Micro Niche Finder / Keyword Elite Yield No Results

• Are you using Internet Explorer?
• Are you running Micro Niche Finder or Keyword Elite and not getting any results?
• Can’t get into your AdWords Account? (see screen print below)
• Can’t get into the Google Keyword External Tool?
• Getting error “Exception thrown and not caught”

Before you start blaming Micro Niche Finder or Keyword Elite, they are NOT the problem.

AdWords / Keyword Tool Not Loading

Clearing my cache, cookies, deleting old Java and installing the lastest Java, disabling IE addons… all that bullshit wasn’t working. So I went on a witch hunt in the Control Panel and started uninstalling all kinds of crap I didn’t use anymore. After a few minutes I tried getting into the Google keyword tool again and it worked! Cool, I needed to tell people about it.

OMG! But which program was it? I did too much at one time. Wait, I’ll just do a system restore and start over. Then do things one by one and check after each one. Yea, right.

Man, did that ever screw things up because some of the things I removed didn’t completely recover so I had to do a clean install of those items to get the missing files back so they would uninstall correctly.

Babylon Search Engine

Upon doing some reinstalls, I accepted the default installation on one of the programs (I think it was the US Squared Uninstaller) without expanding the list to see what it was actually installing. I got IE and Firefox hi-jacked with the Babylon Search. I uninstalled it from every crack and nook I could find (thanks, YouTube), but every time I opened a new tab in IE, there it was again. Finally fixed it with this registry update.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs

Right-click on the Tabs entry, Modify it and replace it with what ever page you want to go to when you open a new tab, or just enter about:blank so it opens a blank tab.

Long story short, I spent half the day screwing around and was unable to get the Google stuff working again.

NOTE TO SELF: The next time I need a program uninstaller, use Perfect Uninstaller.

I Found It!

This thing’s been nawing on me ever since so this morning I started poking around again and googled “micro niche finder hangs” and I found this post on The Net Results website: http://www.tnrsupport.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/8/1/error-object-doesnt-support-property-or-method-addeventlistener

Turns out it was the Google Chrome Frame for IE. Don’t just disable it, you have to uninstall it. That was it! That’s the one thing I didn’t uninstall the second time around. I went into the control panel to uninstall it. Had to reboot and BAMM! Bob’s my uncle. I can now used Micro Niche Finder, Keyword Elite, Adwords and the keyword external tool.

Like Sawyer would say, “Son of a bitch.” I hope it works for you. Leave a comment if it does and click the Google PlusOne button on this post.