Market Samurai Version Updates
Most of the Market Samurai version update information on this page is from the update notifier that Market Samurai shows whenever there’s an update available.
The update information for 0.81.1~4 and earlier is from
Market Samurai Update Announcements « Noble Samurai
There are one or two periods for which I don’t have the information. If you have it and are willing to send them can you please let me know using the contact form or one of the comments sections of this site (thanks!).
0.85.17 Changes:
Keyword Research
OCI has been re-arranged to occur last, due to its unreliability.
SEO Competition
Recognising PDFs in SERPs.
Publish Content
Including new validation requirements for Traffic-Bug.
0.85.16 Changes:
SEO Competition
Make anchor-text analysis significantly faster.
Find Content
Bug Fix: handle deleted ScribdArticles gracefully.
Publish Content
Bug Fix: stop pressing Enter in Traffic Bug form from closing the module.
0.85.15 Changes:
General
Bug Fix: improve handling of non-UTF8 character sets.
Keyword Research
Bug Fix: strip out some unicode quote characters that make queries malformed.
Find Content
Bug Fix: Go Articles were not loading.
0.85.14 Changes:
General
Further improve debug logging to diagnose edge-case request failures.
Promotion
Bug Fix: correctly identify the pagerank of items.
0.85.13 Changes:
General
- Bug Fix: major improvements on reliability for SEOC, AWA reliability.
- Further improved debug logging to diagnose edge-case request failures.
Adwords PPC Calculator
- Typo: changed the text description of the ‘Minimum Conversion Rate’ in the Adwords PPC Calculator to be correct. The value has always been correct but the description was not.
- Publish Content
- Updated Traffic Bug categories.
- Traffic bug fix to handle spaces in URLs correctly.
0.85.12 Changes:
General
Bug Fix: Improve logging of connection issues to help diagnose support issues.
Keyword Research
Bug Fix: improve reliability when making many requests via proxies.
0.85.11 Changes:
General
Bug Fix: Improve logging of connection issues to help diagnose support issues.
0.85.10 Changes:
Keyword Research
Attempt to increase reliability of SEOC, SEOTC, SEOLC, SEOLTC, and AWA requests.
Publish Content
Bug fix: show text in blog post after ‘Read more’ links
0.85.9 Changes:
General
- Bug Fix: stop crash when running lots of captcha’d queries on your own IP
- Bug Fix: allow publishing of Scribd article from Find Content to Publish Content
Keyword Research
Bug Fix: stop showing phrase-length filtered keywords as ‘Removed’
SEO Competition
Bug Fix: pick up some missed DMOZ listings
Monetization
Bug Fix: detect when a WordPress theme doesn’t support widgets
Publish Content
Bug Fix: correctly select categories when publishing
0.85.8 Changes:
General
- Bug Fix: ensure changes propagate between account forms
- Bug Fix: stop multiple retries from occuring during request of proxy list, which should reduce the number of SEOC and AWA errors.
- Bug Fix: restore Flickr support
- Bug Fix: make remotely link images work
- Bug Fix: improved HTTPS support
- Fix XML-RPC errors
- Myriad fixes to the rich-text editor
- Add better form validation
SEO Competition
- Bug Fix: fix pagerank issues
- Improved on-page factor interpretation
- Use F and N instead of Y and N for follow/nofollow links
Monetization
- Bug Fix: validate Commission Junction links correctly
- Bug Fix: Commission Junction link generation
- Bug Fix: list correct currency of Amazon products
- Bug Fix: selected products don’t move to ‘selected products’
- Stop Amazon prices coming up as 0
Publish Content
- Bug Fix: load WordPress posts correctly
- Bug Fix: don’t allow duplicated tags
- Bug Fix: WordPress category support
0.85.7 Changes:
Monetization
- Add validation to ‘Find Product’ options.
- Add validation to ‘Add Custom Product’ option.
- Bug Fix: Strip leading spaces from account information and tracking ids so that urls don’t end up being invalid with spaces in them
Publish Content
- Bug Fix: Don’t allow duplicate tags
- Bug Fix: Split up tags properly if pasted with commas.
