New Ideas On Display, AutoPlay, & Sample RSS With XML to XHTML Conversion
:New Ideas On Display, AutoPlay, & Sample RSS With XML to XHTML Conversion
The primary object of the Keyword Ranking App is for the client to be able to quickly tell how their rankings for each keyword are doing. With this in mind there is no use in displaying more information that is needed at one time. In the below spec I considered a multiple line graph for the main display with a line for each keyword.
I spend some time looking at PHP charting libraries and came up with a couple of ideas. I am looking for the best display model for conveying rankings and traffic changes over a period of time to clients. I came up with the idea of running the keywords down the y axes and when you mouse over each keyword it would display in a multiple line graph the rankings for Google, Yahoo, MSN (and perhaps other search engines also). Also there could be a feature to automatically show a keyword every 10 seconds so all the client has to do is sit there any watch there rankings. 0 to 20 keywords in 3.3 minutes.
This way you could add different data to be charted besides like Alexa, back links, and number of documents in the index. You would just mouse over (or autoplay them) one of these items (they would be in a list with the keywords to the left of the y aris) and you would see the data for period that that you have set the x axis to cover.
Just to give you the idea of the power of a RSS display here is a project that I just finished where I put my SEO Tool Directory out in a RSS feed and then created a XML to XHTML conversion file.
SEO Tools Directory
SEO Tools RSS Feed
Converted From XML to XHTML
Showing Only One Category – This is done with a simple argument on the include file.
