What is going on with Maket Sasmurai?

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I just downloaded Market Samurai and installed it. What a piece of crap it is. It has crashed three times on me trying to pull up some key words.

I thought this was supposed to be such great software. If it can't even pull up and analyze key words, how well is it going to do the rest of the magic it is supposed to perform?

Is it having problems right now, or is this just my luck?
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  • Profile picture of the author SpiderZq
    it was great software, but now a days its outdated no one is talking about it on other marketing forum too as before. try micro niche finder or niche finder by brad callen these are great tools and works well.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaroshIS
    Originally Posted by timpears View Post

    I just downloaded Market Samurai and installed it. What a piece of crap it is. It has crashed three times on me trying to pull up some key words.

    I thought this was supposed to be such great software. If it can't even pull up and analyze key words, how well is it going to do the rest of the magic it is supposed to perform?

    Is it having problems right now, or is this just my luck?

    No it's not your bad luck, overall this tool sucks. It's huge Dinosaur and requires lot of memory to run, plus constant updates are killing it. I do not recommend it anymore. It used to be good tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author dodly
    i just download it and install now it work like a charm
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Google Keyword Tool + spreadsheet program and filters:

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    • Profile picture of the author timpears
      Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

      Google Keyword Tool + spreadsheet program and filters:

      Not sure what you were trying to say. Interested in your list as it seemed to be repentant. Can you elaborate?
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      • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
        Originally Posted by timpears View Post

        Not sure what you were trying to say. Interested in your list as it seemed to be repentant. Can you elaborate?
        Mainly just showing what can be done with a combination of the Google Keyword Tool and a spreadsheet program like Excel or Calc from LibreOffice. It's really very powerful once you've spent some time learning what you can do with it.

        Market Samurai & other keyword tools tend to pale in comparison.
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        • Profile picture of the author timpears
          Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

          Mainly just showing what can be done with a combination of the Google Keyword Tool and a spreadsheet program like Excel or Calc from LibreOffice. It's really very powerful once you've spent some time learning what you can do with it.

          Market Samurai & other keyword tools tend to pale in comparison.
          I see what you were saying now. I do a little bit of that myself. But as MS has been touted as so good, I thought I would give it another try. So I downloaded it with another email addy. I wanted to give it a real try and try to learn how to use it correctly this time. I did get it working finally, but so far I am not impressed.
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  • Profile picture of the author seobuddy
    I use Market Samurai mainly for SEO Competition Analysis, it gives in-depth First page On-site and off-site seo competition details in Google. But for keyword research, I just stick with Google Keyword Tool!
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  • Profile picture of the author geekdout
    Yeah I had used the trial of MS last night when I started to do some keyword research. Kept crashing, ran really slow, overall an unpleasant experience. I'll just stick to using G's keyword tool and a spreadsheet.
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    • Profile picture of the author Heathj
      Suprised to hear all this. I've been using market samurai for about a year now and love it. Never had it crash and it still seems to find good relevant keywords, lists the traffic accurately and does a pretty good job detailing the competition.

      It is a pretty large program and it does update a lot, but the updates keep it running smoothly and keep it current. It is my main keyword tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    People seem to have a love/hate relationship with MS. When it works, it's great, when it doesn't, it's a right pain in the %$&^$
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  • Profile picture of the author cayun
    i don't have market samurai,because i don't have money for buy it
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  • Profile picture of the author JeremiahSay
    Yes MS used to work extremely well in the past I love them when they are working well.. NOW, tsk tsk.. It's just a pain in the ass.. I couldn't search for anything
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO4hire
    3-5 years ago it was THE marketing and keyword solution, but other programs like Micro Niche Finder and SerpIQ have left it in the dust.
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Yeah it's kind of a shame. About 2-3 years ago I was a HUGE MS fan. It's always been slow. But I never really minded since it was so powerful. These days there are plenty of other options - even free ones - that are better. (Though the keyword research module in MS is free.)
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  • Profile picture of the author kaedus
    You should check out serpIQ. I'm using it at the moment and I love it! Saves me a ton of time and it's web based so no need to worry about whether it will work on your computer or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trevor M
    It's always been terrible for me.

    Takes about 10 minutes to load every time a click a button.

    Luckily I never purchased the full version. Just the 45 day free trial through 30 day challenge.
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  • Profile picture of the author kaluuu
    For me Market Samurai is a great software....they had some little issues, but overall they are great.
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    • Profile picture of the author quercus5
      Still working OK with me, but with the recent updates I've switched to Long Tail Pro for keyword research. Easier to use and faster performance.
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  • Profile picture of the author KeNiQ
    I still use Market Sam... works great for me
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  • Profile picture of the author DoubleIT
    Used to be great. Been about 6 months since I used that software for keyword research. It's a pity. I hope the developers improve on it soon before I uninstall it...
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  • Profile picture of the author GeolinStella
    Market Samurai is pretty good
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  • Profile picture of the author MarketingAce
    Why do people keep saying to "Use the google keyword tool"? This is only part of your keyword analyzing process! You still have to analyze your competition which is the top 10 sites on the first page of google for any particular keyword phrase!

    This really shows that a lot of you shouldn't even be here on this forum acting like you know I.M.. Market Samurai still works and it will analyze the top ten. Somee of these guys are liars and only trying to promote their own software as to why they say that Market Samurai doesn't work anymore...
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by MarketingAce View Post

      Why do people keep saying to "Use the google keyword tool"? This is only part of your keyword analyzing process! You still have to analyze your competition which is the top 10 sites on the first page of google for any particular keyword phrase!

      This really shows that a lot of you shouldn't even be here on this forum acting like you know I.M.. Market Samurai still works and it will analyze the top ten. Somee of these guys are liars and only trying to promote their own software as to why they say that Market Samurai doesn't work anymore...
      Note that I recommend other tools in addition to the Google Keyword Tool. MS uses the GKT for KW research. Why not go straight to the source? It's faster and gives you the exact same information. To analyze the top 10 competition you can use the free version of Traffic Travis which even let's you analyze 5 keywords at a time.

      And if you want to get really nerdy you can use spreadsheets & filters like I showed above. Yes, I know MS can filter data too. But its PAINFULLY SLOW. Calc (or Excel) is super fast and probably a bit more powerful in what it can do.
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