Si vostè ha tractat de posar en marxa i utilitzar Samurai del mercat en els últims dies t'hauràs adonat que hi ha grans àrees de funcionalitat que es trenquen.
Què va passar?
Com vostè sap, el mercat Samurai treu dades de dotzenes de diferents proveïdors de dades de cerca perquè tingui totes les dades que necessita en un sol lloc per prendre les decisions més informades sobre les seves oportunitats de màrqueting en línia.
Per obtenir aquestes dades sovint necessitem per dur a terme un gran nombre de consultes i recerques a través de serveis gratuïts com Google, Yahoo! o Bing en nom dels nostres usuaris.
Per exemple, el seguiment de la classificació, fins i tot per les paraules clau que pot requerir milers de recerques. Mitjançant la realització d'aquestes consultes en nom seu, utilitzant els nostres servidors, li estalviem hores, dies o, de vegades fins i tot setmanes de temps en comparació amb la realització d'aquestes consultes amb la mà.
Fa uns dies, Google va fer alguns canvis tècnics importants als seus serveis que fan que sigui impossible de realitzar de manera fiable grans volums de consultes gratis.
Com gran part de Market Samurai actualment utilitzen el servei de Google, això s'ha trencat temporalment un rang de funcionalitat en el mercat Samurai (i productes relacionats, inclosos els mòduls de Samurai domini i l'article Samurai - encara que la funcionalitat de distribució central en l'article Samurai no es veu afectada).
També val la pena assenyalar que un altre programari més SEO s'ha vist afectada d'alguna manera per aquests canvis Edit:. Ens havien rebut informes que altre software s'hi haja affected.We han descobert que es tracta de paquets de SEO incorrectes i altres no estan sent afectats per aquest canvi .
Què estem fent al respecte? ...
Estem treballant sense descans dia i nit per restaurar la gran majoria d'aquesta funcionalitat, i estimem que la major part de la sol · licitud serà funcional en els propers dies.
Com que hi ha una gran quantitat de funcionalitats que actualment construeix sobre els serveis de Google com, estem donant prioritat als mòduls d'alt ús, com ara recerca de paraules clau i la competència SEO i, a continuació, passar als altres mòduls.
El que utilitzarem en lloc de Google?
És important assenyalar que moltes de les dades que subministrem al mercat Samurai podria haver estat fàcilment proporcionada per altres motors de cerca. (Articles localització ex. Sobre "entrenament caní" al nostre Trobar mòdul de contingut).
En aquests casos senzills anem a simplement reemplaçar Google amb Bing.
Com vostès saben, Bing ha fet grans millores en els últims anys i hi ha molts que estan dient que l'algorisme de Bing produeix resultats més rellevants que Google per moltes paraules clau.
Com un venedor del SEO, és important entendre que l'índex de Bing s'acosta ràpidament la mida de Google, i com també el poder Yahoo!, han crescut ràpidament per capturar més del 30% de les consultes de cerca als EUA.
Però per què és això important?
El major ús de Bing com a motor de cerca és important perquè les mètriques de competència, com ara SEOC ("Competència SEO") i SEOTC ("SEO Títol Competència"), mesuren l'escassetat de paraules clau a Internet. La idea darrere de l'escassetat de paraules clau és que les paraules clau que tenen un alt escassetat és probable que siguin més paraules clau útils per a la seva campanya de màrqueting. Un bon candidat per a una anàlisi més detallada de la competència, a través del nostre mòdul de matriu de competència SEO, podria ser una paraula clau, on no hi ha moltes pàgines a Internet que contenen la paraula clau en el títol o el cos d'una pàgina - és a dir, la paraula clau de la mínima SEOC / SEOTC valor.
Aquests números d'alt nivell de competència "escassetat" també poden provenir d'un altre motor de cerca, sempre que l'índex és d'una mida comparatiu de Google. Creiem que aquest és el cas de Bing.
on a scarcity metric such as SEOC or SEOTC will provide poor results. És important tenir en compte que la presa d'una decisió paraula clau basada únicament en una escassetat mètrica com SEOC o SEOTC proporcionarà resultats pobres. No és un substitut per fer una anàlisi detallada mitjançant l'ús de la matriu de la Competència SEO i anàlisi de vincle de retrocés.
Els indicadors d'escassetat ens ajuden a filtrar ràpidament les paraules clau que són molt propensos a ser molt difícil de classificar per (a causa que tenen una gran quantitat de contingut rellevant per aquí que competeixen per rànquing). tell you that a keyword will be easy to rank for. Ells no et diuen que la paraula clau sigui fàcil de classificar. (És a dir, utilitzar aquests números per desqualificar paraules difícils)
Fins que es porta a terme aquest canvi, hem desgràcia vam introduir una comprovació manual dels valors SEOC, similar a la dels valors SEOTC / SEOUC. Entenem que això és frustrant i consumeix molt de temps, però era l'única manera de poder mantenir aquesta informació disponible.
Canvis Rank Tracker
El mòdul més afectats per aquests canvis de Google serà el mòdul Rastrejador Rank.
Les males notícies ...
Amb més de 400.000 usuaris, el seguiment de les files de les paraules clau en els seus resultats del favor en literalment milions de Google busca tots els dies. Canvis de Google fan que sigui simplement impossible per a nosaltres seguir fent això en nom seu.
A diferència de Bing i Yahoo!, Google no té una API (comercials o no) que és adequat per a les graduacions de seguiment. Les API que existeix per Google sovint produeixen resultats que són significativament diferents de les classificacions actuals, fent inútils per a fins de SEO.
Hi ha empreses de tercers que tenen APIs precisa per Google, i estem en negociacions per aconseguir l'accés a les dades.
product, for example. L'empresa en particular que estem parlant de proporcionar les dades de classificació de les principals eines de SEO, com l'excel · lent Corb Eines producte, per exemple.
to track 1,000 keywords), and the underlying cost of ranking data is a large part of the reason for this price. No obstant això, aquestes dades són cars (de Tool Corb pla més barat costa 99 dòlars al mes per fer un seguiment de 1.000 paraules), i el cost subjacent de les dades de classificació és una gran part de la raó d'aquest preu.
Hem avaluat moltes opcions i sembla que, a hores d'ara, que l'única manera per a nosaltres oferir funcionalitat Rastrejador Rang Google per als nostres usuaris és comprar aquestes dades.
No obstant això, amb un producte de preu fix i tants usuaris, és simplement una impossibilitat econòmica per proporcionar la mateixa funcionalitat de seguiment de rang de forma permanent. to purchase this data! De fet, ens costaria més de $ 40.000 per dia per adquirir aquesta informació!
Per tant, ens quedem amb la difícil decisió d'haver de passar aquests costos als nostres usuaris d'alguna manera (probablement un servei de pagament mensual).
Si us plau, saber si vostè és un comprador Samurai Mercat existent anem a tractar de mantenir aquest cost el més baix possible. Potencialment tindrem fins i tot tractar d'oferir un nivell de servei gratuït per un petit nombre de paraules clau.
Malauradament, aquest canvi tindrà un temps per posar en pràctica, almenys diverses setmanes. until we can get the new version of Rank Tracker out the door. Així que fins a aquest moment és possible que hagi de comprovar el seu posicionament de forma manual, o potser intentar la prova de 30 dies a Eines corb fins que puguem obtenir la nova versió de Rank Tracker per la porta.
Anem a alliberar una versió actualitzada del mòdul Posició Rastrejador existent dins de poc, que li permetrà comprovar un nombre molt petit de rànquing de paraules clau de Google (fins a 10), mitjançant l'ús de la seva pròpia connexió en lloc dels nostres servidors per realitzar les cerques . Es tracta d'una solució temporal fins que puguem posar una solució més permanent en el lloc.
La Bona Nova ...
No obstant això, la notícia no és del tot dolent. Rank Tracker sempre ha estat un mòdul molt lent d'utilitzar a causa dels números més alts de cerques que requereix.
El nou mòdul Tränker Posició basada en l'API de pagament ens permetrà comprovar el seu posicionament en el fons dels nostres servidors de cada setmana, de manera que en obrir el mercat Samurai, immediatament serà capaç de veure el seu rànquing informe-en lloc d'esperar a l'alça de 10 a 30 minuts per comprovar totes les seues classificacions de paraules clau.
Què fer després
Sabem les conseqüències d'aquests canvis recents de Google són molt decebedor i causarà una mica de ràbia entre els nostres usuaris.
Som conscients, i mentre nosaltres aquests canvis estan fora del nostre control, vull demanar disculpes en nom de tot l'equip Samurai Noble. Estem molt agraïts pel suport dels nostres clients a través dels anys - que ets la raó per la qual podem fer el que fem! Apreciem profundament la seva paciència durant aquest temps difícil.
La nostra estimació actual és que tindrem la gran majoria de la funcionalitat de Mercat Samurai a treballar de nou en els pròxims dies. El mòdul revisat Rastrejador Rang ens pot portar diverses setmanes per aplicar plenament, tot i que encara pot comprovar un petit nombre de paraules clau de forma manual al Rank Tracker, així com la comprovació de Bing i Yahoo! com a normal.
Tingueu per segur que com un petit equip de desenvolupament de programari, entenem que el lliurament de gran valor és el que ens manté vius i del que s'ha construït aquest negoci en primer lloc. Quan la pols s'ha assentat, estem decidits a fer el que sigui necessari per garantir la inversió que va fer al propi mercat Samurai és la millor inversió de màrqueting a Internet que ha realitzat.
No obstant això, si en algun moment vostè no creu que el mercat Samurai és digne de la inversió inicial, si us plau poseu-vos en contacte amb el nostre servei d'assistència per a un parcial o reemborsament complet, només tingues en compte que el nostre servei d'assistència té un alt volum d'entrades en aquests moments, pel que pot prendre una mica més de l'habitual per arribar a les seves peticions.
Una vegada més, ho sento molt per les molèsties que això ha causat als nostres clients.
Estem treballant dia i nit per arreglar això.
Si us plau, deixeu alguna pregunta, dubte o estímul (podríem utilitzar una mica ara mateix!) En els comentaris.
Atentament,
Eugene Ware
CEO
Noble Samurai


















































David digué:
A mi em sembla Noble Samurai ha assumit un model de negoci diferent i ara està cobrant per tot. El servei va ser d'escombraries quan l'article Samurai va sortir. Ara, per a un servei que paguem, anem a demanar de pagar per això una altra vegada (en una quota mensual estic segur) o perdre la funcionalitat.
Oloro una demanda ...
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 16:23
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola David, gràcies per compartir la seva frustració.
Durant 4 anys hem treballat molt dur per mantenir el punt de Market Samurai baixa i un preu fix de preu. Per desgràcia, el dia dels serveis de cerca "lliure" en les dades està arribant a la seva fi.
Yahoo, per exemple, acaba de tancar la seva excel · lent eina Site Explorer, que solia ser el millor lloc per recuperar dades d'enllaç. En aquesta situació es va trobar la millor font d'enllaços d'entrada és possible a la web (Majestic SEO). El que no hem dit a ningú és que estem pagant gairebé $ 10.000 per mes per a l'accés a aquestes dades, i no hem passat d'un cèntim d'això als nostres usuaris - ens vam aturar en la nostra cintura i portava el cost.
Seguim sent una empresa molt petita - i els nostres recursos en els últims anys hem estat doble - Mantenir Samurai Mercat de treball de cara als canvis gairebé cada dia, i l'alliberament d'article Samurai perquè els nostres usuaris tenen una manera de construir de nou els enllaços i tenen una oportunitat per augmentar la competència de motors de cerca, així com proporcionar algun espai per al cap financera per contractar més persones a seguir millorant el mercat Samurai i pagar per l'augment de les fonts de dades.
És totalment una merda que es veu des de l'exterior que seguim canviant les regles, i estan demanant que pagui per les coses que abans eren gratis. Però és perquè aquestes fonts de dades que abans eren gratis per a nosaltres també! Ningú està més frustrat que estem, t'ho garanteixo.
Un cop més, no dubti en demanar un reemborsament complet (es pot mantenir l'accés al mercat Samurai després de la seva devolució) si us plau, i no dubteu a mirar al voltant de la plaça del mercat d'un producte alternatiu. He estat en contacte amb molts dels millors eines de SEO en els últims dies, i molts d'ells s'enfronten a aquest mateix problema.
Ho sento de veritat que hem perdut la confiança en aquesta. El pagament de $ 40.000 per dia per les dades, però, simplement ens fallida - que no és bo per al personal treballador que es guanyen la vida servint als nostres clients o els nostres clients, ja sigui - que hauria de perdre l'accés a una gran eina.
Gràcies pels seus comentaris - espero que amb el temps puguem guanyar de nou la seva confiança i respecte.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 16:39
Charles respondre:
Puc entendre els sentiments de Dave, però aquest post d'Eugene és un exemple perfecte de per què no em vaig MS. És clar, les dades de vincle de retrocés no és tan bona com ho va ser - però no és culpa seva.
Jo vaig pagar 97 $ per aquest fa dos anys, i encara el fa servir regularment. Jo puc fer una anàlisi de paraules clau per a un client i cobrar $ 300 a construir una campanya bàsica d'AdWords. Els meus secrets: Market Samurai i Excel.
Si no ha rebut el nou valor (deu) d'aquest programari, suposo que no ha fet servir correctament.
Eugene, i la resta a MS - gràcies pels seus continus "millores". A vegades, són un pas cap enrere, però com s'ha detallat, mai és culpa seva, i que està fent el millor que pugui.
- Charles M.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 17:56
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Carles,
Gràcies per l'alè. Estic molt content que ha rebut una gran quantitat de valor de l'eina.
Crec que la trista veritat que tots els productes de màrqueting en línia si es tracta de programari o un curs, és que només un petit nombre realment posar les coses en la pràctica de recollir els fruits.
M'alegro que vostè té!
Dos passos endavant, un pas enrere!
Ens anem acostant. Investigació de la paraula està de tornada i funcionant ara, i hem restaurat algunes funcions rang limitat Rank Tracker (capacitat de rastrejar files per a un petit nombre de paraules clau). Centímetre a centímetre ...
Gràcies de nou!
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 18:59
Dawn M. respondre:
Eugene,
M'agradaria fer-me ressò de les declaracions de Carles ... Jo vaig pagar 97 $ per al mercat Samurai fa 2 anys, i gràcies al programari i la capacitació increïble que proporcioneu he estat capaç de crear un nombre de negocis en línia rendible. L'eina s'ha pagat per si mateix milers de vegades.
Està clar que les coses estan canviant, i és frustrant per a tots. Però el valor que vostè i el seu equip ens ha proporcionat en els últims anys és més que una prova substancial del seu compromís amb l'excel · lència, tant en el seu producte i el seu servei.
Per a qualsevol que estigui pensant un reemborsament - aquests nois són els millors del planeta en el que fan. Si algú va a resoldre això, que serà l'equip en el mercat Samurai.
Gràcies per tot el que Eugene i equip, i bona sort amb els canvis.
Dawn M.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 18:01
Gittens marquès respondre:
Sóc jo, o és just assumir que Google està tractant de destruir les empreses de venda a Internet?
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 03:17
Steve Walters respondre:
Hola Eugene,
Impressionat!
Sempre m'han dit que des dels dies de l'escola i ara en el negoci de l'exigent que sóc, amb amics, productes, servei al client, etc - em vaig quedar molt impressionat amb aquest article i encara més la seva resposta a Dave que en realitat m'he estalviat a carpeta del meu PC de 'plantilles de treball ", i si alguna vegada necessito un exemple de com manejar les queixes dels clients re" servei decepció / canvi "..
Estic a favor de vostès. He quedat impressionat (no és fàcil) amb el seu producte, la seva visió de la Web Màrqueting, els seus tutorials, el vídeo està en la teoria del web, etc
Segueixin amb la bona feina!
PREGUNTA ...
PS. Vull aprofitar aquesta oportunitat per preguntar:
Com es pot investigar el rendiment de paraules clau de la pàgina web d'un client sense haver d'especificar les paraules clau?
Fa anys em vaig trobar amb cap programa que em / ID 's quines paraules clau del meu lloc web classificat per a la mostra.
Steve Walters.
Small Business Helper Limited, South Wales, Regne Unit.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 18:44
Greg va respondre:
Eugene
Vostè i el seu equip estan en els meus pensaments i oracions. Gràcies per tot el que has fet pels venedors de missatgeria instantània. Sona com MS ha estat una font important d'èxit per a molts.
Desafortunadament sóc tant un principiant, jo no sé ni la profunditat de mercat Samurai. Per tant m'agradaria animar a seguir buscant a un nivell base de cap sistema de pagament fins que alguns són capaços d'anar a un sistema de quotes. Això li donarà algunes opcions com vostè ha dit a continuació ......
"Per favor, saber si vostè és un comprador Samurai Mercat existent anem a tractar de mantenir aquest cost el més baix possible. Potencialment tindrem fins i tot tractar d'oferir un nivell de servei gratuït per un petit nombre de paraules clau ".
El 31 de gener de 2012 a les 17:14
Kevin M respondre:
Explicació era reconfortant i perspicaç. Com més informat que tinc la menor assumint que vaig fer i he adonat de la situació real.
Vostès estan en el negoci - no de caritat - i vostè ha proporcionat un munt de valor a un preu que si algú ha invertit en el programari dins dels últims dos anys (no tractar de ser el Dr Phil aquí), però també m'adono que alguns persones han invertit en el programari i quan les coses canvien, es va perdre en el que trobar altres recursos o què fer per dur a terme manualment totes les tasques MS normalment fer.
Fins i tot si no ens prenem uns dies (boooooo). Potser fins que la pols es pot armar una mica de recursos llista d'on anar i fer les coses que MS perd funcionalitat intel · ligent - de forma manual, i ens segueixi MS de les característiques que van ser afectats / o resoltes.
El 31 de gener de 2012 a les 20:40
Petrisor respondre:
-Viu involucrat modificació permanent. Res dura per sempre, però DÉU.
-NS és un dels millors i és una molt eina indispensable de qualsevol manera.
-El preu inicial (si és que no es presta a últims 2 mesos), no cal un reemborsament, però un GRÀCIES.
-El NS fallida va a produir més danys i costos més alts en aquest camp.
-Aquests problemes van ser clares des de l'any passat quan la font principal de Google i altres s'anunciarà tancament de portes al gener.
-Com de costum, NS, així ha de ser el seu ús en conjunció amb altres eines (que són algunes de les eines que no estan afectades-no em ADV), pel que és només per canviar una mica el reflex de confiar només a NS per aquest.
-Bé pertinent, decent, realista, sentit comú resposta Eugene!
Si us plau, vostè i NS roman amb nosaltres en la comercialització del lloc, no permeten obtenir la fallida!
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 17:16
Anthony respondre:
Crec que Eugene va fer un excel · lent treball d'explicar aquesta situació. Crec que qualsevol que es prengui el temps per entendre el que està dient s'adonarà que estan fent el millor que poden amb un circumstace molt difícil.
Després de tot, ells no causen aquest problema. Només es deixen de tractar amb ell, igual que tots. Per a qualsevol persona que demanar un reemborsament per aquesta qüestió només seria una mica egoista i serveixen per perjudicar l'empresa pitjor.
Bona sort a vostès que tracten de resoldre aquest problema. Esteu esbrinar ... tinc fe en tu.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 20:36
Siguin respondre:
Dave - fer arribar un home la vida. Judici! Què estàs fumant?
MS és molt més barat que qualsevol altra opció.
Segueix sent una eina molt valuosa i el faig servir cada dia.
Rank Tracker és una eina important que em falta molt, però, només la recerca de paraules clau només fa ms d'una gran compra.
Mostrar els nois una mica de suport i que no és feliç que han ofert un reemborsament. Presa, i veure si pot trobar qualsevol cosa que fa la feina la meitat de la feina per molt més diners.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 21:49
Steve va respondre:
Hola Eugene,
Estic amb Sean en aquest ... algunes persones només volen veure cremar el món. Ells semblen haver nascut amb la idea que ja que estan vius el món els deu alguna cosa.
Només volia dir un gran agraïment a vostè i al seu equip per un producte sorprenent en els últims anys. Ha estat tan bona que mai he sentit la necessitat de buscar un altre lloc per a res més. Encara MS cessés (encara que espero que això és l'últim que passarà) els diners que vaig invertir en el començament quedaria amb vostès perquè vostès lliuren.
Bona sort en les properes setmanes. Estic desitjant veure el que et va passar!
Steve
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 19:05
Greg va respondre:
Estic d'acord Steve, espero i confiança MS no faltaran. Òbviament tenen un gran equip de treball sobre les opcions. He vist un parell d'excel · lents suggeriments ja (és a dir, de Tim i Marshall). Estic sorprès en la profunditat dels coneixements de les idees base de clients de MS i si xateges experts en programari continuarà oferint opcions viables, que només podia ajudar l'equip Samurai Noble.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 01:14
Comercialització Spirited respondre:
Estic d'acord,
Mai em vaig adonar que era addicte a Rank Tracker fins que no vaig poder fer-lo servir LOL.
El més frustrant de tot tipus de negocis l'ús de "Internet" són els canvis constants.
L'únic que podem fer és tot el possible per executar els canvis. Admiro i aplaudeixo als que estan a l'avantguarda i ens proporciona excel lents eines per ajudar als nostres clients, i executar les nostres empreses.
I anem ... vaig rebre 97 $ del valor de la primera setmana vaig fer servir Samurai Mercat ....
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 23:45
Stany respondre:
Sóc un client feliç i entenc l'Internet està en constant evolució. Tinc la sort de tenir l'equip de Noble Samurai del meu costat, treballant dur per continuar amb ella.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 00:06
Marc respondre:
Hey Market Samurai, ja sé que no es pot vendre alguna cosa un cop i de serveis gratuïts per sempre! La matemàtica no és només allà!
Déjame a terra com un Opt-Out en tots els judicis d'acció de classe! No crec que d'aquesta manera i no faig negocis amb aquells que ho fan.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 02:03
Marshall va respondre:
29/01/12
El que faig olor és estupidesa i ungratitude en peu en el comentari inicial. L'equip Samuari Noble ha respost als canvis idiotes Google fa pocs dies en gairebé tots els canvis anteriors. Ells han mantingut el seu programari més al dia que qualsevol altre que tinc. I tinc més de 300 programes de programari. Com a desenvolupador de programari a temps parcial, els puc assegurar que el manteniment del programari d'aquest tipus no és fàcil.
També pot trobar que vostè haurà de pagar Google acaba d'usar el seu motor de cerca en un futur pròxim.
Així que si ets tan infeliç, obtenir un reemborsament i se'n van. La majoria de nosaltres no necessita escoltar la seva queixa infantil.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 03:41
Keith va contestar:
He utilitzat una llarga llista de serveis en els últims anys i no es compara amb l'equip de Nobel Samurai! Això va per les seves eines i el seu suport. He estat amb vosaltres, amics gairebé des del principi i he aconseguit els meus diners de tant samurai mercat una vegada i una altra.
Només m'agradaria dir que si algú vol els seus diners de tornada no han de ser capaços d'utilitzar l'eina per més temps! No només se li va anar a nosaltres que segueixen dempeus darrere Nobel Samurai, però, ¿per què aquest pes mort arrossegant cap avall els serveis?
Per la meva banda, vaig enlloc, no tinc confiança en l'equip Nobel Samurai, confio en el que estan fent i sé que van a mantenir els costos en línia de la millor manera possible. Com algú va dir: "intentar sortir i trobar una eina diferent."
Joc de la llei??? Bona sort noi, si aquesta és la forma en què vol passar el seu temps i diners, que simplement deixa una major obertura en el mercat per a la resta de nosaltres.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 04:02
rick dawson respondre:
Edit: Moderat per Miriam per eliminar contingut inadequat
No envejo el lloc que estàs però estàs manejant molt bé i estic segur que això va a estar a l'espill retrovisor aviat.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 08:13
Mike FD @ millor aptitud líptica respondre:
Desperta i olora el nen de les roses de Dave, el treball en l'ampliació d'aquest punt de vista dels seus i se li multa.
MS ha de reaccionar als canvis significatius - I belive el que diuen. En el passat m'han donat cap raó per pensar el contrari, són un equip honest per amor de Déu, o de Dave i Mike ...........
Ei, com tots sabem de Forest Gump - la merda passa!!
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 21:37
Nic Oliver va respondre:
Micro
Perhpas David també es pot anar de la vella escola i l'ús de Google Analytics - després s'ho agrairia quant temps és salvat per MS!
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 08:24
Tim respondre:
David - Amb el degut respecte, el mercat Samurai va ser sempre molt barat al meu entendre ... Per el que hi ha al mercat Samurai per menys de $ 150 un cop fora el pagament és ridícul. Esperava de pagar una quota mensual, però em va sorprendre gratament a la Market Samurai preu un cop apagat. Si no està satisfet, fer una ullada als seus competidors. Samurai del mercat són més barats, i fer un millor treball.
Ho he utilitzat durant diversos anys (per a les organitzacions multi-milions de dòlars) i per ser honest, si vostè està volant al voltant de $ 150 ($ 97 en el meu cas) que de debò ha de repensar el seu negoci ... o almenys aconseguir alguna cosa més capital darrere de vostè. 97 $ - $ 150 era un bon preu, però si hem de pagar una quota mensual, llavors que així sigui. -Segueix sent una bona relació.
Puc apreciar les seves preocupacions, ja que és una merda, estic content també ... però si ets infeliç, rebre el seu reemborsament. Amenaçar a una demanda de més de $ 97 o $ 150, no és ni tan sols val la pena el seu temps.
Quant a mi - em quedaré amb ells perquè s'han lliurat sempre el que va dir que faria i que sempre ha estat un gran preu. Només espero que (els nois de Noble Samurai) pot mantenir els costos baixos. (Com un suggeriment amistosa de Noble Samurai, és possible que vulgueu augmentar els seus productes de serveis de fons perquè pugui tractar l'esclerosi múltiple com una "entrada" producte-possiblement fins i tot un "líder pèrdua". D'aquesta manera, és possible perdre diners en els costos de les dades per avançat, però que sigui de tornada a 'back-end' de vendes, òbviament això és un enfocament més llarg, però li permetria mantenir com a líder del mercat.)
Bona sort amb els nous canvis,
Salutacions.
El 31 de gener de 2012 a les 02:49
Dave The individu Màrqueting Social respondre:
Vostès fan un gran treball, aquesta eina val molt més del que ningú paga per això, agraïm la seva honestedat i ser per avançat sobre la realitat de treballar en un entorn en constant canvi.
Llàstima que la seva primera resposta va ser tal rondinaire, no crec que obtindrà aquest tipus de resposta per part dels professionals de la indústria.
