Keyword Competition Tool

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I'm looking for the most up-to-date software tool that will help me to find what every online marketer is looking for, keywords that have the highest search volume with the least competition in the SERPs.

I've heard good & not so good about the most popular ones like Market Samurai, Keyword Elite, MicroNiche Finder, and Niche Finder.

From your experience, which one would you recommend that is current, and accurately evaluates keyword competition?

Thanks

JohnT
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  • Profile picture of the author cypherslock
    Market Samurai. They continually update it to keep up with Google, and it is not just for kw research or competition, but also for designing ads, promotion and content research. This is not to say the other tools mentioned aren't good, but for the price, I don't believe you'll find anything comparable. I used it back in 2008 and have stuck with it.
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    • Profile picture of the author rightattitude
      Originally Posted by cypherslock View Post

      Market Samurai. They continually update it to keep up with Google, and it is not just for kw research or competition, but also for designing ads, promotion and content research. This is not to say the other tools mentioned aren't good, but for the price, I don't believe you'll find anything comparable. I used it back in 2008 and have stuck with it.
      Is it true that MS uses somewhat of an outdated competition algorithm -- intitle, inurl, keyword in quotes?...instead of evaluating how competitive it really is to get on the first page of Google by looking at quantity & quality of backlinks to the page, on-page optimization, age of the site, etc.?

      Perhaps you can explain to me how effective MS has been in uncovering keywords that you knew what to expect in terms of ranking on Google's 1st page.

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Clyde
    Mine, but it's not launching till mid next month, not sure if you can wait that long but it'll be better than all the four tools you mentioned, COMBINED!

    I've read through various IM forums to find weaknesses of all the tools above, and eliminate them.

    2011 will end big.
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    • Profile picture of the author rightattitude
      Originally Posted by Clyde View Post

      Mine, but it's not launching till mid next month, not sure if you can wait that long but it'll be better than all the four tools you mentioned, COMBINED!

      I've read through various IM forums to find weaknesses of all the tools above, and eliminate them.

      2011 will end big.
      Sounds impressive...what will be included in your competition algorithm, and what will be your price point for warriors?

      Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
        I use a combination of Keyword Sniper Pro and Micro Niche Finder. I also use Traffic Travis and SEO Quake to further analyse.

        I've actually realised that I don't have an exact strategy(a definitive one that I use every time) when it comes to keyword research, and I am selling myself short as a result. It's absolutely vital. Right now I'll find lots of keywords in Keyword Sniper Pro, import them into Micro Niche Finder so I can see the monthly searches/amount of competion/strength of competition all on one screen. It's then a process of elimination, and the keywords I am left with, I further analyze with Traffic Travis and SEO Quake. I'm trying to make this whole process into an exact science that I can quickly utilize every time I do keyword research.
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  • Profile picture of the author red dog
    I have Market Samurai Micro niche finder and brad callens niche finder in my opinion Market Samurai works the best for me I like brad callens niche finder too but I cant get it to work properly for me so it wastes my time.and the good ol google keyword tool should still be used.
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    • Profile picture of the author rightattitude
      Originally Posted by red dog View Post

      I have Market Samurai Micro niche finder and brad callens niche finder in my opinion Market Samurai works the best for me I like brad callens niche finder too but I cant get it to work properly for me so it wastes my time.and the good ol google keyword tool should still be used.
      I am leaning toward Brad's product, Niche Finder, because I thought it was simple and straight forward for what I need it for -- finding keywords that I can rank on Google's 1st page.

      Can you explain your difficulties with getting NF for work for you?

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    Competition means NOTHING. (With a few exceptions, eg. insurance niche and taking on allstate, statefarm etc..)

    I am saying that since in terms of SEO it is possible to rank VERY competitive keywords ("lose weight", "lose weight fast")..*IF* you have a good website and do some rather mediocre link building.
    I started a long time ago to actually ignore all those "competition" numbers since they a meaningless...search volume is more important. If i had looked at market samurai etc. i would never have ranked "lose weight" since i would never even attempted it.
    Get my drift?

    That being said, MS is good..just don't focus religiously on "alintitle" and all that competition numbers..it should NOT be your deciding factor.
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    • Profile picture of the author Clyde
      Originally Posted by rightattitude View Post

      Sounds impressive...what will be included in your competition algorithm, and what will be your price point for warriors?

      Thanks
      The software only measures things that matter, Off-page and on-page SEO, and then assign a Difficulty value to each of the URL that ranks Top 10. The software then take the average of those values, and assign that to the keyword.

      The end result is a value between 0-100, 0 being easiest and 100 the hardest to rank for in Google.

      Here's the breakdown:

      Off page SEO. (80%)
      - Backlinks Count
      - Backlinks Type/Quality
      - PR
      - Domain Age

      On page SEO optimization. (20%)
      - Keywords in Title
      - Keywords in URL
      - Keywords in Description
      - Keywords in H1 tag on front page

      The pricing will be competetive, but not cheap.

      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      Competition means NOTHING. (With a few exceptions, eg. insurance niche and taking on allstate, statefarm etc..)

      I am saying that since in terms of SEO it is possible to rank VERY competitive keywords ("lose weight", "lose weight fast")..*IF* you have a good website and do some rather mediocre link building.
      I started a long time ago to actually ignore all those "competition" numbers since they a meaningless...search volume is more important. If i had looked at market samurai etc. i would never have ranked "lose weight" since i would never even attempted it.
      Get my drift?

      That being said, MS is good..just don't focus religiously on "alintitle" and all that competition numbers..it should NOT be your deciding factor.
      That's because allintitle was never accurate to begin with George.
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      • Profile picture of the author rightattitude
        Clyde,

        Your new product sounds a lot like Brad Callen's Niche Finder.

        Can you tell me how it will be different?
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    • Profile picture of the author rightattitude
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      Competition means NOTHING. (With a few exceptions, eg. insurance niche and taking on allstate, statefarm etc..)

      I am saying that since in terms of SEO it is possible to rank VERY competitive keywords ("lose weight", "lose weight fast")..*IF* you have a good website and do some rather mediocre link building.
      I started a long time ago to actually ignore all those "competition" numbers since they a meaningless...search volume is more important. If i had looked at market samurai etc. i would never have ranked "lose weight" since i would never even attempted it.
      Get my drift?

      That being said, MS is good..just don't focus religiously on "alintitle" and all that competition numbers..it should NOT be your deciding factor.
      GeorgR,

      Now you've got me curious as to how you are able to rank for VERY competitive keywords?

      From most of the lessons on SEO, I've been taught to avoid keywords that have, for example, the following:

      - more than 1 PR4 page in the top 4 SERPs on page 1
      - top 10 pages in Google that all have more than 1,000 backlinks to the page
      - niches that notoriously are targeted by internet marketers, i.e., IM, weight loss, dating, forex, etc.

      Maybe my real question is that I would like a method or tool for finding keywords that I can successfully rank within a reasonable amount of time with the resources at my disposal.

      Perhaps you can help by shedding some light on this for me.
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