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the value of google trends

I wondered what the value of Google Trends was. I list it on the serp tool and seriously doubted it’s potential, so I did an experiment and decided to use the webmaistro blog, which was doing 1 hit a day, … Continue reading

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parsing the google trends atom feed

Short and sweet : how to grab the google trends atom feed and parse out the links, in 15 lines. $feed = simplexml_load_file('http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/atom/hourly'); $children =  $feed->children('http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'); $parts = $children->entry; foreach ($parts as $entry) {    $details = $entry->children('http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom');    $dom … Continue reading

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