July 15, 2009
Google Rank Extractor (Part II)
UPDATES:
August 15, 2009 - GRE is now Ajaxified! Download links have been updated, documentation has been updated and there is now a dedicated page for the project that is located here.
The Google Rank Extractor, or GRE, is now officially a public Beta release. It may be downloaded from here.
I would like to thank those who volunteered to be Alpha testers and advisors. Your feedback was invaluable, as usual.
Several new features have been added since the Alpha version, the main one being that I've added an admin user interface to the package. This UI gives you several ways to sort and display the information that has been collected by the extractor.
Also added is some better documentation, which was definitely needed. Especially with the release of the user interface. The docs also include quick install instructions.
A couple of files have been added to the package and I've changed the structure just a bit so that the database connection info only has to be entered a single time and so the admin area can be easily password protected.
Lastly, I have removed the ability to save the data to a flat file. Starting with the Beta version GRE now requires a MySQL database to store the information being collected. This requirement simply makes the most sense given the amount of information that it'll end up collecting. Not to mention that one needs a sensible way to sort, process and display the information.
I'll be putting up a Demo (and will link to it from this post) sometime over the next day or two so that everyone can see what type of information gets collected and how it can be displayed in different ways. It'll take a little bit of time to get a working demo up and available since I need to build a database with real looking, but essentially fake information. I don't want to be handing out any proprietary information about my sites, and the tool does collect some very proprietary data. UPDATE: You can see the demo of the admin side of things here.
Enjoy !
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Hi Randy,
Congratulations on the official release of the Google Rank Extractor. I can't use it since my sites are not running on PHP nor I am not a programmer (so I cannot contribute...but I would if I could!).
It sounds like an awesome tool. I hope it gets the attention that it deserves!
Hi Randy the download link does not work for me?
Mayra: Thanks! It's not quite done cooking yet, but close. Actually it is pretty much done cooking for the next release (fully Ajax so doesn't require one to have a php based site) however I just haven't found the time yet to update the ReadMe file, package it up and get it released.
Update: The Ajaxified version has been released. It can be found at http://www.randycullom.com/google-rank-extractor.php or via the Google Rank Extractor link to the left in the "Links" area.
Dentist: Oopsie! I had a slight typo on the link from this page. The other ones worked so hopefully you go it from one of them. If not, I've fixed the link here now.