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Thanks for your reply. You are right, that ezinearticles does show the most viewed and most published articles in a category. That information does indeed help, and could be good to see how others write successful articles. But it wasn’t quite what I had in mind.

What would be nice to have, is a tool where I would input an article, with the title and resource box, and the tool would tell me how likely it would be read in ezinearticles, and the resource box link clicked. I know there are tools that can gauge how “strong” certain words are, but I meant more like a tool that would check the popularity of keywords; that is, what are readers looking for when they search for articles (and perhaps where there is a scarcity of related articles).

The “most viewed articles” in a category does help, but it doesn’t say if 20 people have read the article in 90 days, or 20,000. Also it doesn’t tell me when they read the article, showing trends over time. But asking ezinearticles if they keep track of statistics like that and can make them public (or if someone else does), is a good idea that I will try. All they can say is no.

Thanks again for replying.

However, they don’t show which are the most popular categories though. Still, knowing which articles are most popular is a good start. Did you ever try contacting them to find out this info? You never know, they MIGHT help you out a bit…

Now, as for your question about tools Eric… I would like to see an online tool that shows me the competition for a list of keywords, but it allows me to specify which search engine the numbers are collected from AND country-specific options as well.

There are software tools that do this, but it seems to always be only for Google.com and US-centric. I’m in Australia and would love to get that data for google.com.au, for example.

I want to be able to paste in a whole list of keywords and let it go off and do its thing, then deliver me the results in csv format for download & massage. Helps heaps when doing a keyword analysis for a project, rather than having to manually search for each keyword & record the data.

Eran Malloch
Google AdWords Qualified Professional

I’m kind of new here. i dont know if you can write this. A RSS parser displayed using Javascript.

AWstats doesn’t do a good job of separating users and bots.

The reason is that it only looks for known bots.

The problem is bots that aren’t known.

I’ve found a way to determine this in my logs. Bots generally tend to take only one hit, and a human several.

The human requests a page (1 hit) and the CSS file (2 hits), and 5 images (up to 7 hits). The bot only requests the page and accounts for 1 hit.

And looking at that I notice that a couple of my sites are only visited by bots who rip off the content.

But of course that as an online tool wouldn’t be too profitable or reliable. Better as a server side log analyzer.

But MY suggestion for a tool is not really a tool, but a feature for a tool.

No matter what you offer, it would be nice to have a “spy” feature and see what everyone else is punching into it. You know, so I can usurp their niche