Market Samurai Spanish Training
Calling all Spanish speakers who use Market Samurai!
I was privileged to meet Graham Hunt at the 30dchome seminar in Manchester last year and I liked him a lot; if you know Spanish speakers who’d like to know about his Spanish Market Samurai video (or videos) then please do tell them.
And to keep updated about it, you can follow him in Twitter: http://twitter.com/grahunt
Isha
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Market Samurai Has A New Sibling
If you were following the #30dchome hashtag on twitter over the weekend you might have seen the announcement made at Australia’s Thirty Day Challenge Coming Home seminar.
You will have gathered that the new tool is called Name Samurai.
I was privileged to have advanced news about this tool, and have been dying to
let you know about it.
Watch this space!
And something very useful for all Market Samurai users coming from this site very soon
(yeh, I’m in a winky mood…)
Isha
PS I’d be very grateful if you’d use my affiliate link to sign up to Market Samurai – thanks!
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Market Samurai’s Version Updates
You’ll have noticed that when Market Samurai has a version update you get a list of what has changed.
Later you may have realised that you no longer have access to that information and wondered what you might have missed. Well miss no more! A (nearly) complete list of the version updates and their descriptions is now a page on this website.
If you’ve been using Market Samurai since last summer or autumn here are some gems you might (or might not) have missed:
In 0.85.3: “Keyword analysis should now be updatable once per day”
In 0.85.2: “You can now export the list of backlinks, pageranks and anchor text for your competitors”
In 0.82.3: Keyword Research: “Select all option added to analyze section”
In 0.81.5: Keyword Research: “AWA is now phrase match”
In 0.81.3: “Cancelling the close tab operation works again”
In 0.80.15: “Numbers now update on re-analyzing after changing country settings in the Market Samurai project”
Market Samurai 12 Day Free Trial
(disclosure: this link, and the one further above, plus those in my side bar, are my affiliate link)
Yes I know – if you purchased Market Samurai more recently – say since the spring – you may have taken them all for granted and think I’m potty for making a big thing of them. And I admit it, I’ve become a nerd if I wasn’t already.
If you have info on the missing bits please will you let me know in the comments below, and I’ll tout de suite bring the list up to date.
Market Samurai Version Updates page
Isha
PS If you’ve not purchased or not trialled Market Samurai yet it would be great if you do it through my affiliate link: Market Samurai 12 Day Free Trial – thanks!
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Market Samurai Case Study 1: Assessing Camping Sleeping Bags SEOV and SEOC Matrix
On the Market Samurai forum William H asked the following question:
“assuming I could become ranked #1 for “camping sleeping bags”, I would have $1,716.15 worth of “money” coming to my website each month. Is that correct?”
He’s given me permission to quote him and to write this blog post. “Sleeping bags” is a keyword that he noticed was used as an example in one of Noble Samurai’s videos.
Here are some Market Samurai figures for camping sleeping bags: Read more
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Market Samurai Videos Update
I’ve added more Market Samurai videos to the List of Market Samurai Videos post and also to the Market Samurai Videos Links post. These are the ones that I’ve added:
Market Samurai Video Tutorials at Noble Samurai’s tutorials page
Find Content Re-Design
Using Market Samurai When You’re Behind A Proxy Server
Proxy Server Settings On A Windows PC
Proxy Server Settings On A Mac
Adwords Advertisers (AWA)
Market Samurai videos at the Noble Samurai blog
A Rocket-Powered Samurai Launched Today
Maximizing Market Samurai performance
New Features for Finding Content using Market Samurai
Finding Relevant RSS Feeds using Market Samurai
Front Page Adwords Ads re Ripe For The Picking!
Using Google’s SKtool for Long-Tail Keywords
Using Google’s SKTool To Categorize Keywords
Using Google’s Search-Based Keyword Tool For Niche Ideas
View Source Data With The Click Of A Button
Market Samurai videos at Michelle McPhearson’s website
Steal This Niche – For the Shortys
Go to the “List of Market Samurai Videos” post to see the whole list with short description. And to the Market Samurai Videos Links for the list of video links.