El 31 de gener de 2012 a les 06:26
Kim Celinder respondre:
Com'on David, t'ofereixen un reemborsament i encara li parlis així.
@ Samurai Team,
És trist escoltar, però jo sé que vostè faci tot el possible, no espero que els sub a MS serà car, o potser pugui fer plans per als diferents nivells de les cerques.
El 31 de gener de 2012 a les 06:30
Steve va respondre:
Em pregunto si Dave ha pres un moment per adonar-se del absolutament absurd seu comentari ha estat. Esperem.
Permeteu-me afegir el meu nom a la llista per ser no només en el suport total de l'equip MS, però també com algú que ha rebut literalment milers de vegades que el 97 dòlars que vaig pagar per MS en valor.
Els canvis constants i suport increïble proporcionades per l'equip de MS és ridículament bo. Ho dic seriosament ... he tingut EM durant un parell d'anys ... tot el treball i canvis que han fet en aquest temps en zero cost addicional és increïble.
Oblida't dels enemics i mantenir la bona feina nois!
L'1 de febrer de 2012 a les 03:22
Sr No proporcionat respondre:
re> fa olor una demanda
Obtenir real. Els temps canvien.
tornar> destruir empreses de venda d'Internet ...
No, l'únic que volen totes les dades per ells mateixos.
L'1 de febrer de 2012 a les 09:08
SEO orgànic Expert respondre:
Sincerament he estat utilitzant Market Samurai durant els últims 4 anys i ha fet una gran diferència en els meus propis rànquings i com el meu equip de vendes ven les nostres campanyes. Això sempre ha estat una gran eina per a mi i per als meus clients i jo recomanaria a tots els que conec en el negoci de SEO. Un petit problema com aquest es corregirà i estic segur que l'empresa va a fer el correcte.
Kurt va dir:
Li dono les gràcies per ser sincer honest amb els seus membres, especialment aquells que han donat suport al mercat Samurai durant tot aquest temps. Si bé entenc a què atenir a partir, també m'agradaria prendre el temps per avaluar les meves opcions si el mercat Samurai (o parts d'ella seran pagats), ja que hem de revisar les implicacions d'això en les nostres operacions i el nostre model de negoci . Espero que encara pot mantenir avingudes com reemborsament obert, sobretot si alguns membres consideren que la nova estratègia de preus cost massa car per a les seves operacions.
Gràcies i espero que puguin resoldre això
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 15:38
Eugene Ware respondre:
Kurt Hola, gràcies pel seu suport i paraules amables.
Pel que fa al reemborsament, la nostra política sempre ha estat tractar a les persones la manera com ens agradaria ser tractats, i per a nosaltres això significa devolució a tots de tornada a les primeres persones que ens van ajudar a llançar el negoci a l'agost de 2008.
I per cert, proporcionant un reemborsament no vol dir que desactivem el seu compte de Market Samurai tampoc. Sou lliure de seguir utilitzant la nostra eina de forma gratuïta, mentre tant, també.
Hem estat parlant dels millors persones al món, particularment en l'àrea de control rang, i moltes eines SEO estem en el mateix vaixell, o serà, si augmenta la seva base de clients.
Nosaltres sempre intentem fer el correcte pels nostres clients, i prendre decisions que siguin a llarg termini. Quan ens vam mudar a Majestic SEO que hem de pagar més de $ 8,000 al mes per proporcionar una còpia de les dades d'enllaç, i no hem passat res d'això en el client. Ens encantaria fer això per Tracking Rank, però per $ 40k per dia, no és només possible.
Tenim un equip increïble aquí, però, i ho resolem que podem apostar que els clients actuals rebran el millor tracte possible, i posarem les dades a preu de cost.
Gràcies de nou pel teu suport!
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 15:58
Chrystal va respondre:
He comprat MS fa menys d'un mes, potser només unes poques setmanes. La major part de la raó per la qual vaig comprar va ser per al mòdul de seguiment de rang. Els altres mòduls són útils, però no tan important com jo no els necessito tant com el mòdul de seguiment de rang. Creus que vostès poden considerar un reemborsament per la meva compra?
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 19:18
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Chrystal,
Gràcies per la teva pregunta.
Ho sento de veritat que la principal funció que ha adquirit el nostre producte no està treballant per a vostè en aquest moment. Tenim un límit, sense preguntes política de reemborsament. Si us plau, feu clic al botó "Ask Us" a l'esquerra d'aquesta pàgina, i envieu el reemborsament sol · licitin les dades de compra i la seva adreça de correu electrònic de PayPal i el nostre equip de suport serà capaç d'ajudar.
Ho sento, no funciona per a vostè.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 02:06
Marshall va respondre:
Eugene, Potser la creació d'un parell de granges de servidors més petits en diferents blocs IP per consultar Google en blocs més petits pot ajudar els seus problemes.
michael diu:
gràcies per l'actualització.
Estima el difícil que ha de ser per a tu.
Esperem més actualitzacions que vénen a mà.
Greg Morrison va dir:
Maledicció que fa pudor - Tinc com 2.000 paraules clau que actualment estic seguint ... im esperant que el nou sistema ens permetrà mantenir les nostres campanyes actuals en el seu lloc? M'he passat el temps sense fi campanyes d'organització en el treball i "venut" seccions - 50 projectes diferents amb milers de paraules clau ... quin desastre!
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 16:13
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Greg,
T'escolto, no perdre de vista un munt de diferents campanyes és un dolor al cul en el moment de les campanyes de grans o múltiples.
La propera versió probablement serà similar a la versió actual només per obtenir alguna cosa per aquí que està treballant. En versions posteriors però sens dubte ens sumem la possibilitat de tenir diferents campanyes, i fins i tot t'enviarem correus electrònics setmanals per fer-te saber el que ha estat passant pel que no tenen ni tan sols per obrir la nostra eina! Però aquesta versió és realista diversos mesos.
Gràcies per la idea, però, mantenir 'em coming!
Mark va dir:
Gràcies per l'actualització vostè. Vostès són increïbles - pel que li dono les gràcies per tot el que fas per aconseguir SEOC torni a funcionar.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 15:24
Eugene Ware respondre:
Gràcies Mark pel seu suport.
Ens empenyem a terme una actualització que ha permès SEOC que ara treballa per al mòdul de recerca de paraules clau. Ara ens estem concentrant en el mòdul de la Competència SEO per aconseguir que el treball del 100%.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 16:10
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Marc, gràcies pels ànims.
SEOC ara hauria d'estar en funcionament si s'actualitza a l'última versió que acaba d'empènyer cap a fora. Deixa saber com va.
Estem dirigint la nostra atenció en el mòdul de la Competència SEO.
Esperar un munt d'actualitzacions de programari en els pròxims dies i setmanes!
Gràcies de nou.
Ben E va dir:
Vostès han proporcionat un gran producte a un preu baix, d'una sola vegada. Aquesta vegada havia de venir.
Potser ha arribat el moment de començar a cobrar una quota mensual per certes característiques "pro". Fins i tot $ 5 per mes de recórrer un llarg camí per sufragar les seves despeses corrents.
OMI, dels serveis basats en el núvol, MS té diversos punts únics de fallada. Potser la funcionalitat es fa actualment en el núvol ha de ser empès cap a fora per a l'usuari.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 16:07
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Ben, moltes gràcies pel seu suport.
Hem tingut moltes persones que sostenen violència que hem hem cobrar una taxa constant de Market Samurai. Ens costa centenars de milers de dòlars cada any per actualitzar i millorar el producte, i no tenir alguna manera de recuperar aquesta despesa no és un model de negoci sòlid a llarg termini. Però hem intentat molt dur per fer que funcioni, i assegureu-vos que el mercat Samurai seria un producte de gran valor per als nostres usuaris, i que quan els productes subsegüents surten, que havien confien en nosaltres prou com per provar-los.
Quant al núvol, Market Samurai es va iniciar a terme utilitzant només l'ordinador de l'usuari. No obstant això, el desavantatge d'això és que fa que moltes consultes de l'ordinador poden causar interrupcions en el servei de Google temporals no només per l'usuari, sinó també a altres persones que estan en la mateixa connexió a Internet (a més de ser extremadament lent). La nostra infraestructura cloud conté molts, molts servidors que proporcionen redundància i major fiabilitat, a més de ser capaç de fer moltes consultes en paral · lel.
L'altra raó per traslladar al núvol és que ens permet treballar en una altra versió de Samurai del mercat (per exemple, les versions mòbils i les versions web). Adobe AIR ens ha servit com a aplicació multi-plataforma, però no manté activament per Adobe, i està començant a mostrar la seva edat. A més, el servei al núvol ens permet fer canvis en els serveis canviants sense haver de desplegar una nova versió del programari d'escriptori.
De moment anem a llançar una versió de Rank Tracker en breu que permetrà a la gent a buscar un petit nombre de paraules clau que utilitzen el seu propi ordinador mentre treballem en la propera versió de Rank Tracker.
Gràcies Ben per la seva regeneració - és obvi que tenen una clara comprensió dels temes, i vostè i altres usuaris conviden a seguir enviant a través d'idees perquè puguem millorar el nostre producte i el treball a través d'aquests temes.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 01:55
Alex @ artiste peintre Domartin respondre:
Lectura que Air d'Adobe s'està posant vell em fa témer una cosa.
Jo entenc que intentar buscar en una altra part per a futures versions dels seus productes, però espero que mai cau Linux i suport Mac OS. És una de les principals raons per les que he comprat MS sobre algun altre eina!
Tom @ SEO Copywriter va dir:
Gràcies per arreu. Ha estat molt frustrant, però no hi ha molt que es pot fer quan Google fa grans canvis com aquest.
Wayne Williams va dir:
Entenc que ets un petit equip de desenvolupament i que ha estat afectat per les decisions que escapen al seu control. Però estic decebut que no eres més conscient del que estava succeint en a Google, ja que planteja la qüestió de què més que no ets conscient.
A més, la seva afirmació que la substitució de Bing per Google no causarà cap tipus de degradació en els resultats no és molt tranquil · litzador. La gran majoria dels clients web de recerca de resultats a través de Google. Ara, estarem basant gran part del nostre SEO basat en dades de quelcom que no és Google. Això és un forat que no es pot connectar amb un parell de vagues promeses.
Encara que sóc relativament nou usuari del seu producte, aplaudeixo el seu disseny i el nivell de pensament que has posat en ell, però si vostè no creu que això és un ull negre per la seva empresa i el seu producte, cal passen menys temps mirant la pantalla de l'ordinador i reunir-se amb la resta de la civilització.
També estic una mica sospito de tu una promoció caducats abans que passi un desastre, ja que, per als quals s'ha registrat, se sent molt semblant a un xoc-i-agafar, fins i tot si aquest no era la seva intenció.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 15:57
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Wayne,
Gràcies per retroalimentació.
Ho sento, és com un nou usuari amb el qual va quedar atrapat en el medi d'això amb la promoció de temps (per descomptat, no era la nostra intenció!). El que molta gent no veu darrere de les escenes és que tenim un equip dedicat constantment la realització d'actualitzacions i fer canvis per mantenir-se al dia amb els canvis freqüents que el món dels motors de cerca ens llança.
Es crea la gran majoria de programari de SEO, dura al voltant de 3 mesos i després deixa de funcionar, perquè els serveis i de dades que estan construïdes sobre el canvi. És més que un treball de temps complet mantenir al cim de la mateixa. És part de per què la gent es queda amb el mercat Samurai perquè seguim per fixar i actualitzar el programari (de fet la majoria de la gent diu que actualitzem el nostre programari massa!)
En gairebé 4 anys de funcionament hem conegut a qualsevol desafiament. No obstant això, aquest ha estat un dels problemes més difícils que hem hagut d'enfrontar.
Els seus comentaris sobre l'ús d'un motor de cerca per mesurar altra són vàlides, i l'estatus quo és, sens dubte menys que ideal. La majoria dels SEO, però, que l'ús de SEOC o fins i tot SEOTC (o fins i tot sense sentit mètriques com ara KEI) com una indicació d'un pur paraules clau competitiva és defectuós.
La veritat és que vostè pot aconseguir un rànquing primera pàgina en un nombre SEOC de milions, i la lluita per arribar a la primera pàgina amb una puntuació de 20 SEOC! Aquests són només eines dures per ajudar a reduir gradualment centenars de paraules clau per a uns pocs que es pot passar el temps i fer més recerca.
El mòdul de Competència SEO seguirà sent a través de Google, i tota la funcionalitat d'anàlisi d'enllaç (com s'extreu de la prima API Majestic SEO) seguirà treballant. Es tracta de les eines que utilitzen els professionals, i que és - i seguirà sent en el futur previsible basat en Google.
Gràcies Wayne per la seva regeneració, i espero que en les properes setmanes i mesos que serem capaços de recuperar la seva confiança, i que la mesura definitiva de l'èxit (és a dir, que identifiqui grans paraules clau i obtenir grans classificacions per a ells - es converteix en l'últim baròmetre de si els canvis que hem vist obligats a fer que treballin per a tu i els nostres usuaris).
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 00:55
Wayne Williams va respondre:
En realitat, Eugene, en la lectura de les seves respostes, és clar per a mi que estàs sent absolutament franc i sincer sobre això, així que prenc els meus comentaris negatius cap enrere. Dóna'm un proveïdor que fa un gran treball (o en aquest cas, fa una gran eina) i la integritat, i això és un proveïdor que em quedo amb una mala ratxa.
Assegureu-vos que tot funciona de nou i, en cas que requereixi algun tipus de quota mensual, que així sigui.
Wayne
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 22:47
3djoe respondre:
Això és exactament com em sento sobre això. Fa poc vaig comprar aquest producte i em sento com si estigués totalment afanyar
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 13:31
Miriam Parkinson respondre:
Ho sento molt per això. No teníem ni idea que això anava a succeir i tan recent com el dissabte al matí vam pensar que tot estava arreglat. Estem encantats d'organitzar un reemborsament si vols. Si ho prefereix, també pot esperar fins que tinguem més informació sobre el que ocorrerà amb Rank Tracker i prendre la seva decisió aleshores.
Miriam
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 01:18
Comercialització Spirited respondre:
Google no fa a ningú conscient dels seus canvis fins que van sorgir en les persones. Així que a menys que MS ha / hi havia una bola de vidre que no tenia forma de saber el que li esperava ....
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 14:19
Wayne Williams va respondre:
Ara que sóc conscient d'altres eines de SEO han experimentat problemes similars, accepto aquest punt.
Bertie va dir:
Crec que vostès estan fent un gran treball i per desgràcia aquestes coses passen.
El meu suggeriment seria la de donar una opció si voleu utilitzar el rastrejador de rang o no, ja que sembla que és on està el problema i el que has de cobrar.
¿La resta de MS estan disponibles per als que ja ha comprat sense haver de pagar la quota mensual?
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 15:42
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Bertie, moltes gràcies per les seves amables paraules.
Sí, el mercat Samurai continuarà sent un preu fix com un producte independent.
Rank Tracker pot haver de ser un servei de complement. En un món ideal, i si els números treballar ens encantaria ser capaç de deixar a tots els nostres clients abonats reben un nivell d'accés gratuït a Rank Tracker (per comprovar un petit nombre de paraules clau, per exemple). Però no em feu això. Estem treballant en la manera de fer que funcioni de manera que tothom guanya.
Però de moment no tenim plans actuals per a tota la funcionalitat no RankTracker a tenir una quota mensual.
Gràcies novament pel seu suport.
L'1 de febrer de 2012 a les 15:51
lei @ seo empresa de serveis de Filipines va respondre:
Sóc un subscriptor de pagament tant de MS i AS a Filipines ... si vostè decideix fer Rank Tracker un servei mensual pagada add-on, espero que encara és una funció d'agregació de serveis com (perquè ja pagar una quota mensual pel servei de la mateixa).
Segueixo donant suport vostès i vaig a tractar de complir amb el seu servei, sempre que estic en condicions de pagar-lo.
David va dir:
Ara bé, aquesta és la forma d'una carta de servei al client ha de ser escrit.
Vostè ha d'enviar una còpia a Netflix. Podrien aprendre alguna cosa de vosaltres.
A Sally (W Footscray) va dir:
Domingo es suposa que és per descansar i no obstant vostès estan treballant més dur del que necessita per a mitjans de setmana! El seu producte és simplement impressionant i em estalvia un munt de temps. Li agraeixo la seva dedicació i desitjo tot el millor.
Elizabeth Todd va dir:
Gràcies per l'actualització.
Cada vegada que ha hagut de fer canvis, ja que Google ha canviat una vegada més una cosa que sempre ha estat capaç de lliurar les mercaderies. Confio que vostè serà capaç de fer el mateix en aquesta ocasió.
He estat amb vosaltres des dels primers dies de mercat Samurai i en aquesta etapa segueix sent la meva eina de cerca favorit. Segueixin amb la bona feina nois i bona sort!
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 16:29
Eugene Ware respondre:
Gràcies Liz per les seves amables paraules de suport i alè.
He tingut la intenció de posar una entrada al bloc parlant de les longituds dels que anem en nom dels nostres usuaris a mantenir Mercat de treball Samurai. Una cosa canvia gairebé cada dia!
Tenim un full de ruta clar per superar aquest repte, i és d'esperar que altres clients a ser tan amable i comprensiu com a tu mateix.
Gràcies de nou.
Andy va dir:
Bé, suposo que com qualsevol altra cosa, totes les coses bones han d'arribar a la seva fi en algun moment en el temps.
En lloc d'oferir un servei de pagament per seguir els nostres rànquings, per què no posar en pràctica l'ús dels nostres propis poders privats i / o programació del nostre rànquing lentament amb el temps, així que tenim l'opció de saltar-se la quota mensual (amb la nostra pròpia connexió a Internet i no en els seus servidors ). Amb totes les quotes mensuals que s'associen amb el programari de màrqueting a Internet, seria bo no afegir un altre més.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 21:51
Ben Stickland respondre:
Hola Andy
Rank Tracker (en la seva forma actual) no li permeten usar ets proxies privats propis (vegeu Preferències | Proxies), que podria ser el que necessita. Però la realitat és la majoria de persones no tenen accés a una xarxa de proxy personal.
Rank Tracker també permet activar proxies fora i utilitza una IP local, però com es va insinuar, que havia necessitat de limitar la velocitat perquè sigui eficaç per a un gran volum de paraules clau.
Cheers,
Ben
El 31 de gener de 2012 a les 02:14
Ryne Landers respondre:
Tirant files de la seva pròpia connexió personal és ridículament lent i sovint resulta en Google captchas i el bloqueig absolut de les seves IPs. Abans de començar a treballar en el meu actual empresa SEO, que estaven usant IBP per al seguiment de rang. El tipus de SEO abans de mi, literalment, deixar que actuï durant el cap de setmana, i va haver de córrer tandes de paraules clau esquena amb esquena en lloc d'executar un conjunt únic d'una vegada.
La companyia encara manté el seguiment de rang mitjançant un script que extreu manualment els rangs de 1-2 paraules clau / domini per uns 10.000 dominis de la seva propietat. Aquest programa s'executa en els nostres servidors i comprova les serps manualment a la pàgina 4. El parell de vegades que accidentalment va córrer en horari d'oficina (en general corre al voltant de les 2:00 am) va causar retard connexió massiva per a tots nosaltres, i molts de nosaltres té múltiples captchas Google.
Quan els vaig presentar a MS, que havia estat utilitzant des que es va llançar, hem estat capaços d'obtenir resultats precisos en qüestió de minuts o una hora pel que havia pres literalment DIES programari IBP i altres.
No hi ha captchas, sense IPs bloquejades, cap problema.
A més d'això, la quota d'una sola vegada ho va fer molt més barat que altres programes, com l'IBP, Raven, SEOmoz, SEO PowerSuite, etc Sembla que aquests dies ha d'acabar, però crec que tots sabíem que els dies d'un temps de cost del producte amb aquest tipus de canvis hauria d'acabar amb el temps.
Robert va dir:
Gràcies molt per mantenir-nos informats.
Nevera dir:
Per què no altres programes, com Rank Tracker de SEO PowerSuite afectats.
Vaig comprar el mercat Samurai únicament per al mòdul Rastrejador Rank. Crec que amb una IP, utilitzant proxies o VPN pot buscar dotzenes de paraules clau abans que IP està bloquejada temporalment. Per què no podem resoldre això a l'introduir les nostres pròpies IPs?
Tom va dir:
Aquest és un gran exemple d'un bon servei al client i respondre ràpidament a una crisi. Amb aquest tipus de compromís evident per als seus clients, estic segur Market Samurai li capejar qualsevol tempesta de Google a mida.
@ Barbaramoss eines per a la cuina , va dir:
Gràcies per aquesta fins a la data. Espero que tot es adequat per a vostè. És aquest un cas de 'gran negoci' (google) cobejar? Prenc nota de que les seves eines de paraules clau van comercial i la versió gratuïta ara s'enumeren com "sense títol".
De totes maneres, tot el millor i molta sort!
Brandon va dir:
Així és la vida en un món en Google. Desafortunadament el motor Bing / Yahoo segueix sent gairebé irrellevant en aquest moment. Espero que puguin trobar una solució adequada ...
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 02:18
Marshall va respondre:
Brandon - no estic tan segur de Bing és tot el irrellevant. Google ha indexat al voltant de 2.000 pàgines en un dels meus llocs que són etiquetes i termes de cerca. Google és Google, és gairebé impossible arribar a corregir-ho. Bing a l'altra banda, té dins de 100 el nombre correcte de pàgines indexades. Així que el motor està funcionant fora de les pistes. En la meva humil opinió és Google de moment. Sobre el moment Google ho fa bé, han d'espatllar per un temps fins que la pols es assenteix. Alegra't de haver no estan en el negoci de programari de SEO. Eugene i l'equip han fet un excel · lent treball de mantenir MS al dia. I he posseït MS des que van començar.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 13:55
Brandon respondre:
No podria estar més d'acord amb el fet que Google està funcionant fora de les pistes. Sabem això, però la gent, i una gran majoria en això, encara el fan servir prop de set vegades més que Bing. Ho sento per la seva situació actual i espero que vostè pot aconseguir les coses van funcionar. En el que va Google Crec que sí ES començarà a guanyar popularitat i això és genial. Lamentablement en aquests moments Google és el que preocupa a la majoria dels cercadors d'Internet. No tinc cap dubte que l'equip va a trobar la solució perfecta.
El 31 de gener de 2012 a les 02:20
Ryne Landers respondre:
És irrellevant que, als EUA, Bing encara només representa al voltant del 16% de quota de mercat. No m'importa com "fora de les pistes" Google és, al final del dia, no és l'equip en el camp de joc, que són el camp de joc, i tothom està jugant amb les seves regles.
Si vostè necessita resultats precisos de SEO, que necessiten ser seu fora del que està indexat i es mostra Google, perquè això és el que el 68% del mercat s'utilitza en els Estats Units. Resultats basats fora de Yahoo o Bing no es puguin aplicar amb precisió a Google. És com dir:
"Bé, aquest motor dièsel Turbo BMW està treballant d'aquesta manera, i és que tens un Volkswagen, que també és un alemany d'automòbils, ha de ser aplicable".
És evident que no confia en l'anàlisi, ja que els mecanismes subjacents són radicalment diferents, que és la mateixa situació entre els motors de cerca.
Comprendre, AMO MS, i això no és una diatriba sobre l'EM. És una resposta a la declaració anterior sobre Bing / Google.
Josh va dir:
Perquè quedi clar, quant ocuparà el cost de seguiment?
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 19:22
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Josh,
Gràcies per la teva pregunta.
Vegeu la meva resposta al comentari d'Eddie com una resposta a això.
Bill va dir:
Gràcies pel missatge, Eugene.
Pregunta - si no comptem amb Rank Tracker massa, seríem capaços d'usar els altres mòduls de forma gratuïta? Jo sóc més d'un usuari ocasional, i m'encantaria seguir utilitzant altres mòduls Market Samurai, però probablement no tornaria a canviar a un servei de tarifa mensual.
Gràcies,
Projecte de llei
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 19:21
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Bill,
Gràcies per la teva pregunta.
Molts dels nostres usuaris cauen en la categoria, i no tenim plans per cobrar regularment per les característiques del perseguidor no-Rank en aquest moment. Ho sento si això no estava clar en el post original. Molta gent no utilitza el servei Rastrejador Rank.
També estarà content de saber que, com a conseqüència d'alguns d'aquests canvis en els mòduls que s'està utilitzant com a paraula clau de Recerca i Competència SEO han de ser molt més ràpid i més fiable.
Zach Kong @ SEO Singapore va dir:
Segurament no és fàcil de complaure a tots. Suposo equip MS ha fet molt per intentar mantenir-se al dia amb el paisatge canviant en línia. Anteriorment era Yahoo tancant la seva Site Explorer i ara està canviant el seu servei de Google.
Encara que jo personalment no és molt feliç per haver de pagar pel servei del mòdul de classificació però, si hi ha una necessitat, al final hem d'acceptar que jo també reconec que no té cap sentit econòmic per a l'equip MS per absorbir el cost .
Així mateix, agraeixo la disposició per reemborsar els clients insatisfets encara que jo no em veig com un d'ells.
Anat @ finals festes va dir:
Benvolgut Eugene
Des del dia que vaig pagar per MS s'ha trencat tantes vegades,
Simplement es va deixar d'utilitzar.
Vaig a deixar-me completament no políticament correcte - O en altres paraules -
Completament honest amb vostè -
Em faria vergonya al correu electrònic aquesta carta si fos tu.
Del jo sentia una obligació moral de tornar els diners a tots els meus usuaris.
Sincerament, em sento completament enganyat i estafat pel mercat Samurai,
que prometia una gran quantitat de coses i ara s'acaba de prendre una mica d'espai
en el meu disc dur (i ha estat fent gairebé des del dia en què es va comprar
ja que sempre es trenca)
El programa només es paga jo ús és Windows (déu segueixi la seva ànima
) Ja que venia amb
l'equip i jo sóc massa mandrós per canviar-lo. Windows i el mercat Samurai.
És que l'última és completament inservible, mentre que el primer és simplement molest ...
Crec en la gent que té un bon cor i bona voluntat, pel que no vaig a mentir i dir que
no tenen expectatives de vostè. Seria meravellós tenir els meus diners i un
"Lamento que no s'hagi pogut gaudir d'Market Samurai - Realment intentem nostre millor esforç".
Però això és, en un món perfecte, no la que in
Em temo que la realitat és que ningú llegeix això fins al final, i si ho fan, són
massa embolicat en el seu nou iPhone per donar un maleït ... Però això està bé, és una part de
els estudis ara no és així?
Gràcies per ensenyar-me que jo mateix, i mai comprar res però el menjar (que viuen
en un eco-comunitat ....) pot caure en el fals encant d'un bon venedor.
Sincerament, creia que aquest conjunt d'eines que vostè diu el mercat Samurai farà realitat
complir amb la promesa que conté.
