To anyone using Market Samurai: Question

[GeorgR.]

If you do niche research for a good niche,

one golden rule is to check for keywords >200 total searches/day and with <30000 sites with that keyword in Google.

But for the 200+ total searches....do you use "broad", "phrase" or "exact" ?

G.

[Bryan Zimmerman]

I just let it search, and then if you export it into a spread sheet it will give you stats for all three. Then you just delete the one or ones you don't want. But if you can get one with more than 200 searches day and less than 30000 competing sites for an exact phrase....... is about all I can say

[CaseWhitney]

Personally, I use broad match type for the searches per day.

Another metric I pay attention to is the number of allintitle with in the local title competition (seoltc).

[Randy Bheites]

Phrase and exact is what I use. And I fish for 100+ searches a day and less than 20K results.

[jan roos]

Originally Posted by geonet

I use the Market Samurai
Let me just highlight the nuts and bolts…To bost your site ranking
1) Find a core keyword (high-traffic, low-competition, high-value).
2)SEO competition analysis
3) Fine-tune my core keyword
4) Research new keywords (via new tabs) for potential article/post content.
5) Find content (research or reference).
6) Finding high-quality backlinks couldn’t be easier.
geonet

I would like to add to this that you should use exact because broad always shows over inflated numbers for sure.

[pur113810]

People are busy and I thing they like direct approach. For that reason the best thing would be to go for exact. If you don't find what you are looking for than go for the broader aspect.
That is what I think.

[PeteHarrison]

Hi George,

I tend to go with Phrase Match (although I use the Google Keyword tool not Market Samurai) as I find that the results are a more realistic indication of the traffic when I hit Page 1 of the SERP's.
Having said that, for a main keyword phrase I am happy with 100 searches/day and less than 50,000 competing (using "quotes"). For long tail keywords I'll take 10 searches/day and less than 5,000 competing.
As I am sure sure I've said before, it's all "swings and roundabouts", but these are the general guidelines I start out with; the main thing (IMO) is to pick keywords for your niche that are "buying" keywords - "how to ...", "I need ...", etc.

1. Find a problem
2. Solve the problem
3. Market it to your audience (the people with the problem)


Pete

[Stephen Root]

Market Samurai is so slow way of doing this

It's a great tool when you want to just do keyword research for few keywords but when you are expanding to hundreds of niches at one time, Market Samurai goes out of the window. And why in earth they did it with Adobe Air? Yes it's the only cross platform that actually works but my god the program is SLOW with big keyword lists.

[PeteHarrison]

This is true and very frustrating; when I have done my basic keyword research using the Google Keyword tool I move over to NicheBot to mine deeper for LSI etc, then dump everything into Dr. Andy's Keyword Results Analyzer for final filtering/analysis.

Pete

Originally Posted by Stephen Root

Market Samurai is so slow way of doing this

It's a great tool when you want to just do keyword research for few keywords but when you are expanding to hundreds of niches at one time, Market Samurai goes out of the window. And why in earth they did it with Adobe Air? Yes it's the only cross platform that actually works but my god the program is SLOW with big keyword lists.

[Lisa Gergets]

Originally Posted by zellandia

@George Use ...Broad

Broad is normal word without " " , Exact is a word with ""

for example like this
your keyword: Business

So Broad is.. the number of searching people that use .... Business
Exact the number of searching people that use .... "Business"

Not exactly.

Broad is just the keyword or words, phrase is within quotes, and exact is within brackets.