!! Video Trend Blaster - Your Automatic Video Site based on the Current Google Trends Keywords!!

[GeorgR.]

Warriors,

This is a preview version of my "Video Trend Blaster", an
"All-in-One" Standalone dynamic site which is also pretty easy to install.

What does it do?

Video Trend Blaster fetches the Current Ten Hot Google Trends Keywords and automatically creates a Video site around those keywords!!

If a user goes to your new Site, the site is filled with Videos about the Google Trends Keywords - on the side is a menu with all 10 current Trends keywords with sub-pages filled with videos for those keywords. The site also has SEO friendly URLs with keywords in the URLs.

DEMO:

VTB.NETTANY.COM

Features:

The site is fully dynamic, each time the site is called it is checking the current Google Trends and gets the keywords!

High ClickThrough AdSense template for monetization:




The Videos are nicely embedded on YOUR site, and clicking on them does NOT lead away site visitors to Youtube, the videos are playing on YOUR site. The videos are also NOT popping up that annoying "youtube search bar" as in so many other video sites! We want the people to stay on OUR site and click on our ads, don't we?

You can have this brandnew "Preview" Video Trend Blaster WSO for Only $20 by clicking here:

Yes Georg, this is great for Only $20! Give it to me!

Why "Preview"?

The reason i am having this "Preview Sale" is that i am planning to extend this product a little more - mainly i want to add a RSS feed feature to the site but this not that easy to program as i thought. Working on it.


Cheers,

Georg.



SCRIPT MIGHT ONLY WORK WITH PHP5 !! And your Host needs MOD_REWRITE ENABLED. (99% of all hosters have this anyway)

If you purchase ANY software from me, and it wont run on your host:
I always offer to create a free account for you on my reseller-hosting at hostnine in case your host causes problems.

G.

FIXED: The problem of empty sites if no exact matches are found for a keyword.

Read further down in the thread about this issue.

[PhilG]

Hi Georg;

This looks like a very interesting script. I have purchased and installed according to your instructions but seem to be having some issues. I have pm'd details and would appreciate if you could take a look and let me know if there is some problem that I have overlooked.

I understand that this is still a work in progress as you have pointed out that this is a "preview" version so I know that there may be some adjustments that need to be made.

You have not listed any particular requirements for the script so I am not sure where the problem may be coming from.

One other small point that I would like to make is that I think all WSO's should include the rights to the product. In this case, it should have been stated that the script is only good for ONE site and not multiple sites. Perhaps I should have asked first, but it is always a little disappointing to discover this AFTER payment has been made. I can live with any restrictions that a script may have, its just nice to know before making the purchase.

Again, thanks for the opportunity to work with your script. It looks like it could be an excellent idea and I look forward to working with you on this.

Phil G

[Ellery]

Hi Georg,

Very interesting idea and nice layout.

I noticed the keyword and description meta tags on the sub-pages are blank. I'm sure this will be easy to rectify.

Will all updates be free?

Is the template easily modified?

You said the site is fully dynamic, each time the site is called it is checking the current Google Trends and gets the keywords!

This could be a problem if a site becomes popular. Since Google only updates about once every 3 hours wouldn't it be better to only refresh the content every 3 hours so as not to unnecessarily use Google's bandwidth?

Thanks,

[Rajul kaushik]

Georg,
I have PMed you regarding video site script. Pls respond.
Thanks,
Rajul

[LarryC]

Can you clarify exactly what this does? When you say,

"Video Trend Blaster fetches the Current Ten Hot Google Trends Keywords and automatically creates a Video site around those keywords!!"

it seems to imply that a separate site is created for each keyword. But Phil writes,

"...it should have been stated that the script is only good for ONE site and not multiple sites. "

I'm not clear how this could work. If the idea is to have constantly updated Google trends, how can it only be one site? Unless you just have one chameleon-like site that constantly changes along with the trends...and the Adsense ads update along with the videos. I suppose that could possibly work, but it might be tricky to come up with a domain or promote it, since the keywords would always be changing. Can you clarify this?

[PhilG]

Ellery and Larry;

I am obviously not Georg, and cannot speak about the script too much as I have not been able to get it to work as yet; but here is my take on your questions.