Així que gràcies per la lliçó.
Atentament (i té el rebut a provar
)
Anat
Neil HIlls va dir:
Hola nois,
M'encanta la manera que vostès són honestos amb nosaltres, i seguiré recolzant el mercat Samurai
Neil
Roylan va dir:
Gràcies per l'actualització. Ho sento molt sentir parlar de la situació que Google ha tornat a posar a tots polz Vostè vindrà a través d'una solució que beneficiï a tots.
Mel va dir:
Només vull dir gràcies per totes les hores, tota la sang, suor i llàgrimes i l'energia que ha posat en això.
No pot ser fàcil. M'estic perdent el meu perseguidor resultats rang, però puc comprovar manualment ... odi també, lol, però puc fer-ho si ho necessito.
Jo estaria disposat a pagar una quota cada mes per aconseguir els meus resultats de la classificació. Si això és el que es necessita, llavors que així sigui. Només vull l'eina cap enrere i sé que està treballant perquè això passi.
Així que gràcies de nou per tot l'esforç de la nostra part.
Mel
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 19:02
Eugene Ware respondre:
Gràcies Mel per la seva comprensió.
Comprovació de files amb la mà una merda - és per això que hem construït Rank Tracker en el primer lloc.
Nosaltres hem dut a terme una actualització fa unes hores que li permet seleccionar les paraules clau (fent clic a la casella de verificació al costat d'ells) i, a continuació, feu clic al botó "Update Selected". S'ha de permetre que vostè comprovi les paraules clau una mica més ràpid fins que tinguem una solució a llarg termini al seu lloc.
Gràcies pel seu suport Mel!
Eddie va dir:
Hola Eugene,
gràcies per tota la feina que vostès estan fent per intentar MS de treball amb el mateix nivell que tenia abans que el Big G va fer els seus canvis.
Tinc curiositat, però, ¿què creus que el preu serà de Rank Tracker, un pressupost?
Gràcies,
Eddie
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 18:50
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Eddie,
Gràcies per la teva pregunta.
En aquesta etapa, honestament, no tenim una idea clara al voltant dels preus que ens estem enfocant en trobar una solució abans de decidir sobre una estructura de preus. També hem d'analitzar les dades d'ús per esbrinar el preu final. Igualment, podria no ser una subscripció mensual, que podria ser un sistema de crèdit també. Així que una mica aviat per dir-ho.
Preus de la indústria de 1000 paraules clau actualitzats setmanal és de voltant de $ 99 / mes, amb 100 paraules clau de voltant de $ 25-30 al mes. Ens esperem ser capaços de competir amb aquestes ofertes, i per assegurar-nos que els nostres clients existents reben un tracte preus a l'engròs que sigui una obvietat, en comparació amb les ofertes existents.
Espero que respon a la teva pregunta!
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 12:47
Tina va contestar:
Quan a determinar els seus nivells de preus, si us plau mantingui als usuaris més petits en ment. Mai vaig a necessitar per realitzar un seguiment de 100 paraules, i agrairia preus per als nombres més petits (com 20) realitzat amb poca freqüència. M'encanta el rastrejador rang, però el mòdul de la competència és de summa importància per a mi. No vull haver de pagar mensualment per una cosa que no ús sobre una base regular. Per tant, un sistema de crèdit seria genial. Usuaris més petits com jo podien comprar alguns crèdits, segons sigui necessari. Així que de nou, recorda que no tothom és un usuari avançat!
L'1 de febrer de 2012 a les 11:24
Miriam Parkinson respondre:
Encara estem en les primeres etapes d'esbrinar els números i els acords, però, definitivament volem assegurar-nos que el cost és d'ús basat i que hi ha una sèrie d'opcions per adaptar-se a diferents nivells d'ús.
David digué:
Benvolgut Eugene,
Gràcies per l'actualització vostè. Tinc una pregunta respecte a la matriu de SEO en el Mòdul de Competència SEO. Seguirà sent capaç d'enumerar les pàgines files dels deu millors llocs de la competència per a una determinada paraula clau?
A més, la mesura del Rank Tracker. He estat utilitzant les Eines per a administradors web de Google més i més. També proporcionen el rang mitjana de pàgines per paraules clau específiques que porta el trànsit del seu lloc durant el termini d'un mes. Encara que, cal dir que les dades són en general un parell de dies enrere, però continua sent una eina útil i bastant exacta (com qualsevol eina pot ser, suposo).
Podria mirar el mercat Samurai en la possibilitat de vincular els usuaris compte d'Eines per a administradors web de Google en el mercat Samurai, similar al que havia fet fa més d'un any amb les eines de recerca de paraules clau i dels seus comptes d'AdWords?
Només un suggeriment que jo sé algunes altres eines de recerca de paraules clau fan això pels seus usuaris, i que ha donat bons resultats fins al moment.
Salutacions cordials,
David
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 18:43
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola David,
Gràcies per la teva pregunta.
La meva opinió és que en l'actualitat els problemes que estem vivint no semblen estar afectant Page Rank.
En aquest moment tenim plena confiança que seguirem sent capaços de proporcionar dades Page Rank.
Si això canvia cada vegada, llavors farem el que sempre fem i trobar un reemplaçament (com mozRank, o alguna cosa semblant).
Val a dir, que la trajectòria desitjada de Google per a administradors web per a monitoritzar la classificació està en les eines per a administradors web. Les dades d'avui en dia és una mica rara i incompleta, però també és millor que res. Això ajudarà a controlar el rànquing dels llocs de la seva propietat, però no li dóna molta ajuda per als seus llocs de la competència, o pàgines que el control sobre els llocs web 2.0, com youtube.com o squidoo.com
Tenim plans per integrar més estretament amb les Eines per a administradors web i Analytics al futur. No es pot dir molt sobre això!
Gràcies per compartir les seves idees amb nosaltres. Quan es tracta de Google, tot i que "tolerar" i no activa "avalen" SEO, la millor estratègia és treballar amb ells, i estarem donant passos en aquesta direcció.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 21:20
Jonathan @ Splice Regne Internet Màrqueting respondre:
Un problema amb les eines per a administradors web és que sembla estar totalment centrada en EUA. La majoria dels meus clients no els importa com es classifiquen a nivell mundial o dels EUA - que necessiten saber el seu rang en les cerques des del Regne Unit.
Si ens fixem en el rang mitjà d'allà, i després en el rang visible en Google.co.uk, els resultats són actualment massa diferents per a ser útil.
Podria ser necessari allunyar-se de MS com el seguiment de rang és la part principal que ús - però definitivament tinc els meus diners en els últims 12 mesos.
dimitri Visser @ comercialització de l'Internet , va dir:
Gràcies per l'actualització que! Em preguntava per què es va trigar tant de temps
És bo saber que el treball continua.
No tinc problemes per pagar les dades rank de Google! Fins i tot veure algunes grans avantatges si aquesta informació no està disponible de forma gratuïta ja ...
Maurici llançador va dir:
Això és una puta! Vostès són increïbles! Aguanta!
Roberto Lito va dir:
Tenir Rank Tracker com un servei complementari dels quals els interessats que hauria de pagar (opcional com diu a dalt), és acceptable.
Per convertir tota la funcionalitat del Mercat Samurai en un servei de pagament seria donar un copet als seus usuaris. Samurai del mercat no va ser venut originalment amb un pagament mensual de les seves funcions, pel que cobren ara per l'ús dels seus principals serveis, seria injust i sens dubte que la seva empresa perdi credibilitat.
Esperança que vostè pensa dues vegades abans de decidir-se a cobrar per l'ús de les funcions principals del mercat Samurai.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 18:23
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Robert,
Gràcies pel seu consell.
Anem a mantenir el mercat Samurai a un preu fix, sempre que som capaços de fer això. La trista veritat, però, és que els dies de les fonts de dades "gratis" per a les dades de SEO estan arribant al final.
On podem fer que funcioni, anem a tractar de portar els costos (que actualment adquireixen dades d'enllaç en gairebé $ 10 kA mes en nom dels nostres usuaris). Si no podem fer que funcioni haurem de fer una trucada en consulta amb els nostres clients sobre la manera d'avançar.
Nou de cada deu vegades podem trobar una forma creativa a través del problema. A vegades, a causa de circumstàncies fora del nostre control ens veurem obligats a arribar a un model de preus de continuar oferint la funcionalitat per als nostres usuaris. En altres casos, on no és viable que ens veurem obligats a eliminar la funcionalitat.
Valorem als nostres clients, i hem treballat molt dur per construir una bona reputació en el que pot ser una indústria molt fosca. Pot comptar amb nosaltres per intentar fer les millors coses dels nostres usuaris, i fer les decisions difícils sobre la base del que és millor en el llarg termini per als nostres clients, no només el que és millor per als guanys a curt termini.
Gràcies de nou pels seus comentaris.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 18:50
Roberto Lito respondre:
Eugene,
Crec que sobre la base de la diversitat d'opinions que es van a obtenir dels seus clients, una possible solució seria la creació d'una "llar base" versió de Samurai de mercat amb les limitacions que pot portar per operar des de casa, és a dir, trucant els motors de cerca de casa-que suposo que era l'ús original de molts compradors la intenció de fer de l'esclerosi múltiple, i amb alguns mòduls cancel · lats, i una altra, "mensuals pagats", versió que es connecti als servidors i operarien d'ells, amb la més completa serveis. D'aquesta manera vostè encara estaria donant el que va vendre originalment: un mercat Samurai que investiga i proporciona informació sobre paraules clau, fins i tot si alguns dels seus altres mòduls no serà operativa més. Així mateix, l'usuari hauria l'opció d'un servei més complet.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 07:43
Roger Schmidt va respondre:
Li agrairia que llavors si podria complir el seu el fet que vostè ha fet un compromís amb els seus clients que Samurai mercat seria un pagament d'una sola vegada. Pel que sembla canviarà la seva ment.
Dean R. Negre va dir:
Gràcies per l'actualització i per mantenir-nos informats del que passa en tu. Com bastant nous usuaris a Samurai Mercat estem molt contents amb el producte fins al moment i esperem utilitzar-lo en el futur previsible.
peter diu:
Gràcies! Només em preguntava serà el programari tornarà a funcionar plenament com abans en el proper mes? O és el tracker rang mai va a ser fix? Si no estic equivocat és necessari el seguiment de rang a anyalize la competència per les paraules clau que estem tractant de classificar a la dreta?
Gràcies per ser honest i bona sort fixar això!
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 10:05 pm
Ben Stickland respondre:
Hola Peter
És dilluns, mentre escric això i pel que veig a l'oficina, en la taxa dels desenvolupadors estan progressant, em suposo que tindrem la majoria de la funcionalitat de tornada dins d'una setmana o així (possiblement abans). La realitat és que estem usant una gamma de serveis nous i l'API per obtenir les dades i el que anem a afinar amb el temps a partir d'aquí.
Els mòduls que obtindrà de nou inclouran recerca de paraules clau (et permet trobar bones paraules claus possibles) i l'Anàlisi de la Competència SEO (li permet aprofundir en la primera pàgina d'un resultat de cerca determinat i veure totes les mètriques clau de SEO per a cada resultat de la cerca).
L'excepció és el Rank Tracker. Això li permet veure (i gràfic) ets rànquing a través del temps. La realitat és que els canvis de Google significa que no podem extreure aquestes dades en massa en nom de clients, de manera que aquest és el component haurem de reavaluar.
Com Eugene ha esmentat, tot el que fem, anem a esforçar-nos perquè sigui favorable als propietaris actuals de mercat Samurai.
Cheers,
Ben
Primus @ SlapBass va dir:
Fins ara, hem estat molt satisfets amb el producte, també creiem que vostè serà capaç d'arreglar les coses d'una manera apropiada. Segueix així!
Yvonne va dir:
M'encanta el seu enfocament honest per tot això i la seva voluntat de considerar un reemborsament per a aquells clients que no satisified diu molt de la seva companyia!
Però anem tot el que els queixosos - aquest és un producte sorprenent que la majoria de nosaltres hem utilitzat durant diversos anys per un cost molt baix. En comparació amb molts altres productes de tot avui en dia, es tracta d'un valor real i si hem de pagar ara una petita quota mensual per a accedir a alguns featurtes-Que així sigui, el producte val la pena!
Aquests nois tenen un compromís increïble per produir un producte de qualitat a un preu de ganga i oferir un servei sensacional també. Estic segur que van a fer tot el que ells poden fer el millor per a nosaltres!
Tinc fe en què va a arribar a una solució que funcioni per a nosaltres. Bona sort
Craig Sowerby va dir:
Hola Eugene,
No matar el missatger! Sé que pot ser difícil quan s'enfronten a nous problemes i Google és un dels majors problemes que enfrontem a esquerdar.
Espero que vostè i tots els membres del seu equip pot resoldre això el més ràpid possible. Vostè ha proporcionat un excel lent producte en els últims anys i el seu suport ha estat molt ràpida.
Així que puc entendre la seva frustració, així com als seus clients i per descomptat a mi mateix. Espero que d'aquest membre serà veure això com un problema permanent i ser pacient amb la sortida ve. Hi ha moltes altres SEO companyia i el programari que es pot utilitzar, però molts són els càrrecs mensuals pel que si s'arriba a això, llavors espero que acaben fent molt competitiu.
Mantenir un ull molt a prop d'això.
Gràcies per mantenir-nos informats
Craig
Terry va dir:
Encara que no estic molt emocionat de sentir que el mercat Samurai pot costar més en el futur (i vaig a haver d'avaluar si això funcionaria per a mi), jo certament no estaré demanant un reemborsament. Estima el benefici d'aquest programa m'ha portat en l'últim parell d'anys.
Mantenir-se al dia amb la tecnologia sempre ha vingut amb un cost (maleïda sigui). Tant de bo no fos així, però és ...
Espero que tot surti bé per a vostè i nosaltres!
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 16:33
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Terry,
Gràcies per les seves paraules d'alè!
Et garanteixo que a l'àrea de seguiment de Classificació que, encara que no és possible oferir Tracking Rang de forma gratuïta, perquè tots els nostres clients actuals rebran el millor tracte possible que només es cobra prou per cobrir els costos, i que no hi haurà cap altre Rànquing alternativa viable de seguiment a costa nostres clients podran tenir accés a aquest nou servei.
El nostre desig secret és que serem capaços de proporcionar un cert nivell de seguiment lliure, fins i tot si és un nombre petit. Però anem a haver de cruixir els números i veure com podem fer que funcioni.
Gràcies novament pel seu suport.
Elmar va dir:
Jo ús la versió de pagament, el mòdul de seguiment de tot rang. Vostè ofereix el reemborsament? I si és així, ¿com funciona?
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 18:16
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Elmar,
Lamento que la situació actual no està funcionant per a tu. Definitivament oferim reemborsaments, independentment de quant temps fa que es va comprar, i amb independència de la raó. Simplement poseu-vos en contacte amb el nostre servei d'ajuda (feu clic a la pestanya "Ask Us" a la banda esquerra d'aquesta pàgina), i demanar suport per a un reemborsament proporcionar els seus detalls de registre i adreça de correu electrònic de PayPal.
Després de fer això, m'animo a esperar a les pròximes setmanes per veure quina solució ens trobem amb. El preu serà molt competitiu per a alguna de les millors solucions de seguiment de rang disponibles, i tots els clients actuals (passat o present) serà capaç d'obtenir accés a aquestes dades en forma efectiva un cost major.
Gràcies per donar al nostre producte un intent.
Travis va dir:
Si us plau, parli als usuaris article Samurai. Sé que no hi ha molts de nosaltres, però estem pagant aleady una quota mensual per un servei que acaba de menor valor. Combini això amb un procés de revisió manual que deu el seu bé al voltant del 75% de les vegades, i vostè té clients que ja estaven frustrats. OMI, la quota mensual COM s'ha de baixar, no va augmentar.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 16:51
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Travis,
Gràcies per expressar la seva preocupació.
El cost de la subscripció de l'article Samurai és realment un exercici de recuperació de costos. Per l'oferta especial de $ 97, la gran majoria de la inversió es distribueix als nostres socis de distribució (UAW i l'AMA i ContentBoss). Només veiem una petita quantitat d'aquesta quota de subscripció mensual, que ajuda paga per personal de suport i manteniment i millora de productes.
Ens lliguen Rank Tracker en l'article Samurai per simplificar el flux de treball (de fet, inicialment no anàvem a incloure). Al voltant del 99% dels nostres subscriptors Samurai Article ja tenen una còpia de Market Samurai, que és un producte de preu fix.
El procés de sindicació Samurai article encara està treballant bé, i la mida de la xarxa està creixent cada setmana a mesura que treballem amb els nostres socis per créixer les seves xarxes perquè puguem permetre que més dels nostres usuaris per aconseguir les seves mans en aquest producte.
Tenim reunions periòdiques amb els nostres socis de distribució, i el procés de revisió és una cosa que està contínuament en l'ordre del dia per millorar i racionalitzar. Estem treballant amb ells per ser més transparent i coherent sobre les seves criteris de revisió i enviar-nos una còpia dels seus criteris de revisió perquè puguem compartir amb els nostres usuaris per aconseguir els seus articles a través del sistema 100% de la temps.
Li agraeixo el seu comentari, però, i si ets un dels nostres clients que no tenen mercat Samurai abans de comprar, si us plau poseu-vos en contacte amb el nostre servei d'assistència i m'asseguraré que vostè obtingui una còpia complementària de Market Samurai i, per es pot accedir a alguns dels altres mòduls que no estan presents en el mercat Samurai (per exemple, el mòdul de Monetització).
Sento molt que t'hem deixat aquí baix. Però l'estructura de costos per l'article Samurai no està vinculada a Rank Tracker, però els nostres costos de distribució.
Nosaltres però, assegureu-vos que tots els nostres clients, ja sigui el mercat Samurai Samurai o l'article serà obtenir el preu molt baix possible (una en què només cobrir els nostres costos a l'engròs), mentre que les noves compres hauran de comprar aquestes dades a taxes més comercials.
Gràcies de nou per trobar el temps per deixar un comentari.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 17:47
Jack va respondre:
És això Articlesamurai.com que està parlant? Jo no conec aquest producte, però vull comprovar-
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 19:36
Simó va contestar:
Eugene,
Originalment vaig comprar MS i he estat un subscriptor a AS des del seu llançament.
M'ha encantat amb MS i satisfets amb alguns aspectes de la MA.
El conductor principal per a la compra de MS a diferència d'altres productes era el preu de cost fix. També estima que vostè ha de ser capaç d'atreure els ingressos per donar suport al creixement del seu negoci (que és en interès de tots nosaltres).
No obstant això, el preu és important. Per tant:
1. Si us plau considerar diferents estructures de preus d'opcions.
2. Penseu ofertes de paquets on subscripcions existents estan prenent en compte.
3. El que seria realment bo és una taula simple de mòdul, plataforma que indica si es veu afectada, l'impacte i la resolució proposada. Molt més fàcil de prendre una decisió informada en una pàgina.
4. Explora costarà proveïdors afectius. Cuervo pot ser bo (com Majestic), però són molt cars. He revisat els dos i acomiadat el preu.
També tinc SEO Power Suite Auxiliar Link. Això inclou un pla de manteniment. Cap dels meus serveis sembla estar afectada i els seus costos són raonables en comparació amb Raven (més unmlimited).
Vostè té un gran producte en l'EM. Et recomano que miris a la base de clients, ja que crec que molts volen l'opció d'una solució rendible en lloc d'un paquet de gamma alta.
Bona sort noi és.
Simon
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 01:54
Bob @ HayleStorm Interactive, com-a HTML5 vídeo respondre:
Eugene, la seva resposta a Travis conté el que crec que arribarà a ser el major problema:
"Al voltant del 99% dels nostres subscriptors Samurai Article ja tenen una còpia de Market Samurai, que és un producte de preu fix."
Pel que sembla, no exactament. Sembla que el mercat Samurai deixarà de ser un producte de preu fix ... fins i tot per a aquells que el va comprar com a tal ... fins i tot a aquells la decisió de compra es basa en què la reclamació s'anuncia.
Ara, com el 99% dels compradors d'Internet, que no he llegit els termes del servei en detall, però estic segur que hi ha alguna cosa aquí que ens va deixar MS canviar les regles enmig del joc.
És legal kosher? Per descomptat ... però això no ho fa correcte, especialment per als nous usuaris que han aconseguit poc o cap valor en el producte encara.
Molts poden ser com jo ... He comprat MS abans que realment tenia un ús per a ell, a causa de la promoció. Fa 2-3 mesos vaig comprar a través de la promoció, sabent que no tenia necessitat d'ell llavors, però que ho faria en 4-6 mesos. Ara, sembla que quan ho faig servir no tindré el producte que he comprat, de fet, per aconseguir el que ja vaig pagar passaré més que si hagués esperat, i no comprats a través de la promoció a causa de les quotes mensuals acumulades .
Estima molt la seva franquesa i "màxima transparència" (Déu, la política en els últims anys ha fet que em odio aquesta paraula), i sé que a partir d'un tema que va sorgir durant la compra que vosaltres, la gent de tot per fer el que és correcte, i jo crec que probablement ho farà en aquest cas també. però ...
Per a mi, i crec que per a moltes altres persones, això no es veu molt bé en aquest moment.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 17:18
Frank Jaeger @ Rodes Vacances respondre:
Travis,
gràcies per preguntar. Vaig revisar tots els comentaris de trobar a aquesta pregunta. Estic en el meu segon mes de l'Article Samurai. Anem a veure el que Eugene li respondrà als usuaris article Samurai.
Pete va dir:
Um? No estic segur de què dir, si encara podem obtenir un millor rànquing limitats llavors això és un començament i si la gent necessita més informació, llavors han de pagar? Qüestió de les despeses efectuades per qui desitgin de més dades de paraules clau seran en proporció a l'ús, és a dir, hi haurà una quota mensual per un moderat tecles xyz usuaris i per als usuaris més alts o una manta tirada sobre el sistema?
I tu dius que podem utilitzar ara per a un petit nombre de tecles? Quin nombre és petit.
A part d'això, la barbeta, després de cada tempesta hi ha un arc de Sant Martí, en comptes de deixar que aquest ritme l'equip cap avall acaba de tornar amb el millor producte amb sang en la línia de fer tot això amb la màgia, què diuen? Feu que el seu millor moment.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 18:03
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Pete,
Per ser sincer, hem centrat més en aconseguir una solució construïda de l'elaboració dels detalls de l'estructura de preus. Probablement estem inclinant cap a un sistema proporcional, on els grans consumidors paguen més.
Pel que fa a quin nombre és "petit". Encara no ho sabem. Hem de mirar a través de les nostres estadístiques d'ús i construir alguns models de preus per calcular quant ús que podem suportar cada mes de manera gratuïta per part dels nostres usuaris. També pot ser el cas, que podria no ser possible en absolut. Ens agradaria tenir una línia gratuïta, però vaig a reservar prometo res fins que tingui els números durs al davant de mi (i un producte totalment funcional).
Definitivament hi haurà un arc de Sant Martí al final d'això - el resultat d'aquests canvis serà una aplicació més ràpida, més sensible i més fiable, i, finalment, una solució molt millor seguiment de rang per als nostres clients. També tenim grans plans per al mercat Samurai enguany, i tinc ganes de posar una mica de grans dipòsits de bona voluntat en el compte bancari la confiança dels nostres usuaris aquest any!
Gràcies de nou per les seves paraules d'alè! (Tornar a la primera línia ...)
Troy va dir:
La gran majoria dels que sonen com a nens whiney. Si vostè ha estat tractant amb l'Internet (i especialment Google) per a qualsevol quantitat de temps que vostè ha de saber que les coses canvien. Recordo recollir el meu nou Macbook Pro w / iOS Lleó i després adonar-se que la majoria dels antics programes d'MBP no eren compatibles. Succeeix ... Ride it o es mourà al llarg (reemborsament). Però, per l'amor de Déu, deixa de plorar. Vostè no pot tenir el seu pastís i menjar-se'l també.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 5:45 pm
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Troy, gràcies per les seves amables paraules.
Els desitjo a tots els nostres clients eren tan comprensius com tu.
A causa de alguns factors fora del nostre control que estem en aquesta posició, i va a molestar a alguns dels nostres usuaris. Només espero que amb el temps que podem reconstruir la nostra confiança amb què se senten defraudats.
Moltes gràcies.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 07:45
Roger Schmidt va respondre:
NO és am Atter de ser o whiney és una qüestió de fer el correcte pels clients.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 13:53
Steve Johnson va respondre:
Així com esperes MS per a cobrir 40 mil dòlars a l'dia en els costos d'adquisició de dades sense haver d'anar a un model de subscripció?
Ets un geni en la vida real?
Si no vol pagar, no paguen. Fes-ho amb la mà i veure a on et porta.
Deixa de queixar-te.
@ Eugene - No envejo la seva posició en el més mínim, però vostès, la gent està manejant això de la millor manera possible. Personalment, no crec que jo fins i tot ofereixo reemborsaments. Però suposo que un pas per sobre em posa en l'escala evolutiva
Rocky Tapscott va dir:
Hola nois,
Gràcies per l'actualització. Vaig pensar que era només jo
No hi ha manera que alguna vegada demanar un reemborsament de Market Samurai, encara que mai va tornar a funcionar. Ja se m'ha reemborsat 100 vegades el meu preu de compra original.
Bona sort amb l'actualització, salutacions, Rocky
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 17:41
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Rocky,
Gràcies per les seves amables paraules. Estic molt content que vostè ha vist el valor al producte, i que ha ajudat a assolir els seus objectius financeres.
És encoratjador aquí que el nostre producte en efecte, ajudar a la gent (quan està treballant!), Sobretot en temps com aquests.
Ara hem restaurat totes les funcionalitats en el mòdul de recerca de paraules clau, i tenen un mòdul Rastrejador Rang de treball parcial, on es pot actualitzar manualment un petit nombre de paraules clau (per exemple, fins a 10) a la vegada. Manténgase en sintonia per a les porcions més actualitzacions en els propers dies i setmanes.
Gràcies de nou.
Peter va dir:
Hola Nois
Okay. Tots sabem que els canvis de Google. Els canvis d'Internet. Els temps canvien. (Kodak, estàs escoltant)
El que jo estic fent gran profit de la seva situació és la manera increïble que vostès estan manejant. Jo treball en el sector de l'allotjament i estic seguint atentament la seva resposta, ja que crec que vostès estan proporcionant un perfecte exemple de com una empresa ha d'actuar davant de qualsevol problema.
Vostè ha estat totalment a la davantera. Vostè ha explicat el problema, per què va passar i el que està fent per resoldre-ho. Vostè està responent professionalment a tots els comentaris del bloc en una llum positiva, així com escoltar el que els blocaires estan dient.
