[Mr. Ken Russell]

Traffic Travis is a keyword and SEO research tool, very similar to the software Market Samurai which some of you probably already heard of. What’s great about Traffic Travis is that it has 2 versions: a free version and the Traffic Travis Pro version. It enables you to get an inside look at your competitor’s keyword list, how many backlinks a website has, the page rank, how many pages they have indexed in search engines and plenty other features; you can basically spy on your SEO competition with this tool.

Any online marketer who has developed a website or a weblog wants on important thing – lots of site visitors. Acquiring lots of targeted traffic is pretty simple – you just need to get your site to the top level of search results in search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. But how do you get there? Well, now that’s the hard part. Everyone knows how hard it really is to make a new site perform, how ranking effectively on the search engines would seem next to impossible and just how much time and funds should be invested on expert search engine optimization, pay per click campaigns and so on. Traffic Travis is a great search engine optimization tool and pay per click analysis software which can help you a tremendously with SEO and online marketing strategies. This affiliate marketing software is very detailed, easy to use and offers tons of helpful information.

Traffic Travis is one of the best online marketing tools and SEO software in the industry that allows you to perform complete search engine optimization research without having to download lots of various programs and add-ons. The Traffic Travis Pro version is a one stop tool that enables you to check important parameters in your online marketing campaign. This program is made by Affilorama, a very well-known and dependable company that delivers internet affiliate marketing for beginners, affiliate marketing tips and necessary support. In case you have a website, then it’s pretty likely that you've used their Firefox add-on or viewed their affiliate marketing videos. Actually, they know what they are doing with regards to expert search engine optimization for internet websites and how to outrank competitors. This is why Traffic Travis Pro is really great and if you want a one stop tool to becoming a successful internet affiliate marketer, then I highly recommend this system.

[Mr. Ken Russell]

The SEO analysis feature in Traffic Travis is a great way to spy on your top competitors to find out what optimization methods they are using to rank on the first page of Google. You will learn everything you want to know about these top-ranking sites from the number of backlinks they hate to what directories they've submitted to, as well as if they’re using the keyword in the page title or description. To use the SEO analysis feature, you simply enter the keyword phrase you want to target, choose the initial search location and click analyze.

The initial search would only be change from the default if you were targeting searches in a specific country. Traffic Travis researches the top 20 results for the phrase you enter based on the selected search location. Generally you want to focus on the top 10 results, as these are the sites that are listed on the first page of Google search results. However, the other high-ranking sites may offer you additional ideas on how you can optimize your own site.

Traffic Travis analyzes the top sites and displays its findings shown in the order they appear on Google search results. The column headings at the top of the report list various SEO features that are available to boost the sites ranking. Let’s look at these in a bit more detail:

• The rank column is where the site appears on Google’s search results for the phrase entered and chosen search location.
  
• The PR column is the sites current page rank- a measure of the sites importance according to Google.
  
• The age column is the approximate age of the domain; the older the domain, the better.
  
• The BL column is the total number of backlinks to that page. The more quality backlinks a page has, the higher its page rank.
  
• The BLS column is the total number of backlinks for the entire site. While backlinks to the page are more valuable for ranking, the number of backlinks for the entire site will increase the overall page rank of the site and thus improve the pages ranking.
  
• The TBL column is the total number of backlinks for the entire sire from EDU or GOV sites. These backlinks tend to be more valued by Google.

The next five attributes are shown as a tick yes or a cross no:

1. DMOZ – is the site listed in the DMOZ directory? While the process submitting to DMOZ can take some time, it boosts site authority and ranking.

2. YAHD – is the site listed in the Yahoo directory? Listing in Yahoo can cost a few hundred dollars but a lot of sites find this pays for itself in SEO benefits.

3. Title – is the keyword in the page title? This is an easy optimization change to make, but even some big sites don’t do it.

4. DESC – is the keyword in the page description? The page description appears as a snippet on the Google search results page, giving searchers an overview of your site. Search engines also use it to determine a pages content and relevance to a search query.

5. H1 tag – is the keyword in any H1 page headers? These are headings that use H1 style and are important to search engines trying to summarize your pages content.

• GCA – The Google cash age in days. The lower this number, the more indexing priority Google gives to this site. It indicates that Google views this site as important and is being updated regularly.
  
• CEXT – The number of sites based in the country selected as the initial search location, which are linking to this site. This is based on the sites TLD.

For example, a site without a “.co.jp ” is assumed to be based in Japan.

You can save this complete report created by Traffic Travis for future reference by clicking the save report button to save as an html file that can be viewed in any web browser. If you wanted to take this analysis even further, you could choose a high-ranking webpage and use the page analysis feature in Traffic Travis to get detailed information on how the page content has been search engine optimized. This will give you some good ideas on how you can fine tune your own web pages to maximize your chances of a high-ranking on Google’s search results.

[Mr. Ken Russell]

Traffic Travis’s keyword finder helps you discover popular keywords for your target market. All you need to do is type a keyword into the search box and click fetch keywords. The keyword finder will search Yahoo, Ask, Word Tracker and Google to bring back the top keywords phrases based on the keyword you entered. Note that the free version of Traffic Travis will bring back a maximum of 200 keywords, but if you upgrade to Traffic Travis Pro, you can bring back up to 3000 keywords.

