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:

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My answer:

Not quite, but nearly:  if you were ranked #1 for broad match then the potential income you could get if you did everything possible to get the traffic and conversions and to maximize your site’s income would be $1,716.15 per month.

SEOV is an indicator of the value of a keyword market, per month, to the website that sits at #1 for that keyword.

We don’t automatically get that $ just because we’re at #1.

Why not?

Suppose we’re at #1 and don’t have any products for sale at or via our site, and no adverts.  Our income would probably be zero.

If we just had Adsense on our site our income would likely not be great.

If we just had Amazon (affiliate) books our income would likely not be great.

So being at #1 for broad match is just one marker we’re aiming for.

Then William asked:

• “That “money” could then be sent to affiliate products or Adsense links. For example, I could sell sleeping bags from Amazon, or I could have a google ad(s) on the page.”

The “money” is the potential monthly value, but it’s not the traffic itself.  Once we’re at #1 we have to look at ways to maximize our site’s income so that we can achieve the potential SEOV of $1,716.

We want to be looking at either affiliate products that are both popular and bring in a good income per unit, or at selling our own product.  And test, test, test.  Having a SEOV of  $1,716 doesn’t guarantee that we’ll get that income.  But it’s the best guide.

And we also have to work at staying at #1.  If we find that a keyword does prove to be a good one (financially), then we might want to start making it an authoritative site, giving great value in the blog posts and in our emails to our site’s mailing list, and perhaps planning to create a membership and forum.

• “Looking at the SEO Competiton for “camping sleeping bags” shows 5 of the top 10 do not have a Page Rank above 0. The #1 has a PR of zero.”

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Above is the SEOC matrix for “camping sleeping bags”.  Market Samurai gives us dashes instead of a page rank for five of the top 10 webpages.  So we can’t be certain that those page ranks are 0.  I don’t know why those PRs come out as dashes – it might be that Google is currently updating PR (tho we believe that isn’t the case at the moment) or that Google is having a hissy fit, or that Market Samurai can’t bring those PRs for some other reason.

We can see that the #1 does have a PR of 0.  Which is interesting.

Let’s look further.

Let’s look at the domain age (DA).

We see that the DA of the #1 site is 13.  That’s higher than any other site in the top ten.  #7 is only 2 years old.  And #10 is represented by a dash, which again might or might not mean 0.

As a quick aside, let’s take a look at #10, and click on the webpage url – it’s campingsleepingbags.org.

It’s a blog, and we see that in fact the oldest post is dated July this year.

So we have verified that in this case it is a new blog – a blog just two months old that has got into the top 10.  This looks promising perhaps?

But we have the top 5 urls all with domain ages of 5 or higher.  That doesn’t look quite so good.

Let’s look further still.

The page backlinks (BLPs) are all very low.  The highest is #3 with only 97 backlinks.  This looks great – we can easily create many more backlinks than 97.

Four of the top ten are in both directories (DMOZ & Yahoo!), and two further sites are in one directory.  Not so great – we can pay to go into the Yahoo! directory (if we want to) but not the DMOZ.

But now we notice something very significant:  three of the top ten results are Y for all of YAH, Title, URL, Desc and Head.

And suddenly we remember Brent Hodgson’s latest post on the Noble Samurai website: he tells us about a very useful free ebook from Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton of Commission Blueprint: “Generating Affiliate Profits From Free Google Traffic”, and some recommendations from that ebook:

“The first thing to look for is whether more than one competitor has a ‘Y’ (a Yes) in ALL the YAH, Title, URL, Desc & Head columns. If there is more than one site, we should pass on this keyword and move into the next one.”

Hot d*mn!

Here is the link to Brent’s post

and here is Noble Samurai’s private referrer link to the ebook – you have to go on to the Commission Blueprint v.2.0 mailing list to get the ebook, but if you end up deciding to get CB v.2.0 you’ll “help fund the development of more Market Samurai goodies”.

And the ebook is first class quality content.