Dubto que puguis manejar millor que vostè ha estat - i és per aquesta raó que el mercat Samurai serà brisa a través i sortir encara més fort. Si ens costa tot una mica més, que així sigui. Llavors és l'elecció dels consumidors quant a si o no els seus serveis proporcionen valor.
Aguanta aquí nois. Ho estàs fent bé
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 05:37 pm
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Pere,
Gràcies per les seves paraules d'alè! He passat els seus comentaris al voltant del nostre equip de sentir. Realment ha fet el seu dia!
Moments com aquest són molt, molt difícil - per a nosaltres i els nostres clients. Creiem en ser franc i honest sobre les coses, fins i tot quan li fa mal, i sabem que serà decebedor per a molts, que (amb raó) que vols és una cosa que han gastat els seus diners durament a treballar bé per a ells tot el temps. Estem agraïts que tenim un munt de molt bons clients, que fan comprendre els problemes que tenim, i que confien en nosaltres per fer el millor pels nostres clients.
Però, sens dubte, anem a fer malbé, i li demanem que els nostres clients ens responsabilitzen, i anem a tractar de fer-ho millor.
Gràcies Peter de nou pels seus amables paraules - que estem penjant en allà, tot i que se sent una mica com una zona de guerra en aquest instant!
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 20:16
Aaron va respondre:
Sí totalment d'acord amb Pedro, se li ha donat una opció per prendre la seva decisió. Que el mercat Samurai seguir endavant amb la seva tasca d'actualització del programari en lloc de perdre el temps tractar les queixes.
Garry va dir:
Hola Eugene,
Vaig a dir per avançat que he estat un partidari de molt temps de Market Samurai i he perdut el compte del nombre de clients amb els quals he passat amb vosaltres, perquè d'aquesta creença, també promovem MS a través dels nostres seminaris de màrqueting a Internet des de fa anys, però Jo sóc més que una mica sorprès. Posem un gran valor al seguiment del nostre rànquing i les paraules clau i això no només a tenir un enorme impacte en el nostre negoci, però la meva gran preocupació és que estic a l'espera de les trucades telefòniques de començar de clients que he posat als Estats membres a seguiment de les seves classificacions i paraules clau. Pel que fa a mudar-se a Bing en realitat són com a jugador petit en comparació amb la de l'amplitud de Google, fins i tot a 30% respecte a la cerca de Google pot, Bing és una segona opció de nivell en el millor ... per primera vegada des de l'inici de negocis amb vostès i estic haver de pensar seriosament en mudar-se a un altre proveïdor que he d'admetre que per desgràcia meva confiança personal en l'EM ha desaparegut. Sembla que només ha estat una cosa darrere l'altra, i una altra (que estic segur és frustrant que vostès tant com nosaltres) i després a veure els enllaços a l'eina que Raven simplement re-fa complir que el futur sembla ombrívol ... Espero que em surt algunes notícies en els propers dies que em fa canviar aquest punt de vista i que podem seguir utilitzant MS durant molts anys per venir.
, Tony @ de màrqueting a Internet , va dir:
He estat amb vosaltres molt de temps i només he experimentat la més alta qualitat de servei. Ara depenc d'article samurai molt i espero res canvia amb això. Gràcies nois per tot el que fas.
Bill va dir:
Samurai del mercat ha estat un producte eficaç barat i molt rendible. Qualsevol que estigui buscant una restitució ha de ser una bogeria. L'equip de Market Samurai han respost a tots els canvis que Google ha fet, la millora del producte, i es manté el servei i tot el que hem hagut de fer és pagar una tarifa única. Qualsevol persona que no ha tingut la inversió torna centenars de vegades en què no ho està utilitzant correctament.
El seu temps per felicitar l'equip de MS i animar-los a seguir endavant. Fins i tot si no va a ser una càrrega permanent per a alguns elements, pot ser aquesta continuarà sent la millor eina de valor entorn.
Gràcies per la teva honestedat Eugene. Coses que passen en els negocis i que ha estat avançat al respecte. Què més es pot demanar?
Hari va dir:
Gràcies per l'actualització, sóc un client recent de Market Samurai i han estat un fan des que he comprat el producte. Tinc una pregunta, jo entenc que vostè té algunes limitacions amb el mòdul Rastrejador Rank i podria convertir-se en un servei de pagament, però, ¿és raonable suposar que la resta dels mòduls, com 1. Paraula clau de recerca 2. SEO compitition seguirà treballant i no serà pagat el servei (seran alimentats per Bing va FWD?)
podeu si us plau aclarir
gràcies
Hari
Ted @ seo gran illa d'Hawaii va dir:
Gràcies per la honestedat, crec que això és tot el que es pot asked.Those segueixo a pensar que Google és tallar el seu cap va pel camí que ha triat i potser Bing està sostenint la destral.
Bo va dir:
Jo respecte la forma en què estan tractant als seus clients descontents, però des del meu punt de vista, només els serveis que cobren algun tipus de quota mensual o quota anual, a ser capaç de proporcionar els resultats que necessito. Costa diners per mantenir l'actualització d'aquesta merda!
Fes el que hagis de fer per mantenir els serveis de primera classe. Mai vaig a plorar sobre una empresa que tracta de fer una mica de diners mentre que proporciona un bon servei als seus clients.
Atanas va dir:
Hola,
Gaudiu de la honestedat, però, estic sense paraules després de llegir aquest missatge - ens van portar en què els clients amb un missatge de màrqueting específic i un model de llicència clara. Ara que el servei que comprem no funciona, suposo que puc entendre - però que l'única manera d'arreglar ara és que ens van cobrar una quota mensual de nova creació em sembla inacceptable. De fet, no recordo una companyia de programari cada vegada que tira aquest truc en mi abans. El món es convertirà en una completa bogeria si cada empresa va decidir canviar el seu model de preus tan aviat com van aconseguir suficients clients.
També estima l'oferta actual per a un reemborsament, però, recolzant-se en la seva empresa, productes i publicitat, la majoria de nosaltres hem invertit fortament en la creació de projectes, campanyes, etc i la nostra inversió no és només els diners que es gasta en la llicència que comprem .
Amb la compra dels seus productes, posem la nostra confiança en la seva empresa - que s'hagi pogut seleccionar les eines de desenvolupament adequades, els proveïdors d'API dret i el dret detalls d'implementació i que va fer la seva tasca d'avaluar el preu. Realment espero que reconsideri aquesta nova fixació de preus i donar-me la raó, quan vaig prendre la decisió de confiar a la seva empresa i productes.
Siguin dir:
Ja saps, l'equip de Noble-Samurai són totalment 100% lleial i comprensió dels seus clients .. Et garanteixo que estan treballant dur com pot ser que ens proporcioni una solució raonable.
Com puc saber això? Bé, jo simplement els vaig enviar un E-mail fa un any detallant la meva situació financera en el moment i que, per empatia, la bondat i la comprensió, em posi en un compte de mercat Samurai 100% gratuïta.
Ells realment es preocupen per la satisfacció dels nostres problemes i crec que són 100% honest amb el que diuen sobre les seves frustracions.
És difícil mantenir disposa de connexió que ja no són lliures d'ells. És clar que és una merda, però honestament, Samurai del mercat és probablement el millor paquet de SEO per aquí. Prefereixo que, fins i tot en un (esperem) mòdic preu, que no en tots. Gràcies per tot el que ens ha proporcionat, sobretot a mi mateix.
He enviat algunes referències a la seva manera en els últims dos mesos també. Espero que ho havia fet vostès uns pocs dòlars addicionals!
Eugene va dir:
Estic totalment bé amb el pagament d'una quota mensual baixa, si això és el que es necessita per mantenir el programari que s'executa. Market Samurai m'ha estalviat mesos del meu temps que hauria gastat en la recerca de paraules clau i sempre vaig saber que a causa dels canvis constants a Internet mantenint el preu fix no era sostenible en les maneres de llarg termini. Gràcies per crear aquest gran programari i mantenir la bona feina!
Scott, Jarvis va dir:
Google és una merda! Roques Market Samurai. He estat un usuari des del principi i he vist molts canvis i maniobres que ha realitzat a causa de la sempre canviant panorama d'Internet. Tinc altres eines per al seguiment de rang i vaig rebre més dels meus miserables $ 99 dòlars valor al llarg dels anys, sé que va a fer què està en el millor interès dels seus usuaris i li pegava al seu costat com un dels clients més fidels.
LTK va dir:
Les persones encara utilitzen realment l'eina de seguiment de rang en l'EM? Vaig deixar d'utilitzar que fa anys ... inexacta i vaig prendre sempre. I, amb tots els canvis des del principi, l'únic que és bo per és aconseguir que el volum de cerques estimat i SEOC amb un clic, però mai va tenir Decaptcha, pel que sempre va ser un llast ... La resta del ms no és bo. He tingut això des que va ser posat en llibertat i en beta ... i encara està en beta ... si ...
El 31 de gener de 2012 a les 08:03
Emiel @ MarketingbureauAmersfoort respondre:
Llavors, ¿què s'utilitza?
Vaig sortir de MS per un temps, però en els últims mesos vaig començar a usar-lo de nou.
Si el nou rang de seguiment és precís i ràpid, estaré més que feliç de pagar una petita quota mensual per això.
Roberto Lito va dir:
El meu comentari no ha estat aprovada i esborrat. Em pregunto per què. Si vostè està sent sincer, jo no esperava una resposta raonable.
He dit alguna cosa que no vols que tothom escolta? ¿O és que simplement esperar que la gent et lloïn i acceptar les seves decisions? Vostè pot enviar-me un correu electrònic si vostè prefereix explicar a mi en privat.
Roberto
Llegeix va dir:
No consum MS per al seguiment de rang, però no per a la recerca de paraules clau de manera que espero que això no m'afecta quan es fixa el mòdul SEOC.
Per què no deixar que la classificació de la pista de programari de les nostres màquines i oferir un servei de proxy com el servei Big G de servidors intermediaris de confiança. Jo personalment ús altre programari i fer un seguiment de 1.000 paraules clau en menys d'1 minut, l'ús de múltiples proxies subministrats per ells.
O simplement dir-li a la gent que necessitaran per obtenir proxies per comprovar rang i no cobren.
Bob va dir:
Samurai del mercat és un gran producte de programari! I el suport que el seu equip ofereix és superior a tots els altres.
Cada mòdul s'ha convertit en una necessitat i possible haver de pagar un preu per l'mòdul Rastrejador Classificació per a alguns de nosaltres potser una mica difícil de manejar.
Sé que podria manejar limitar-se a una recerca lliure que només em permet comprovar un petit nombre de paraules clau.
I aquí hi ha un pensament, a organitzar (amb el que alguna vegada vostè decideix obtenir aquestes dades a partir de) un preu especial en què vam obrir un compte i afegir la nostra informació del compte en l'àrea de Gestió de comptes de mercat Samurai igual que nosaltres per Google Adwords, Clickbank etc .
Donar als que volen recollir més dades l'opció de pagar per això, el sentit ja no podem obtenir de Google.
Només un pensament!
Bob va dir:
Puc entendre els seus problemes i jo aprecio el fet que estàs sent sincer sobre tot això, però això és essencialment una forma hàbil de dir "Ho sento, grans extensions del que has pagat ja no van a treballar, llevat que vol pagar més per això ".
La capacitat del perseguidor rànquing és sens dubte un dels solters més importants eines que utilitzo quan estic buscant a aconseguir a un nou nínxol o treballant amb un client en el seu projecte. Si no pot proporcionar aquesta funció, llavors em temo que vostè està probablement va a perdre alguns clients.
Això no és una situació de "Vaig comprar un vehicle d'alt rendiment i ara el preu de la gasolina s'ha disparat." Aquesta és una situació de "Vaig comprar aquest torradora i ara em costarà cada vegada que poso una llesca de pa a la cosa ".
Jo, per exemple, no signava a pagar una quota mensual. Ens van atreure, adoctrinats i es ven en una solució d'una sola vegada tot inclòs. Ara Google tira de la catifa de sota de tu i que la solució és "ens comprometem a transmetre la part més raonable de la despesa per al client com sigui possible."?!?!
I estic segur que aquest preu pujarà mai, mai més, fins que els costos pugen una altra vegada ... i després tindrem una altra adreça de correu electrònic i un bloc.
El producte ja no té valor si els components principals de la mateixa són de sobte esventrats, independentment de la causa. I sembla que el seu millor excusa és "Bé, per desgràcia, que va triar el cavall equivocat, no per la nostra culpa, és clar - tot i que hem venut el cavall perquè en base a certes característiques de rendiment promesos. Però potser puguem ajudar a reduir el cost de la propera cavall que tenim per oferir, detalls molt aviat! "
Todd Foster va dir:
Així que estàs dient, si no estem contents amb el pagament d'aquests serveis es pot obtenir un reemborsament i cancel · la nostra llicència samurai mercat?
A Roque va dir:
He estat utilitzant Market Samurai durant 3 mesos, i molt satisfet amb la seva funcionalitat. Sé que els nois en l'equip està treballant molt dur per fer MS l'arma superior per als comerciants d'Internet. Vostè sap més que nosaltres en el que és millor per al futur de l'EM. I estic esperant per a la pròxima actualització.
Fisher va dir:
Hola,
Estic segur que l'equip de samurai noble no ens defraudarà - com sempre - Sé que va a lliurar.
Una pregunta: ¿aquests canvis amb Google també afecten a eines com CuteRank? Estic pensant en utilitzar-lo com una alternativa per ara .. qualsevol idea sobre això?
Gràcies
Bill va dir:
Poques vegades comentaris però volia donar vostès alguns comentaris perquè estima el que has fet. El seu programa ha estat gran des de fa un temps i que ha demostrat a mi en aquest temps que vostè està totalment diligent en la seva actualització i es preocupa profundament sobre servei al client. Sé que vostè ha fet i continuarà fent tot el possible per fer que el producte el millor que pugui ser. Per desgràcia, això fa més difícil i més difícil de fer en el temps a vegades.
Honestament, amb els anys m'he preguntat com és possible que el que MS no podia continuar. Vaig sentir que era només qüestió de temps abans que els motors de cerca fan una mica de canvi, especialment Google, que ho va canviar tot. Només estic sorprès que va prendre tant de temps.
El que estic segur és que si els Estats membres no poden fer-ho, probablement ningú més allà fora serà capaç de fer bé, perquè sé que si és possible fer que els nois s'ho fem possible. Així MS seguirà sent el millor programa que hi ha fins i tot si la qualitat general de tots ells es fa menys.
Jo, personalment, no tornaria a demanar un reemborsament perquè em sento en els últims anys ja he aconseguit la pena dels meus diners. Però, quant vaig a utilitzar MS en el futur, i si anava a pagar pels serveis en ella en aquest moment no estic segur. Només dir que perquè no tinc un munt de llocs que van en aquest moment. Però si jo tenia molt o tenia un negoci d'Internet més lucratiu que probablement pagar una mica perquè crec que valdria la pena.
Tot el que puc dir és que a partir del producte dels canvis en el servei al client, que vostès han mostrat sempre a mi que faci el millor que pugui i vagi més enllà. És trist que els canvis que estan fora del seu control succeeixin. Però espero que la gent pensa que això no es reflecteix en tu i reflecteix més en només l'estat de la xarxa.
Mèxic Real Estate , va dir:
En primer lloc m'he de disculpar per la desvergonyida de vincle utilitzat en aquest comentari.
Com a propietari d'un negoci petit com vosaltres puc simpatitzar amb la seva situació. Com tot en el món sembla estar movent i canviant a una velocitat blíster es fa gairebé impossible planificar un mes un cap molt menys un any o dos.
Estic segur que està molt conscient de la frustració que això provoca, així que no se sumarà a la que rebenta pilota que estic segur que vostès estan rebent.
Com un dels seus majors fans espero que convertir això en una oportunitat per desenvolupar alguna cosa millor. No tinc cap problema en pagar el cost, sempre i quan el que jo estic pagant per que em fa més diners que he de pagar.
El seu equip coneix les nostres lluites com els venedors en línia i sap el que necessitem fer per aconseguir els resultats que necessitem per ser rendible i colpejar a la nostra competència. Ho sé perquè dels productes i la capacitació que ha produït fins ara.
Un cop més, no tinc cap problema per pagar les meves eines només assegura't que m'està proporcionant les millors eines al millor preu, així que puc apostar la meva competència i puc ser rendible amb el meu negoci.
Jo ja estava pensant Cuervo abans que vaig comprar el mercat Samurai. Em va agradar realment li agrada la funcionalitat núvol del seu producte. El meu equip té cicatrius per tot el lloc i que garanteixi el seu treball en el núvol en un lloc en un dels projectes és un gran avantatge per a nosaltres. No tinc el programari que s'executa en un equip local és un gran avantatge. Potser podríem veure un servei de núvol Samurai Mercat / article al nostre futur.
Em vaig quedar amb vosaltres pel valor, la formació i la facilitat d'ús i per ara estic content amb la meva elecció. Espero que em sento de la mateixa manera el mes que ve!
Realment no importa el que el programari et va passar que mentre que és un "Rolls Royce", i que no és un "Pinto"
Els meus millors desitjos i bona sort amb això!
Kanoa B
http://www.baja123.com
Jon Polònia va dir:
Eugene: Estic molt content de saber que vostè s'està movent cap a un model basat en subscripció. L'única preocupació que he tingut amb el mercat Samurai és que no em vaig sentir que tindria els ingressos recurrents per finançar el negoci. El cost de desenvolupament en curs ha de ser enorme. Sense ingressos recurrents que fa que sigui gairebé impossible mantenir el negoci a flotació (al meu entendre).
He pagat pel mercat Samurai fa uns anys i no se m'acudiria demanar un reemborsament. Quan el mercat Samurai és "correcte" és una eina increïble. Estic per favor que vostè està fent els canvis necessaris en el seu negoci per mantenir el mercat Samurai "dret".
Per a aquells que no estan contents amb el nou model de subscripció, deixa fer-te una pregunta. Prefereixes pagar una mica de diners cada mes i tenir accés a una eina increïble o prefereixes veure a la gent fina en el mercat Samurai tanquen els seus negocis perquè no tenen els recursos financers per mantenir l'eina?
Hi ha una valuosa lliçó - "Intenta construir un flux d'ingressos recurrent en el seu negoci. Si ho fa, augmentarà dramàticament la probabilitat del seu èxit ".
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 19:53
Bob Stevens va respondre:
"Preferiries pagar una mica de diners cada mes i tenir accés a una eina increïble?" No, jo no ho faria - perquè amb base en l'experiència prèvia, no hi ha cap garantia que arribaran a les mercaderies. Han de demostrar que funciona primer (a diferència del producte fins al moment) i després demanar diners a la gent. Sospito fortament que vostè treballa per a MS o és un afiliat preocupat. Cap consumidor en el seu sa judici podria ser feliç amb el que està succeint.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 17:37
Jon Polònia respondre:
No - t'equivoques Bob. Jo no treballo per a MS i mai he promogut el mercat Samurai com afiliat. Mai. Però vaig a considerar que si ho fan "dret" de nou.
Com vaig dir en el comentari inicial. . "Quan el mercat Samurai és" dret "- és una eina increïble." S'entén? Això vol dir que hi ha moments en què el mercat Samurai no està bé. La meva esperança és que ara van a tenir els recursos per fer el mercat Samurai dreta.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 20:08
Maca respondre:
Això és tan cert. Crec que la majoria d'usuaris genuïns entendran això.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 20:50
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Joe,
Gràcies pels teus pensaments.
La seva 100% en el correcte sobre els ingressos recurrents. El nostre pla de negocis original era crear un gran valor fix piece Preu de programari i, a continuació, seguir amb més gran programari, alguns dels quals es va vendre en una base de continuïtat. Article Samurai va ser el primer d'aquests.
No obstant això, el que era totalment subestimat la quantitat de treball que es necessitaria per mantenir el mercat Samurai i seguir treballant!
Però el punt segueix sent, si teníem la previsió d'incloure qualsevol element d'ingressos recurrents amb Market Samurai, les coses serien molt diferents, i hauríem tingut més recursos per treballar en el mercat Samurai, i per seguir ampliant la seva funcionalitat. * És molt * difícil canviar les expectatives de preus més tard!
Gràcies de nou Joe per compartir les seves idees.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 02:53
Brenda respondre:
Eugene,
Gràcies per totes les seves respostes ben pensades i dirigides nivell tu. Només puc imaginar la humilitat que se sent quan passa alguna cosa com això canvi a Google. Vaig comprar MS fa 3 dies, i pel que ara, em sento remordiment i una mica enganyat. Estava tan ansiós per experimentar GS al màxim. Sento que sóc un usuari "real", encara que "això" és una banda que he estat treballant. Vaig a haver de repensar una subscripció perquè l'economia de la meva llar ho requereixen ... només la tramesa en el preu de compra va ser un gran problema per a mi. Jo no podia justificar, en el personal, una subscripció. Si això em fa un usuari menys genuïna fa ... que així sigui. Un cop més, admiro les respostes intel · ligents i assenyats en el que segurament ha de ser una situació molt frustrant. Sense resposta necessària ... Només volia expressar-me.
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 07:50
Roger Schmidt va respondre:
Com van a tancar? 400 000 usuaris de MS existents. Què passa amb les altres aplicacions de programari? Vegades que per $ 97 per unitat. Això és un munt de diners per a una "petita empresa". Haurien d'haver traslladat a s model basat en subscripció. No es culpi a les persones que es queixen, ja que tenen tot el dret també.
Graham Loosley @ KPI Agència SEO va dir:
Eugene,
Felicitats per 1) un gran producte i 2) el maneig d'un desastre fora del seu control, amb total professionalitat.
Què més es pot demanar als clients perquè un reemborsament complet? I sospito, oferint una manera lliurement molts clients, inclòs jo mateix, respectarem la seva posició i no demanar un reemborsament.
El veritable vilà aquí és Google, que acaba d'obtenir el dia d'avui més malament. Realment espero que la gent antimonopoli posar al seu lloc.
No sóc un fan de molt fa la UE, però sí que semblen tenir els abusos antimonopoli de les empreses EUA més seriosament que el Govern Federal dels EUA fa, testimoni Microsoft. Estic segur que els federals li tornarà el favor, si mai tens un negoci europea dominant.
Google construir un negoci per ser el més gran dels mons rascador de dades, que no paguen res per les dades que raspen, fan milers de milions per la venda de publicitat a la part posterior de les dades. Per què no oferir una API rànquing a un cost raonable? Per què ens obliguen a raspar a comprovar rànquings, ha de ser una enorme càrrega en els seus servidors? Quan una empresa adquireix el domini del mercat com Google també adquireixen responsabilitats de comportar amb justícia.
Larry i Sergei són sovint mal citat, el seu lema era realment "no siguis malvat fins que estigui dominant en el mercat".
Qui sap, si proporcionen una API de classificació podrien fins i tot reduir alguns de la seva petjada de carboni?
M'alegro que estiguis recomanant corb com per sortir del pas, també som un client Corb i fan un gran producte, però no és un substitut de Noble Samurai, s'obté el valor de l'ús dels dos.
Per descomptat, com SEOs que en KPI sabem que no és rànquing que compta, és resultats, però hem de donar als nostres clients el que demanen, i sempre demanar rànquings.
No convençut Binghoo com una alternativa per a nosaltres al Regne Unit, ja que Google té una porció molt més gran de la coca per aquí i encara hi ha diferències lingüístiques i culturals amb els EUA, malgrat haver envaït amb èxit les nostres sales de cinema i de televisió.
Un cop més, ben manejat Eugene i estic segur que va a sortir a l'altre costat d'aquest xoc de trens amb la major part de la seva llista de clients intacta i un gran respecte.
Graham
Clive va dir:
Gràcies per l'actualització.
M'he trobat amb un servei excel · lent i el fet que Google ha fet canvis que afecten la seva capacitat per seguir oferint efectivament no és una sorpresa. Quan es treballa en aquest "espai d'Internet" ha d'acceptar aquestes frustracions. Han passat abans i tornarà a succeir. L'única certesa és el canvi.
Quin és molt refrescant és la manera de comunicar-se amb i apreciar la seva base de clients. Estic segur que tots vostès estan treballant molt dur per resoldre els problemes i li oferirà el millor servei de valor que pot seguir endavant.
Gràcies.
Jack va dir:
Maleïda sigui, jo estava a punt de comprar MS un d'aquests dies, ja tenia el judici, però Adobe AIR segueix fallant al meu ordinador principal (he fet servir un PC secundari, així que sé que l'EM és una gran eina, però vull utilitzar en el meu principal PC). Suposem que jo compro el programari en els propers dies, serà que em posi en l'actual o la nova llista de clients a l'hora de fixació de preus per a les funcions de pagament mensuals?
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 13:51
Miriam Parkinson respondre:
Vostè es considera un usuari actual
Hotels Torquay Devon va dir:
Gràcies per l'actualització útils .... vostè pot comptar amb el nostre suport. Samurai del mercat és una eina impressionant. Vostès roca!
Annete va dir:
Hola Eugene & Equip
Com a petita empresa (sense connexió) i un molt petit negoci en línia, ja sé el que se sent quan alguna cosa afecta les principals empreses i clients. Agitació, estrès extrem, grups de reflexió i, finalment, solucions alternatives i resultats.
Val la pena ser honest i l'equip Samurai del mercat ha estat més que això, honest, i li dono les gràcies per això.
Ningú sap ni pot predir el que Google farà ara, demà o en el futur que afectarà el nostre negoci en línia.
Tot el que sabem és que Google fa revisar i canviar els seus algoritmes i acabem d'haver d'adaptar i canviar, igual que tot el que hem fet en el passat.
Per als clients de Market Samurai llegint això, estic segur que no era la intenció del Mercat de Samurai perquè això succeeixi, de fet estic segur que ni tan sols hagués estat en el seu radar!
Gràcies Eugene i l'equip pel gran treball fins ara i jo esperem amb Market Samurai en el futur!
SEOgeek va dir:
Hola,
Gràcies per la teva honestedat. No obstant això, sóc consultor SEO a França. França té una tendència especial amb el motor de cerca: Google té una quota de mercat del 93% (5 de Yahoo! i 3 de Bing). Com a conseqüència, frenches consultor seo ha de basar una estratègia de SEO a Google i les dades proporcionades per Google. Utilitzem Bing i Yahoo només per mànec SEO per al client de tenir un negoci internacional. En resum, a França, Google és el rei. Per tant, si vostè troba una manera de tenir la data de Google (i no és molt car), això està bé. En cas contrari, la majoria de frenches seo consultor puguin donar samurai mercat cap amunt ... Jo també utilitza Traffic Travis, per comprovar el rànquing, i aquest programari no té problema amb el seu mòdul rankchecker fins ara.
