Market Samurai

I’ve been using Market Samurai for more than a year now, and it is hands-down my favourite keyword and niche research tool. It’s just so easy to use, and I never enter any niche without running it through Market Samurai first. In this Market Samurai review, I’m going to show you how it works, and how to take advantage of the software to discover some high traffic, low competition keywords that you can dominate.

When you open up Market Samurai you will find the following modules:

Keyword Research – Find additional related keywords to your seed keyword and analyze their traffic, Adwords value, competition, buying intent and more.
SEO Competition – Market Samurai will take a look at the top ten results for your keyword and show you how well they rank for a number of important SEO factors.
Rank Tracker – Add in your domains and keywords, and Market Samurai will show you where your sites rank for each of your keywords over time on Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Monetization – Find products to promote on Clickbank, Amazon, CJ, and PayDotCom.
Find Content – Find content related to your keywords, which you can add to your website or blog.
Publish Content – Manage all your WordPress blogs in one place and publish your content to them easily
Promotion – Find Web 2.0 sites, blogs and forums that are related to your keyword where you can place your links on.

All the Market Samurai modules have their uses, but I find that I use the Keyword Research and SEO Competition modules daily. So let me go into more detail into how they work.

Market Samurai Keyword Research

When building niche websites, doing the proper keyword research is the key to success. You want to find keywords that get a lot of traffic, but don’t have so much competition that they are impossible to rank for. To start off with the keyword research module, you first need to enter in a seed keyword into Market Samurai. Hit the Generate Keywords button and Market Samurai will go out to Google and return you a list of relevant keywords to your seed keywords. You can filter this initial list by a variety of criteria, like traffic, phrase length, and positive and negative keywords.

Next, you’ll want to drill down into each of these keywords by clicking the Analyze Keywords button. Market Samurai has a ton of data it can look up for each keyword including traffic stats (SEO and Adwords) and various SEO competition factors. You can then filter these analyzed results by setting thresholds for any of the different factors to come up with a handful of great keywords to actually target.

Market Samurai Keyword Competition

Once you have found some good prospective keywords, the next step is to analyze them with the SEO competition module. In here, Market Samurai will go out and look at the top 10 search results for your keyword and show you in an easy to read table how these sites rate for a variety of well known SEO factors.

These includes domain age, Google PR, number of backlinks and keyword in title and url counts. It’s really nice how Market Samurai color codes the various cells, so you can tell at a glance how difficult it would be to rank for your keyword. Red means difficult, yellow is average, and green is easy.

So if the Market Samurai SEO competition table is filled with red cells, you know right away that ranking for this keyword will be quite challenging.