoAnne
August 9th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Garret, you ‘re a genius. This little plugin has made my life so much easier!
Thanks you so much
August 9th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
it is all starting to work, I have narrowed my list down and actually have 4 out of the 7 with two tht are getting great trends numbers and staying right inside your targets. Excited to get to the next steps and see if these work. It is a making much more sense. It helps to go back and rewatch the videos again, expecially day 7.
thank you ed
August 9th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Garrett - Thank you so very much for this cool tool - it is just going to save hours, especially for those of us who are back to square one with our niche ideas - Thanks again!
August 9th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Garrett, this is amazing! Very cool!
Don’t know how difficult this is, but what if you added a third pane along the bottom tha had the google search with “affiliate after our phrase?
Scott
August 9th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
@Scott
Thanks for the suggestion Scott.
I did think about adding that, as well as wordtracker results, but I felt that it would crowd the tool. I could certainly take a stab at it if Ed or Dan wanted me to. But, for now, I thought I should just “keep it simple”.
Also, a lot of times, you can see the affiliates right on the sponsored column in the search results anyways. (And if you see that in the phrase results then you know you’ve got a great chance of finding a profitable niche.)
——-
BTW everyone, if you are not understanding the install process, check out Mike Mindel’s awesome post on it!
http://www.webventurer.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge-3/daily-summaries/day-9-google-trends-redux/
-Garrett
August 9th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Now THAT was really what Willis was Talkin’ about !
Garrett, if that’s the first time you have written a program , then you have
seriously missed your calling. Your software program is brilliant.
And to boot, was the easiest program to load and utilize.
CONGRATULATIONS and muchas thank you.
And, Thank You Ed.
O.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
This is a brilliant tool, Garrett, thank you so much, and so easy to add too, wonderful !!!!!!
May you get your generosity back lots of thousands fold
Carm
August 10th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Wow, Garrett - you’re a life (and finger) saver.
Thanks a bunch!
Margaret
August 10th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Great tool! Thanks for sharing.
Dominique
August 10th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Thanks so much Garrett, those quotation marks are testing to say the least so this is a fantastic shortcut!
August 10th, 2007 at 3:25 am
Fantastic timesaver! Will save loads of time over next few months!
Many thanks!
Dave
August 10th, 2007 at 3:41 am
Great tool! And I have to add there’s a “special” bonus that maybe not all of you have noticed: the Google Search results give the results showing the US Google Ads ( as dicussed in the forum, it uses the function &gl=US)… So, it’s a real plus for foreigners!
August 10th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Garrett, this is pretty cool. What tool/programming languague did you use to write it? How about a video of the making of the tool?
August 10th, 2007 at 4:55 am
Wow! thanks Garrett what great time saver. Brilliant tool. Thanks for making it available for us on the 30DC.
August 10th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Cool!
August 10th, 2007 at 5:49 am
Thanks Garrett. That’s is an awesome tool.. Very useful
August 10th, 2007 at 7:22 am
Absolutely Brilliant!
August 10th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Thanks heaps
Your Genius
Keep it up
Cheers
Rowan
August 10th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Hi folks.
Watch out !!!!
I just downloaded the JING file set up
Its infested with a trojan horse.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Is the Trojan the reason why it’s no longer there? I click the link and get nothing.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Thank you sooooooooooooo much, this is amazing!!
August 10th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Hi Garrett,
need help, I can no download the tool bar.
I clicked on the link and went to the goolge
search but the TDC did not cme up in my
firefox. Is there something else I need to do?
August 10th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
like Ed says absolutely brilliant!!
Do you know how to make the red adn blue lines under the graph show up on a B&W printer?
Bluerunner
August 10th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
TOO COOL … thx TONS, Garrett !!!
August 10th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
This is a great tool, but google won’t let me in because it is saying it is a virus or spyware. So if the bugs get worked out that will be a great tool.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Garrett gets the Mr. Congeniality prize for 30DC - - thanks so much. As a newbie, this is a huge help. Very generous of you to share with us. KT
August 10th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
You’re my hero Garrett!
Cheers,
Lorne.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Hi Garrett!
Great job developing the search tool and thank you for sharing it!
Cheers,
Mike
August 10th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
[...] Note – Garrett of Tech Bites made an awesome search toolbar for us that will save time using google trends. Read the post and get the toolbar here http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/blog/94/wordtracker-trends-tool/ [...]
August 11th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Trojan horse, eh? I wonder if that has anything to do with the new servers…
Well, I absolutely did not put one in there. So maybe disabling your anti-virus while you install it would take care of the problem. Sorry for those of you who are getting blocked, sounds very odd to me.
Thanks for the great comments guys! Very appreciated.
-Garrett
August 11th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Hi Gareth
Would love to use your toolbar but keeps coming up with the following error message - how can I solve it ?
