We released version 2.5.0.2 today.

Google made changes to their Keyword Tool recently that broke some of the Keyword Research functionality and this release resolves that issue.

We also had a few bug fixes for the Legacy Campaign builder, so that should be working 100% again for everyone.

We added a few optimizations to improve performance during the campaign building process, specifically the expansion of keywords.

This version should make Keyword Rockstar much more rock solid as we work out the final kinks in all the new functionality introduced in version 2.5

Best wishes,

Jon

We are excited to release version 2.0.1.10 today!

This is the first version in the direction we are taking to remove the manual proxy maintenance and to automate it.

Here are the changes:

• Filtering Section, Step 7 – Now you can pre-filter your additional stats collection based on the initial stats of the keywords returned by the Google Keyword Tool.  This allows you to only get data for the keywords that meet a minimum criteria you specify.
• Proxies are global – Proxies are now global across all projects and are only tested the first time KR is launched and a project is started.  They are not tested on each project like before, you now only select which country you want to filter the proxies to in Step 8 of the project settings.

Bug Fixes

• Image Ads should work for all text entered now.
• Yahoo & MSN campaigns work for Content Network Campaigns (no more missing keywords)
• Project Running but no data being returned
• URL Seeds return data

This version has a good bit of improvements in speed and also general bug fixes based on the feedback we have gotten from you.

Looking forward to releasing more improvements over the next few weeks.

Best Wishes,

Jon

We have released version 1.0.5.4 of Keyword Rockstar today!

This version includes several new features that will tremendously improve the speed at which you generate PPC campaigns.

It also includes a few bug fixes and a change to the output of the Generated Campaigns.

New Features

1) Super Powerful Adwords Search Campaign Generator

2) Generate Content Network Campaigns and Create Adgroups Based on the original Seed for the keyword

Bug Fixes

1) The generated image ads should work much better now for various length text ads.

Output Change

1) All of the generated campaign output is now “Tab” delimited instead of “Comma” delimited so that you can use commas in your ads without causing a problem.

Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to make the training videos for the new features yet.  But they will be ready early next week.

Here are just a few of the ways you can use the new Powerful Search Generator:

1) Append keywords to original keywords

2) Prepend keywords to original keywords

3) Both Prepend and Append keywords to original keywords

4) Pair Keywords

5) Auto-Generate Domain Name variations from keywords

6) Auto-Generate Misspellings for Keywords

7) Include Auto-Generated Tracking Id’s for keywords

Include Tracking 202 Pro Parameters Automatically for Destination Urls.

9) Use Tokens to build ads and destination urls from your original or final keywords

10) Creates .csv text for all keywords and their tracking id’s

11) Specify how many keywords you want in each adgroup

12) Specify how many adgroups you want in each campaign

13) Includes 50 pre-populated lists to quickly generate Geo-Targeted or Industry Targeted Campaigns, such as US Cities, UK Cities, Australia Cities, Top 1000 Actors, Top 1000 Movies, Occupations, Baby Products, etc..

14) Specify individual bid prices for Broad, Phrase, & Match types.

15) Much More!!

I can’t even do it justice in this blog post.  It is so flexible and powerful, you will be amazed!

We’ll have the videos up next week.  We would get them up sooner, but we are going to PPC Classroom Live in Las Vegas this weekend to share some Keyword Rockstar love!

If any of you are there, be sure to look for me.  I’ll be easy to spot with my Keyword Rockstar shirt on.

Best Wishes,

Jon

Version 1.0.5.2 has been released and includes some great new features, enhancements and bug fixes.

Here is a list of improvements:

1) Content Campaign Generator now allows you to specify multiple themes for an adgroup. Simply separate the themes by a comma on the same line.

2) Content Campaign Generator now allows you to specify the number of keywords per adgroup, the number of adgroups per campaign and whether you want to separate the text ads and image ads into different adgroups or campaigns.

3) Placement Campaign Generator now allows you to specify the number of adgroups per campaign and whether you want to separate the text ads and image ads into different adgroups or campaigns.

4) Major enhancement in memory usage.  You should notice a significant decrease in memory usage for long running projects.  We are working on even more optimization in this area, but this release contains a major improvement.

5) Results grid will now return you to the same spot after you hit the refresh button. No more ending up in a different match type after refreshing.

6) You can now “Save” your grid layout and “Restore” to the default layout.  If you want to hide columns and save that layout for all projects, then simply hit the “Save Layout” button and it will remember which columns to view across all projects.  You can also hit “Restore Layout” button if you want to return to the default layout.

7) Deleting Keywords – You now have the ability to delete just the selected keywords or all match types of the selected keywords (or cancel and not delete any).

There were also various bug fixes in the context menus to prevent the program crashing if grouping rows were selected.

We will have another release next week that will include the Search Campaign Generator.  It is very close to being finished.

Best Wishes,

Jon

We released version 1.0.4.9 of Keyword Rockstar to address two issues some customers were having.

1) Some customers were locking up when doing an “AllInTitle” search and we think we have corrected this issue with this release.

2) Some customers were reporting having problems with the data not returning when hitting the refresh button. We also think we have corrected this issue in this release.

Due to the two releases this week, we will have to hold off on the new features that we are adding until early next week when we release version 1.0.5.0.

Best Wishes,

Jon