Comments on: Understanding Buying Keywords with Market Samurai

By: Lis

Lis — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:39:47 +0000

I use Market Samurai to track my site’s rankings – and no I’ve never really liked their keyword research module. Their SEO competition is quite useful if I bother checking the competition for something – which I rarely do (and never in the dance niche!)

All the usual keyword tools are crap as far as estimating traffic is concerned. I do like Keyword Researcher for long tails though – not that it will give you competition or anything – but just throwing up articles based on its long tails which I would never have thought of – is quite good.

By: Marisa Wright

Marisa Wright — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:41:00 +0000

Are you still using Market Samurai, Lissie?

I did the free trial and got depressed – if I believed what their competition analysis tells me, I should be getting no traffic to my sites and zero dollars. But, since my sites were fairly well developed by then and I had no interest in changing my niche, I decided there was no point in having information that depressed me, and I didn’t go any further.

I must say, I assumed that if I wasn’t in the business of finding new niches and building new sites, there wasn’t much point in having Market Samurai. Your post makes me wonder if I missed something.

By: Craig Connelly

Craig Connelly — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:14:19 +0000

I use market samurai and have done so since day one. I notice that some of my sites do just ok as the domain does not contain buying keywords. The guys who run Market Samurai are genuine, onto it and update the thing every 2-3 days to keep up with Google . there is nothing that comes close to it in my opinion. You can also see the competition and the Page rank status of all their backlinks which is very useful when targeting keywords i.e should i or should i not
Good to see fellow MS supporters on this page cheers Craig

By: B

Thu, 12 May 2011 23:27:19 +0000

The SEOV number is inflated by brand advertisers, and there should be understanding of what makes a profitable keyword and the mindset of the searcher.

Many times I’ll see a broad two word phrase with a high SEOV but they are clearly NOT buying keywords. Buying keywords relate to the searchers mindset and they are using keywords that are more specific — for they know what they want. Clearly, the SEOV inflates the value of many browser keywords, in which do not convert as well for they are in research mode — not quite ready to buy.

Tools can be helpful, but it will not substitute the mind!

By: Glenn Dixon

Glenn Dixon — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:09:30 +0000

And it’s still on sale for a special price if you purchase before your trial period runs out – $97!

By: Lis

Lis — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:01:04 +0000

LOL 2 years later its still in beta too – I have no idea why software vendors do this – but the product works, works well and I still use it on a weekly basis!

By: Glenn Dixon

Glenn Dixon — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:48:58 +0000

Lis – interesting article. I’m just now getting around to looking seriously at Market Samurai. Strangely enough, in spite of your concerns about an impending price jump, you can pick up a copy today, almost two years after your initial post, for $149.

By: Lis

Lis — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:19:04 +0000

Tom I use Market Samurai all the time – and have for nearly 2 years now – that’s for ever in Internet time! I use google KWT too – Samurai I use mainly for tracking my rankings and checking out the competition for my keywords. It does much more than that but I use it every month to track my business – and its the one piece of software which I actually pay for to do that! I have never got a Google ban either from using it – not sure how they avoid it – but they do .

I find it a huge time saver – but your mileage may vary – I think they have a free trial period still – try it out – for yourself – that’s really the only way to know if it will work for your business

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:43:12 +0000

Has anyone seen an independent review of Market Samurai vs Google’s keyword tool? A lot of the reviews of Market Samurai are from affiliate marketers. Can you get an Google IP ban by using Market Samurai? I have had problems with the advanced Google search options (get a warning from Google about automated queries which is not what is happening).

By: Poodle Skirt Costume

Poodle Skirt Costume — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:27:07 +0000

I just found out about Market Samurai and am really excited to learn how to use it. Don’t know if I can afford the price tag now, but I’m seeing a lot of successful people that are using it – must be something to it.

I’m learning little-by-little and appreciate people like you who are willing to help. Thanks for the tips!