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12 Responses to “Analyzing Search Keywords using Excel : Array Formulas in Real Life”

1. aviatormonkey says:

   April 29, 2009 at 10:14 pm

   Very interesting Chandoo, as always. Personally I find endless uses for formulae such as {=sum(if(B$2:B$5=$A2,$C$2$C$5))}, just the flexibility in absolute and relative relative referencing and multiple conditions gives it the edge over dsum and others methods.

   I've added to my blog a piece on SQL in VBA that I think might be of interest to you http://aviatormonkey.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/lesson-one-sql-in-vba/ . It's a bit techie, but I think you might like it.

   Keep up the good work, aviatormonkey

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2. Andy Pope says:

   April 30, 2009 at 9:24 am

   Hi Chandoo,

   You might find this coded solution I posted on a forum interesting.

   http://www.excelforum.com/excel-programming/680810-create-tag-cloud-in-vba-possible.html

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3. Array Formulas and Average Calculations « Excel News says:

   April 30, 2009 at 7:53 pm

   [...] under certain circumstances.  One of the tips involved arranging search keywords in excel using Array Forumlas.  Basically, if you need to know how frequent a word or group of keywords appear, you can use this [...]

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4. Chandoo says:

   May 1, 2009 at 10:38 am

   @Aviatormonkey: Thanks for sharing the url. I found it a bit technical.. but very interesting.

   @Andy: Looks like Jarad, the person who emailed me this problem has posted the same in excelforum too. Very good solution btw...

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5. bob says:

   March 29, 2010 at 4:46 pm

   Realy great article

   "You can take this basic model and extend it to include parameters like number of searches each key phrase has, how long the users stay on the site etc. to enhance the way tag cloud is generated and colored."

   How would you go about doing this? I think it would need some VB

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6. Thiago says:

   March 25, 2011 at 1:33 pm

   Hi,
   I found the usage very interesting, but is giving me hard time because the LENs formula that use ranges are not considering the full range, in other words, the LEN formula is only bringing results from the respective "line" cell.

   Using the example, when I place the formula to calculate the frequency for "windows" brings me only 1 result, not 11 as displayed in the example. It seems that the LEN formula using ranges is considering the respective line within the range, not the full range.

   Any hint?

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7. Hui... says:

   March 25, 2011 at 9:27 pm

   @Thiago
   You have to enter the formula as an Array Formula
   Enter the Formula and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter
   Not just Enter

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   • Alex says:

     September 1, 2014 at 4:48 pm

     Thank you, Hui! I couldn't work out how this didn't work

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8. Gary says:

   March 4, 2013 at 2:16 pm

   is there a limit to the number of lines it can analyse.
   Ie i am trying to get this to work on a list of sentances 1500 long. 

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   • Hui... says:

     March 5, 2013 at 3:35 am

     @Gary
     In Excel 2010/2013 Excel is only limited by available memory,
     So just give it a go
     As always try on a copy of the file first if you have any doubts

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9. Sumit says:

   May 18, 2013 at 12:55 pm

   Apologies if I am missing something, but coudn't getting frequency be easier with Countif formula. Something like this - COUNTIF(Range with text,"*"&_cell with keyword_&"*")

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10. Ray says:

    February 26, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    Apologies if I missed, but what is the Array Formula to:

    1. Analyze a list of URL's or a list of word phrases to understand frequency;
    2. List in a nearby column from most used words to least used words;
    3. Next to the list of words the count of occurrences.

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