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When I was going through href="http://www.thefreebieguy.net/ejmarketsamurai" target="_blank">Market Samurai to make this review, I realized that there are a few features that I’ve never used that can come in pretty handy. I was very surprised that you can add your affiliate accounts (Amazon, Commission Junction, Clickbank and Paydotcom) to market samurai and have it find products on all of those affiliate networks that are relevant to your niche and have it automatically generate affiliate links for you.

For example, when I was doing keyword research on “human heart diagrams”, it gave me an affiliate link for posters of human heart diagram in Amazon.com. You can see how that would be a very useful product for someone looking for human heart diagrams.

I was also impressed with the “Publish Content” section. You can enter your wordpress blog login credentials and publish your content directly to your blog from inside Market Samurai. This includes the ability to add images and links, and anything you would add from your wordpress dashboard. The benefit of doing it in Market Samurai is that it also stores a copy of your post on your hard drive. This comes in very handy because you always have an additional backup copy of your content, just in case something terrible happens.

The feature to help you find domains wasn’t that useful for me. I prefer going to href="http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-4163091-10384568">Godaddy and finding my domain names there. Yes, Market Samurai gives many more suggestions, but I found that I never really liked the suggestions.

Are There Drawbacks To Market Samurai?

href="http://www.thefreebieguy.net/ejmarketsamurai" target="_blank">Market Samurai is great for what it does, but isn’t perfect. There are a few places where I do see room for improvement:

• It could be quicker. When doing an initial search for a keyword, it can take as much as 30 seconds to a minute to give you results, depending on your connection speed. It can then take another minute or so to give you all of the competition information. All in all, that’s not a ton of time, but I tend to grow a little impatient while the process is happening and I’m just staring at my screen for a minute. However, if you consider the alternative – doing it by hand at multiple different sites – it still saves a ton of time.
• Project Management could be streamlined better. When using Market Samurai, you set up individual projects. Within these individual projects, you can set up research for a number of keywords, which are displayed at the top of the screen. However, if your project gets big (which mine tend to do), it can be a little confusing when you run out of space at the top.

Summary

If you are into keyword research, I think that href="http://www.thefreebieguy.net/ejmarketsamurai" target="_blank">Market Samurai is a must have. I’ve checked out a number of Keyword research tools in the past and this is by far the most comprehensive.

If you are not into keyword research, but do see the value of high search engine rankings, this is a great way to do in depth research without having to spend a bunch of time doing it.

Do you NEED to have Market Samurai in order to do effective Keyword research? No, not really. You can go to the href="https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__u=1000000000&__c=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS#search.none">Google Keyword Tool and start your keyword research and get a bunch of keyword suggestions. Then you can take each term and put them individually into Google search between quotes to get an idea of how much competition there is. Then you can go into href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/">Yahoo Site Explorer and analyse the top 10 sites individually and check out the backlinks, and go to a ton of other places to get a full picture of your market, and spend a few hours doing all of this.

Alternatively, you can use one of the other great market analysis tools out there and spend hundreds of dollars on a monthly basis (Yeah, I’ve checked).

Or you can take the easy way out, get yourself a copy of href="http://www.thefreebieguy.net/ejmarketsamurai" target="_blank">Market Samurai, spend a few minutes doing some comprehensive analysis and be on your way to dominating your market one keyword at a time.

Here’s a video from the guys who created Market Samurai to explain more about the software –

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How to Save 35% on Market Samurai

Market Samurai has a one time price tag of $ 147, which in my opinion is a great price, especially considering the value. However, you can download it and use the fully functional version free of charge for 12 days. When you download it, you will have the option to purchase it for $ 97, which is 35% off the full cost, if you take advantage of the offer within 6 days.

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Have fun discovering the fun of keyword research and competitor website analysis!

Leslie – The Freebie Guy