Chow and please do subscribe to my RSS feed
Isha
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Additions to the 5 Tips Post (for Market Samurai’s Generate Keywords Screen)
I’ve made some additions to the post 5 Tips For Using Market Samurai’s Generate Keywords Screen
Tip 3: the 3rd paragraph and the screenshot below it are new.
And a short extra tip added at the end of the post.
Isha
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5 Tips For Using Market Samurai’s Generate Keywords Screen
You’ll have noticed lots of very useful features in Market Samurai, and sometimes trying to get to grips with them can seem overwhelming. It’s easy to get sided into just using the features that you know best, but you really want to learn to use this software to your best advantage.
I’ve been using Market Samurai since last August, and have found a fair number of ways to speed up and improve my use of it. I wanted to share them with you, so here’s my first of a series of tips about using Market Samurai.
This post is about using the first screen that you see after you’ve clicked on the words “Keyword Research”.
1. Using the “Add Permutations” Button
If you’re going to generate keywords, then you want to use the Add Permutations button after you’ve generated the keywords, not before.
The “permutations” of a keyword phrase are all the possible orders of the words in the keyword phrase.
For example, there are six permutations of “bluebell scented soap”. They are:
bluebell scented soap, bluebell soap scented, scented bluebell soap, scented soap bluebell, soap bluebell scented, soap scented bluebell.
A 2-word phrase has 1×2 = 2 permutations,
a 3-word phrase has 1×2x3 = 6 permutations,
a 4-word phrase has 1×2x3×4 = 24 permutations, and so on.
The “Add Permutations” button will add the permutations of the main keyword of your current tab, and the permutations will appear at the bottom of your keyword list:
So if your tab’s main keyword is bluebell scented soap, then clicking on the button will add all the permutations of bluebell scented soap to the bottom of your keyword list.
It won’t add permutations of the other keywords in your list. For example, it won’t add permutations of “scented essential oils”. So if you want to analyze the various word orders of “scented essential oils”, you open a new tab for it. Just click on the key symbol to the left of the phrase “scented essential oils”, and that will open the new tab for you:
Remember, if you’re going to generate keywords in your current tab, then you want to use the button after you have generated the keywords, and not before. Otherwise, the newly generated keywords will over-write the permutations.
2. Using the “Add Keywords” Box and Button and the “Import” Keywords Button under the main Keyword list
If you’re going to generate keywords, then only use the Add Keywords button after you’ve generated the keywords, not before. The same applies to the Import button under the Keyword list window: use it after generating keywords, not before. They work in a similar way to the Add Permutations button above.
You can paste or type additional keywords into the Add Keywords box beforehand, but if you click on the Add Keywords button before you generate keywords, the generated keywords will over-write the ones you just added.
Suppose you have a list of words in a .txt file that you want to analyze: then you can either copy and paste them into the Add Keywords box above, or you can click on the Import button circled in yellow above and navigate to your .txt file.
If you’re going to use both buttons, then the order in which you use them doesn’t matter. But if you’re going to generate keywords, remember to do the generating first.
3. Using the Positive and Negative Keyword Boxes and their Update Buttons
Only click the Positive Keywords Update button if you want every keyword in your keyword list to contain a word from the Positive Keywords box. Only click the Negative Keywords Update button if you want none of the keywords in your keyword list to contain any of the words from the Negative Keywords box.
When you type or paste words into the Positive Keywords box and click Update, Market Samurai removes every keyword from your Keyword list that doesn’t contain any of those words. For example, if you just put the word “soap” into the Positive Keywords box and click Update, then Market Samurai will remove all keywords from the list on the right that don’t contain the word “soap”:
Another way to remove all keywords that don’t contain the word “soap” is to click the word “soap” anywhere in your keyword list and then click the check (tick) mark to the right of it:
When you type or paste words into the Negative Keywords box and click Update, Market Samurai removes every keyword from your Keyword list that contains any of those words. So if you want to remove from the list any keywords that contain, say, “olive” or “soy” or “goat”, then you can either type those three words into the Negative Keywords box, or you can click each of those words anywhere in the keyword list and then click the cross to the right of them. If you do it this second way then you only need to click each of the words once.
