Jun 23 2010
Market Samurai Review
It doesn’t matter if you are new of have many years of experience under your belt, if you are in any way involved with posting content on the internet, a good understanding of ‘Keywords’ is critical to your success. They could be short and highly competitive or ‘Longtail’ with low search volume and very little competition. Often referred to as the “Golden Nuggets” these long tail keywords provide enormous value if you want your website to get ranked quickly by the search engines.
So the big question is: “How do you find these “Golden Nugget” keywords?”
There are a number of powerful keyword tools, some free and you get what you pay for, or others that you purchase. Some as a one off payment, others as a monthly subscription.
Market Samurai is a single payment tool which comes with lifetime upgrades and a powerful support program that provides very comprehensive education tools.
I first purchased Market Samurai in the fall of 2008 when it was an apprentice ninja, developing the tools to become a true Keyword warrior. Since then it has grown and the early owners of this remarkable tool have received a steady string of upgrades and additions that have allowed the ‘apprentice’ to develop into a fully armoured and powerful warrior.
In December 2008 we were given a wonderful Christmas present of 7 new Keyword research features. Then in early 2009 we were teased with a Mystery Module. All was revealed in June with the release of the Rank Tracker Module. By the end of 2009 we were up to version v0.85.24 and were relishing the power or this software, it was providing in-depth SEO analysis which allowed users to study everything we needed to know about competing sites’ how many back links dod they have, .edu & .gov back links, where they used the keywords, where they in their title tag, H1 tags and much more. The power of the information we had at our fingertips was amazing, there had never been anything like this available to the average internet marketer.
From here on Market Samurai led the way and was openly discussed in many marketing webinars as the best long tail keyword tool bar none for internet marketing research. Virtually all the top marketers used it, they couldn’t afford not to!
Here is just some of the information Market Samurai will provide:
* What markets are worth targeting;
* What markets are worth avoiding;
* Which keywords you should focus on for fast results;
* Which keywords should be avoided;
* Which markets have weak competition;
* Which markets show impossible levels of competition;
* What are the chances of achieving front-page rankings for a keyword;
* What topics you should write articles on for your website;
* Where to find quality backlinks;
* How many backlinks you need;
* What quality backlinks you need;
* How to determine the quality of a page for a backlink;
* …and so much more!
Think about it, how much easier will life be with this information at your fingertips? Not only that, but you can also export your research as a CVS file direct into Excel so you can develop further analysis strategies that will help you target specific keywords to work with. I often do this by running a quick calculation on search numbers vs competing pages, then bingo… I have a list fo keywords I should start with to get fast ranking, and yes this works… I have ranked content onto the first page of Google in as little as 48 hrs!! How good is that! This ability to export in CVS is not one I have found in too many other Keyword tools, Google provide it but some of the others don’t, sorry I am not going to give brand names here for fear of legal retribution.
Far from sitting cross legged on the mats at the Dojo, the Samurai team has continued their quest for Keyword supremacy and maintained a steady stream of educational videos hosted by Dr Anthony Fernando. These not only explain how to use the extensive features of Market Samurai, but also show how to apply them to optimal effect in your internet business.
So what features does Market Samurai offer currently? Lets look at the menu options:
- Project Settings
- New Keyword
- Rank Tracker
- Keyword Research
- SEO Competition
- Monetization
- Find Content
- Publish Content
- Promotion
- Adwords
As you can see, there is a lot here, some very powerful tools that will provide a wealth of information that will give you immense power when it comes to getting your site where you want it to be… page 1. Also an important addition that is only found when you set up your project is the ability to select a specific country or go world wide. Think about this for a moment… if you are dealing with a particular marketplace like Australia, Canada or the UK, you can restrict your research to these specific marketplaces, that’s awesome marketing power!
I have to admit, one has a tendency to get comfortable with the tools one uses, and having had Market Samurai since 2008, I am very comfortable with it. Yes I do have others and have tried even more, but always come back to Market Samurai, having been frustrated with some of the limitations of other keyword tools, often in the lack of ability to download data and work with it outside the tool itself.
I recently purchased another keyword tool, yes it produced a staggering number of keywords, but there was no facility to download the data and search volume, it also didn’t give the competing page numbers so significant additional work had to be done after the event and this I found frustrating. Market Samurai might only give 200 initial keywords, but you can then select one and drill deeper for another 200, then go even deeper again. The ability to select the number of words in a keyword string, from 1 - 10 also helps to produce a great list of long tail keywords to work with so there is immense power in the research capabilities.
Put simply, this is the most powerful keyword research tool I have ever worked with and I can’t reccomend it highly enough, once you start using it, you will be amazed at it’s power! So why not get the Free 12 day trial and give it a workout, what have you got to loose???
