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MarketSamurai Controversy

by Bulldozer
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Today I started MarketSamurai and did a Rank Teacker check.
It reported that my site is ranked #7 on Google.
Cool!

Then I started the SEO Competiton module in MarketSamurai to find out how my site does against the other Top 10 sites.

The SEO Competition module brought up all the Top 10 results and did a comparison between them, however my site was not one of them!

How is this possible?

First MarketSamurai reports that I am #7 on Google (i.e. - I'm in the Top 10), then MarketSamurai does a Top 10 comparison and my site isn't in the list...

WTF? :confused:
#controversy #marketsamurai
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Market Samurai's rank tracker module is useless. It is flawed and should be avoided.
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    • Profile picture of the author CarsonLeong
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Market Samurai's rank tracker module is useless. It is flawed and should be avoided.
      Any recommendation of the best rank checker?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by CarsonLeong View Post

        Any recommendation of the best rank checker?
        I use 3 (just to make sure they are giving me accurate info and one hasn't gone haywire).

        SEO PowerSuite Rank Tracker
        Advanced Web Ranking
        CuteRank


        I would probably recommend CuteRank to anyone who just has a few sites and is tracking their own rankings. It is the cheapest.

        For anyone that has a lot of sites and keywords and/or clients they work for, one of the first two is your best solution. I started using AWR sometime ago because I liked their reporting options better than Rank Tracker. However, Rank Tracker has recently changed their reporting and it looks much better now.


        All three are very accurate. They are quick too depending on the settings you use.
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  • Profile picture of the author andrej
    I personally don't like MarketSamurai. I have tried the trial, but I find the program to be slow, it is crashing and it is using Google keyword tool for keywords analysis.
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    • Profile picture of the author thecableguy
      I haven't seen that happen, but did you try posting the question in their forum. If it's a bug in the program I'm sure it'll get answered one way or another, the other members should be very concerned if it's true.
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  • Profile picture of the author trishseo
    Originally Posted by Bulldozer View Post

    Today I started MarketSamurai and did a Rank Teacker check.
    It reported that my site is ranked #7 on Google.
    Cool!

    Then I started the SEO Competiton module in MarketSamurai to find out how my site does against the other Top 10 sites.

    The SEO Competition module brought up all the Top 10 results and did a comparison between them, however my site was not one of them!

    How is this possible?

    First MarketSamurai reports that I am #7 on Google (i.e. - I'm in the Top 10), then MarketSamurai does a Top 10 comparison and my site isn't in the list...

    WTF? :confused:
    SEO book has a great plugin (it's also free) for Mozilla firefox. You can check all your rankings at once and even do it in different search engines or different countries within Google. It's a great tool and it's free.
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    • Profile picture of the author vtotheyouknow
      Originally Posted by trishseo View Post

      SEO book has a great plugin (it's also free) for Mozilla firefox. You can check all your rankings at once and even do it in different search engines or different countries within Google. It's a great tool and it's free.
      +1 for Firefox RankChecker Addon.

      Market Samurai is a great tool but no tool does it all
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by trishseo View Post

      SEO book has a great plugin (it's also free) for Mozilla firefox. You can check all your rankings at once and even do it in different search engines or different countries within Google. It's a great tool and it's free.
      Not a bad free tool, but it is horrible if you want to track the history of your rankings.

      If you just want to know where you rank right now at this moment, it is a good option.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bulldozer
      Originally Posted by trishseo View Post

      SEO book has a great plugin (it's also free) for Mozilla firefox.
      Their plugins are not compatible with the newest version of Firefox.
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      • Profile picture of the author SEOtraveler
        my MS trial has crashed just about every time I tried using it. amazing. amazingly buggy. why deal with bugs and time limited trials when there is a freely available rank tracker from seo powersuite which you can keep using indefinitely. and oh, its pretty darn accurate too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Microsys
    You could also try A1 Keyword Research. It can check different region/language versions of search engines simultaneously (and do more keywords in one run)

    You can save results as well, so position history can be kept and exported to CSV/graph
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  • Profile picture of the author dsbusiness23
    Completely agree, Market Samurai never gives me good results. I use advanced web ranking, Traffic Travis and SEO Rank Tracker.

    I love how powerful advanced web ranking is but it always takes a long time. Traffic Travis and SEO rank Tracker from link assistant are much fast IMOH
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    Market Samurai crash issue appears to go away with upgrade to Adobe Air Beta 3.
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