Lloguer de cotxes Regne Unit va dir:
Gràcies per l'actualització vostè. Hem utilitzat l'eina durant els dos últims anys i continuarà fent-ho fins i tot si es muda a un model de subscripció d'acord amb els comentaris de Jon Polònia. La comunicació oberta i honesta és una lliçó per als altres.
Anònim va dir:
Hola Eugene,
Gràcies per l'explicació!
Bona sort a vostè amb totes les actualitzacions.
Sincer Samurai usuari Market.
Graham va dir:
Valorar aquest post Eugene i bona sort amb la solució dels problemes. Com a usuari de temps molt llarg de l'EM m'ha sorprès per el bo que és per ell un preu inicial de temps. És una llàstima el de Rank Tracker però crec que és molt més important que l'anàlisi de paraules clau i la competència SEO
Mòduls juntament amb la part d'anàlisi competitiu del mòdul SEOC, que vostè va fixar recentment després encara another r treball de canvi google també. Aquesta és la funcionalitat principal per a mi.
Quant a Google, no fer mal el meu cul! Their results are consistently less relevant than other services yet most people keep using them. It seems that 30 odd billion profit isn't enough. Greed is not good
Alex said:
Hola!
I've been using MS for almost 3 years now. It's a great, well thought-through product: nicely designed, easy to use, powerful.
In the last 12 or so months we all noticed that it started going downhill, first by stumbling here in there, then by locking up and outright failing. And the number of upgrades…oh boy, seems like every time you start the MS there is another upgrade or patch waiting for you.
It's not a MS's fault… and yet — it is. It's not their fault because if you ever dealt with Google in any of its initiatives you should know they can not be trusted. They care not about their users or whoever they call “partners”.
They change their algos, APIs, TOSs, reports, data, they start and drop projects and accommodate only themselves at the expense of everyone else. Conniving, ruthless sons-of-bitches one should run away from, not cooperate or build one's future with.
Well, we are all stuck with Google for a while. It's not the time for them to go yet. This brings me back to MS. It could be the time for MS to re-think hard if they want to continue down this road they see. The mere number of patches and upgrades to the product is a tall red flag. It means that the product outlived its design and nature and is falling apart. Maintaining it, as the MS staff stoically have done, is simply unsustainable for the company.
Eugene, you responded to all your customers' concerns openly and gracefully. Thank you very much! But as the CEO of the company you will have to bring all your people together and decide what to do next. Maybe it's time to move on, maybe completely re-invent the company's mission, products and service. Continuing down the present path will be inexcusable waste of time and your people's talent.
NRN
Roberto Lito said:
Yes,people here are right. Market Samurai is an amazing tool and even if you have to pay monthly to make it work, it's worth every extra payment. It is impossible to expect that you would maintain such a service forever without charging anything.
Emanuele said:
Thanks for your hard effort. Keep it up.
We need you!
Marquis Gittens said:
Best of luck guys!
Susan said:
Thanks for the update and thank you all for your very hard work. It is much appreciated.
Ray Casey said:
Hey Guys
Sóc un nou propietari de Market Samurai i encara està aprenent com funciona. Lamento escoltar el que ha passat i confiar en vostè que les coses tornin junts. No sóc una gran font d'ingressos en la xarxa el que els costos per a mi és una preocupació però sí que sé prou sobre Samurai que reposar per vostès seran recompenses en si mateix i qualsevol extres anant seran preses per millora dels ingressos després del que està armant ara. Aguanta aquí i no deixar que la gent et vinguis avall allà amb queixes. Tot el millor
Raig
Hans diu:
Bona sort nois,
Sóc un client feliç, mantenir la bona feina.
Pau digué:
També m'agradaria fer-me ressò d'un comentari anterior de Troy. Quan vaig comprar MS per $ 97 em va sorprendre la quantitat de valor lliurat l'eina. Encara no entenc com aquest valor pot seguir prestant per a un honorari d'una vegada. El canvi és un fet de la vida i per a aquells de vostès que Winge i gemegar, entenc que com més complex és que el seu negoci creix com més canvi (generalment inesperat) que haurà de bregar. Cal acostumar-se a ella. Agraeix que productes com MS existeixen i que sí, pot ser que hagi de pagar per ells. Si vostè se sent tan dur fet per, canviar a una alternativa. Bona sort amb això.
Chris Parker va dir:
El seu servei és molt bo i una sola inversió en la I no podia creure el bo que era el valor. El teu entrada és excel · lent - oberta i honesta i clarament motivat per factors externs fora del seu control. En comparació amb altres serveis - Corb i SEO Moz, Web CEO, auditor web que són molt barats i et utilitzen gairebé tots els dies. Potser tots hem estat mimats per la seva relació qualitat-preu i qualsevol bel d'aquest inevitable càrrega estan comercialment ingenu o simplement tractant a. Dic intentar fer-ho vostè mateix durant uns dies i després es pot apreciar el valor.
Steve Fallon @ SEO Company Brisbane va dir:
Hola Eugene
Company gràcies per l'actualització, i pel gran servei que vostè i el seu equip ha proporcionat a mi (a tots nosaltres en realitat) en els darrers 3 anys i escaig. He estat utilitzant Market Samurai des del principi i m'encanta el que significa per al meu negoci i el creixement que ha proporcionat als meus clients a causa de resultats impressionants.
Qualsevol persona que utilitzi el programari Market Samurai ha d'apreciar el que és una posició que es troba, el mer fet que Google canvia els pals de la meta constant és la mateixa raó nostres negocis són capaços de sobreviure. SEO estaria mort si tots tinguéssim el mateix algoritme de Google, ara que teníem 2003, i amb el bé que ha d'acceptar també les dolentes.
Sé que el ROI de la meva inversió original de MS és millor que la de la meva Mac, així que no hi ha manera en què jo estic demanant un reemborsament, i si no puc absorbir un petit cost mensual addicional (si va a ser) de la meva quota de pagament dels clients , llavors estic en el negoci equivocat i hauria de tancar la botiga!.
Vostè i el seu equip fan un gran treball i aquells que han estat aquí des del principi estarà a la seva decisió de que sigui així.
Tard o d'hora els ous en una sola cistella veure la truita, i això és només la forma en què és.
Oh and one further point, we were all happy to extrapolate numbers out in the overture days (before the Google Keyword Tool) so if we need to do so now for an indication, then so be it!
We are in your corner!!!
¡Salut
Steve
Julian said:
I have used this product from a month ago and im very satisfied to have made that purchase, now im a little discouraged and i understand it all depends on google, now the idea of using the bing data for seoc seems really bad and as i am used to retrieve that data manually i prefer to do that(slower as it is) so please if there is any way to get the google keywords and seo analysis data back, for me that would be good enough. about the rank tracker i hope you get a solution fast and if things change, i think it will be for good. gràcies
Simon James said:
I was a beta tester of this software, and when it officially launched, I was shocked and dismayed that it was NOT a subscription based service. From that moment onward the writing was on the wall with regards to how fast you could maintain and innovate this product.
In the business software environment I come from, annual maintenance fees are the norm for good reason. Customers complain about having to pay 20%+ of their purchase fee as a support charge, but the alternative is to pay 300% or more upfront fees to ensure continuation of service.
This is one of the main reasons you don't by bargain price WP plug-ins and other software off places like the Warrior Forum… because, like as not, it will be broken in 6 months time and the author will not have the resources necessary to fix it.
Joseph said:
MS has presented a fantastic value for what it provides, especially at a one time cost. Obviously y'all have demonstrated that “costs” can be adopted in a business model – considering how you handled the majestic seo without passing on costs (thanks). Obviously spending money isn't the preferred method, but this business seems to be a rather volatile one so C'est la vie.
I like the idea of premium features at a monthly cost. I think having an affordable version is important for people starting out though. The biggest battle there is skepticism. If MS had been a monthly subscription when I started, I probably wouldn't have done it. Now I'm in the business and see how valuable it is.
barbaramoss said:
Thank you for the info. Hope you manage to resolve your and our problems. Good luck.
Rick said:
Eugene,
As one of your earlier users, guess several years now at least, I've been constantly amazed at the service you've provided over the years, especially with the number of features you've added while the price has remained constant. Have never understood how you did it.Those of us who signed up in the early days had no idea what MS would evolve into and to say that we've been pleasantly surprised would be an understatement.
As a full time SEO guy I understand the job you're trying to do is almost impossible, as google itself doesn't seem to know what it wants to deliver on a given day. As Elizabeth said above, you've always come thru, and we greatly appreciate. As a SEO person, MS has always been my starting point for many services but as anyone knows that's in this business, it takes more than one tool to completely and thoroughly do your job and for this MS remains without equal in pointing us to other avenues to explore as well as providing nearly all the core tools to get started.
So thanks for all you've done and continuing to do. We appreciate your frankness in what's going on, just please keep us updated and good luck.
MS Rocks,
Paller
Moderated by Miriam for language
daveM said:
Usage based billing seems fair, I am sure that some people use the searches much more frequently than others and perhaps they should pay more.
In any event, this service is most valuable to all users and I, for one, would like to see it maintained.
Peter said:
Well, SEO will always be a bumpy road. And the Samurai road is still the best!
Gràcies!
Oskari said:
Dear MS-team,
I have been using MS only for few weeks. It is truly pity that Google changed their rules, but I 100 % understand that it is not your fault. You cannot control Google. I send you all my best regards and energy so that you can work hard in order to get the service back. I will definitely recommend MS to other people too.
Thank you, and hope that MS is working soon again.
Oskari
David said:
Hi Eugene… an awkward situation for you and one that was bound to cause a lot of flak, so bravo for sticking your head above the parapet like you have…
First I'd like to add my support for you – providing a product like MS can only be a constant support nightmare in terms of the shifting sands of the big G… and well done for (more or less) keeping up with it to this point. Having met some of your team at IM events I can see you have some absolutely top notch people on board and that you have a great company.
Second, your fixed price offer business model has always been a great feature of MS, but obviously also one of its long term problems (for you, and ultimately the customers if it becomes unviable), even with the tens of thousands of customers you must have and I can totally understand your desire to add a recurring element to it if possible.
Third though, and the bit that concerns me slightly is your apparent promotion of alternatives like (to quote) the excellent Raven Tools. Are you really trying to encourage people away from MS so it can slide off quietly into the sunset??
MS has provided me a bundle of value, so immense thanks for that. Be good to know the longer term intent though.
Millor
David
Sonny Lanorias @ Online Marketing Philippines said:
Thanks for the heads-up and keeping us upto date with the latest in the SEO world.
So the question is, are we going to pay on a monthly basis on the near future using the MS software? Even if I do, am still gonna use Market Samurai because its the best out there.
Online business starts with keyword research if you want to hit it hard. Hitting it hard means doing SEO. So without market samurai, everything will be time wasted.
So thanks again and please keep us posted. You rock Eugene!
-Sonny
geoff blore said:
To say I am mystified is an understatement. I am a disabled pensioner with very limited funds of approximately £490 per month, which includes small pp's. I also live on my own in a rented flat costing me £460 per month.
To survive I try to sell books on a website that continually lets me down, partly because of failing memory (I attend memory clinic)but mainly because I've never been computer literate anyway.
I now seem to spend all my time fighting battles on several fronts, especially the banks plus an ongoing determination to get some recompense for my service pension that was robbed by the Harold Wilson Government in 1975 & which this government refuses to address.
I gamble online using my system which actually works, but breaks down occasionally because of website failure and which I'm currently trying to find expert to put right. I have tried to put my ideas on economy before government (no response) but have support of several MP's and friends who understand my 'alternative' people's lottery & can't understand why 'those in power' won't even listen.
Now this from google. I do not know what to do.
This is my first blog
Harold said:
Hi Eugene ! Sorry if my English is not perfect…
I purchased Market Samurai few months ago. This is definitely the best service I could find for the best price ! You're doing an awesome job guys !
Concerning paying a monthly fee, I understand but I hope that it will be an “option”.
I use MS for personal use mostly. This will not always be the case, but as for now : I only track a very small number of keywords concerning rankings. A free service for a very small number of queries per month would definitely be useful (and appreciated I believe).
Keep up the good work !
Dustin said:
Seriously guys MS has been offering the best service out of all the crappy limited use products on the web, i've been through countless $thousands finding and trying applications and MS have been the best out of the lot.
A qui li importa si ha de pagar per les dades, que és el que tothom ha estat fent durant anys a un mínim aquests nois estan sent transparent.
Bona feina nois you rock, decebedor, però bé això és la vida.
Perseverar
Swaminathan va dir:
He estat utilitzant Market Samurai des del principi, i he fet servir totes les funcionalitats de l'eina per als meus clients. Ha estat una eina que ús tots els dies, encara que de vegades m'irrito a les actualitzacions freqüents. :) Ara sé per què vostès actualització tan sovint.
També he de pagar $ 77 per mes per SECockpit des que vaig descobrir l'anàlisi de paraules clau amb més rapidesa.
No necessito la restitució - de fet, si MS pot millorar la seva velocitat com anàlisi de paraules clau SECockpit, no m'importa pagar una subscripció mensual i cancel · lar el membres SECockpit.
Vostès són bons, i jo et desitjo de sortir enfortida dels desafiaments que enfronta.
Bona sort.
Dan Trinitat va dir:
Hola Eugene,
Sóc nou en MS i estic als últims dies de la meva període de prova. He provat altres serveis i estic completament venuts en MS. En realitat vaig pensar que l'EM era molt barat i es va sorprendre en absolut que la seva empresa ofereix a una tarifa única.
No estic dient que vull pagar més, però jo honestament pagar el doble i una quota mensual raonable pels seus serveis.
No hi ha un model de negoci podria sostenir el seu valor i l'adaptació contínua sense un augment dels costos. Jo personalment no crec que vostè ha de tenir per ser tan disculpes. Si els membres de molt temps han estat utilitzant el programari des de fa anys, i ho haurien aconseguit més del que esperaven.
Deixa de ser gent barata per maleïda! Si no t'agrada, fer servir totes les altres alternatives lliures i veure com funciona per a vostè.
De totes maneres, amb ganes d'esdevenir un membre pagat quan el seu equip rebi el seu problema resolt.
Best,
Dan
Peter Khizam va dir:
Eugene: Hola, només he estat amb la seva companyia poc temps i m'he adonat que vostès seran més útils.
Jo sóc un novell en tot el màrqueting en línia. Corro appslisting que és una plataforma d'Apple i la iTunes Store que fa a les aplicacions per a telèfons intel · ligents i estic tenint un moment difícil, ja que està tractant d'aconseguir el meu cap al voltant de tot tal com és, així que espero que vostès poden treballar en aquest problema a terme més d'hora que tard i jo estaria encantat de pagar una subscripció si ha estat elaborat en una escala mòbil, Aquells que usen el seu servei altament pagar una subscripció més alta que aquells que com jo que tot just estan tractant d'aconseguir les coses i córrer i no ho fan tenir ple coneixement del que el seu producte és capaç de fer per un espectacle ..
Segueixin amb la bona feina ..
Peter
Appslisting WeV'e Gottem.
Colin Sanders va dir:
I've done everything from the original Google Adwords course to a large number of SEO and IM products out there. To those who care to complain about what has happened to Market Samurai, please do your research BEFORE complaining! Let me tell you there are only about three (some would say only two) competing products in this space (price vs functionality). Sure you could change horses to one of the other one (or two) competitors but they too have been hit by every change Google has thrown at affiliate marketing and those of us who try to make a living off the net. The difference I see between MS and the other product(s) is the level of transparency on why things break and the dedication to fix/deliver the very best product at the very lowest price. Sure we can go back to some of the “free” manual methods we used to use (though many of them no longer work properly either(if at all) in the face of all the changes by Google (and others)) but God-forbid the hours and hours of manual research that was necessary to do what MS has made so much less painful over the years. And yes, you could gather a whole bunch of individual tools to do the various functions provided by the MS modules, but my previous comments still stand and in some cases you would have to pay monthly subscriptions for individual components which don't necessarily even integrate very well, so I for one will not be asking for a refund! Google totally black-banned me (for life) from using Adwords because of a single transgression caused by one of the products I trialled. Google has also recently completely shut down a vast number of their products with NIL concern for their customer base, many thousands of whom used those products in their lives and businesses (read the forums). Google will continue to change the playing field making it harder and harder to make affiliate marketing pay-off as they refine their primary goal of providing “the best search engine”. Some of the collateral damage is those business who have attempted to help us work in the face of IM changes. While I am in no way affiliated to MS (apart from owning the product) I suggest continued support of MS in the face of what will become a constantly more difficult marketing world.
Regards Automation_Man
sharon said:
HI,just a thought have you talked to the guys that run seo powersuite, they have a ranktracker you may be able to use.
Mike From Maine said:
This is completely understandable. I'm wondering how long it will be until this option is available?
Thanks for the great customer support!
Pete said:
MS is a great product in an ever changing environment. I look forward to what MS will become in the next few weeks as the dust settles. Thanks for all you & the team do!
Jeff said:
We should expect things to change, it's what carries us forward (generally speaking!) and its always been thus. I bought MS about three weeks ago, so you can imagine how I feel.
I hesitated for a long time before purchasing, because deep down I suspected (maybe I still do) that MS was a sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut for me. I'm not a pro seo guy, I look after my own business' site, and that's it. Any ongoing monthly expense, if it had been part of the initial sales pitch, would almost certainly have 'proven' that this albeit excellent pro tool was overkill for me.
What I'm saying is that anyone in my position (I can't be the only one who couldn't resist a self-indulgent purchase?!) would just love to be able to check a small handful of data for free, having bought the product. And if MS were earning me significant chunks of my income, then I would not object to paying extra for good quality data it provides. Which of these guys moaning about paying would be prepared to go on offering their own services at the same price if their overheads doubled? Not many…
And finally, one other point; this is perhaps the best example I can remember of how to handle a crisis, and deal with customers who you know are going to be upset by what's happened to the service you provide for them. You have been open, honest and clear about what's happened and why, and you're telling us what you're doing about it. As a new customer (who knew you sold a great product but not much else about you), I'm learning much about your ethos and values through your response to this, and I have to tell you – it generates loyalty. Of course some people will take this opportunity to get their money back with a snigger, but most people are not looking only for lowest cost, they're looking for the best quality. The fact that you have responded so positively, even to frankly unreasonable criticism here, shows me you care. That has value, and worth, in a product. In times of austerity and difficulty, there's a distillation process and the crap sinks to the bottom or disappears altogether. I'm not expecting that for you. Good luck!
Neil Mighalls said:
Well I've not even a Market Samurai subscriber, (not yet anyway) but I am a business man and I have had some success in Internet Marketing. In my opinion any enterprise that relates to their customers in this way is a winner by me.
David Ballantyne said:
Hola,
I just want to let you know that I am very satisfied with the service I have received from you to date.
In respect of value for money, I think that those customers who are expressing dissatisfaction should review other service providers. For the same range of functionality available in Market Samurai, I have not found any other service providers who do not charge a monthly fee. I have not found any other comparable SEO software available at the relatively low price charged by Market Samurai.
I have always been curious as to why monthly charges were not applied as it did not seem to be a viable business model to me. The only way you can fund ongoing development and maintain existing services is to find more customers.
As regards a monthly fee, my own advice would be to survey customers to assess what they would be prepared to pay. My own feeling is that for Market Samurai as it was before the current problems arose, I would be quite happy to pay $15USD a month. At 400,000 users that would bring in $6 million US dollars a month! Think of the product development you could do with that!
As stated by a previous poster, I would rather pay a small monthly fee to ensure that the excellent value for money product that Market Samurai is, and the first class customer service we get from Noble Samurai, continues.
William Bradley said:
Thanks for your reponses Eugene. I completely agree with the above post about how well you are acting when confronted with an issue. I also believe that a subscription model is inevitable, much as I'd love to keep using it for free. Commercial reality cannot be avoided. I have had Market Samurai since it came out during the Thirty Day Challenge and fail to see how anyone can not have gained more value than they paid. I commend you and your team for their professionalism and forthright stance.
Jason Davis said:
First of all I am not really a user, I have used the trial version, I am a developer and I would just like to make a statement. I have used many different software for social networks and they are very different from this but in a way they share a similar challenge. Twitter, Facebook, etc are constantly making changes that break the software built around these sites and I can tell you that a lot of company's get your money and once there software breaks from a change like this, they disappear and the customer is left hanging, so it is very noble of noblesamurai to not only tell you what the problems they are facing but also tell you they will fix it the best that it can be fixed given the circumstances out of there reach, they could very easily close of shop and open a new software with a new name and start collecting money all over again but instead they are dedicated to keeping this a solid reliable product.
The point of this post is that many company's come up against very similar problems as this and they trun there back on the customer, so it's always good to see a small company doing the right thing, congrats to your success, you are obviously number 1 for a reason
Reggie said:
I hope you can solve the issues soon and wishing you the best. I am new in online business and I found that Market Samurai is the best tool there is to date that I have seen and cost less among others. I have just purchased it a few weeks ago and am really surprise that this problems are arising. I don't intend to refund, what I like to see is how your company will recover with these issues, I know there will be solutions to every problem so keep up the good work guys.
Thanks for providing such a useful tool with a minimal price.
Ian B said:
How about using the rank tracker tool with the ability for users to enter proxies?
Works well with other products I have.
Dave@Backlinks said:
If you can do a limited number of searches then why can't we do it all on our end with private proxy support?
You could just build in a scheduler so it doesn't do them all at once like it does now
Regards
Dave
Bob Stevens said:
Your company is a disgrace. The product hasn't worked properly for months, your customer service is terrible, and now you are asking people to pay extra if they want it to function even remotely like the original description in your marketing hype? Just be honest, you have known for a long time of it's flaky problems, which is why you put your efforts into your new products. And you have continued to sell it in spite of it's shortcomings? As I said, disgraceful, you shouldn't be allowed to be in business.
Nige said:
Unfortunately Google has history of slapping both the marketers and the SEO software manufacturers in the interest of improving their service (profit margin). As such subscription would appear the only viable alternative and something that we as marketers need to start factoring into our costs. I already pay one company for a rank tracker software, so this will be an opportunity to compare two paid modules and make a decision based on which service provides the best feature set / value for my requirements.
If you don't need it, don't buy it. But if it has value and allows noble samurai to continue their development of this invaluable software then dig a little deeper.
Vince Samios said:
Frankly – MS is the best supported, most functional tool of its type.
Every single time I use market samurai there is a new update… and whenever there is a big change, MS has a solution within hours…
Much of the success of my companies, now with a 7 figure turnover, is down to the information and insight Market Samurai provides. From a personal perspective I'd be a moron if I chose not to pay for Market Samurai now that, as Eugene rightly says, what was free, now isn't.
An unlimited, no questions asked refund policy? Thats bloody absurd – and another reason MS is the #1 product – the support is redunculous (in a good way)
I have a lot to thank MS and the team for, consider this a strong vote of confidence and support.
Karl said:
Why can't you just enforce users to use private proxies? This way it stops you guys having huge queries on your servers? :S
Graham said:
I have just checked my Traffic Travis Pro I haven't used for a while and most of their data seems to be working OK..
Any reason for this? Are they using different data?
I've had MS for a couple of years and have always been happy with support and the performance and I will reciprocate that support now.
Great things are achieved when your backs up against the wall..!
- G
lee said:
Hola,
Thanks for responding to the questions, can i make a recomendation that you also respond to other blogs out there slagging off your business becase they are not informed. A simple paragraph would help myself and others who were not aware of your diligence and response and also perhaps not awaer of this blog despite purchasing your software.
Can I also ask for help for you clarifying the seo competion section.
Is this going to be up and running soon_
Is this going to be free or an additional cost
sorry if the answer is here overwhelmed by the detail
On January 29th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Eugene Ware replied:
Hi Lee,
Thanks for your question and for looking out for us. We're pretty good at monitoring our name, but being the weekend and having all hands on our deck either working on solutions or getting back to support enquiries there hasn't been a lot of extra capacity.
To answer you question:
- Everything except Rank Tracker is now working 100% again.
- Rank Tracker now has Google Rank Tracking re-enabled, but only for small numbers of keywords while we work on a more permanent solution.
- Market Samurai will still be a fixed cost product. We have no plans to change this in the short-medium term.
- Rank Tracker may have a free number of searches (if we can make the numbers work), and we will probably employ a usage based model so that heavy users of Rank Tracker will pay more. Not much has been decided in this regard, but we will strive to make it as affordable as possible for our existing customers, and if we can't offer some free service, then we'll definitely charge the minimum amount to cover costs.
- The SEO competition module is now 100% working. The rank results come from Google.
- The “SEOC” numbers in the Keyword Research module have been updated to return data from Bing. They won't return exactly the same numbers as Google for example, but they will still be useful to filter out keywords with high numbers of competitors. Any keyword that you pick should still go through a full SEO Competition Matrix analysis (and back link analysis) before you invest any time in it, in our opinion.
Thanks Lee for the heads up! I just realised I should probably update the blog post with what's being going on (ie that most of the service outages have been resolved).
JanPaul said:
Hi Eugene,
You are right about using Bing instead of Google. I myself am getting more and more fed up with the preselected search results Google comes up with nowadays. I have tested several searchengines for a few questions and Google really does not always come up with such good answers.
Keeping things simple is also an art, so if I were you I would not follow Google in making things too complicated. Let them have their fun on their own.
Tot el millor,
JP
Stan said:
Hey Eugene…
It seems that Google has done it again. They're very good at many things, including destroying the businesses of many hard working people.
I've been a Samurai user for a long time. And at a one time price of $97.00… a bargain of a lifetime. Keep up the good work and good luck to you.
Dave said:
Hi I have a paid membership for many months now and am only beginning to find out the really good aspects of market samurai that I nev noticed before. I particularly like where I can source content and affiliate networks.
However, I really can't afford any kind of monthly subscription. I don't use MS often enough for keyword research to make it worthwhile and even if I did I just don't have the money. Sadly, if it comes to that I will just have to say goodbye to my MS software.
On January 29th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Eugene Ware replied:
Hi Dave,
Gràcies pels teus comentaris.
We don't want to do this, but when we do we'll do are hardest to keep it affordable for our users, and even try (if it's possible) to have a free line, where you can track a small number of keywords for free. We're even toying with having a credit system so that casual users can still get some of the benefits of a subscription without having to be locked into a monthly subscription.
We know with the current economic climate, it's becoming harder and harder to justify ongoing monthly costs. We'll do our best to keep things it as affordable as possible, and hope to provide options who can't afford an ongoing commitment. I can't promise anything at this stage – only to say that we're aware of the issues and will try really hard to make it work for everyone, regardless of their economic situation.
Thanks Dave for sharing your concerns. We hear you.
On January 30th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Cheryl replied:
Hi Eugene, I'm afraid I am in the same boat as Dave, I am just new to MS and as my business is not yet off the ground I am not able to justify the cost of a monthly subscription, just not in the budget, having said that once my business is making money then I feel that a monthly cost to access the tools needed to operate a business would not be an issue. I am sure you guys are pulling your hair out at present and I do feel for you.
