Review my post about 'how to perform a keyword research using market samurai in blog' here is the url : http://seomotionz.com/perform-a-keyword-research-using-market-samurai/ Post your comments and reviews
Quite a solid and complex review man. However, I stopped using it because it's awful at keyword brainstorming and keyword competition analysis is also very weak.
Hi Tibor, Could you please elaborate on why do you think Market Samurai is not a solid tool? I started to look for some keyword research training and I found some things on the The Challenge website and Pat Flynn's blog, but that information was genereted back in 2008 - 2010 and since then I think things have changed a lot.
Because it fetches data from our good old Google AdWords Keyword Tool. What does this mean? Everyone performing the search through GKT will see the same keywords over and over again. This is why 99% of the keywords are extremely oversaturated. Let say you want to dive into weight loss market ok. So what will you do? You go to GKT (like everyone else) and type in weight loss (duh!). GKT will now show you 800 keywords everyone else on the planet sees. That's why you simply cannot use it for brainstorming. The same with Market Samurai because it just fetches keywords from GKT. Yes, it has some good data nowadays when it comes to keyword analysis fetching from Majestic SEO but it will never show you the golden nugget money makers. As of this this moment there is no keyword tool that does this. Whether it's Market Samurai, LongTail Pro, Keyword Scout you name it .... They simply can't. They're just tools. Now don't get me wrong. I use some these tools myself but only on certain things. I prefer one tool on this and one tool on that. You have to understand how to use them first. They all got limited potential. I'll tell you a BIG Secret now...You Ready? There is one tool that can beat all of the other tools out there, that will help you find those hidden gold buyer keywords and that will definitely help you make money online ... ... it's Your BRAIN! Yes, brain is your ultimate weapon because it can make connections no other tool can. Let's show this on example: You go to GKT and type in diet. Now, what will GKT do is, it will show you keywords (sorted by "relevance") related to your search term. Basically, you will see all kinds of diets there are in existence. What it will not show you, are keywords like hydroxycut for example? Hydroxycut is one of the top 10 diet pills in the whole world. Pretty related to our keyword diet don't you think? Then why in the name of Google it's not in the list? No to the weird part... Hydroxycut and it's related searches receive tens of thousands of searches a month BUT their keyword competition is nowhere that high as of those fancy diet "related" keywords. Now the weird thing is ... most of the time ... THE SAME PEOPLE SEARCH FOR BOTH. Do you think a man searching for some kind of diet could eventually someday search for a "quicker solution" like diet pills? Does that make sense? By going after easier keywords like hydroxycut you go against much lower competition and you are targeting the exact same market. I hope this helps a bit. Much Love, Tibor
That was an excellent answer! Let me see if I understood well. It's kinda like defining your niches of interest first and then doing further research (using the websites of your top competitors maybe? ) for determining what are the latest trends and finding out specialized terms on that market rather than general terms. After building a resonable list (maybe 10 or 15 words) of these specialized terms then we can start doing keyword research no matter what paid/free tool we use - MS, LTP, KS or even GAKT. (or should I discard that last one? ) Am I right?
Yes you got that right. Niche research --> Keyword Research SIDE NOTE: I highly suggest you pick the niche you are passionate about. It's much easier to build website around it then. It will be your digital baby. Not just some cold money maker. Moving on... Once you gather the list of "specialized keywords" you can start building your website around them or take them one by one and dig even deeper. These hidden keywords usually come in packs. Every keyword could be just a door to a whole new pack of keywords. ---> diet pills ------> hydroxycut ---------> side-effects About competition analysis... Scratch that last - GKT. I only use GKT for search volume and trend nowadays. It does not perform any SEO analysis. (btw Competition column represents AdWrods competition not SEO ... in case you're wondering). You could use other tools mentioned for competition analysis but you'll have to use your common sensetoo. There is one single factor determining low (or very low) competition: Very deep inner pages of authority sites. If these are present, it is very likely that you found a low competition keyword. Examples: forum post yahoo answers question page torrent download page etc. No one creates links for these. Big Love, Tibor
Everything is crystal-clear but this part. Could you please explain this with more detail? Note: I just started reading your mini course on Proseor and found it useful but for now I have to go to gym so I'll finish it when I come back
Take this forum thread for example. This thread is ranking on the first page for keyword: market samurai the keyword research tool I have not built any links to it have you? Therefore, it is easy-to-rank for keyword. This thread is an example of deep inner page from authority website. sub-domain: forums.digitalpoint.com deep inner page: https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/market-samurai-the-keyword-research-tool.2644170/ The other are just an examples: yahoo answers, torrents pages, pdfs etc....