Ellery, there is a cache feature to the script. I don't see a way to set the time limit of the cache, but there is a cache delete script included and a cron job could be set to run this on a regular basis (although I was not able to get that to work either).

Larry, the script is limited to one site being created by the script and you have to declare that domain name after you make your purchase. The pages are created when the site is visited, with the script pulling the top ten Google Trends at that moment. Then the cache will hold those keywords until they are deleted.

In other words it does appear to be similar to what you describe, ie "one chameleon-like site that constantly changes along with the trends..." if you turn off the cache. The pages would seem to be somewhat static for as long as you keep the cached info.

I am not sure what would happen to the pages once the cache is deleted and reset. I would hope that those older pages would be recreated when someone revisits them otherwise would these pages throw 404s? It would be a shame to lose any listings in the SEs for these pages.

Anyway, I will update everyone when I hear from Georg and get the script working.

I hope this helps
Phil

[virtualted]

Hi Georg,

Looking forward to working with this script.

Cheers!

Ted Stalets

[GeorgR.]

Guys,

i am back. Sorry for delay.

PhilG, can you message me details? I will look into this ASAP.

If there are any problems then its rather the "copy protection" but not the script itself. My system works that each script has to be locked to one domain to prevent illegal copies of the script.

As for how the script works:

there is a cache, yes, but it doesnt have to be deleted. There are actually two caches:

The video cache which stores videos locally, and the RSS feed cache fro Google Trends.

Google Trends keywords are updated each HOUR - the script checks the Google trends RSS feed for the current 10 top keywords each time it is called - however i have a "little" cache implemented to avoid overloading the Google trends RSS feed - i set this to 5 minutes.

You dont have to manually delete any cache, the script should ALWAYS get the current keywords.

Also, if you delete/disable the video cache - the only thing which happens would be that the videos are re-fetched from youtube.

[GeorgR.]

>>>

it seems to imply that a separate site is created for each keyword. But Phil writes,

"...it should have been stated that the script is only good for ONE site and not multiple sites. "
>>>

this applies only to the the "copy protection" of the script.

I think the demo shows best how it works.

[GeorgR.]

Guys,

make sure to upload the script in BINARY mode and chmod TMP folder and CACHE folder to 777.

[GeorgR.]

Originally Posted by Ellery

Hi Georg,

Very interesting idea and nice layout.

I noticed the keyword and description meta tags on the sub-pages are blank. I'm sure this will be easy to rectify.

Will all updates be free?

Is the template easily modified?

You said the site is fully dynamic, each time the site is called it is checking the current Google Trends and gets the keywords!

This could be a problem if a site becomes popular. Since Google only updates about once every 3 hours wouldn't it be better to only refresh the content every 3 hours so as not to unnecessarily use Google's bandwidth?

Thanks,

Hello Ellery,

well...i think it would be good idea to create a cron job and let the cron job call the site every 30mins. I think 30mins is a good time, Google Trends doesn't update THAT often, but theoretically it can update each hour.


Your adsense ID and ad colors and basic configuration you can just enter in the config file.

You can also edit the templates, or change headers but this would require manually editing of the templates/CSS file, but no big deal either.

[PhilG]

make sure to upload the script in BINARY mode and chmod TMP folder and CACHE folder to 777.

Still not working on this end. I have emailed more details.

I tend to agree that it is quite possibly your copy protection that is messing things up. That tends to make me a bit concerned. Does the script constantly check for this or just the one time. If more than once, what happens if that copy protection server goes down? Do our sites go down as well?

Phil

[GeorgR.]

It checks only once, at the initial run of the script. It then creates a "status" file and reads the status file locally and checks it against your site name.

But it still should not come up EMPTY..this puzzles me.

I will send you another version. I bet its PHP4 on your server and there might be an incompatibility with PHP4.

[PhilG]

I bet its PHP4 on your server and there might be an incompatibility with PHP4.

Actually, I have both on my server and can choose which one I want to run on any site I have.

Changing this to PHP 5 did get the script to work - Woo-hoo!!

