The trends watch subdomain is a script test that got a bit out of hand. The first version was a quick demo of how to grab the google trends atom feed and make some pages with a search engine friendly url.

Then I added

• mysql backend
• sitemap
• tagpages
• rss
• trackbacks

some stuff from

• blogsearch
• twitter
• youtube
• flickr

and other datasources, and the obligatory jQuery ajax votes and stuff.

I had not written an actual script for six years, this is my first site-script in php. It’s fun stuffing it together, mostly basic coding (I am a ‘kiss’ fan, keep it simple, stupid). If I can clean out the codesty and make some admin-pages I’ll try and put up a new download in may.

I am going to merge the linkdirectories and drop the ‘relations’ subdirectory, Google perceive subdomains and subdirectories both as subdirectories so running a double linkdirectory only causes problems in ranking.

On the serp subdomain I am developing a new concept site.  The script is designed to explore search niches and accumulate data on the top sites over an entire niche based on the most popular searches in the niche, the top traffic searches.

I developed a single niche version and run a test on a free host. To maintain data on a large amount of domains I use services and the services that do not offer an API have standard quota per IP. On shared hosting, I can use this IP’s quotum but that means others on the same IP get a service denial. If other scripts use services, I also get less of the quota.

Distributing the sites workload on a network and having the scripts communicate with xml-rpc means I can drop the quotum use to max 20% per IP per day (regular 1%), and maintain 1200 to 3000 records per install. That offers for me the highest stability and the fastest update speed, and it gives me two dozen PR2 niche blogs with the domain list as ‘link directory’. If it works out it might become an interesting script.

Finally! Google indexed my pagerank tool page.

I did some CSS work on the buttons, on the table layout, and added an email function. (and a database but that only registers the lot.). I also limited it to 200 url’s max.

The seo-freaks want one they can stuff endless lists of url’s in. So I kindly gave them the pagerank script with a friendly hint that with a little programming it would process textarea inputboxes. I ain’t gonna host it because after a few thousand url’s in one go, Google ban your IP.  Then the tool is useless and the rest of any services are also stopped. I put the basic source underneath the tool on the page as textfile.

simple one click tool, enter your sitemap url, and it retrieves the maps pagerank. I run the same routine on some other domain, but I am moving the pagerank bits over here.

I haven’t tested it on big maps and I don’t know when google ban my ip (in which case I am ****ed and I close it down).

In the mean time,

its on pagerank.trismegistos.net