How Market Samurai Can Rock Your World
Market Samurai takes your effort and infuses it with jet fuel so that it launches you into out of this world results while reducing your time to get there. I am happy I made the investment in the Noble Samurai software because it not only helps me but it helps me to get my clients on the right track in record time.
My views on Market Samurai have not changed since I wrote that statement back in 2008.
In fact, it has always been great but is so much better now.
Noble Samurai (the people behind the software) also provide some great video tutorials. These tutorials make using this software a breeze and make it less daunting to those who are novices.
Anyway, I thought it was time to give you an intimate look at this software tool guaranteed to make any keyword research a whole lot easy and reduce the time it takes to research those terms.
This software has save me hours and hours of time when it comes to search engine optimization…and I know Market Samurai can rock your world too.
Someone new to the web recently asked, “How do I get my website to the first page of Google?”
This was a very naiive question because there isn’t a simple answer.
Today getting to the first page of any search engine depends on your domain, how long it has been around plus on page and off page influences.
Off page factors include things such as incoming links, which are like votes for your site, plus the type of domains that those links come from.
On page factors include things such as the content on the page, headers, titles, and other items such as images.
It used to be that Internet marketing research for the right keywords (or phrases) took ages but with Market Samurai, this task is greatly reduced—plus it helps with a variety of other tasks all from the desktop panel.
I’ve been using Market Samurai since before it was publicly released (Beta). Even now it is constantly upgraded and improved.
Noble Samurai created this software to work on Adobe AIR which has an auto update feature that is convenient and easy.
Also, unlike many other types of software, Market Samurai works on all computer types–so it doesn’t matter what you own.
But it is the features that I want to take you through to familiarize you with the product.
When you open the software you can chose to begin a new project or to revisit an existing one.
Once inside you can select the particular task from this menu:
- Project Settings
- New Keyword
- Rank Checker
- Keyword Research
- SEO Competition
- Domains
- Monetization
- Find Content
- Publish Content
- Promotion
- Adwords
Project Setting & Rank Tracker
This section allows you to enter in your domain URL and to track its ranking in three different search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) and also see how many pages are indexed by those engines.
It shows both broad match and phrase match keywords, checks page rank and backlinks, and allows for various search depths from 10 to 1,000.
Recently MS added the ability to track the site over time and easily view the historical data and trends. This was such a great addition and I can use it to track my small business SEO projects over time.
Keyword Research
Keyword Research is the function I used the most. You can enter you main keyword or phrase and search. This brings back results, not only for the main keyword, but also for other related phrases, and it lets you compare the data on one screen.
There are filters for Google Synonyms, Google Search Words, and filtering for SEO traffic, Adwords Traffic, and Phrase Length.
In addition, it is possible to indicate both positive and negative keywords plus you can also import or export data in one click.
Once you select the keyword or phrase it is possible to further analyze it by choosing Organic (Total Searches, SEO Traffic, Phrase-to-Broad, Trends), Adwords (Traffic Click Through Ratio, Cost Per Click), Competition (SEO Competition, Title Competition, Title Competition, AdwordsCompetition), and/or Commerciality.
Another nice nice feature is that you can click on a specific term to begin exploring it further to drill down your phrases.
SEO Competition
SEO Competition is a super perk for today’s market because you can view both Off Page and On Page data to see what ranking sites are doing right (or wrong) and identify windows of opportunity.
It is so comprehensive that it is of great value. For instance, when exploring you get to see first page ranking results in Google for the selected keyword but you also get to see competitive data such as domain age, page rank, a variety of backlinks, directory listings, metrics and when the site was last cached.
The visual overview includes color coding with green indicating that it would be easier to compete, yellow in the mid-range, and red indicating that it would be the hardest for each value displayed with the particular color indicator.
By using the arrows for each of the domains it is possible to do further analysis of the page rank including looking at the anchor text of each backlink AND where those backlinks are from.
Domains
Recently added was the feature to help find domain names (expiring, dropped, etc.,) and although I tried it with DomainFace, I did not have good luck for the niches I was exploring. To use this function you need to have an active account with Domain Face (which I do but I don’t currently use it).
Monetization
Monetization allows you to quickly find products, generate dynamic ads, and allows you to manage accounts and determine your business metrics.
This interfaces easily with Amazon, Clickbank, Commission Junction and PayDotCom affiliate networks with or without an account with those networks.
It is also possible to filter offers by keyword, commission, categories and language. But the real perk is that you can create an ad template with the copy and images from the affiliate products you find and create sidebar widget, blog or banner ads in a few simple clicks.
Find Content
Content creation can be a challenge and so this interface is a great perk—and one that is useful to a lot of people but not one that I use much.
It empowers you to be able to search many of the biggest article directories, various blogs, YouTube, Flickr, and news or answer sites.
Once you view the data, you can also determine how many content copies have previously been published while perusing both the page rank and backlinks to the page, while also being able to determine the keyword density of the article and the date published.
It is also possible to obtain an article from one of the directories and to publish it right from the Market Samurai software.
Find Content
This section is actually a publishing tool that I don’t take advantage of. It allows integration with WordPress blogs or WordPress Direct accounts.
You can both manage and publish the content found from this section of the software.
Promotion
If you are seeking to help your ranking, and want to find quality backlinks from blogs, forums or other Web 2.0 sites—this section will make your job easier.
A search will reveal keywords, page rank, backlinks, and identifies follow or nofollow along with pingbacks.
Adwords
This section is “Coming Soon” and so has not been activated yet. (I’ll have to come back to update when it is.)
Overall I find Market Samurai to be one of the best software values on the market. It is superior when it comes to the SEO research features and value.
The updates are useful and valuable and I am very happy to have purchased it.
One of the only shortcomings I have found is that sometimes it is very slow. This difficulty arises when I get into a trail of keywords in-depth.
Also, the long list of keyword tabs that are displayed are not easily accessed.
I thought it was my computer originally but found that the software slows down and gets cumbersome the more keywords you track. Often I close one project and open a second so I don’t have to deal with this issue.
Another thing that is a bit cumbersome is that it is necessary to close and reopen the software in between projects. It would be nice if I was able to navigate through each project from the panel without having to shutdown and start up again.
Even with those two minor inconveniences, I believe that overall this is one of the best investments I have made in software and one of my most valued tools to date.
I recommend this product highly to anyone who is doing any research or serious web work for SEO or Internet Marketing and believe it is a necessity instead of optional.
If you want to test drive this software you can do so–but with the 30 Day Money Back Guarantee I highly suggest you to purchase Market Samurai now before the price goes up again!
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This and possibly Compete.com are the next two tools I’m going to sign up for. I’ve signed up for the free trial – looks like the price is getting ready to go up!