In Traffic Travis beside each keyword result you can view the popularity of the keyword in each of the three search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN). These figures represent the number of searches made each day using this keyword. Highlight the keywords you want to use and click move to saved. You should continue searching until you feel you have a sufficient amount of keywords to work with, then click send to sorter to start editing your keywords. Traffic Travis’s keyword sorter helps you to support your keywords into focused ad groups for Pay-Per-Click (PPC) marketing. Before you start working with your list of words in the sorter, you can choose to make some modifications. For example, you might want to sort your keywords alphabetically, remove duplicate words, or even remove phrases over a certain length. You can also save your keyword list, import keywords from a file, or clear all your keywords.

Once this is done, Traffic Travis allows you to then start sorting your keywords into ad groups. To do this, search through your list for a keyword phrase. Traffic Travis’s sorter will find all of the match keywords and group them together. The keywords that don’t match will be grouped together separately. You can save the matched keywords into a group or you can even edit them first by deleting or adding keywords. Once saved, the set will be added to the saved sets window from which you can save and export your completed lists finished from Traffic. You’re then going to want to replace the un-matching keywords to the main keyword list and continue sorting into matching sets. Once you finish this, you can save the sets to a file, copy them to your clipboard, or just clear the lists and start again. Traffic Travis’s keyword finder is so simple to use, but so powerful in terms of discovering the most popular keywords for your specific target market.

[Mr. Ken Russell]

Here's what some of the members on the Warrior Forum are saying:

Originally Posted by trytolearnmore

Traffic Travis is great. Often it delivers more accurate results than MS.

Originally Posted by revstan

There is a trick to get the professional version of the software for free. I can't find it anymore though.

Simple Stan

Originally Posted by DWaters

I recently started using the free version of Traffic Travis and I am very impressed with what it does. It saves all your projects, show your backlinks as well as provides good info on your competition. The Google tool will not do any of that for you. It will also suggest other keywords and it even suggests places to use to get backlinks.

Originally Posted by Wisden Writers

Traffic Travis is really good tool, I am using its professional version from over 3 months now, found it very easy to use and it has everything what I need. I have subscription of all popular SEO tools like seomoz and more but I use traffic travis mostly.. and its Free version is also very very very good, if you don't want to spend money, Free version is way to better than many paid SEO software.

Originally Posted by Jnelson

The videos inside every module of the Traffic Travis software is valuable for first timers. It works better with when they are used with a proxy server..like Scrapebox

Originally Posted by jrmnlitt

Traffic Travis is a great tool when used with the Google keyword tool. There is no one factor that will give you top ranks, but TT helps to put a lot of the factors that matter right in front of you, such as how many sites that are ranking in the top ten that have the keyword you are trying to rank for in the url. The amount of backlinks and age of the competing sites. If the competing sites are using the keyword in the title and your chance of being able to beat the competition. Its a great simple, easy to use to use tool that will help point you in the right direction with your SEO.

Originally Posted by Victoralexon

Wow!

Thanks for your replies guys. I feel a lot more confident in using Traffic Travis now. I have a lot of keyword research that needs to be done and I certainly wouldn't want to find and research 100 keyphrases using Traffic Travis, to only later find out that the program is no good.

Once again, thanks!

Originally Posted by xxxJamesxxx

I'm still using TT3 Professional and I think it's great for analysing SEO comp.

Haven't really played with TT4 even though I do have full access to it.

James Scholes

Originally Posted by feliciayapsl

Traffic Travis is a great tool!

Originally Posted by CollegeEducated

Traffic Travis is expensive, but is a good deal for those that need something strong and simple that can deliver good keywords for their SEO or MNS campaigns.

[Mr. Ken Russell]

More comments from the Warrior Forum:

Originally Posted by curious73

I have been using TT for a while and it does a great job for me!

Originally Posted by eljeffe77

Traffic travis is AMAZING :-)

Originally Posted by jaybox

I use it all the time and it's great for what it does.

I can understand why the OP would be pissed though, it is advertised as an all in one software to do everything you need for SEO, and it does not really mention that you NEED a vpn or proxies to do any real scraping. You need them not only for the competition module but also to track rank.

I have HMA Pro so I have no issues scraping with TT. I just set the IP to change every 5 minutes during my rank tracking and I just use a new IP before every new round of competition data scraping.

Personally I like it, I understand why people are pissed about the extra expense of proxies though.. not very up front of the TT team.

Lately I have been using TT in conjunction with Long tail pro for competition analysis, I find that using both of them together gives me a more accurate picture of the landscape when I need to be more accurate. With easier niches I just do a quickie on TT and go for it... but when its a big daddy traffic niche I will spend some time..

I just wanted to chime in here, any tool is going to have strengths and weaknesses... and NO TOOL is going to do all you need for SEO no matter what anyone says. I personally own TT, Market samurai, and long tail pro for different reasons. Each one has its function that it does better than the rest.

None of these tools mean jack without that tool between your ears doing most of the work though