I am also impressed with your offer of a refund if people choose no matter how long they have been involved with MS, very, very good customer service there are not to many business's out there that would be prepared to do that. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you will get there.
On February 1st, 2012 at 1:11 am
Dave replied:
Thanks Eugene,
tbh, I also bought another keyword research tool back when I started off and that one is still working without any issues..
So I think I will just get a refund for MS. How do I go about that procedure?
Thanks
Dave
Sue said:
I have only just bought this product in Dec (I think it was) so haven't really used it much and certainly not to it's full obvious potential
I bought it because of google constantly changing and thought it would help me to keep on top of it all and I am sure it will
so I haven't really used the rank tracker at all but wonder on this posibility… if you did a usage fee the more it is used the more you pay (while still being wholesale of course lol) I am just aware that I haven't used it yet so am not sure of it's value and wouldn't have as greater usage out of it as say someone who has been using it for years and has 2000+ to track
but these are only my thoughts as I said I haven't used it
as you said it is more important to get it up and running rather than working on price
I am sure that what ever you do it will be fair and your best
Johan said:
Very disappointing, guys. While I understand there are changes outside your control, I think there are functionalities in MS you can do without. The core you should keep are Keyword Research, SEO Competition, and Rank Tracker. Those are the only functions I use. The rest is useless.
If/when you start charging for a basic functionality like Rank Tracker, I will ask for a full refund. Long Tail Pro gives me a free rank tracker, so why should I pay for yours?
Let alone if you use Raven's framework, why shouldn't I just go straight to them? Is there any compelling reason to pay you?
You're quickly becoming useless and irrelevant. As someone who recently bought MS, I wonder why I even bothered.
On January 29th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
Eugene Ware replied:
Hi Johan,
Gràcies pels teus comentaris.
I'm sorry that you're feeling let down.
The majority of our attention each week goes into keeping those three modules operational. They are the three most constantly changing modules, and that's what we update each day to continue to work.
I haven't heard of Long Tail Pro and I will certainly check out their software and see if there is anything we can learn from how they're managing this issue. If it's currently working, then I encourage you to use it, and you're certainly entitled to a full refund.
In terms of Raven Tools, you'll find that our pricing will be a lot more competitive in general, and more geared to the real needs of our customers (who want the ability to monitor web2.0 results and specific URLs) – and if you're an existing Market Samurai customer we'll essentially give you wholesale pricing.
I'm sorry you feel this way about our products. It's sounds like you're quite upset, please feel free to ask for a full refund at any time.
Thanks again for being so honest about how you're feeling, and I hope we'll have the opportunity to earn back your trust and respect.
perry @ blend local search marketing said:
hi there,
can you let us know the costs of subscription
monica @ se1 gyms said:
hi there, what a proffessinal response, thanks so much.
Any ideas of timeframe for fixing these elements please…
On January 29th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Eugene Ware replied:
Hi Monica,
Thanks for your support!
As I write this response the team has now restored Keyword Research, SEO Competition and most of the service that Find Content and the Promotion Module use.
Rank Tracker has now been restored (but in a limited fashion, so you can check the Google Ranks for small numbers of keywords using your own computer instead of our servers).
To get access to these new modules, please update to the latest version of Market Samurai by launching the application and saying “Yes” to updates.
A more permanent Rank Tracker solution will be quite a large undertaking, and it will be several weeks away at least, I'm guessing.
Thanks again Monica for your kind words.
Maca said:
Thanks for keeping us updated with what's going on. It's a real shame what's happened, but that's life. We just have to find the best solution and get on with it. I look forward to getting Rank Tracker back, even if it is a paid version.
Craig@Text Marketing said:
I echo the sentiments of “Charles M” Rocky and the others. Our company has made good money out of our $97 investment by providing excellent ranking websites to our clients over the 2 years we have been using it. Now is the time to support the team at MS and by doing that let them get on and find a solution that all of us will benefit from. 400,000 users have some muscle in the market for ranking data information so a monthly fee as part of the MS package that is fair is totally reasonable. Cheers for the update Eugene and there will be no refund requests from this company.
On January 31st, 2012 at 6:25 am
Allison Reynolds replied:
name removed please ditch it now. You are embarrassing yourself. Real business people understand that markets and circumstances change and that looking for the opportunity in the change is where the money is. This is the internet (and SPARTA), keep moaning about change and you just get run over by those who know how to harness it…
Thanks MS guys, I have seen other businesses close down because things got hard (like many Twitter products when the API changed). You have always had a quality product and quality service, and I appreciate the effort you put into your transparency.
Moderated by Miriam
Andrew said:
Eugene – your whole blog post and your comment responses I just read strike me as a fantastic example of how to handle this kind of difficult situation.
You just made me more likely to become a customer, not less
Tony said:
I have no problem with the rank tracking being a chargeable service – given the explanation of why it is necessary.
All I ask is that this be an optional extra and that you don't introduce a charge for the rest of the functionality.
Edwin said:
The ONLY reason I bought MS in the first place was the rank tracking function. I do use it on a blue moon for SEO competition but as I have all the sites I want I am not activly looking for new keyword research etc.
So reading this all makes it easy for me…I will build my own rank tracking functions.
Goodbye MS … I have used your product for about 2 years now so it has been worth it but I will never use a monthly payment service for ranktracking as the reason I bought your product the first place was that I was to lazy at that moment to create something myself.
Gràcies,
Edwin Boiten
On January 29th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Eugene Ware replied:
Hi Edwin,
Thanks for your feedback.
On the face of it, writing software to query Google seems like a relatively technical undertaking. I used to be software developer and I certainly thought so when I first tackled the problem for the first time.
If you do decide to write your own code to do this here are some tips:
The issue with Rank Tracking is that Google is ALWAYS changing their search results. At least two or three changes to their search result pages and their page layouts happen every single week. A few years ago Google changed about once every 2-3 weeks. Now it's at least twice a week.
So that's a big time suck to debug and fix. The second big issue is an issue I alluded to in another reply, which is that when you surpass about 20 keywords, and are checking phrase match and a deep depth of pages, then you'll quickly hit the issue of coming up against Google service disruptions. Solving those two issues is the “secret sauce” for tracking ranks.
The problem is not in writing software that will work once (that's easy). It is building a solution that will keep working with daily changes, and making sure that it scales (for even modest numbers of keywords).
Having to continually keep up with the frequent changes which break your code gets old pretty quickly, and that's what you get when you subscribe to Rank Tracking services such as Authority Labs or SEOMoz Pro, etc. You pay them to deal with that problem. We've become pretty good at solving the problem, and even then we've hit a technical brick wall that is simply insurmountable. When you price in the value of your time it can become a false economy. We have 6 full time developers and a development manager, and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year staying on top of constantly changing services (more than just Rank Tracker in our case, however) – it's our business, and even then it becomes wearisome.
But depending on your Rank Tracking needs you might find that writing and maintaining your own code works out better for you and your workflow.
Thanks again for sharing your comments, and I wish you better luck than we've had in solving this problem for the past four years.
Morten Rais said:
Sure its frustrating that MS is not fully operating, but I have had so much work done for me already that I would never ask for a refund. Regarding the subscription! I would say it comes down to the price. In active periods I would be prepared to pay say 30 usd a month for some good and fast data. But I hope that there will at all times be a free low volume ranktracker in MS. A ranktracker that emulate a person. I have several other seo software packages they all have their advantages and disadvantages, but MS is always on of my favorites for a quick spin.
I saw a ms user talking about he's 2000 keywords that he had to maintain. In he's situation I would go for a hosted solution if he is living in a I Country.
Keep up the good work.
Kiril Reznik said:
Hey Eugene,
Thanks for the update regarding the services status but its hardly convincing.
A mesura que la seva fervent partidari de 2010, l'única raó per la qual es va traslladar a l'EM és Rank Tracker, que en aquest moment, utilitza la connexió local i era una manera molt ràpida i convenient de controlar la SERP per les paraules clau. Va passar el temps i que ha introduït els serveis en el núvol, i he de dir que l'experiència va ser degradada per deu. Podria ser a causa del fet que no estic ubicat als EUA, però la velocitat de connexió era, i al meu entendre encara, pobre.
Ara al meu punt: mentre que el servei està "inclòs", aquest nivell de rendiment és acceptable, però si es converteix en un pagament add-on que hauria de treballar molt dur per assegurar-se que els seus serveis en el núvol s'estan exercint de primer nivell en totes les països de tot el món.
Encara puc entendre que una plataforma en el núvol és més fàcil de mantenir, però siguem honestos, tots els SEOers "grans" poden utilitzar proxies per evitar ser "desactivat" de Google, i tots els "petits" SEOers no realitza la major quantitat de consultes per ser "desactivat". Així que l'únic benefici de la utilització de serveis en el núvol és més curt el temps de desenvolupament en el seu extrem i més diners per als serveis de dades de pagament.
El pas a backlinks Majestic era lògic, però pagant pel Rank Tracker, ho sento, però no és suficient ...
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 21:55
Eugene Ware respondre:
Hola Kiril,
Gràcies pels seus pensaments i comentaris.
Si vostè està comprovant un petit nombre de paraules clau de manera intermitent amb la seva pròpia connexió està bé. Però quan es fa més d'aproximadament 20 paraules clau a una profunditat de 1.000 resultats, d'àmplia i frases partit i amb els xecs d'índex s'executa ràpidament en dificultats en el servei de Google.
Ho sabem perquè nosaltres controlem dificultats en el servei de Google en la nostra infraestructura de servidors. Qualsevol consulta sostinguda que és més ràpid que al voltant d'1 consulta cada 30 segons en un període de 10 minuts provoca problemes. Perquè també els 20 paraules clau, així com una "petita" persona SEO que pot colpejar problemes. La majoria d'altres eines que comproven rànquing o et donen una facilitat per entrar en els seus propis servidors proxy, o simplement espereu 30 a 60 segons per cada consulta - el que significa que pot trigar molt de temps per portar de tornada els resultats.
Desenvolupament ennuvolat millora el temps de desenvolupament en el que és una mica més ràpid per adaptar-se als canvis amb els serveis, però hi ha una molt real, el cost actual també (ens vam passar cinc xifres d'un mes en la nostra infraestructura cloud). Així que en realitat no equivaldria a un estalvi de costos. El gran avantatge del núvol per a nosaltres en el llarg termini, és en realitat la capacitat d'allunyar d'Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR està plena de problemes de velocitat, rendiment i fiabilitat, i la fixació de la versió d'escriptori d'AIR és una prioritat per a ells. Rebem els nostres servidors en núvol tant amb Rackspace i SOFTLAYER per proporcionar redundància i gran ample de banda. Tots dos són considerats com dos dels millors de hosting i empreses de centres de dades disponibles.
Lamento que vostè sent que l'acompliment de Rank Tracker ha degradat per a vostè. La bona notícia és que la nova versió va a fer tot el control en el fons un cop per setmana, de manera que mai hauria haver d'estar esperant, i la seva proximitat física als centres de dades ja no ha de ser un factor constant. Eventualment tindrem fins i tot enviar informes per correu electrònic dels resultats de les classificacions, així, de manera que ni tan sols ha d'obrir l'aplicació en absolut.
Estic sincerament penedit altra vegada que et sents defraudat. Espero que les properes generacions de Rank Tracker veuran les qüestions que ha plantejat abordar. Si segueixes tenint problemes d'Israel us plau contacteu amb nosaltres.
No tenim molts usuaris d'aquesta regió del món, així que és difícil per a nosaltres per provar la connectivitat a la seva nació.
Gràcies de nou o el seu retroalimentació.
Roy va dir:
Well, for what it's worth: While I do feel for you guys having do do an enormous amount of work, I do think that the business model hasn't been working all that well in recent months and maybe 400,00 users (the majority free?) just isn't sustainable in the long term. I really feel that the performance and reliability has dropped off significantly since the introduction of article samurai and perhaps I'm not the only one who has subscribed (yep, paid) for a backup keyword service. So I'm hoping that this will be an opportunity to incorporate the current Article Samurai subscription fee into a fee for the whole product, reduce the user numbers, get things working again, get away from the Google strangle-hold(but Bing, Yahoo – seriously?) and maybe even an option of having the data in the cloud rather than OS based to speed things up a bit and make it more useable on the road. Just my thoughts. Good luck with it all guys. You're still #1 in the business IMO.
On January 29th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Eugene Ware replied:
Hi Roy,
Thanks for your support. The product has suffered in recent months. In particular, the major changes to Google's keyword generation tool have really slowed down the app by an order of magnitude. We've tried about 5 different ways to improve the speed and reliability with no avail.
As part of this round of changes we're putting in place some alternative options for fetching keyword data that will be much faster and more reliable.
Putting data into the cloud has been something that's been on the cards for a long time. A lot of the work in Market Samurai in the last year has been behind the scenes to move more and more of the logic and data into the cloud. We've had a lot of request for a web version, and mobile versions, and moving to the cloud makes this a whole lot easier and more reliable.
Thanks for your kind comments!
David Ferrers said:
I would just like to say that I find Market Samurai a really useful tool. Article Samurai (AS) adds a whole new dimension to SEO for me as it plays to my strengths. I purchased AS because I trust the Market Samurai brand. The open and honest response to this situation reinforces that trust. Using AS I saw a new keyword move up from nowhere on Google to the first page in just 46 days. Other target keywords are also moving strongly in the right direction.
My advice to anyone with Market Samurai is, “stick with these guys. They know what they're doing. Their advice is excellent. They are honest and straight and their support is first class. They are always likely to provide an outstanding service.”
Ranga said:
Curious to know how much you would be charging for the new module… Hope it should be affordable.
monica @ se1 gyms said:
Can you please direct me to the training video sections, I havent used the softwarwe yet thanks..
On January 29th, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Eugene Ware replied:
Sure Monica, you can get access to all our training at http://www.noblesamurai.com/dojo
From there you can select your product and also get access to videos, web-pages and even download PDF instructions about how to get the most out of our products.
Matt said:
Hi Eugene,
I'm not a wholesale SEO user of MarSam, but I do use it a lot, and I massively value its output.
I also understand that this excellent software is an aggregator and therefore dependent on multiple third parties, who may – like Google – pull the rug at short/no notice.
The price of Market Samurai is unsurpassed in terms of value, and occasional upheaval is a very, very small price to pay back for the ongoing insights the software delivers.
The fact is that if the whiners could get a better value service elsewhere, they would. That's simple economics.
I wish you well with the fixes and, when the dust settles, the most important thing may well be to review the contingency options available should more plugs be pulled in the future.
All the best to you and the team, mate!
Matt
William said:
Thanks for making the situation clear and it looks like you're evaluating all the options to help keep MS the best SEO tool available.
Keep us informed…
Thanks
Bill said:
Look forward to it being up & running again!
Thanks for the post
Keith Davis@Website Design Solihull said:
Hi Eugene
Gràcies per l'actualització.
Unfortunately the rank tracker module is the one I use the most and it is the one that impresses clients the most when they see their SERPS improve.
I am an affiliate for MS and I always stress the one-off payment, that was the reason I bought MS!
Once again thanks for the update and I'll hang on and see how things go.
Good luck.
On January 29th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Eugene Ware replied:
Hi Keith,
Thanks for your feedback.
If you could hang on for a few weeks until we have a first cut of the updated Rank Tracker service to play with before making your decision that would be great. Feel free to ask us for a refund at any time if it doesn't meet with your expectations.
We also have plans for SEO consultants who want to produce reports for their clients too. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to do printing from within Adobe AIR. But we think we've figured out a way. Probably a few months off, but it is in the works.
Gràcies de nou.
Ali said:
I am a small start up business and as such I am having to keep my business expenses extremely low in order to survive. I only purchase Market Samurai two months ago and the main reason I purchased Market Samurai was no ongoing cost and the business reputation.
I totally understand its not Market Samurai fault in a sense but one question I would like to ask. Why were Market Samurai not aware of the changes google was making whilst other vendors already made a seamless change?
Also with these new changes ii am concerned about data accuracy? What assurance scan Market Samurai give over this?
Thanks
Ali
Iain va dir:
M'alegro d'haver fet el salt de MS a les eines del corb fa poc més de 6 mesos. Ho vaig fer perquè he de pagar els clients per això cal la velocitat i la funcionalitat que Raven em podia donar més de MS. havent dit que si jo era una operació d'un sol home amb només 2 o 3 dels meus propis llocs i que em tornaria a cap eina. Em vaig trobar abans que abandonar el vaixell que l'EM era cada vegada més una càrrega que un ajut a causa de les peces trencades, les classificacions no coincideixin amb els controls manuals, (sí despersonalitzada i de-localitzada). L'única part útil que em quedava era la simple SEOC i dades SEOT que és una excel lent característica.
Eugene li desitjo la millor de les sorts en consonància MS el més barat possible, ja que crec que va ser una excel · lent eina (no només per saber com vaig escalar el meu negoci) i m'encanta la teva actitud cap a la fixació de preus i de serveis.
Jacobus va dir:
Hola Eugene,
Benvingut a Planet Google. S'ha de frustrar The Living Daylights de tu. El creguis o no, parem el seguiment de la nostra classificació perquè teníem més de 10.000 paraules clau ens classificació per un dels nostres llocs web i s'utilitza principalment Webmasters (tot i que és realment Webmasters usuari poc amigable he de dir que si vostè té una gran quantitat de paraules clau que classificar per) . Però el que vostès estan experimentant ara és una cosa que hem experimentat abans també. Google és tan estable com una empresa (en les seves decisions) com un pet vell borratxo en patins de gel. No obstant això, és com una bella dona amb una gran quantitat de falles: no es pot viure amb ella, no pot viure sense ella.
A la nostra empresa hem deixat d'usar la paraula SEO ... que ara anomenem Google manipulació i, francament, no se'ls pot culpar per canviar una mica el joc. Mentre vostès construir un producte molt ètic que funcionava molt bé, hi ha gent per aquí que arruïnen el joc per a tots els altres.
Vostè està en una situació difícil. En un negoci que vol l'estabilitat i em temo Google ni Bing o els altres mai lliurarà a tu.
I com a última paraula: segons les estadístiques que correm a la nostra empresa, les cerques a Google i Bing varien principalment en els números, no tant en les paraules clau (que en té), així que no et preocupis per això.
Bona sort a vostè i el seu equip. Suposo que ho necessiti.
Jacobus
Cosmo va dir:
He llegit tots els comentaris fins ara i sembla que la majoria de la gent es que es tracta d'un sot en el camí. Igual que els altres, estic impressionat amb la forma en MS s'encarrega d'això. Es tracta de llibres de text en les relacions públiques i un moviment molt intel · ligent. Pel que fa a les devolucions, llevat que vostè acaba de comprar el producte, no crec que vostè ha de demanar un. Quant a les despeses mensuals, crec que han modular en funció del volum de paraules clau controlades com un complement al servei a l'eina principal. Jo no el faig servir per moltes paraules clau encara i no crec que estaria disposat a pagar més de 05.07 dòlars per al meu ús. Però a mesura que augmenta el que jo necessitava, jo estaria disposat a pagar més. Em va agradar el comentari sobre cada un per ajudar a saltar en MS tenen èxit continu en oposició a totes les persones que opten fora i perdre aquesta impressionant eina. Jo estic recolzant a tots en MS! Segueix així
Aharon va dir:
Tots els que han estat involucrats en SEO per una mica mentre ja s'està acostumant a les altes i baixes. És part del joc SEO.
Kirsty jove va dir:
Després d'haver estat actiu a la xarxa des dels temps dels discos veritablement flexibles, JANET, Amstrad i dial-up (!), Estic francament sorprès que tanta informació segueix sent gratuïta a la web. No obstant això, la informació de qualitat és una altra qüestió, i si em vaig a vendre serveis SEO als clients, que volen assegurar-se que la informació és la millor disponible. Així, tot i que probablement sóc tècnicament un usuari "casa", si vostè necessita carregar, feu-ho amb la confiança que els professionals de negocis estaran encantats de pagar si l'eina ofereix. I no se m'acudiria demanar un reemborsament en alguna cosa que he estat utilitzant durant anys i que ja no funciona bé com ho va fer la primera vegada que vaig adquirir - el mateix s'aplica al meu microones, el meu cotxe i la meva parella!
Jim va dir:
Tinc curiositat per saber si els nous Estats membres també inclourà informació sobre la classificació Google Places? Atès que aquests resultats són molt importants per a una empresa local.
El 29 de gener de 2012 a les 21:06
FrankEdens respondre:
Aquesta és una molt bona pregunta ..
El 30 de gener de 2012 a les 00:02
Shane va respondre:
No estaves nois treballant en la inclusió d'indicadors de caràcter més local fa un temps?
Denis Hillman va dir:
M'he tornat molt descontents amb Google en l'últim parell de mesos i actualment estic movent a Bing i Yahoo. Veig en diversos dels programes que tinc, el mateix problema que té el mercat Samurai. Difícilment es pot posar qualsevol culpa als peus de MS per això. Al meu entendre, Google prefereix penjar els venedors a favor dels cercadors.
No sé on que deixa el seu alt sistema d'AdWords ingressos - però jo no ho faré servir mai més.
Good Luck equip MS - que has fet un gran treball.
aplaudiments - Denis
Wolfgang diu:
Gràcies Eugene, confio que tipus de MS en què sempre fa el seu millor esforç per mantenir-nos informats, i fer tot el possible per resoldre aquestes frustracions.
Sento que hagis de bregar amb alguns dels comentaris aquí, especialment a mesura que ens manté al dia sobre el que està passant, hi ha moments en que no és només culpa seva.
Joan va dir:
Hola Eugene
Sento el de tots els seus problemes amb els canvis de google.
Vostè i el seu equip sempre s'ha esforçat per mantenir el mercat Samurai actualitza independentment del que s'ha llançat en vostè, això és digne d'elogi en aquest dia i edat per a un producte que ha tingut un honorari d'una vegada.
A vegades les forces de mercat externes poden fer que vostè busqui internaly en els seus costos i fer que es decideixi que la manera de seguir endavant amb el seu negoci ha de canviar. Això és la vida.
Puc dir per la forma en què està responent als missatges en el fòrum que és una preocupació per a vostè i el seu equip si és necessari introduir algun tipus de cost addicional per als seus clients per tal perquè vostè estigui en el negoci i mantenir-se al dia amb les actualitzacions futures que samurai mercat, sens dubte, requereix.
I have owned market samurai for about two years. I am not a power user of it. I have had good use of the tool so far and would never think of asking you for a refund.
Market samurai and its team deserves to live, and be supported into the future. The same cannot be said about a lot of other companies in this industry.
Thanks again Eugene for caring about your customers.
Hope you and your team come up with the solutions that are benificial to us all moving forward.
Regards
John
Cardiff SEO said:
Why not have rank updates query Google locally, in the background, at random speeds so it looks natural, as a service on the Pc. It won't take much bandwidth as it is going slowly and you ranks will update through the day. As soon as you go into Ms, ranks will be up to date. Does anyone really need New rank data more than once a week?
Sheri-Oz said:
I am just new to this business and confused by everything. I bought this programme and am just learning to use it. I have found the staff on the other side of my emails so helpful and friendly that they are easing my way into this new world I discovered behind the screen on my desk.
I hope that stuff I signed up to get will still be available to me as I am not yet making enough money to put out more money for things I thought I already paid for.
That said, I appreciate the candor and updating.
Sheri
Ali said:
Another thought on Rank Tracker can't you. Introduce a pay as you go scheme? For small business like mine who wants to check this information on Adhock basis this may be a better solution?
Thanks
Ali
Anonymous said:
If you do need to add a cost, your earlier suggestion to have a “proportional system where heavy users pay more” would be preferred and fair, being that is what affects how you will be paying for the data anyway?
ie I use MS weekly to check rankings for 3 websites on 10 keywords each. Then on a monthly basis for 6 websites, again 10 keywords each.
So if I spread the checks over a few days so that only 10 keyword checks per day maximum, will I be in the 'free' bracket?
If not, doing the calculation based on your earlier figures of 400,000 users of MS and cost of $40,000 per day to buy this data, that would mean charging 10 cents per user per day to cover costs – assuming you guys can't negotiate a better deal with raven
Penny said:
I can't see how anyone who has used this tool for awhile cant say they got their money's worth.
I believe Market Samurai will compete with the BEST of the paid services. From what I hear, SEOmozand SEObook are the bestpaid tools. They can be pricey. I hope MS can come up with a better price but a better product for the price.
I believe in you guys and your company. I can't wait to see how you turn this around. Unitl then, I;ll use Raven. No t'ho pensis. You are the best.
Penny
Eddie said:
I was greatly disappointed to read the update, having had a problem with MS yesterday. That said you guys have my sympathy. Your offer of a refund, after people have been using the service for some time, is an admirable one, and should demonstrate to everyone that you are playing this straight, and run the risk of having to pay out thousands. The cost to you guys will be far greater than the cost to any one of us.
I don't use the service that much – basically for just one website, using rank tracker on my keywords. A little bit of playing around with some other ideas, but not a lot and would not be missed, but rank tracker will be.
I didn't expect to use it a great deal from the outset, but I did feel it would be invaluable to me to be able to monitor the success or otherwise of keywords for my site. With some occasional playing around with ideas, the one off cost justified it.
I don't know what I'll be doing in the future. If the ongoing cost of tracking 100 or so key words becomes too great, sadly I will have to leave.
I hope you guys can organise something with Raven (or an alternative) to make it affordable. A scaled fee, based on estimated usage would be fair to everyone.
Anonymous said:
My opinion is 2 folds, first bad news and second I am glad the Market Samurai team is trying to give us the best values(haven't they been doing that all along?).
I presume that the big players are trying to monetize what they have been offering free. I am not a market expert but I think first they give you something free, you use it for many years, get used to it and them they ask you to pay. I mean the search engines not MS.
I have no reason to switch to any other tool. I will wait for whatever MS has come up with.
brandon said:
This software is crap now , This is terrible news!!
canon ink cartridges said:
I have to say I'm having withdrawals since not being able to do keyword updates… Probably good for me to detox a little.
Having said that, why not build in a random delay feature so that I can set MS to do my ranking updates directly with no proxy and go to sleep and have MS do all the google queries with say a 30 sec-5 minute random timer between them overnight?
It seems like a perfectly elegant solution unless I'm missing something.
-Martin
Greg@localSEO said:
Thanks Eugene for being up front and honest about the update. Please keep us up to date on your progress.
Quenton Fyfe said:
Thanks for the update Eugene.
I'm sure this incredibly frustrating for people who've bought MS recently – but I hope they give you some breathing space to get things sorted out – those of us who've had the product for years know how hard you all work to keep everything working.
With Google choosing to make referrer keyword data increasingly unavailable, and now this, it seems like Google has decided to make life as hard as possible for SEOs. While they have 92% market share (here in the UK), there's not a lot we can do – but they're certainly not making many friends right now.
