Keyword Samurai

Back in the good old days of internet marketing, keyword research was much more involved than it is these days.

The concept was well understood, the problem was getting reliable data with which to work. One of the main sources of search data was the Overture search tool, which provided results from what later became the Yahoo paid search.

The problem was that the numbers bore little relation to the real numbers from a top 10 ranking in Google. And furthermore the words were often in the wrong order and numbers given combined the singular and plural variations.

So, the keyword research on my first website was done using a combination of Overture and then manually checking Google for the number of competing pages. And it took absolutely hours.

Fast forward to 2008, when the genius programmers at Nobel Samurai put together a ground breaking keyword tool. Google started providing search figures from its own database in 2007, which meant that internet marketers at last had access to reliable data. But what these programmers did was to automate the whole process.

Starting with a seed keyword an entire list of related words would be generated with the the number of searches either globally, or in specific countries or languages; and in addition to that the number of competing pages.

Suddenly a dream had come true for internet marketers, as the tool didn’t stop there; it also looks at the strength of the top 10 competing web pages, tracks the rank of your web pages for specific keywords, allows you to find affiliate offers and even write adverts.

In case you didn’t already know, the tool is Market Samurai and as it’s available as a risk free trial version you’ve got absolutely nothing to lose.

Click here to test drive Market Samurai now!

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This post was written by David