In my opinion, Market samurai is the market leader in tools for keyword research. When it first appeared on the Internet marketing scene several years ago it was for the sole purpose of keyword research. In time however it has grown and matured into so much more and can now be considered as one of the must have tools for any serious Internet marketer.
Market samurai assists you with the whole process of researching and finding content, assessing the competition to make sure you are not wasting your time and helping you publish and track your work. It basically makes sure you are always leveraging your efforts to the best effect.
It is available as a free download that lets you try out each module with 100% functionality before reverting to just the keyword research module. This module alone is worth the price of this tool so the fact that you can use this part of the tool for free for ever puts Market Samurai easily into my top 5 essential tools for any Internet marketer
The tool consists of 8 modules and the best thing is that the main module that does the keyword research is free to use! Let’s look at what modules are included.
The modules
The modules included in the tool are as follows:
- Keyword Research
- SEO Competition
- Monetization
- Find Content
- Publish Content
- Promotion
- Rank Tracker
- AdWords (not implemented)
Here’s a brief summary of what each module does. For more detailed info on each just click through the link to my full review.
Keyword research This is the main module and the free one. It effortlessly mines new keywords and analyses all the information related to them. It has the option to split specific keywords off into new tabs for further investigation and allows you to see the value of the keyword as a product of it’s average adwords CPC and the number of searches it receives which is a very handy way of judging true value.
SEO Competition Once you have found your high value keywords, this is where you can get a broad picture of the competition on the first page of Google for that search term. You can see in an instant how difficult it will be to rank for this keyword and if it’s worth pursuing
Monetization This module searches four of the main affiliate sites for relevant offers. It will look at ClickBank, Amazon, Commission Junction and PayDotCom and let you filter the results to find the best way to monetize your website
Find Content An interesting module that finds content on the web for you to use for your websites. This can be used to find “under optimized content” that you can republish and outrank if you own an authority site, and also let you “steal” the ideas and concepts of articles that are thought of as important and valuable.
Publish content Automates the publishing of articles to your wordpress blogs. Saves you time by uploading the article, associated tags that have been found by the keyword research module, automatically tracks the rank for the article and promotes it via your traffic bug account
Promotion Helps you find backlinking opportunities to promote your articles searching blogs, forums and web 2.0 sites automatically
Rank Tracker This is a fantastic module that is worth the price alone. You can track the rank of all your pages and keywords at the push of a button. See where you sit and where you can promote to get to the number one spot and drive more traffic. A very powerful module.
Adwords In beta
IM Toolkit
As you can see, the tool as a whole can do so much more than just keyword research. You can literally start creating a site with as little as an idea for a seed keyword and then find the keywords you should be targeting, find content for these keywords, upload it to a blog and then find ways to monetize things all the time monitoring your new creations progress.
As an all round tool this really has only a couple of competitors (one being scrapebox, even though it used for completely different tasks) and I find myself using it everyday for one thing or another.
Get Market Samurai
You can download the tool and get 12 days full functionality for free. After this time it reverts to allowing access to the keyword module only. This is more than enough time to see what all the extra modules are about and by doing it this way you also get the chance to purchase the tool at a discounted price of $97. That’s 35% off the normal price of $149 so well worth doing.
To get your free instant download click here