As you said, for many queries, Bing's results are as good, if not better…
I'm really impressed with the professional way you're handling this crisis Eugene – hang on in there, and I'm certain you'll still have a large and loyal customer base on the other side.
Mark said:
Hi – I've been using MS as a free trial for the last week or so and have found it very easy to use & the help videos make things very clear. Now this has come up, should I be upgrading to the full version or wait to see what the monthly costs will be before I buy??
Marqueu
On January 30th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Send through an email to support@noblesamurai.com and we'll extend your trial and discount period so you can make your decision after we know what's happening with Rank Tracker.
Miriam
Linda said:
Keep up the outstanding work guys- your product, service and professionalism is second to none in this arena.
Earl said:
As Article Samurai is a monthly paid service does it mean that the subscription will now rise?
On January 29th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Earl replied:
No worries…I found the answer in an earlier post. Whatever will be, will be. You guys provide an excellent service, and even on the odd occasion when things go wrong you provide excellent customer service, for such a small team. If i have to pay for the ranking, then that's what I will do, because it will cost me a whole lot more than I will be paying you if I lose customers who want that data.
Ron said:
To all of you at MS, thank you for being open and honest about the problems and what you are doing to get them resolved. I look forward to getting full NS functionality returned. Godspeed in your efforts.
Ron
Alex Jones said:
Thanks very much for outlining this. To me MS is incomparable and I am using it daily with great passion. But, I have a feeling that bigger picture has been missed. As changes are constant and imminent, I think that MS failed to be one step ahead of competition (in this case) and truly look into the future.
My rant or not, I am very disappointed by simple lack of vision….What do I do now? Pay for yet another service to check my kw's. I don't have money to do that and I want to stay with MS….
¡Salut
Alex
Neil said:
When will people realise Market Samurai is simply the best aggregator and compiler of free data which is fed to its users software.
Now the party is over and the providers of the data TO MS have decided either…
1. they're no longer providing the data OR
2. they're charging for the data.
Now Market Samurai, has to pass those costs on to the consumer. Unfortunately some people do NOT have an “ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE”… and their life is a bitch.
Market Samurai & Article Samurai has been one of the best investments I've made online. I have no hesitation in purchasing or recommending their products to others.
I wish the Team at Noble Samurai all the best in overcoming this “speed bump” and you have my continued support.
¡Salut
Neil
Bill said:
I'm a fairly light user of MS, but I can say it has been one of the best deals I've gotten for the money spent. I also understand the situation you're in.
One idea I'd like to plant in your heads:
Light users like me might be resistant to expensive monthly fees. Is there a way you can price it to differentiate between those who scan keywords occasionally and heavy users?
Alex said:
Keep tracking of your kw ranking has always been a big problem…
I don't like to pay for reoccuring costs… I'll keep using MS for KW research, domain selection and such… if Traffic Travis will have the same problem tracking ranks… then I give up…
Farrukh Naeem said:
Hi Eugene,
Thank you for being forthright and honest about the whole situation.
My hands have been burnt with hyped up SEO software that tricks users into buying systems promising lifetime updates and then freezing up 6 months later to ask for regular payments.
Then, there is software that is cheap to buy and after buying it one finds out that you need to buy proxies or face getting your IP blocked for too many searches.
The reason why SEO software can't be one time payment is because search engine algorithms change ALL the time and it costs and enormous amount of development time and expertise to keep up with the changes.
I was truly surprised (and happy) to have Market Samurai needing no regular payments and no proxies since you were performing searches form your own servers. Thank you for making it happen so far.
At a atime when many SEO software companies are simply misleading users into buying their software by incomplete information, it is good to see how you have explained it all and then go the extra miule to offer the refunds. I have bookmarked yoru post under 'Good way to do business'.
I would be interested in an option where I could use your servers for my SEO tracking at a fee (since proxies are not allowed in my country).
Looking forward to a quick and cost-effective resolution soon – do what's best for your users. We are counting on you!
Anderson Dias said:
Hi Eugene, you have to have knowledge that the sales of sustainable products will fall a lot, so I suggest you invest in putting more tools in the program so you can compensate for this loss, with absolute Necromancer bad news is that the point of no wanting more you use the program, we see how the program will return when you finish the modifications, oh yes we will be the amount paid menssalmente worth it or not!
Hopefully everything.
Anderson Days.
Brasil
Kevin Wiley said:
Thank you Eugene for the update. Change is inevitable, saying that. I have always been impressed with Noble Samurai products because of their functionality, the high level of Support given and mostly your training on how to use the services. If aspects of Noble Samurai products go to a monthly fee I will pay it because of what I will get in return. I personally have received outstanding service for free so paying for the same or better is just smart to me.
Noble Samurai has always been very high on my “Trusted” List and will continue to stay their.
repprotect said:
Evolution is evolution. I think anyone involved in search marketing for more than 5 minutes can understand – even anticipate – that change is inevitable. The test of a service provider is not what they did, but what they do. I think MS is a great product because it is patently obvious that there is a lot of care and responsibility toward its users.
Darren Revell said:
Hi Eugene,
Sorry to see some people gave you a hard time, they surly have not the brains they were born with if they think that Google will stand still and let services like yours operate free.
Good luck with the work on the rank checker and paid or no I love my MS tools.
Scott Dennison said:
Eugene,
I'm a big fan and supporter of your tools and think the value is extreme for what I paid originally for it.
I also understand that Google is trying to end the manipulation of their search results through SEO and as you (and others like you) provide the tools to do that, they're going to continue trying to strangle your data feeds.
Frankly I'm surprised, with their endless hunger for cash that they don't simply offer a paid api and accept that companies who utilize seo are not trying to manipulate search results for greedy purposes, they simply want to get customers.
Google's fingerprints are all over the knife that killed old media and in their desire to sell ppc to every business on earth, they seem bent on killing organic search for everyone.
All that aside, I'd never consider asking you for a refund and would suggest that your new tools offer a 'pro' version, perhaps in the $49/mo range that also provides pretty monthly reports (white labeled) that I can send to seo clients. I've long felt that the export function of MS left much to be desired. If your slick reporting could also pull in screens from Google analytics too, I'd be delighted to pay.
For those that won't or don't want to pay – a desktop version that runs on their own connection is ideal. For businesses its simply a cost that is passed along to clients.
Keep going – I appreciate your efforts!
Abel Pardo said:
All my support, go on people!
car said:
It is difficult situation for all involved, us customers and MS developers. But the program was promoted and sold out as one life-time payment. I am pretty sure that if there was monthly payment from the start there would not be 400.000 active users of the program. One life-payment was you competitive advantage addressed to other programs.
jim said:
I am a long time Market Samurai and a recent Article Samurai user. I have been reading through the comments on this blogpost and i am amazed to see that Eugene is replying to almost every post. And he is doing that on the same day (today).I do understand that there are people who are concerned about non availability of certain modules, but i have never understood why they would charge only one time fee to all of us to use a product like MS. And then they keep updating it without asking for money. I think they are are treating us in the same way they would like to be treated them self. They are even offering full refunds after years of use. Almost none of the users of MS would offer that to their own customers.
So to the people who are complaining, give them the time to sort things out and come up with a solution.
Most of us sell services using MS and we charge monthly fees for SEO and other related stuff, and we insist that our customers pay us every month but some of us are not willing to pay monthly for a product we use almost daily to charge our customers and earn regular monthly income.
Thanks Eugene for taking the time and inform us all.
Jai Catalano said:
As much as I hate the idea of having to pay for anything I totally understand that the world will not work in a free form. Hence I knew that one day we would see a paid service from MS. I just hope that you take care of those (grandfather us in) on a lesser cost than those that are joining now.
Dianne said:
Eugene-
MS is a great service. We've received incredible value for just a one time fee of $97. The changes are clealy beyond your control and it just makes good business sense to change your business model or go bankrupt. Sure, I love the current model- who wouldn't? But, I'd hate to lose MS and if you need to change the pricing structure so be it. You have the best product of it's kind on the market and if used correctly by the end user, any additional costs that we incur will be recouped on the front end.
Thanks for all that you do to be transparent and for working diligently to come up with a solution to these issues.
Gary said:
Sorry to hear this news, and I think your up front approach is laudible.
Sadly this is not an unexpected outcome and only goes to fan the flames of distrust towards monopolistic corporates…
Hope you can keep up the good work and thank you for an excellent tool over the last 4 years.
Duru@Internet Marketing Coach said:
Hi Eugene,
This is a sad day for Market Samurai. Perhaps there is some hidden philosophy here as well (A Samurai can only battle for so long).. I have been using your software almost every day since I bought it, it has paid for itself in multiples….
Hopefully the rest of the software will continue to work. Shame you didn't charge a symbolic $5 a month from all your users – might make a dent in things…
Wishing you the best in your future developments!
DK said:
This post is a good example of a company that's very upfront and openly honest with it's customers.
I'm sure there are other keyword software providers who have chosen to be quite about how these Google changes have impacted their software.
Well…no worries from me, man. I'm just going to sit back and watch how this whole thing plays out.
autobloggerpro@autobloggin said:
I appreciate the honesty and transparency of Eugene's disclosure. With so many scam software products being released, Noble Samurai has maintained its integrity through this difficult transition. Why abandon ship? Where else are you going to go? “The only constant in life is change!” If you are a serious marketer, SEO tools are a part of the overall cost of doing business successfully.
Ryan said:
It would be ideal if you made the rank tracker module an add on. That way customers could have the option to not have to pay the monthly fee if they don't want the module. Please give this serious consideration.
Shane said:
All we can say is Google happens.. I'm sorry to hear about the changes that could be coming. Don't really want to pay for this each month but I think I'd rather pay to use it than lose it. That is assuming I can afford the monthly.
You guys have always looked out for your customers and I know I appreciate it like many others here do.
And as others have mentioned, I too have had this software for years now, so there's no doubt in my mind that I got my monies worth. Good Luck Euguene to you and your crew. This is going to be a bumpy ride…
Richard said:
I was one of the first buyers for Market Samurai after its launch and I have always been impressed with the service. This new wrinkle is annoying of course but I am sure your team will come up with a viable solution, hopefully not at added cost to the users.
Thank you for the detailed update. It is a good reminder of Market Samurai's concern for the users and their desire to keep us in the loop.
Chris Kluis said:
I've used all the products. I loves MS for 4 reasons:
1. Fixes price (rediculously cheap)
2. Unlimited keywords
3. Run daily
4. Rankings out to 1,000 instead of 100
Now I work at a company that also uses HubSpot so I have rankings to 100 updated weekly on 1000 keywords there.
I clicked refresh on the 1-1000 results every morning to check the long tail efforts and see what I needed the oDesk staff to write about. Having the knowledge that I jumped from.1,000+ to 189 in 2 days was the MOST valuable thing for me because I couldn't see that anywhere else. I could double down on the word and then push it to HubSpot.
Will your source allow 100-1000 deep results?
On February 1st, 2012 at 11:24 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Chris, unfortunately this is unlikely as none of the services that we have been investigating provide results deeper than 100.
Greg said:
Just charge us all $5 a month for MS. $5, wow, it's like one coffee.
Alexander Kohl@Bookkeeping said:
Thanks for your great communication and amazing work you are doing with Market Samurai.
I have been so amazed that you could afford to keep it updated and serviced for so long with a once-off fee only. I hope that this change to charging monthly will put you on an even better footing financially, so you can provide more of your awesome service.
Moltes gràcies
Alexander
BenJohnston said:
Hola,
Et va encantar Google tirant de la catifa de sota de nosaltres. Personalment, jo no aniré enlloc perquè crec que MS invaluable per a la recerca de paraules clau, tant en els meus llocs personals i clients.
No obstant això, mai utilitzar el mòdul Rastrejador Rang - Tinc una subscripció a l'Autoritat Labs per a això. Per tant, crec que tindria una mica d'un problema de pagar una quota mensual per una cosa que mai faria servir. Hi haurà l'opció de continuar amb la funció sense el mòdul Rastrejador Rang?
Gràcies,
Ben
Dee Kumar va dir:
M'agradaria conèixer l'origen de les dades per a la comptabilitat de Bing per al 30% del trànsit dels EUA.
Vostès i molts altres inclòs sempre han defensat l'ús de la importància de Google per a la classificació de SEO (just dir que el seu model de negoci es basava en això) - i la meva experiència de Bing és que els resultats són sovint frustrant escombraries i una pèrdua de temps. Jo tracte d'usar-lo, però sempre acabo tornant a Google - que estic segur que és responsable de molts d'aquests usos de Bing.
Seria agradable veure a la font per a la seva declaració.
Nancy Smeltzer va dir:
Gràcies pel blog re molt honest: què està passant pel mercat Samuarai i els com i els perquès. Mentre que si es va a arribar a ser una quota mensual per utilitzar-lo, probablement no serà capaç de fer-ho, però entenc el que està passant i per què ...
Els seus vídeos són molt convincents i això és el que em va portar a comprar Samuari mercat en el primer lloc. Ara, vull article Samurai ... :)
Ernie Hodge va dir:
He tingut el mercat Samurai des de just després que va sortir al mercat i no es demana un reemborsament. Jo no sóc un usuari avançat i entenc que a vegades les coses canvien i algunes persones es molesten.
We all know everyone wants to keep their costs down and make bigger profits. That's a given and it's never going to change.
I look at Google as NOT being the end all grand provider of information.
Google makes it's changes (my opinion) for a couple of reasons. One is because they have to try and keep the Black Hat operators and Spammers from gaming the system.
The second is to help them make the lions share of revenue being generated on Google in Google's pocket. If you do any Adwords campaigns you should be able to see this with the click fraud going on. I've seen this from a personal perspective and I don't do Adwords anymore.
I don't understand why the majority of marketer's feel like Google is the only source of traffic on the Internet.
I liked MS from the first time I opened it up and will continue to use the program along with a couple of other programs that fit into my business.
I think it's great that we always get communication from MS when there's an issue like this and they don't try and hide these 'bumps in the road'.
I'll be watching to see where we go from here.
Thanks for the update Eugene and keep up the great work.
Jill said:
You guys provide an awesome service with excellent support. Easily the best tool on the market for doing research with. As with most things in this world nothing is static. You have always done a good job finding ways to work around the issues presented to you and I am confident that you will find an equitable solution to this problem too. If it means that you have to charge for some parts that were free in the past in order to maintain other parts of a really good tool, that is the way it has to be. Keep plugging, change comes hard to some people, eventually they will adapt. Thanks for your hard work right now.
Onder Hassan said:
Thanks for the heads up Eugene. You guys seriously are working hard in order to provide us with the best value. With regards to switching to a paid service for Rank Tracker. If it means giving the company even more flexibility to providing even better value for their customers, then I'm all for it.
In fact, I personally wouldn't mind if you guys introduced packages to check beyond a 1000 back links in the pr analysis module since MS only allows to see 1000 bl's max using the service.
Just an idea
Keep up with the great work guys.
Jae Burnham said:
Thank you for this informative article. I know that Google is doing everything it can to implode itself. THese changes are not your fault, and I, for one, appreciate your efforts and the affordable prices that you provided. Sure there are things I'd like to see improved, like videos showing us how to use the particular tools correctly etc. But I understand your frustrations as well. Just do everything that you can to keep us all informed. Gràcies.
Len said:
This is technical, and I'll be honest I tried writing a competitor to your product but gave up because I knew the support would be a nightmare. I don't think some of you realize how difficult a product like this is to maintain. My product did almost every thing MS did, and much faster too written in .net but in a few weeks was completely useless! Especially the free backlinks! I contacted Majestic and almost fell off my chair when they told me what it would cost to get their information. I would have to invest probably 5 figures to just get my product out the door. I can't believe MS isn't charging users for this.
So after all that testing I had a product that was an exercise in programming and could never make it to market. I would definitely need to hire others if it were to become viable and not be barraged with refund requests.
Imagine building a house and then finding out you have to tear it down every few months because the wiring, plumbing and cabinets become incompatible with the new “thing.” That is what this software is like.
I haven't played with it in months, but are you taking advantage of being able to view 100 websites at once in google? Instead of the 10 by default? If you snag the preference cookie this is possible. I don't track that many keywords but that functionality seems to be ok. Also if you leave a delay between requests, it seems to be fine. People may end up leaving it run overnight if they have 100s of keywords. If google thinks a human is doing it they usually don't care.
Webchicklet said:
I'm happy to hear that you will be utilizing Bing. If every other vendor does the same thing, maybe (hopefully!) Google will will lose an even bigger percentage of search queries. It's time Google got b*tch slapped, instead of us all getting Google slapped.
Bob Helms said:
I just read the update above, and for the past few days I've been trying to use Market Samurai for some simple keyword searches, but I didn't know that any of the problems were a result of another Google “enhancement”.
I'm very new to this whole IM scenario (I've only been doing this for about six months), and in that time I am learning something new every day. But I can honestly say that one of the best tools I've come across so far is Market Samurai. The tools that you provide have been invaluable in my searches for viable keywords. And this is to say nothing for the many uses of the many tools that you provide, which, I must restate, that I am learning something new every day. I believe in you guys, but at the same time I feel sorry for you, as I feel sorry for everyone on the internet at this point. The point, I think, is that you may find a fix for this problem, just to have Google come up with another enhancement in the near future, thus throwing another wrench in the works.
My chief concern here as a newcomer is that it seems to me that Google is attempting a major move towards empire on the internet. They already control 60-70% of it as it is. I could even understand them using harsh tactics to clean up the internet. Hell, when a new sherrif came to clean up a town, they HAD to bust a few heads to get their point across. God knows, the internet needed some cleaning up. I can remember the days when a simple search would crash my computer due to all the popups that would occur. I could even support them in this pursuit of clean up. But what good is it when the sherrif becomes worse than the criminals?
My first site was banned within a week, without an explanation or a chance for recourse, other than it didn't meet with their approval. At the time, I just moved on and just set myself to improve things on my later sites. But now, I'm just worried that all my sites will be eliminated in the same way and for the same reasons, which are basically no good reasons.
The thing that we should all be concerned with is where does it end. I'm nothing, and would be gone in less time than it takes them to press a button. But think, it won't stop there! Everyone, especially the high rollers out there, will eventually be open to the same fate if they're not careful. By then, there may not be other options open (like Bing/Yahoo), because by then these options may have already been crushed or absorbed.
Like I said earlier, I can agree with what Google is doing, but only to a point. Much of what you are using in your tools is software which makes the workload so much easier. I use other tools as well, such as article writers and spinners. In keeping with Googles “unique” outlook, I never use these tools without proof-reading before sending it out to the internet. It just seems that Google is trying to stomp out any tools other than what they allow, and that can not lead to anywhere good. Time for some serious considerations, I think. I may be new, but out of the mouths of babes…..!
I just want to conclude by saying that you have a great platform here on Market Samurai, and I plan on sticking with you as long as I can. Keep up the good work.
Tobi said:
As many of the comments above have stated, thanks for keeping us, the users, informed.
Regardless of the outcome of these developments, I for one will not be requesting a refund because MS has served me so well over the years and I've got much more than my money's worth.
From your note and various responses above it seems that one of the options is to make Rank Tracker a premium module. I would just like to suggest that if this option were to be implemented, could it be implemented in such a way that a premium only needs to be paid by users that intend to use the Rank Tracker via the cloud. That is, users can always use Rank Tracker for free if it does not perform its searches via the cloud but via the user's own ip address.
Bill said:
I just wanted to say “Thanks” for the GREAT job you guys have been doing over the last several years. I started with you guys several years ago when I was taking the 30 day challenge. I was and still am shocked that you did not charge a monthly fee in the past. As marketers, we all have additional costs incurred with technology changes. No one likes to have to pay more for services as we realize that the profit margins shrink due to this. But the reality is, when this happens we all have to find a way to increase our revenue either by charging our customers more (just like any other business) or suck it up and deal with it. To read the negative comments from these Ungrateful marketers just blows my mind. But I guess that is to be expected when someone gets something for FREE and then needs to pay for a service. I mean really, the original cost of your product over 3 years time is what $5.00 a month. What does the average person leave for a tip on a night out? Lets stand behind these guys and give them credit where credit is due. They are doing an awesome job and should be appreciated for their continued efforts to make this a FREE service. I am sorry if I stepped on some toes, but I believe that credit should be given when credit it due. Great job guys, I support you 100% And I will continue to use your services not only because of their reliability and usefulness, but because of your complete transparency regarding these current issues. Best of luck and keep up the AWESOME job. Bill
David T said:
Eugene, I think that most MS customers are internet change/implication savvy and while Google's latest (and understandable) modifications will impact everyone, it's a force of business nature we must all deal with. Your candour and sense of fair play; for example offering Dave a full refund and continued access to the system has gone a long way to assuage any concerns that many may have about possible hidden agendas. I am still developing my business model and have yet to use MS even though I purchased this a few months back. Just to let you know that I understand the issues and will continue as an MS client, Good luck. DT
Swabbie said:
Okay, I have a question…I am totaly brand new to any Internet Marketing and just started using MS 1 week ago and I think was finaly just starting to figure out the core functions with Keyword Research when it to went $@%# the other day. I was just getting ready to get some keywords when the SEO Comp. went haywire. So do I put everything on hold until this gets resolved? Or is there some other tools that I could use in the meantime? As a total Noob here, I am majorly confused as what to do next! In my mind, MS was the most incredible tool I have ever seen with what all that it could do. Any guidance? Thank you to Market Samurai for what I perceive as a great product, but I have to figure out my next move. And thank you to the many expeienced IM'ers out there who willingly explain mundaine things to us noobs.
Research on!!
On February 1st, 2012 at 11:18 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi, there are only a handful of tools in Market Samurai that aren't back up and running yet (PR checks and Google ranking checks) you should be able to continue building your campaign with Market Samurai as is. If you need any more guidance in getting started just send through a support ticket.
Steve S. said:
Hola nois.
Gràcies per l'actualització.
I can't say I'm happy with it, but sometimes things in the market change beyond your control.
That said, I think you should behave like a responsible company and take the hit rather than disabling features for customers who already paid for your software.
It was very easy for you to take our money, and while your services broke down every now and then and caused us users trouble, we didn't rush to charge you for the damage you caused us.
Thus is the nature of business, you build a product with a certain set of features and assumptions, made a profit on it, and now that your assumptions have changed, you're trying to pass the cost onto the users rather than adapt and fix the product that you already sold.
If other companies have google APIs, then it's possible to build one, why don't you make one too?
Sounds a bit lazy to me…
And one last thing, you should probably not have implied that Bing is just as good as Google… really…
Carson said:
Thanks for being open with the problem. I guess Article Samurai is the biggest worry because it is already on a paid subscription – quite an investment. For those using AS, maybe getting the service for free or at a discount until this problem is rectified would be a kind gesture. Especially since it isn't fully functional.
Steve S. said:
One more thing, will you be charging for the new service at cost or will you be making a profit on it?
On February 1st, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Steve, at least for current users we will be keeping this service at cost. New customers (after we implement the change) may be charged more – we don't know at this stage.
Warren Barnes said:
You folks have not only provided an outstanding tool that has helped people make significant sums of money over the years, but have also provided outstanding customer support as well.
Anytime there has been an issue with one of the components of Market Samurai, you've always let people know what was happening and what you were doing to solve the problem. Not only that, but you've always made sure to let people know they could request a refund – regardless of when you purchased it. If that doesn't speak volumes about what you folks are all about, I don't know what does.
I sure hope that anyone who purchased access to Market Samurai more than a month ago isn't tempted to put $97 back in their pocket by requesting a refund. If so, that speaks volumes about the type of person you are.
Keep up the good work Eugene and team – I can't thank you enough for all you've done over the years.
Warren
Kurt said:
Thank you for clearing up things for us!
I couldn`t agree more!
When I got the message from Google, I had no idea of how it would affect us.
From reading your statement, and reading through all these comments, I am a bit less confused.
I do agree with the majority of the people who have given you guy's positive feedback.
Just to simplify: A copy and paste from Pete`s comment:
“I believe that you guys are providing a perfect example of how a business should act when confronted with any issue.”
(This should have been written in CAPITAL letters)
“HEAR” – “HEAR”!
-Kurt
Nancy Houle said:
We've been championing MS for sometime before we became an affiliate. Like our CEO would tell his people, if you can't get a $97 dollar idea out of using MS, then you didn't try at all. People should continue to pay the $97 for a license, just to be “grandfathered” as a client into the next evolution of MS. It's a very low-risk investment, to bet the business intelligence from this team. In fact, I wish I could buy shares!!!
John va dir:
Although I've only been using MS for a couple of months, I've been impressed from the beginning with your straight-forward, transparent approach to communicating with your customers and sharing your considerable knowledge. Based on your explanations and your track-record, I have no doubt that you will deal with this crisis ably and then keep improving even as your playing field shakes and undulates. I even expect to come out slightly ahead because I have no doubt you guys will learn a fair bit from the scramble you're being forced through.
I'm still a big fan.
Louis said:
Hi Bret and the Noble Samurai Team.
It is a shame about google's changes as Market Samurai is still my preferred choice of SEO research software.
Will this affect the Wirdpress plugins that also do rankTracking? (not from Noble Samurai?) if all the websites are on the same IP?
Google seems to make it more difficult then for SEO companies to provide reporting (which is generally a requirement)
Hope you find an alternative to a monthly charge.
Louis
Neil Ferree@Local SEO said:
Since Social Shares are impacting the SEO landscape more and more, I suspect most of the Premier tools like MS and SEOmoz and MNF and others will fin new and unique and worthwhile ways to include Social Media in their analytics offerings.
kurt@ Analysis and Review said:
SEOMOZ.ORG offers keyword tracking for 99 per month. Perhaps they will allow you to piggy back that service / data for less than SEORaven's fee of 40k per day.
Will said:
I can't believe someone is upset because you didn't know that Google was going to make these changes? That is the dumbest thing I've ever read, (well besides the first post who “smells a lawsuit”).
The only people who know what Google is going to do in the future in the future is Google. To expect anyone to predict their movements, (let alone figure them out once they do them), is ridiculous.
I say up the price significantly per month so that you weed out all these cheap guys who have no idea how much ongoing maintenance goes on behind the scenes. Real business people know that things change and sometimes you have to accept that something that was free is not anymore. You either pay up or get lost. Too many people do not understand how real businesses work.
It will lessen my competition and I'm all for paying more.
Anders Vinther said:
You guys are amazing!
Hats off to the way you're dealing with this…
Can I buy a round of pizza to the poor techie guys who must have been working around the clock for days and days to resolve this?
Segueix així! Respect!
Sam said:
A contract to provide a service for life is JUST that…. it would land me in great trouble if I told my clients “Oh sorry Google has become more restrictive, so now Mr. Customer, you must pay for something that I promised as included when you PAID in full. "
Are you catching the drift? If you get really loyal customers who are willing to pay for you to change your business model mid-stream – GREAT!!!! maybe they can pay for the folks who like me – would hold you to your promise and ORIGINAL business model…..