0.85.6 Changes:
Monetization
- Bug Fix: Fixed the XMLRPC -32700 ‘not well formed’ error when posting dynamic ads to wordpress.
- Bug Fix: Fixed the bug that resulted in selected products sometimes going missing and not showing up in the ‘Selected Products’ section.
- Product with no price will no longer show up in Amazon item searches.
Publish Content
Bug Fix: Improved the code produced by the editor so that hopefully not so many DIV elements will be created now.
0.85.5 Changes:
Publish Content
- Bug Fix: Fixed the XMLRPC -32700 ‘not well formed’ error.
- Bug Fix: Fixed the bug that was resulting in paragraph formatting being stripped from some articles retrieved from WordPress blogs.
0.85.4 Changes:
General
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that was resulting in the application occasionally getting frozen on a loading dialog when first opening a project.
Keyword Research
Bug Fix: Added to the list of ‘non-standard’ characters that the Google Adwords traffic estimator won’t accept.
Rank Tracker
All the remaining MSN related tooltips have been renamed to Bing.
SEO Competition
- Bug Fix: Modified the on page SEO factors check to get better results.
- Bug Fix: Fixed the bug that was causing the Google cache age lookup to stall if the url doesn’t exist.
- Bug Fix: Blank custom URLs can no longer be added.
- Bug Fix: Page Rank lookups now use a newer algorithm that supports different query string values so pages should now have their correct PR and not that of the domain.
- The ‘Add custom URLs’ dialog is now cleared each time you go to add more URLs.
0.85.3 Released: Scroll down to see changes below
BREAKING NEWS: Faster, Easier, Lazier – “30 Second Ads” to turn your website traffic into cash!
We’ve supercharged your Monetization module with a brand new “Generate Dynamic Ads” button. It unlocks FOUR new automated ways to turn your website traffic into cash:
Google Adsense – Present your users with highly relevant advertising, and earn commissions for each click.
Amazon Omakase Ads – Promote a wide variety of keyword-targeted Amazon products on your site, and earn commissions on the total value of any referred sales.
Clickbank HopAds – Promote relevant, available Clickbank products and earn commissions of up to 75% on referred sales.
eBay Editor Kit Ads – Show current, relevant eBay auction listings on your site and earn commissions for clicks, eBay signups and auction bids.
In literally 30 seconds or less, you can have created and published, targeted ads published and making money for you on your website.
This is just STAGE TWO of the bonus Monetization module enhancements that you’ll be receiving as a Market Samurai user.
0.85.3 Changes:
General
- Bug Fix: Duplicate keyword tab bug fixed.
- Reworded some error messages.
- Added the version number to the logo in the top left corner of the application.
- Added a more extensive debugging option to hopefully help us track down some of the more
- obscure issues people have been encountering. Warning: this option will slow the application down so please only enable this if you are having issues and have been asked to do so by a Noble Samurai support member.
SEO Competition
Progress indicators added to backlink analysis rather than the generic loading indicator.
Keyword Research
- Bug Fix: Added more keywords sanitization added to prevent adwords keyword tool from breaking.
- Bug Fix: Keyword analysis should now be updatable once per day.
0.85.2 Changes:
SEO Competition
- NEW FEATURE: SEO Competition detailed backlinks Page Rank and Anchor Text analysis. Now you can find where your competitors are getting their backlinks from and get backlinks from the same places they do!
- NEW FEATURE: You can now export the list of backlinks, pageranks and anchor text for your competitors.
Promotion
NEW FEATURE: Added support for Google’s own Forum Searching feature – called “Google Forum Search” in this Promotion Module.
Keyword Research
Better support for foreign character sets for Google Trends link.
Monetization
- Bug Fix: Image uploading form works better.
- Better sorting of products.
Publish Content
Bug Fix: More reliably publishing to wordpress (working around some WordPress Bugs)
Find Content
Bug Fix: GoArticles works more reliably.
0.85.1 Changes:
Monetization
Bug Fix: Google Adsense now publishes with rounded corners if selected.
Between 0.82.5 and 0.85.1 I forgot to copy the update features when I updated. If you have the information and you’re willing to send them can you please let me know using the contact form or one of the comments areas of this site (thanks!).
