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Using Software For Learning SEO Or Learn Manually First???

by Warriorman1
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The other day, I decided to start following the "Thirty Day Chanllenge" which is a program started by Ed Dale, that teaches complete noobs how to start making money online through various free strategies.

So I started to follow through his free course and noticed that he and his team really stress the importance of using SEO Market Samurai Software to analyse the market and to determine which niche market you're going to begin building your sites off of.

I think in my opinion that it is important to learn how to study/observe/analyse the market manually first and then get into software assistance later. I say this because I feel that if you begin using and depending on any software programs to do all the work for you, that you will never completely understand how it all works on your own.

Market Samaurai does do all the work for you, true, but if you don't really understand what it's doing within the code of the program or how it goes out and analyses the web, then you won't understand how to do it yourself at times when you may not have the software with you.

I mean, how do you guys think that Market Samurai developed their software? They had to understand how studying/observing/analysing the market manually worked before they could create this program. Right?

I have to say that I think it's best to learn manually and then worry about having the software to go out and do the work for you later.
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    Market Samuri pulls it's data directly from Yahoo Site Explorer I believe (to scrape the backlinks anyway), So the manual way is to search your site on Yahoo Site Explorer.

    To answer your question, I'd say that you should know the ins and outs if you plan to seriously do SEO. Market Samuri is just a tool that does research for you so there is no benefit in not using this.

    Automated backlink softwares are the ones you will want to stay away from as a newbie as you absolutely need to know how everything works behind the scenes otherwise you may be hurting your brand by spamming out things to mass numbers of sites.

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  • Profile picture of the author Billy Rey
    do both.

    MS will help you speed it up, but manually understanding the market is just as important!

    Take your time
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  • Profile picture of the author crushedit
    There's no need to do it manually. Use Market Samurai (so long as it continues to function and doesn't get hosed by DOS attacks again..) and learn their platform inside and out.

    I don't use Google's Adwords tool at all anymore.. I find synonyms with Scrapebox's keyword/Wonder Wheel scraper, plug those into MS, and check out the competition/opportunity for all keywords.

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  • Profile picture of the author ann1986
    If you have a lot of free time then its ok to learn the process. But thats why you bought the tools to make your life easier
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    • Profile picture of the author Warriorman1
      Originally Posted by crushedit View Post

      There's no need to do it manually. Use Market Samurai (so long as it continues to function and doesn't get hosed by DOS attacks again..) and learn their platform inside and out.

      I don't use Google's Adwords tool at all anymore.. I find synonyms with Scrapebox's keyword/Wonder Wheel scraper, plug those into MS, and check out the competition/opportunity for all keywords.

      CrushedIt
      Originally Posted by ann1986 View Post

      If you have a lot of free time then its ok to learn the process. But thats why you bought the tools to make your life easier
      Crushedit - Yes there is a reason to do it manually. I just answered that above. Did you read it? You're strictly depending on MS to do all the work in the beginning and not fully understanding how it all works. MS couldn't have created this tool if they didn't know how to perform SEO on their own,right? If you learn it, then you can know more tricks that you can do on your own without depending on them.

      MS is just pulling data from google and yahoo in various ways to anayze the competition and keywords, etc..

      You can do all this manually, but it will take more time. Then that's when you realize that maybe you should use the tool to do most of the work, but still, for all we know, if we don't know SEO, then how can we even know that the data MS is pulling back from yahoo and google is legitimate accurate data? How can we trust them if we don't know how to test data manually from google and yahoo? Get it?


      Oh and to ann1986. I didn't buy this MS software. I downloaded the trial version. I'd rather learn things manually first before I go and spend my money on some data that I can't completey trust until I can test data on my own.
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  • Profile picture of the author Warriorman1
    Oh and one more thing to ann1986. Not to sound rude, but you shouldn't even be into Internet Marketing if you don't have enough time because if you want to be a great IM, then you need to start investing at least a few hrs a day to learn things.

    There are many different aspects to each skill that you will need to learn/aquire, but I would have to say at the end of the day, SEO is the most important overall because you can know web design, the concept of pitch/landing pages, and build beautiful sites, but if you can't drive traffic to your new beautiful sites, then your sites/site will be completely useless. This is where SEO comes into play.


    It sound like ann1986 and Crushedit are both the type of people who are willing to pay for things that they can eventually learn and do on their own. That's your guy's choice and your guys opions, but I'd rather depend on myself to learn.
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  • Profile picture of the author Warriorman1
    Originally Posted by pethanks View Post

    I would suggest you will learn SEO process by process. Don't just depend on software because sometimes they are not reliable.
    Pet, you think like I do. Totally agreed!
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  • Profile picture of the author addyj672
    Both ways are good. May be learning through software can help understand new things which we forgets in manual learning process. But after each topic we need to search and gain information manually.
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  • Profile picture of the author suryaworldedu
    i think you should learn manually first & after some practice use some software for learning SEO
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