I've had Samurai since it came out and the recent changes they've made have made no difference to the way I do research.

I've seen a few comments in other threads by people blantantly jumping on the MS bashing bandwagon. Personally I love them doing so...the less people using it, the more I have an advantage and the less people clogging up their servers, making it better for me.

Like with all things here, try not to be swayed by what other people say, especially if you've no idea what they actually know. Market Samurai has a free trial, I'd suggest you take advantage of that, use it as much as you can and see for yourself.

It does have a learning curve to it, which is why I think most people give up and then resort to bashing it - because they couldn't figure out how to use it properly and so gave up, a common human trait.

Hi,
first of all, it's Market Samurai

And second of all, while there were some issues lately, it's running very smooth for me. You should know that not Market Samurai goes far beyond mere keyword research, especially the SEO Competition and Promotion modules can do wonders when you know how to use them.

After you buy Market Samurai and go through the extensive training (be it The Challenge or their Dojo), you simply won't need to buy any other software. Never.

From memory it doesn't give you full features with the free trial but it was quite a while ago that I trialled it. I found it very confusing but I'm not very technical and I find seo horrible anyway. The guy who runs it seems very helpful though and if I did it again I would take the time to watch the "how to" videos. You can try and learn it yourself but it is quite complex.

Good Luck :-)

MS is dead to me.

I hate it, and I have moved onto SEMRush

It's expensive, but worth it IMO.