0.82.5 Changes:
Rank Tracker
Fixed bug that was resulting in urls being prefixed with ‘(more)’.
0.82.4 Changes:
General
Bug fix for the registration process hanging occasionally when incorrect values are entered.
Keyword Research
Added some more exclusion rules (% and + are bad) to keywords so that we stop getting some avoidable missing data errors.
Rank Tracker
- Table ‘M’ headers changed to ‘B’ to match the change from MSN to Bing.
- Basic export functionality added.
- Yahoo searches with a location of UK (or GB) should now work properly.
- Improvements to position checking algorithm.
- Bug fix to take into account that YouTube results can take up odd amounts of serp space (i.e. you can get 2 videos with 8-10 results in a list of 10 items).
- Added select all checkboxes.
- Added not to draw attention to expandable arrows to show more results.
SEO Competition
- Obeying language setting in results.
- Column tooltips updated.
- Tooltips added to urls so that you can see what the full url is even when truncated.
- Icons added to distinguish which results are videos.
0.82.3 Changes:
General
- Top level menu is now always displayed in windows.
- Added some extra checks to catch failed proxies so that you can no longer get locked out of the application if you configure them incorrectly.
- Added some more checks to handle connection timeouts better.
- Modified url checks so that url paths with @ symbols in them will now work properly (instead of assuming everything before them was a username).
Keyword Research
- Select all option added to analyze section.
- Export bug fixed. Exported data should now properly exclude removed items again.
Rank Tracker
- Primary domains are now correctly saved when closing the project.
- Minor tweeks to error handling that should result in better results when encountering slightly differing results from proxies.
- Hostnames converted to lowercase for consistancy. There was a small bug that resulted in some domains not being found due to different casing being used.
- Youtube videos now get recognised correctly.
0.82.2 Changes:
- MSN was renamed to Bing.
- Add URL button added.
- Fixed some memory leaks that should result in fewer unexplained crashes.
- Exporting bug fixed.
- Internationalization issues in Rank Tracker should be resolved.
- Fixed bug where trying to view articles in a new project may not work.
- Workaround for Yahoo’s buggy API where some regions don’t return results.
0.82.1 Changes:
- Fixed resource leak when many requests were cancelled.
- Fixed error when net connection not available.
0.82 Changes:
The MYSTERY MODULE is coming to get you.
- Bandwidth speed management added. This should reduce issues associated with missing data on slower connections.
- Improvements to allow for more screen space
- The main left side menu can now be reduced to show just the icons.
- Bug bar at the bottom of the screen can be removed.
- General theme has been cleaned up slightly.
0.81.12 Changes:
Mystery Module: Mystery Module announced.
0.81.11 Changes:
General
Ability to use new CGI proxies added, improving reliability again.
0.81.10 Changes:
General
CGI proxy handling is now far more reliable.
0.81.9 Changes:
Keyword Research
Export now keeps the visible sort order.
SEO Competition
Cache Age now times out properly.
0.81.7, 0.81.8 Changes:
Keyword Research
Fixing issue where Market Samurai would do nothing when asked to analyse data which inludes organic traffic data.
0.81.6 Changes:
Keyword Research
- Made trends graph rendering more stable.
- Part-way cancelled searches, and partial-data searches now resume a lot faster.
- AWA now appears directly before AWC, as they logically belong together.
SEO Competition
- The DMOZ column now returns correct results, and not always “Y”.
- Anchor Text analysis now shows PR 0 results correctly.
0.81.5 Changes:
General (Features)
- Added CSV export settings.
- Added option to choose what to do with failing HTTP proxies.
I think I missed something here. If you have information about it and are willing to send them can you please let me know using the contact form or one of the comments areas of this site (thanks!).
- Added “Upload Activity Log” button.
General (Internal)
- Handling deactivation failure more gracefully.
- Truncating activity log on startup if it’s large.
- Using HTTP proxies for registration only when no more than one is set.
Keyword Research
- AWA is now phrase match.
- SEOC uses less CPU time to calculate.
0.81.4 Changes
Keyword Research
- More friendly partial results notification.