I appreciate your taking the time to work this thru with me - you may want to set the requirements for your script in the WSO and your instructions. It would help to know this stuff in advance.

Phil

[GeorgR.]

so i didn't hear back from the others who purchased, i hope it works for them

Edit:
Ellery, the keywords, metas and description are set here. (See demo URL)

Could you give me an example where you say it isn't set?

[Delanda]

Nice looking script Georg, I've been working on something similar as well but not only for videos, but you beat me to it.

[GeorgR.]

Delanda, Hello.

Well i don't think theres a point in making it "more complex", except the RSS feature i want to add.

The reason is that otherwise i think its better to use a Wordpress blog, it basically has all important features already built in, like RSS functionality.

Initially, i actually want (and wanted) to make this a WP plugin, basically an autoblog plugin for WP but which uses the Google trends keywords to fill the blog w/ articles and videos.

I have something cooking there also, the potential would be even better. Because you can use existing WP plugins to tag/ping and even auto social bookmark the minute you get the new keywords - that actually what i really want

[Delanda]

GeorgR,

I agree, your script is great, and the WP plugin would be even better, I can see the potential in this, which is why I had started on my own version awhile back, but for my own personal use only.

Best of luck...off to a great start!

[PhilG]

Hi Georg;

It appears the script is not working today. I am not sure if this is the script, Google Trends for YouTube. I note that your sample site is not working either. I understand that pulling content from other sites can put us at the mercy of their api's but I hope that this is not going to be a problem with the script.

Even if Google Trends or YouTube were down (they are not), shouldn't the videos from yesterday show up from the cache?

Phil

[Ellery]

Hi Georg,

I agree with Phil that you should specify that this can only be used on one domain. If I had known that up front I would not have wasted my time researching this.

Regarding the meta tags for keywords and description, if you click through on any of the videos there are none on those pages. For example see andy merrick - the surface videos so only the home page has values for these.

Right now on the home page all that is showing is this message, "There is no video available for keyword." Hopefully a better alternative can be found in those cases.

(Phil, it appears from the example I gave above that the old pages are saved.)

Warmest regards,

[GeorgR.]

Oh i see what you mean.

The other "problem" is that for some current trend keywords there are just no videos on youtube.

If a current trend KW is "inauguration day 2009 streaming"...the script does an EXACT search on youtube for this keyword to avoid non relevant videos.

However, there is no video matching this KW right now,, so the page comes up empty.

I am working on a solution there to avoid empty searches, i could broaden the keyword search - but then there is danger that non releveant videos appear.

[GeorgR.]

FIXED:

There was an issue that certain keywords just didnt result in videos on youtube - therefore the script did not display videos on those pages.

If a current trend is "inauguration recipes" and there are no videos matching "inauguration recipes" <--- please dont blame the script or me

HOWEVER - an empty page is a problem, so this has been FIXED for most of the cases.

The youtube searches are now "broader" to avoid the appearance of empty sites due to lack of videos for "odd keywords".

However, please be aware that its just not under control of the script if a current search is "Red Crispy Chickens from Mars" or things like that.

Georg.

[Ellery]

Hi Georg,

Suggestion: Instead of broadening the search, why not just skip to the next keyword phrase on the list if no videos are available for the current one? Then if none can be found on the entire list (unlikely) start back over with the first one and broaden it.

I think that would give much better results.

[Elliott]

I just bought it. Can we plug in something other than Adsense in the banner slots?

Elliott

[GeorgR.]

yes you can certainly edit the templates, you could use CBProAds which has similar syntax as adsense, and then just replace the adsense parts in the template with CBProads.
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Also, i recently sent out updated versions of the script, the current ones should be up-to-date. If something wont work, please let me know and i give a download link for the recent version.

Thank you for your purchase!!

[Elliott]

I don't know how to edit the templates. I was wondering if they would take a 160x600 skyscraper?

There's plenty of room on the right side, below the menu.

Elliott

[GeorgR.]

yes there is, i can certainly send you a modified template.

BUT: All the ad units are already used, you would need to scrap one if you want a skyscraper

Tell me where you want ads, and which to scrap (we can have three total + link unit)..and i can send you a modified template.