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erots · 04-20-2006, 05:07 AM

I bet many of you are searching for good keywords that don't have that much competition. It can be tedious task when you use overture to take a keyword and enter it to google to see how many sites there are with that keyword. So here's something to make your life easier.

So I made a little script called ostanalyzer(I really have no idea what I meant with that). So first you go to Overture. You enter some keyword, in my example "pancakes". You get the results and select them like on this screenshot.

Now you go directory where ostanalyzer is located at, make a text file and paste those results in that text file like on this screenshot.

Now you give that text file some nice simple name like pancakes.txt and click on the ostanalyzer.pl to start it. It will ask you filename, this is where you enter pancakes.txt. Screenshot.

Now the script starts proccessing the results, it can take lot of time, totally depends on how many results you copied. Right now this script waits 5-10 seconds between every search, to not spam Google. It can be increased simply by editing this script.. well shouldn't be very hard, but if it is I can make it easier by making script ask the sleep time interval every time it executes. Anyway... that proccessing should look like it is on this screenshot. Oh look at that, bunch of cool numbers

Anyway, after script has finished you get a result file. In this case it will be pancakes.txt.results. You click on it and open it with wordpad or notepad. And you get list like this.

So what do those numbers mean. Well first number is overture searches/google results. I called it index, don't actually know what I should call it, but this seemed like right word for it... anyway. Second number is popularity, which is the overture searches number. Third number, Competition, is Google results. And well keyword is keyword :-) Results are ordered according to index number. So searches that have less competition come first.

Script can be found here.

This is a Perl script so if you don't have Perl in your computer then you need to install it. You can get ActivePerl here.

Link to download can be found on left menu. Select MSI package as AS package does not have uninstaller. If you have Windows 9x/Me or NT, then you also need Windows Installer 2.0+, which can also be downloaded from the same page.

I hope this script is helpful. Cheers.

04-20-2006, 05:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
erots future is now Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Elbonia Posts: 3,581 Points: 30	So you are doing SEO but hate searching for good keywords.. I bet many of you are searching for good keywords that don't have that much competition. It can be tedious task when you use overture to take a keyword and enter it to google to see how many sites there are with that keyword. So here's something to make your life easier. So I made a little script called ostanalyzer(I really have no idea what I meant with that). So first you go to Overture. You enter some keyword, in my example "pancakes". You get the results and select them like on this screenshot. Now you go directory where ostanalyzer is located at, make a text file and paste those results in that text file like on this screenshot. Now you give that text file some nice simple name like pancakes.txt and click on the ostanalyzer.pl to start it. It will ask you filename, this is where you enter pancakes.txt. Screenshot. Now the script starts proccessing the results, it can take lot of time, totally depends on how many results you copied. Right now this script waits 5-10 seconds between every search, to not spam Google. It can be increased simply by editing this script.. well shouldn't be very hard, but if it is I can make it easier by making script ask the sleep time interval every time it executes. Anyway... that proccessing should look like it is on this screenshot. Oh look at that, bunch of cool numbers Anyway, after script has finished you get a result file. In this case it will be pancakes.txt.results. You click on it and open it with wordpad or notepad. And you get list like this. So what do those numbers mean. Well first number is overture searches/google results. I called it index, don't actually know what I should call it, but this seemed like right word for it... anyway. Second number is popularity, which is the overture searches number. Third number, Competition, is Google results. And well keyword is keyword :-) Results are ordered according to index number. So searches that have less competition come first. Script can be found here. This is a Perl script so if you don't have Perl in your computer then you need to install it. You can get ActivePerl here. Link to download can be found on left menu. Select MSI package as AS package does not have uninstaller. If you have Windows 9x/Me or NT, then you also need Windows Installer 2.0+, which can also be downloaded from the same page. I hope this script is helpful. Cheers. __________________ Nothing to look here