Market Samurai review

Market Samurai is a tool designed for internet marketers, which helps cut down the time spent on keyword research through automation, as well as automate tasks such as compare SEO factors for competing websites.

It was written by a team of programmers in Melbourne, Australia and since its release in July 2008 has taken the internet marketing community by storm.

Before its limited release to Immediate Edge members there were keyword tools available. However, none got close to providing the level of detail given by Market Samurai and it has taken what was quite an arduous task and made it simple.

What does Market Samurai do?

Since its release new features are being added constantly, such as the monetisation and domain modules, so below I’ll give a run down of what each module does:

Rank Tracker

Here you can check how your web sites rank for specific keyword phrases and build up a picture over time of how they are doing. Also tracks PR and number of backlinks.

Keyword Research

I’d consider this to be the core module – enter a keyword phrase and get the search numbers from Google and compare the number of competing web pages for related search phrases. You can change the default global setting for regional and language specific markets too.

SEO Competition

How strong are the websites in the top 10? By looking various SEO factors you can work out why they are there are start improving your onpage factors and build backlinks to out rank them. You can find out how many backlinks they have, what PR they have, where those links are and what the anchor text is – are really useful stuff to know.

Domains

Want to by a domain that already has PR rather than starting from scratch – you can do it here.

Monetization

Here you can find affiliate products related to your keyword on ClickBank, Amazon, Commission Junction and PayDotCom AND THEN write ads to promote them and upload to your WordPress site. Simple!

Find Content

If you need content published by one of the ezine directories this is where you go. Will also help you with YouTube videos and Flickr images.

Publish Content

Rather than writing content in WordPress, you can write that content in Market Samurai and upload it when you’re done editing. Basically once you’ve added your blog’s details in Market Samurai you don’t need to login to it again – you can manage all content from a single tool!

Promotion

Need backlinks? Yes, I’m sure you do. Here you can find related blogs on a variety of platforms related to your keyword and go and make a comment. Play nice here – no comment spamming, go and read what that author has written and if you have something to say then write it.

Adwords

To good to be true. Well, yes actually – it’s not available yet, but is sure to be released at some point soon.

So… what do I think of Market Samurai?

Simple. It is the best software I have ever used, period. Running on Adobe Air, it is cross platform and works equally well on a Mac or PC (and I guess Linux) – the only drawback I can think of is that it won’t run on an iPhone or iPad.

Customer support is second to none – a big shout out to Brent Hodgson as that is his baby.

Conclusion? If you are an internet marketer and using another keyword tool then check out Market Samurai.

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This post was written by David