Market Samurai

MS is probably the best for KW research, along with Micro Niche Finder. Both have pro and cons, but both are very good.

I use it all the time as a warm/cold tool. Also use it to only post on blogs with highest PR. Seems to work as I have gotten many top 3 spots using that technique within a couple days. More importantly, I have gotten BUYERS from those top blog PR rankings, much more than the top 3 spots will give me in google.

I really like the Google Keyword tool for ripping keywords from competitors, or authority sites, but Market Samurai is great for the analysis.

Sometimes it runs a little slow, but I like it enough to have shelled out for a license for each of my employees.

I've never used micro niche finder, so I can't offer any advice on that.

Good luck.

JMJ -Lance

Market Samurai swipes information from Google databases. So it is as accurate as the information Google offers us. And we can't ever know how close to the real truth Google is telling us (there's lots of theories out there about how truthful it is).

That's why it's great to test for yourself.

I've used Market Samurai from it's inception. I do know the people behind it, so I am a fan, because I know they are legitimate people with true intentions.

And it also gives me keyword information that, yes I can find manually - but a click of a button is so much better.

It is also much more than just a keyword tool too.

Anyway as I said I am a fan - of the tool, of the people behind it. I've used it and it works well for me. I teach using it, I also have recommended it to others, without getting any affiliate commission previously (that will change as I've now become an affiliate).

Best

Caro :-)

Coincidentally, I downloaded it for a test drive last night. It continually failed to process keyword competition figures saying it was unable to get them, please try later. It was able to populate all of the other columns.

I hit their forum and found a solution about toggling the proxy settings, but it didn't help. I ended up giving up and going to bed.

Tried again today and the same problem. I uninstalled it and I'm moving on to try the next thing on my list.

I love MS! Been a user for around 6 months now. The color coded matrix helps alot when picking keywords. When I used to do keyword research manually, assessing the competition's strength was a lot of guesswork. Now it's a click of a mouse! My article traffic has definitely increased since using it, so I know it's giving me good info.

Again it's just swiping information that is already there. It is not making up the information.

With backlinks - it can be hard to get an exact fix on numbers - as they seem to change.

However you can certainly get a feel for the magnitude of them.

The color coding is really for newbies in many ways - this tool was originally designed for the 30DC - and it's a simplistic way to gauge - green is good, amber is closer to red etc.

However it is practice and experience that will help you understand and know how to read the matrix.

You can go through each of the elements yourself manually - to see what you find - and generally you will see a match.

Remember Google has several data centers - and each data center can display different information. So it's important to not get hung up with any tool on the actuals.

I think the thing to remember with Market Samurai - is that it is swiping the information that Google is already giving us. It's not making it up at all.

So you can not get any more exact than what Google is telling us (we just don't know if they are telling us everything - and how would we ever?)

Caro :-)

ms is great and the competiton module is great.

i have a large number of software tools, i am a bit of a freek when it comes to software but market samurai is without doubt one of the best and most used bits of kit i have.

best
gary lee

I use market samurai to get my daily dose of raw information on my websites and competition in the search engines. It would take forever to do it myself, I don't really use the keyword research functions.

I love MS. Watch the training videos if you want to see what it can do. Keyword research is only the start.

I don't think I could use anything but MS.

OMG I LOVE MARKET SAMURAI! It's awesome for everything...I'm not sure what 'cons' there are. I've been using it for a while now and it tells me everything I need to know, plus the guys are always updating it and doing little fun stuff with it.

I'm with Deezy, I can't use anything but MS anymore.

And they have a Dojo where they school you on awesome ways to use it.

GOOD keyword research used to be SO painful....not anymore!

Market Samurai is simply amazing.

It makes my job easier for me and at the same time it makes me very time efficient and productive.

How do you post to high PR blogs?

By this, I think he means he leaves his links through comments only on high PR blogs. I think you can do this by clicking the 'analyze anchor text' of a particular site that is within the top ten in google. The PR of the backlink sources are shown in the results. So, you just go to the sources with high PR.

It's a great keyword researching software, but you still have to confirm it with Google itself to verify the findings.

-Shaun

I've done my research manually and I have done it with Market Samurai, and to be honest, I couldn't live without MS. I mean, off course, you can take the long route and do it all yourself, but the way MS works it really is a time saver. The only thing I need to do manually after that is checking for domainnames. They really should include that feature (maybe if enough people ask for it, you never know).

Plus, creating blog posts, banners or side widgets around products you want to promote is just a timesaver. I run MS every day and couldn't go without it as I would have to work at least double hours.

Leslie

I stick to KeywordSpy and it never fails to deliver