Isha

P.S.  If you don’t have Market Samurai yet – you’ll do me a favour if you get it through my Market Samurai link – here it is – thank you!

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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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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.

As well as Noble Samurai’s own videos (Noble Samurai are the team behind Market Samurai), you’ll also find here the Market Samurai training videos from the Thirty Day Challenge (they’re the eddale ones at YouTube), and others from Youtube, from Caroline Middleton’s blog and from Michelle McPhearson’s website.  You can view the whole lot with all the urls included at
http://www.links.bzblgs.com/market-samurai/market-samurai-videos/list-of-market-samurai-videos

Market Samurai Dojo tutorial videos at Noble Samurai’s site
http://www.noblesamurai.com/dojo/marketsamurai/

• How do I download and install a free trial of Market Samurai?
• How do I upgrade my free trial to the full version of Market Samurai?
• Introduction to Keyword Research
• Golden Rule #1: How to Find Relevant Keywords
• Golden Rule #2: How to Find High Traffic Keywords
• Golden Rule #3: How to Assess Market Competition
• Golden Rule #4: How to Assess Commerciality
• Golden Rules Case Study
• Finding Long Tail Keywords
• Understanding Match Type Data
• How to Avoid Targeting the Wrong Keywords
• Introduction To SEO Competition
• How to Assess the Strength of Competition
• How To Gain a Competitive Advantage
• How To Unmask Your Google Competition
• Introduction to Monetization
• How To Register With Affiliate Directories
• How To Find Products & Assess Market Viability
• How To Write A Compelling Ad In Minutes
• How To Publish An Ad To Your Website
• How to Sign Up for the Google Adsense Program
• How To Replace Your Affiliate Offer With Dynamic Ads
• How To Use Bit.ly To Track Your Affiliate Click Through Rate
• How To Use The Pretty Link Plugin To Track Your Affiliate Click Through Rate
• How To Create Trackable Affiliate Links Using WordPress Direct
• Introduction to the Find Content Module
• Introduction to the Publish Content Module
• Introduction to the Promotion Module
• Promotion – Forum and Web 2.0 Links
• Promotion – Blog Pingbacks
• Introduction to the Rank Tracker Module
• How to Add Domains Into Rank Tracker
• How to Select Your Primary Domain in Rank Tracker
• How to Add keywords Into Rank Tracker
• How to Select Search Engines in Rank Tracker
• How to Select Phrase Match results in Rank Tracker
• How to Select Search Depth in Rank Tracker
• How to Update Your Rank Data In Rank Tracker
• How To Analyze Rank Tracker’s Data
• How To Track Videos And Web 2.0 Pages
• How do I use Market Samurai behind a proxy server?
• How do I find my proxy settings on a Windows PC?
• How do I find my proxy settings on a Mac?

Market Samurai tutorial videos at Noble Samurai’s tutorials page
http://www.noblesamurai.com/support/tutorials/

• Installing the Adobe Air Platform
• Installing Market Samurai
• Registering and Activating Market Samurai
• Configuring Market Samurai
• Using Market Samurai – Generating Keywords
• Using Market Samurai – Analyzing Keywords
• Upgrading Market Samurai to v0.53 (tells you how to upgrade when a new version of MS comes out)
• Overview of Market Samurai v0.53′s New Features (interesting insofar as it includes what to do when Google’s updating their traffic data at the start of the month – 2:39 onwards and also later in the video when Brent goes to the Keyword Analysis page of Market Samurai)
• SEO Competition Analysis
• Advanced SEO Competition Analysis
• Using Market Samurai – Finding Content
• Find RSS Content Feeds
• Promotion – Forum and Web 2.0 Links
• Promotion – Blog Pingbacks
• 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