RuntimeError in Parser#parse
Max number of substitutions reached
RAILS_ROOT: /home/jonathanaquino/domains/yubnub.org/sites/yubnub/public/../config/../
Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/helpers/parser_helper.rb:94:in `fill_in’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/helpers/parser_helper.rb:67:in `combine’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/helpers/parser_helper.rb:20:in `parse_proper’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/helpers/parser_helper.rb:106:in `parse_with_substitutions’
#{RAILS_ROOT}app/controllers/parser_controller.rb:17:in `parse’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:853:in `send’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:853:in `perform_action_without_filters’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:332:in `perform_action_without_benchmark’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:82:in `perform_action’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:369:in `send’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:369:in `process_without_session_management_support’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:116:in `process’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in `dispatch’
/home/jonathanaquino/domains/yubnub.org/sites/yubnub/public/dispatch.fcgi:20
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:600:in `each_cgi’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:597:in `each’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:597:in `each_cgi’
/home/jonathanaquino/domains/yubnub.org/sites/yubnub/public/dispatch.fcgi:18
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/helpers/parser_helper.rb:94:in `fill_in’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/helpers/parser_helper.rb:67:in `combine’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/helpers/parser_helper.rb:20:in `parse_proper’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/helpers/parser_helper.rb:106:in `parse_with_substitutions’
#{RAILS_ROOT}app/controllers/parser_controller.rb:17:in `parse’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:853:in `send’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:853:in `perform_action_without_filters’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:332:in `perform_action_without_benchmark’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:82:in `perform_action’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:369:in `send’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:369:in `process_without_session_management_support’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:116:in `process’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in `dispatch’
/home/jonathanaquino/domains/yubnub.org/sites/yubnub/public/dispatch.fcgi:20
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:600:in `each_cgi’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:597:in `each’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/./fcgi.rb:597:in `each_cgi’
/home/jonathanaquino/domains/yubnub.org/sites/yubnub/public/dispatch.fcgi:18
Request
Parameters: {”command”=>” mash2 table tennis -cmd Gphraseus myicomp”, “sourceid”=>”Mozilla-search”}
Show session dump
—
Response
Headers: {”cookie”=>[], “Cache-Control”=>”no-cache”}
August 11th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Hi Garrett
Forget last message - must have been gremlins - all working perfectly now. Wrapped now !!!!
Thank you, thank you ! :))
August 11th, 2007 at 9:45 am
For those of you getting blocked by Google, it’s probably because you’ve completed too many searches in a given time period. You’ll just have to wait or use a different browser. It happens anytime you do serious keyword research in a short amount of time. Google thinks you’re an automated program and they shut you down. But it’s only temporary.
August 11th, 2007 at 10:12 am
[...] Garrett & PB’s tool have now been modified so that even if you’re outside the US they will to bring you the US search results. [...]
August 11th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Add my thanks to the hub-bub. I’ve finally been able to get to this, and it installed beautifully. I did not have a green arrow either, but when I clicked on the little black arrow, it worked just as you said it would. Awesome!
Josie
August 11th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Hi,
I am not able to install the toolbar.
Can you please help?
Thanks,
Edward Santosh
August 11th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
@Edward
Make sure you watch the video to see the install. It only installs one way.
If you have an error message though, let me know what it is.
-Garrett
August 11th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Wow, fantastic! Wouldn’t have figured it out w/o the video!
Thanks!
Liz
August 11th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
so this is where the little bugger is located!
August 11th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Ok….watched very nice JING PROJECT Video (I installed Jing but haven’t learned to use it yet, looks great) and you did a GREAT JOB, GARRETT!! Great easy to follow presentation!! Kudos! Thanks! That is so helpful! My fingers thank you…that is 10 thanks….had I more fingers, you’d get even more thanks!
August 11th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
@Garrett: checked out your blog and watched your video…great job! I love your energy vib and the ‘cuts’ and it was just a great job and wanted to give ya the feedback!
Cheers!
August 12th, 2007 at 8:02 am
OMG! Yeah, I had all these tabs open and gosh, I hoped there was a more efficient way to do the keyword research. A great help
Thanks so much for this.
August 12th, 2007 at 11:03 am
I installed this yesterday and have had no problems. What an awesome time saver. Thank you!
August 12th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Ok I have tried the link in different browser and still only get the one line of text mentioned prior. Does anyone have it as download file that can be posted elsewhere.
August 13th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Hi Rich,
When you click the link, you get a white screen that says “Automagically does a split-screen comparison of google phrase search and google trends (against MYI)”. I get the same thing.
Go up to your Google search in the top right hand corner & click the small drop down arrow beside it, which brings down the menu of different searches. That’s where you’ll see “Add TDC Comp and Trend”. Click that & you’re done!
August 20th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Dear Garrett,
I have not been able to install the toolbar.
The ADD TDC COMP AND TREND does not come up.
Can you help?
Kelvin
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:43 am
This is a just great!
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Dear Garett,
Great tool but only good for Firefox not Explorer right?
Regards
Pierre
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Hi Garrett,
The link to install the search tool doesn’t seem to be working. I am using Firefox.
Regards,
Jon Lyles
September 4th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Garrett,
Thank you for such a great tool.
Merci
Pierre
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