Understanding Buying Keywords with Market Samurai
Sorry I am doing a lot of talking about software - and mostly they don’t even have affiliate programs - aren’t I a bad Internet marketer! At the end of the day though you need to the right tools to earn .
Choices - there are just too many in IM!
I don’t know about you but my biggest technical challenge with Internet marketing, aside from the whole “I’m a marketer” mind shift was figuring it out what a profitable keyword is. I’d say its still my major issue!
Its confusing - I start with a good idea - I create 1000’s of associated keywords with Keyword Elite and then try to figure out whether I can take on the competition in SEO Elite. Although these tools are incredibly powerful they also have a couple of disadvantages:
They are slow - and quiet often my IP gets banned from Yahoo or Google for a while - so I have to stop and start again the next day; There is no obvious workflow - step-by-step procedure if you like. The software’s videos are useless and the best I’ve seen on how to actually use it areMarket Samurai has been around since last August () and is still in Beta - not all the modules are available yet - but what is I am liking a lot! What do I like about Market Samurai
A built in WorkFlow for Identifying Profitable Keywords
The way I am using Market Samurai at the moment is:
Keyword analysis: you seed a phrase and it generate options Filter out the obviously unsuitable phrases and the ones that get not traffic and export the rest to a spreadsheet Analysis each remaining phrase to see what the competition is. Categorise my spreadsheet with the high priority (low competition, high profitability) and the medium (medium competition, higher profitability)Pretty much I am using the approach described in the videos below by Market Samurai’s creators. I’ve linked the introduction video plus the three detailed follow ups. They are quite long and detailed but I found them clear. You may want to take notes to get your head around it. They also mention the free tools you can use to do a similar, but far more labour-intensive analysis, so its useful to see these even if you can’t afford the software.
The First Golden Rule: Target Keywords With Traffic
The Second Golden Rule: Target Profitable Keywords
The Third Golden Rule: Target Keywords With Low Competition
I am finding this a really useful approach - and in fact I’m going back through my existing sites and realising that I had made two key mistakes:
Chosen keywords with no traffic Chosen keywords with no buying traffic.Like DUH! For example I OWN the search term ““ - I dominate the e-book scammers, for which I am very happy! However I now know they weren’t making any money - because #1 position gets about 1 searcher a day!
Pricing and Free Use Period
You can try it risk free - by downloading the (the module that’s aren’t available aren’t available in the paid version either) you have 40 days to decide whether to pay for it. N.B. the site says 12 day trial - but have a 40 day count down - so beware that you may only have 12 days to make a decision - can someone leave a comment if that happens to them.
The price is $147 which will no doubt go up in the future - to a subscription model I suspect. If you like it make sure you buy it at the current price before the rest of the modules were released Regretably there is no affiliate program yet!
I’d love to hear your comments pro/con this software or anything else that makes it easy to find that elusive buying keyword!
Hi Lis,
Re: the 40/12 day trial - the 30 Day Challenge offers a 40-day trial if you sign up via their special link (they’ve given us a lot of support - and we’re helping their participants out with an extended trial to say thank-you )
The 12 day trial is the normal trial period.
I hope this helps you out.
Brent