- Hanging on some proxies bug fixed.
0.81.3 Changes:
General
Cancelling the close tab operation works again.
0.81.2 Changes:
SEO Competition
Fixing error where results wouldn’t be returned for localised results.
0.81.1 Changes:
General
Fix PageRank bug (always returned -1).
All the Market Samurai version update information below here (ie for 0.81.1~4 and earlier) is from:
http://www.noblesamurai.com/forum/topic/market-samurai-v071-released
0.81.1~4 Changes:
- A new, faster underlying-engine.
- Various fixes to the engine, including error message updates, proxy engine fixes and solves issues where Market Samurai had a tendency to freeze when collecting large amounts of data.
0.80.24 Changes:
Fixed the way global (All Countries and Territories) data was retrieved (due to a bug in 0.80.23).
0.80.23 Changes:
Updated Market Samurai to use the proper local search volume when you’ve selected a region.
0.80.22 Changes:
Corrected some registration issues (involving paid users appearing as trials, or being unable to activate).
0.80.21 Changes:
Fixed a bug with on-page SEO factors.
0.80.20 Changes:
- Corrected some issues with Google searches.
- Added the “View results in Google” button.
- Made additional steps to ensure retrieval of localised results more accurately.
- SEOLC and SEOLTC added to exports in Keyword Research.
0.80.19 Changes:
Fixed an issue with on-page SEO factors, meaning fewer false negatives.
0.80.18 Changes:
- SEO Competition
- Added ability to add curstom URLs
0.80.17 Changes:
Fixed SEO Competition filter checkboxes.
0.80.16 Changes:
Included minor bug fixes and changes in line with 0.80.15.
0.80.15 Changes:
- Fixed issue in registration system.
- Additional minor bug fixes.
- Made localized SEO Competition improvements (new SEOLC and SEOLTC – SEO Local Competition and SEO Local Title Competition).
- Numbers now update on re-analyzing after changing country settings in the Market Samurai project.
- SEO Competition numbers are clickable.
0.80.2 and 0.80.3 Changes: (these versions were put out in quick succession)
Keyword Research
- Broad, Phrase, Exact Match Data added.
- Improved Negative Keyword speed.
- PBR (Phrase-to-Broad-Match) indicator added.
SEO Competition
- Colour-blindness solution altered – removed flags from view (making results easier to read).
- BLD/BLP (Domain Backlinks/Page Backlinks) colouring altered. Weight of BLD lowered. Focus shifted to BLP as the primary indicator of a high-quality article [sic].
- Fixed bug connected with regional language.
0.80.1 Changes:
Included a bug-fix for Adobe AIR v.1.5
0.80 Changes:
Some minor bug-fixes around the registration system.
0.79.1 Changes:
- More countries available for traffic data.
- GoArticles captcha solution created.
- Fix for SEO Competition results for users based in the UK (includes SEOC update).
- Fix to user agents to improve reliability and quality of data retrieved.
- Market Samurai now auto-centers itself on screen upon startup.
0.79 Changes:
- Fixed a bug with a change in the yahoo xml that affected fetching backlinks.
- Fixed a bug with SEO Competition that cached zeros when proxy was banned.
0.76 Changes:
Included a new feature inside “Promotion” that now finds even more “DoFollow” backlink sources.
0.75 Changes:
Included an improvement to OCI data retrieval designed to increase the reliability of OCI data retrieval.
0.74 Changes:
Included:
- Fixed filtering bugs in Keyword Research.
- Fixed pingback HTML generating incorrect table code.
- Fixed backlinks analysis problem where URL contains reserved characters such as “?”
0.71 Changes:
- Fixed bugs, specifically around Keyword Research, fixing problems with retrieving Adwords data, Organic Traffic data, adding keywords manually, Market Samurai Project files (.MSAM files) becoming corrupted and not opening, and Market Samurai freezing.
- More in-depth “debugging” logging added. They will give us much more in-depth insights into what Market Samurai is doing so that we can trace some of the more intermittent and elusive bugs (such as Backlink Analysis data – PageRank and Anchor Text – occasionally not coming back, and SEOC data occasionally showing zeroes)