4. Using the “Export” and “Clear” Buttons
When in doubt, export. And especially: export before you click on Clear. Which brings me to this mantra: when in doubt, steer clear of the Clear button.
The Export buttons create .txt files of the list of words above the buttons, which you save onto your computer. By exporting the words, you avoid the frustrations of having to recreate a list.
The Clear button under the main keyword list does exactly what it says: it clears everything out of the keyword list box.
The Clear button under the Negative Keywords box clears everything from the box and puts all your negative keywords back into your main keyword list.
The Clear button under the Positive keywords box puts everything back into the main keyword box.
These are all great reasons to export.
5. Before Deleting Individual Generated Keywords
Instead of spending time going though the generated keywords to delete them, click on the Analyze Keywords button and first get search or traffic numbers using the minimum searches filter.
This way, you get rid of a lot of unwanted keywords immediately. Then get the SEO Comp (SEOC) with a maximum filter. Then if you want you can start deleting some keywords. You’ll see that in the example above that won’t be necessary – we can go straight on to check all the other boxes that we’re interested in.
This can save you a lot of time. Market Samurai is a lot faster now than it ever was, so let the software do the sifting for you.
6. Using the “min” and “max” Phrase Length Features
If you change your minimum and maximum phrase length, there’s no need to regenerate your keywords – your keyword list will automatically change:
A little bit of Market Samurai magic…
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List of Market Samurai Videos
There are more Market Samurai videos out there than you might have thought. A couple of weeks ago I scurried around the internet collecting them into a list, and found well over 30. (There are more out there now, so if you revisit in a couple of days you’ll be able to see which ones have been added. Update: as at 15th June 2009 there are now well over 60 – I shall be adding to this list again soon and will let you know via update posts).
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When It’s Decision Time: 5 Facts About the Free Version of Market Samurai
Imagine: You’re revelling in the splendors that Market Samurai brings you in the form of microniche research and potential yummy keyword ideas. Never has work seemed so blissful and gratifying.
Suddenly – kerplunk. You’re locked out.
Your Market Samurai trial period is over.
What next?
Here are five key facts about what happens at the end of your trial period of Market Samurai.
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Should You Buy Market Samurai?
Market Samurai hit the online marketing world like a thunderbolt last summer. Veterans of SEO and IM dribble over it. The thing is – should you buy it?
Depending on your finances and your internet marketing background, I recommend different routes to getting your hands on this powerhouse. But get your hands on it you must if you’re serious about your internet marketing research and if you’re serious about saving yourself a ton of time.
Below I cover my different recommendations for those of you who:
- have good internet marketing experience with finances in decent order,
- don’t have much IM experience but have finances in decent order,
- have good IM experience but perhaps having an iffy time financially,
- don’t have much IM experience and feel their finances might be iffy.
I hope this just about includes your territory.
If you have good internet marketing experience and your cashflow can easily take the current price of Market Samurai:
I’d say click the Market Samurai logo on the right now and buy – no contest.
I’ve been using Market Samurai beta since last August, and the price has been moving upwards. Honestly, if you buy Market Samurai now, then a few months down the line I believe you’ll be patting yourself on the back that you got it at the current price.
If you haven’t much internet marketing experience but you know for 100 percent *sure* that that’s where (at least part of) your future lies, *and* if your finances look good:
My recommendation is as above – BUY – you can click on the Market Samurai logo on the right.
If you have good IM experience but can’t see your way to paying the current price:
I recommend that you get the free trial – click on the “Get the Market Samurai Free Trial” link in the right-hand column.
If you’re not very experienced in internet marketing, and your finances feel a bit dodgy:
I strongly recommend you follow the Thirty Day Challenge and use Market Samurai as and when it arises in the 30DC course. It’s the best free internet marketing course you’ll find, and it has its own community, which is also free to join.
Start with the Pre-season training, which starts on June 1st this year.
NB: At the time of writing this article I’m not yet a Market Samurai affiliate.
Chow.
Isha
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