• SEO Competition Trick for SEO Analysis of a Specific Site (4:52, Nov 24th 2008, Brent Hodgson) (this trick’s no longer necessary, as it’s been superceded by a Market Samurai update)
• Using Market Samurai as Social Tagging Software (4:59, Feb 7th 2009, Brent Hodgson)
• SEO Competition Analysis in Market Samurai: Add Custom URL (5:50, Mar 24th 2009, Mike Bertolacci)
• A Rocket-Powered Samurai Launched Today (8:47, May 7th 2009, Brent Hodgson)
• Maximizing Market Samurai performance (3:52, May 7th 2009, Brent Hodgson)
• New Features for Finding Content using Market Samurai (3:56, May 10th, Ben Galt)
• Finding Relevant RSS Feeds using Market Samurai (4:49, May 11th 2009, Ben Galt)
• Front Page Adwords Ads re Ripe For The Picking! (4:50 May 19th 2009, Ben Galt)
• Using Google’s SKtool for Long-Tail Keywords (5:36 May 26th 2009, Brent Hodgson)
• Using Google’s SKTool To Categorize Keywords (4:32 May 27th 2009, Brent Hodgson)
• Using Google’s Search-Based Keyword Tool For Niche Ideas (1:55 May 28th 2009, Brent Hodgson)
• View Source Data With The Click Of A Button (3:41 June 5th 2009, Brent Hodgson)

Other Market Samurai videos at YouTube
(YouTube username is at the end of each entry)

• How to Download And Install Market Samurai (5:11) (Ed Dale – eddale)
• The 3 Golden Rules of Search Traffic (2:35) (Ben Stickland of Noble Samurai – kernelsanders)
• Search Traffic Golden Rule #1: Target Keywords With Traffic (13:39) (Ben Stickland – kernelsanders)
• Search Traffic Golden Rule #2: Target Keywords With HIGH PROFIT (26:01) (Eugene Ware of Noble Samurai – kernelsanders)
• Search Traffic Golden Rule #3: Target Keywords With LOW COMPETITION (27:49) (Brent Hodgson of Noble Samurai – kernelsanders)
• Overview of the 3 Golden Rules of Profitable Search Traffic (7:01) (Ben Stickland – kernelsanders)
• How To Use Market Samurai (this one is a misnomer – it shows you where to find the above Noble Samurai’s tutorial videos)
• Introduction To Market And Keyword Research (15:30) (Bob Somerville – eddale)
  (discusses using Market Samurai for Market Research from about 12:30 onwards)
• Using Market Samurai For Keyword Research (27:07) (Bob Somerville – eddale)
• Advanced Keyword Research and Filtering Techniques using Market Samurai: PBR (5:52) (Brent Hodgson – kernelsanders)
• Search For Long Tail Derivative Keywords (11:41) (Bob Somerville – eddale)
• Keyword Research with Market Samurai (10:53) (Adam Spiel – AskAdamOnline)
• |Market Samurai – my research process (7:16) (Gavin Allinson – gavin6)
• Market Samurai Keyword research (9:07) (Gavin Allinson – gavin6)(a “Walk through on how I want my pages formatted so my [Market Samurai] keyword research is outsourced by a virtual assistant”)
• Finding Keywords For Your Adwords Campaign (7:09) (Bob Somerville – eddale)
• SEO Competition Using Market Samurai (31:06) (Bob Somerville – eddale)
• Find Article Content Using Market Samurai (16:32) (Bob Somerville – eddale)
• Find More content Using Market Samurai (5:13) (Bob Somerville – eddale)
• Get More Links Using Market Samurai (17:41) (Bob Somerville – eddale)
• Get Authority Backlinks Using Market Samurai (14:07) (Bob Somerville – eddale)

Market Samurai videos at Caroline Middlebrook’s blog

• Keyword Research with Market Samurai (Quicktime movie 58,191 KB, Sept 24th 2008)
• Competition Research with Market Samurai (Quicktime movie 46,755 KB, Sept 29th 2008)
• Competition Analysis with Market Samurai (6:55, March 24th 2009)

Market Samurai videos at Michelle McPhearson’s website

• Steal This Niche – Intro (13:23, May 1st, 2009)
• Steal This Niche – For the Shortys (6:47, May 8th 2009)

Chow.

Isha

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