Niche Software

[akogo]

Sorry if this is the wrong section to post my question, but I guess it might be related to keywords. Anyone using niche type software or services to help find high demand, low supply markets? Any recommendations? Sticky mail if possible or post any comments.

[bakedjake]

I wrote a tool that takes the Overture inventory tool, combined with the Yahoo! link:, Yahoo! linkdomain:, and Google allinanchor: queries and runs it through a semi-automatic process that gives me nice results.

You can do it by hand easily if you have a low volume of sites you want to do.

[coho75]

BakedJake,

Sounds like a great tool that you created. Any chance you want to share it :) Did you write it with PHP or something similar?

coho75

[bakedjake]

It's written in python.

I'm not inclined to share it at the moment because I want to sleep at night and not worry about a bunch of users getting banned for using my tool.

Seriously, though, it's not hard to write. Took me about 4 hours.

[coho75]

Thanks! Figured that would be your response, lol. I know nothing about Python.

Hmmm, maybe I'll give it a shot using PHP.

coho75

[killroy]

Hmm, I once build a spread sheet, that would accept keyword lists from overture, expand them using the adwords sandbox, and use ranking and pricing info, as well as serps from google together with two index formulas to find hig value low competition keywords. Took about a week to build a list of around 2000 terms for one industry... not exactly automatic, but the index at least told me big differences in valuability of subtly similar keyword combos.

SN

[SeanW]

I wrote a tool that takes the Overture inventory tool, combined with the Yahoo! link:, Yahoo! linkdomain:, and Google allinanchor: queries and runs it through a semi-automatic process that gives me nice results.

If I understand this correctly, you start off with a seed, get more phrases from Overture. Then you run the three queries on each of the phrases.

Could you please elaborate on the "semi-automatic process"?

If, for example, I start off with "widgets", and get "red widgets" and "blue widgets" from Overture, I start looking for

Google - allinanchor:"red widgets" (and same for blue)

which gives me all the sites that have a link named "red widgets", giving me an idea of how many sites there are for the topic (ie collate all the URLs returned)

But the Yahoo! stuff escapes me. Do I take the results of google into yahoo? What does that tell me?

Thanks,

Sean

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