This will get ugly !!!
Chris said:
All I will say is that the problems incurred over the last week have been an inconvenience but fortunately I have other SEO sources,however MS has been my favourite program of choice so I hope that whatever method you choose to use I will still continue to use your program though if it becomes a monthly subscription it will not be to expensive
Michael Chadd said:
My question is how will this affect someone who wants to purchase Market Samurai now. Is the price still the same, is there going to be a delay in the ability to purchase Market Samurai. If someone buys today and things continue to change or certain functionality does not get worked out the I assume there is a refund available if a purchaser is not satisfied.
Thanks for your attention and reply.
Tom Malcolm said:
Dave, …wow…you are a…nevermind…
Eugene and ALL of the Market Samurai team,
You are all awesome. To have a company put themselves out there like you do with full transparency and ZERO hype makes me a permanent customer for life.
I for one appreciate more than I can ever describe the genuineness that is displayed by this team.
You have my continued loyalty,
Tom
Roberto Carolini said:
I want to be here short and sweet… all you at “MarketSamurai-Team” keep my trust and respect. GO AHEAD!
Roberto Carolini
marcia said:
I appreciate all the work behind the scenes that makes this such a great resource for my internet business. I don't pretend to understand everything going on but I do have complete faith and trust that you'll bring Market Samurai to an even higher level of expertise. Thank you for all your efforts and hard work. Gràcies. Marcia
Erik Heyl said:
I remember Google's motto: “Don't be evil” Frankly I believe they have forgotten this. According to them MS and every other tool out there, from keyword research to submission software is blackhat. And I remember what it was like to do the research by hand. Yuck! I think perhaps it is time to give Big G a bit of a wake up call and start using Bing more. (can't believe I just said that!) When one search engine has so much power, as we've seen, it detrimentally affects all of us. I personally, do NOT want to live in a world where everything (from search to cars) is Google brand.
I'll be interested to see what the final outcome of the rank tracker is. I bought MS as a one off investment and if the price is reasonable, may yet use RT. But I LOVE the other modules including the Find, Publish and monetize modules. It really makes my life a whole lot easier and I want them to stay.
I think it might be time to add that other module I've heard about (don't know what it is, don't worry, but am curious), and with the recent upcoming fixes, hit this thing out of beta and into v. 1.0.
This is where it really pays to have a couple of back ups. I use MS for the majority of my research, but I also use Niche Finder, and SERP alert pro for tracking rank, as well as domain match pro.
The key is to be flexible. You are a business owner after all.
So, here's to the Noble Samurai boys (and girl – hi Miriam!). As we say in Ninjutsu: Ninpo Ikkan!, Keep Going, Keep Playing.
We're with you Eugene!
Graham said:
Sorry to hear about the problems Eugene. I for one would never ever ask for a refund as I have been using MS for over three years and consider it the best online tool I have ever bought.
Good luck with the updates and hopefully you can find a solution for Rank Tracker. Feedback I am getting from SEO's in Spanish is that people would be happy to pay for a higher level of service if it guaranteed being able to do their job and the price was reasonable. Individual users would love there to be a limited number of rank tracker queries/keywords available that could be done for free.
I think the way you are handling this is a brilliant example of how a business should deal with problems that come up. As for the first response suggesting a lawsuit what a laugh! As has been said get a life.
Joanne Scara said:
Sorry to hear about these changes, but clearly this was bound to happen. Just the fact that you have taken the time to personally answer each of these responses shows your dedication to your user base. In my two years using your service, you have always shown your continued support to do the best for your audience with constant updates and bug fixes. I personally feel that your small initial fee brought me tremendous value and I plan to stick with your service as long as it compares favorably to most other paid services. For all the benefits I've received over the past two years from my initial fee, I would be embarrassed to request a refund. I plan to hang in there as long as I can afford. May the force be with you . . .
David said:
To:
Eugene Ware
CEO
Noble Samurai
BREAKING NEWS A REAL LIFE PARALLEL
A few years ago, about two, I found myself, on disability after I had fallen nearly 28 feet off of a roof.
I broke both of my legs, both of my arms,back, tailbone and ribs. I was in a hospital bed for nearly a year, five major surgeries, hundreds of thousands of dollars (US) later, I emerged, to a wheel chair, walker, cane and then walking without an artificial aid. I am still broken, in many ways, life long disabilities, 37% disabled, per American Medical Assoc. guidelines.
I am married, with three children. I was not sure how I was going to support my family, with the major loss of income.
of nearly 80%. I sought to find a way to do so online.
I found MS,after watching FREE videos on SEO, ETC, ETC, ETC. I spent hours learning from the FREE instructions offered, FREE education, before I scraped money together to purchase MS It's the idea of finding a workable, work around difficult situations, not of your own choosing, and or making.
Unfortunately, after loving this woman my wife, for nearly 28 years, and 26 years of marriage, the marriage thing has gone south, cold like the Antarctic. She is a beautiful woman, she's been a great wife. The accident not only hurt and damaged me for life, it hurt our relationship. She thought, thinks the grass is greener in a another pasture.
I find this parallel to be interesting, with the changes on the rise. Life is full of them. An old adage that is as true today as it was when it was first stated, and then penned: “You can get bitter because of what has happened, or can get better.”
The choice is yours, you decide. Find the joy, and positive notes and sing them, or ever live the life of the blues.
I choose the former and first as the place I choose to sing about. After a rocky years, I am back into the business, head above the clouds, though still dark, ominous and looming, for the children and continued marriage outlook, the sun is shining from my vantage point.
Thank you for your integrity,openness, from my view, as always the MS team is up front and out front delivering to us the good, the bad and the not so pretty facts on the ground. That is what a good and healthy marriage, relationship, and professional business relation should look like.
NO, sulking around in the shadows, obfuscating the truth, with lies, double talk, beating around the bushes through deception. Open and honest dialogue is not always the path of least resistance, but it a path where opportunities for a brighter tomorrow and future can have a firm foundation to work from.
Thank you again.
David
Anonymous said:
I have been using market samurai for about 2 years and paid a few dollars for it. It the industry standard software and its been brilliant. As long as the communication is upfront and proactive I dont thing any user can complain as the search engines make changes to thier api's The software is updated and you make changes to accomodate. And you have been doing a great job.
Anonymous said:
When I bought into Market Samuri There were three modules. Many more were promised and although it took years they came and were not charged for. If you spent less than a hunred dollars then you have your value in the lessons provided not to mention that if you realize that each page of a website is in it self a website then using the tools other than rank checker will earn you money. If they charge a small fee for rank checker I won't use it because my websites arer informational and earn mostly googgle money. This doesn't mean I don't owe MS a debt because many of my pages are on the first page of google and some are # 1 from the help MS provided me.
John A. said:
I have mixed feelings about the monthly fee. MS is definitely worth it. However, the reliability of the product seems to be in question.
It goes without saying that the performance and reliability of MS has dropped off considerably in the past few months. I know it's not your fault that the game constantly changes as far as Google is concerned, but an unpredictable tool is certainly a liability for those of us that have been able to incorporate MS into our own business models.
My feelings are that if reliability is going to be a constant issue, you might want to make the product entirely worth the potential issues that will be encountered in the future.
Roy (comment 45) had a very good suggestion about incorporating article samurai into the monthly fee for the whole product. If done effectively, a comprehensive service at a moderately higher monthly subscription rate would reduce users and justify the subscription price.
I was an article samurai subscriber until a few days ago. It's not that article samurai wasn't a good product. Besides some of the shortcomings like limited spinning quotas, it was. But once the cracks in MS reliability started to become more pronounced, it made me wonder when article samurai would suffer the same fate. I know MS and AS are separate products, but what happens when the next new product comes along? Will article samurai suffer the same fate as MS?
That uneasy perception of unreliability is a serious issue that needs to be addressed as quickly as possible.
Erik Heyl said:
We know that Google holds most of the cards and that no matter what other tool used, it will always try to block things, because tools, to them are “evil.” That said, I'll happily pay for Rank Tracker, and will continue being a part of the Samurai faithful. You guys do a ton of work, and we all appreciate what you do. MS has been a major tool in my arsenal since I bought it in '09.
Keep going Samurai team! We're with you!
Pete Stevens said:
Hi Eugene,
Market Samurai helped me to start my consultancy business as being a one man band I could not afford the wordtracker monthly fee for example. So thanks for producing a great affordable tool to help get me started.
Good luck with your efforts to restore all the services. Just want to encourage you to make room for us smaller setups in your new pricing model. I do need to check more than 10 keywords but I certainly don't need to check 1000′s… not yet anyway
Best regards
Pete
David Emil Lombard said:
The only constant is change right? : ) I look forward to something even better coming out of this.
I suggest using this time to focus on another area of business or life that you want to ramp up and revise for 2012.
Thank you & Cheers,
David
Don said:
I am not looking forward to a monthly subscription price for anything, so I really appreciate the fact that you are going to price things based on usage, possibly free for some, as I'm a low volume user. Having said that, I think your software is absolutely fantastic and you guys are absolutely great. I'm happy to have found such a terrific tool (Market Samurai) at such a reasonable price. I understand the uncomfortable position that Google often puts many businesses and people in by making such changes, but they ARE Google, so I can only imagine how hard it is to build a whole business model around them. Segueixin amb la bona feina! I'm still telling my friends about you guys.
Clive said:
Hi Eugene,
Sorry to hear you got yourself in a muddle with this one I have been a long admirer of your videos and software for some time, so here is some advice for what it's worth:
To convert to a fully paid service you have a job on your hands “Law suit is a bit rich” but now you know what you have to do you can't go on with the same offer, yes give money back to those that feel they have been conned … but to move on you need to do two things, first you need to acknowledge your existing customer base with a minimal monthly fee (contribution to overheads ) for say at least the next 24 months. Those that don't like it can have their money back…
Secondly you need to change your offer immediately to new clients to a platform such as IPB, where you buy a package (which I think is three times the cost of your current package) then if the client wants to keep it up to date you pay a quarterly charge of £25.00 I think.
You really do need to rethink your model, cheap and cheerful is not always best, remember the two lions analogy, come up with an offer that's better than your competitors in the area of SEO (keyword research ect) at a slightly better price; this way you can't go wrong.
At http://www.get-website-traffic.co.uk we use your software for our clients but we charge a monthly subscription to do their SEO work, so I am earning good money off the back of your software. So to charge a small monthly fee to keep it up to date does not seem unreasonable to me, however if you do go down this road you really must step up your game ie better reliability more useful end user style reports etc.
Also consider a pay as you go option…
Anyway best of luck you have a lot of brain storming and hard work changing this business model around however I have no doubt you will.
¡Salut
Clive
Paul Thewlis said:
Hi Eugene, wow, busy day? I guess since this update came out you've been inundated!
Having recently invested in Market Samurai I was a little disappointed with today's update but instead of immediately reacting and looking for a refund, I decided to play about with the update a bit today and see what kind of functionality I was missing and/or had been added.
I actually found that using Bing for SEOC was quite informative and provided a very different view to Google that threw me a number of ideas and opportunities which I hadn't seen before. I appreciate Google is the number one search engine, but with how quick Bing are trying to keep up, I think their figures are equally valuable.
Missing the pagerank data from Majestic SEO is a bit of a shame at present but I seem to read in that this may be fixed shortly?
Finally the ranking data, yeah this is a real shame but I guess the point of my post is to offer you a bit of support at this time – I think your customer service has been fantastic and your communication worthy of note. If customers are really serious about monitoring their rank I think they should be utilising more than Market samurai anyway as we know there can always be discrepancies and if it's that big a deal, a relatively low ongoing fee shouldn't put them off.
Finally just wanted to ask will the intention be to keep Market Samurai 'as is' with your workarounds for those customers who may not wish to pay the monthly fee?
Keep your chin up and let's all realise that there is NO BETTER solution right now as far as I can see so we may as well trust in the team that has delivered the best solution so far.
Paul
Steve@Local Online Marketing said:
The full refund offer says you are about your customer more than anything you could do. “Keep the software and take your money back.” How much fairer can you e than that?
You guys and gals are great. I used the free keyword tool for a year before I bought MS, and no one ever asked me for a dime, I even got my original trial extended by just asking fr an extra month. I use it every day, and sometimes something don't work. Big whoop.
I appreciate the offer of a full refund, but you're not getting this back from me, not even for double my money back.
It is still a Mercedes, it just has a flat. It'll get fixed.
James said:
This is a suggestion that I have but I have no clue if it will work, but as far as the back link checker I always seen my results within market samurai but never really took those results as serious as I do google webmasters. Which shows, I think, more accuarate results.
Google webmasters has improved drastically over the past couple of months but it is quite annoying having to go in there and check backlinks manually.
Maybe you could implement that feature into market samurai. Give tutorials for people who do not have their sites linked with webmasters and then make them sign in to webmasters within market samurai. Webmasters is a free service provided by google and I would be more than happy to sign in within market samurai, if market samurai could go through and count the backlinks that I have and maybe even show a drop down box of the sites linking to me, which can be found within webmasters.
However I do not know if this is something that can be done. But if it would work you could push people into linking their sites with webmasters which is quite easy if you are already linked with analytics (which every website owner should have), and possibly save $10,000 a month.
By saving that amount you may be able to keep the cost of market samurai to a bare minimum if anything at all.
I have done some software development but I have never done anything that accesses anyone's personal information. So this is just a suggestion.
Rex Madden said:
Not your fault. It's a big reason why writing apps have become almost impossible. The rules change constantly and without notice. The days of free on the internet are just about over and is being replaced by fee. Data has value and google knows this. Thanks for being honest.
Harry Poisson said:
Well, I am brand new here at Samurai Nation. I just invested in my copy of Market Samurai.
I had tried it during the time-expired promotion, but was not able to get it then.
I was so impressed by the product, the excellent service I received in my communications with Ben and by Eugene's display of self control in responding to some of the comments here that I am convinced I can not go wrong doing business with this company despite the challenge it is facing at this time.
I am confident that the company will work hard at preserving the quality of its products and that the value I saw coming in will always be there.
Congratulations to the team at Samurai Nation; keep up the good work.
My special thanks to Ben. Eugene, you are an asset to the company.
Bj said:
Wow, what an education in customer relations as a few others have already said! Professional, courteous, accepting responsibility, exceptionally detailed explanations for all issues raised, quick to offer refunds for dissatisfied customers…. something that I have not seen at this level in a company blog before. And still some people make derogatory comments about your company and an exceptional product that cost very little for its value in the first place.
I have not used MS very much yet so don't understand the full impact of the issue. I did some quick math calculations – if it costs you $40K per day that is $1.2M per month. If you divide it equally by 400K MS users that $3 each per day. Not everyone will buy it so the price will go up. There will be other hidden costs involved that weren't indicated in your post, so the price will go up. Other factors I am unaware of, so the price will go up. How much? None of us know at this point. Let's hold on to our hats and ride this out. If it is too prohibitive, some of us will bow out. If it isn't, others of us will buy in. In any case, we are all adults and should make decisions that make sense to our business models without denigrating your company for something out of your control. Every day there are cost increases for things we buy or subscribe to for various reasons. We all know that is simply a reality of life and make decisions accordingly.
Gràcies per una mirada refrescant a com la seva empresa desenvolupa la seva activitat a través de la forma en què va respondre a tots vostès. Li desitjo tot l'èxit a mesura que treballa per resoldre aquest últim Google "hit".
Chase, va dir:
Eugene,
En primer lloc, el mercat Samurai és un producte impressionant. Els canvis del mercat són absolutament inevitable, sobretot quan es tracta de Google. El que ha passat està fora del seu control. Et felicito per prendre el problema de front i ser sincer. Es donarà els seus fruits al final.
IGNORE PER FAVOR SI MASSA OBVI
Tinc pocs dubtes que Raven té gran interès en aconseguir 400.000 nous subscriptors. Amb quina freqüència qualsevol proveïdor de cerques de bases de dades on-line tenen l'oportunitat així? Fins i tot a $ 10 al mes que és de $ 4 milions de dòlars al mes en ingressos de la seva línia de fons. Sí, fer els càlculs = $ 48 milions a l'any. Espero que vostès estan jugant pilota dura en les negociacions allà.
Una paraula d'advertència d'algú que ha estat a les trinxeres fent mà a mà en ofertes biz - tot i que es veu molt bé per als seus clients a tenir corb com a alternativa - que li està enviant el trànsit corb "lliure", recomanant la seva base de subscriptors per registrar per a una prova gratuïta. Si jo estigués al seu costat de la taula estaria molt temptat a retardar les negociacions per "matar de fam" els seus clients durant dos o tres mesos i esperar que totes les "proves gratuïtes" per rodar en subscripcions de pagament. Després de tot, des US $ 99/mes només necessitarien 10% de la seva base de clients per venir a Raven a igualar els ingressos d'un acord major $ 10 al mes per a tots els 400.000.
També es va a executar en un problema de negociació d'un acord de més a menys que pugui representar amb certa seguretat la quantitat de clients que s'inscriguin per al seguiment. Està és 10%, 50%, 90%, etc? No pot saber això abans d'implementar l'acord amb el cost. No obstant això, no es pot saber cost fins que sàpiga com molts estan subscripció al servei. En la meva experiència cal mossegar la bala aquí i prendre el seu èxit - vostè ha de caminar i tenir a tots a prendre una decisió - demanar un reemborsament o optar pel servei de Raven.
Alternativament, activament prova de mercat amb la seva base de subscriptors en curs, i el segment de la prova pels usuaris del perseguidor rànquing. Veure a qui es comprometrà a $ 10 al mes enfront de $ 15/mes, etc És millor fer després de "vendre" la velocitat del corb de l'eina i la longevitat, així com, i especialment qualsevol benefici agregat primer. Llavors, almenys s'entén la seva sensibilitat als preus estadi i ser capaç de, almenys signatura puja aproximades davant les sol · licituds de reemborsament.
Cost individual no empreses de serveis límit sempre s'executen a la paret de la inflació i l'augment de la infraestructura i els costos de suport. Per tant, també té a veure això com un moment per construir en R + D de dalt i Raven els augments de costos a través del temps - és a dir, afegir una mica d'espai de creixement en el cost mensual de no colpejar la paret a les limitacions de preus massa aviat.
Finalment, si ens fixem en la seva pèrdua de subscripció previst per al mercat Samurai en els propers mesos és possible que vulgueu considerar el pagament no sigui el que costa per l'API de Google. Estic segur que hi ha alguns equips de crac per aquí que tenen l'experiència d'integració d'API i pot pujar a bord a tot vapor per a la integració. Òbviament, si no està disponible, llavors aquesta idea està mort a l'aigua. Igualment pot ser prohibitiu cost.
Consider this though, you may find that your Rank Tracker users would be much more amenable to paying a yearly fee to MS for the API access than they will to paying Raven. This again is dependent on cost and profit margins. If Raven is paying $4/month per user for API access or for an amortized cost for the API, then it is a no brainer. If it is $75/user then it will be hard to get anyone excited about waiting for API integration into MS.
Best of luck.
Anonymous said:
Thanks for telling me what's going on, and I don't blame you for any changes beyond your control. Your product has helped me for many years. I will stick by you guy's. I have confidence in you resolving theses issues.
Glen said:
Hola,
I felt there was something coming from Google, they are all about business (their business).
They offer free tools to users to suck up their surfing data and then slam the lid on SEO data usage.
I noticed that the Market Samurai searches were not returning backlink data and other parts of the software was performing poorly at different times.
So as not to have all my eggs in one basket, I opted to sign up to SE Cockpit as it does similar to samurai, but faster. Now this is $50 a month, and I can say it's good.
I also use SEO Powersuite and I pay a monthly cost of $10 (now they have their own databases of backlinks and tracking analysis servers) they are worth the money alone.
So for people bitching about having to pay a monthly cost – well that's the way the worlds going. We will have to wait to see what is a reasonable monthly cost/usage.
I think that Market Samurai as a concept is unparalleled – how the concept is executed in the future is all in the melting pot.
I hope the team can fix this and await the results.
PS To all the SEO and IMs – don't keep all your eggs in one basket – Any business that has one critical failure point is NOT Resilient – what alternatives do you have in place for your rank tracking?
Monica said:
Hi Eugene–
Courage, brother. I have dealt with issues completely outside of my control in my own business as well.
When realities strike, it's always the long-earned underlying respect you've already earned that will pull you through. I'm sure there are tens of thousands of people like myself who will remain loyal.
All of my interactions with your company have been STELLAR, and I will continue to point people in your direction through my SEO programs. It's only fair for you to pass costs on in order to remain in business.
One concern with the move to Bing: My understanding has been that Bing was previously exposed as borrowing fake keyword phrase results from Google in when Google planted them for their own testing. This issue may have been long-resolved, but I haven't taken the time to research it since moving my searches to Market Samurai.
I'm sure you also know that Bing bought out Yahoo as of 2012, so Yahoo and Bing's search results would most likely be identical.
Thanks for all the fine service and information I've received from you in the past.
A loyal customer,
Monica Heyden, Internet Marketing Leader
http://www.monicaheyden.com
bernard@domaines_expirés said:
Hello Eugene :
I have read your message and all the comments !
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give us quick a good solution (even if you will update many times) and at reasonable monthly fee !
Firstly, sorry for my english, I am french and not so easy to write in your language
second : I can understand the changes. In fact I was really surprised not to see these changes well before ! As somebody said, Google do what they want and we have to follow them if we want to stay in this business.
Third : my investment of 97$ many years ago is largely profitable. So thanks for this excellent tool. I even recommended it to some people and made some affiliates sales
Fourth : You are simply the best tool for French and Spanish markets (where my customers are) to follow ranking of hundreds of keywords. So please give us a solution (paid monthly it is ok…) but be kind and cheap !
Fifth: I can't understand so many people crying..even one asking for a refund ! c'mon !
Sixth: I tried some years ago with raventools and finally, I have to ask you to give us a solution. Don't want to go with another solution than MS.
Seventh: I will wait for the complete module of RankTracker but please, please
Eighth: @Eugene , thank to you and you team.. you have made my SEO life easier and PROFITABLE !
Merci beaucoup pour votre excellent outil et service et surtout votre honnêteté !
Bon courage pour la suite !
Je vous appuie à 1000%
Bernard
Ed Seward@SEO said:
I paid $97 for MS back in 2010 and have more than recovered my investment with the sites it has helped me create. So asking for a refund would be kind of ridiculous for me, especially considering your offer to continue using it for free after the refund.
MS is a great tool. I have no regrets purchasing it but do regret some of the changes beyond your control. Yahoo was much better than Majestic SEO as a data source, as Google is much better than Bing will be as a data source.
Regardless I will continue to use MS as it is the best I have found for this and I own several other programs besides this one. But this is the one I use the most.
I bought MS for a fixed fee but am willing to pay a small annual fee to help in it's continued development. By small I mean something in the range of $50-$100 per year, even through I only paid $97 for the original product. The lower the better but I do see and understand the need for an annual maintenance fee.
Having MS not function properly the last few days highlighted in my mind the use I make of the software.
So I look forward to seeing it fully functional again, and just have to hope Bing will produce the same results as Google produced in the past.
Ed
Samsudeen said:
I have been a market samurai customer for more than a year now. I have already made way more than what i paid for using the tool.That way you have handles this tough situations has only increase the respect i have for the market samurai team. I mainly use MS for keyword research and i have hardly used the rank tracker. Recently i got hold of traffic travis v4 and i have been using its rank tracking feature to track my client sites. Unlike Ms,Traffic travis uses my own connection(if proxies for not specified)to track the ranking. As of today its working fine. I have never got in to any trouble with Google(i track less than 50 keywords in total) using this feature.
So i believe MS should also make the rank tracker feature work using the customers connection unless if the customer adds some proxies. For those who track hundreds and thousand of keywords, should be advice to buy premium proxies based on their needs.
On January 30th, 2012 at 11:30 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
You can run Rank Tracker without using our proxy network at present.
There's more information available about this here:
http://noblesamurai.zendesk.com/entries/20903226-the-future-of-rank-tracker
Miriam
Diana M Fitzgerald said:
Hi Eugene, I have only been using MS for a short time, but I find it worth every penny I spent for it. Before I purchased it, I did a comparison of several products and ms provides, in many cases, more options than a lot of the others at a lower price.
If people start jumping out of the car because of little pebbles in the road, so be it. You have handled this issue in a very professional and upfront way and I appreciate your honesty.
If I had to pay a small monthly fee I would be willing to do that. My time is worth a lot to me and I think it would cost me more in the time spent than the ROI for doing it myself.
Segueixin amb la bona feina!
Diana
Christopher Barnard@host said:
“Several days ago, Google made some significant technical changes to its services that make it impossible to reliably perform large volumes of free queries.”
Could someone help me understand the exact reasons for the change.
William said:
I have read the majority of comments and at this point in time had not bought the products of MS. I was not ready to fully utilize the service with so much going on. After reading about this situation my first reaction was “damn its a good thing I didn't make this purchase.” But I really think I will do just that because you get so much for your buck. These services should be way more expensive and what services can you buy with a one time fee anymore anyway? Just thought I would add my 2 cents. Good luck MS I will convert from my 30 day free trial to the full product. You have my full support.
Maggie@Apps for iPads said:
I just want to take a minute to thank you for being upfront and honest on what is going on. Your software is still, after 2 years, the one I open first thing every day and recommend it to anyone looking for help with SEO.
You obviously cannot control what is going on with Google but can within your own company… and I have grown to trust you to do what is best for everyone, which I am sure you will do now too.
Just keep us apprised of how things proceed and I will be happy. Will I be happy if we have to start paying fees for services? No, because our budgets too tight for that right now and I bought MS because it was a one-time investment, but I know and trust that you will do everything within your power to keep things as close to “normal” as you possibly can.
Thanks again for all your work, devotion to the product and help you have extended to us over the years.
Dan said:
I am starting to think I never fully lifted the veil from in fron my my face with regards to Market Samurai.
Specifically, I thought this software was property of – in whole, or in part – Ed Dale, of the 30 Day Challenge team.
And I could have sworn he was in England.
Eugene Ware? Australia? Eh?
The little picture of Eugene there almost looks like one of the guys that gives a video tutorial for Market Samurai / 30 Day Challenge.. It's been a while since I went through all that stuff. And I still feel like Eugene and the person I'm vaguely remembering are not the same person.
Anyway, bottom line, I don't like feeling like I've been duped. After reading this article, I started to feel a slight desire to maybe check out the product once again – after the fixes, that is – but.. this whole confusion with Ed Dale/Eugene.. that sort of once again places me in the “maybe not” category. I don't like having to solve for X to feel confident I'm not being ripped off somehow.
Also.. I ranked for a pretty competetive keyword in Yahoo. Sure, it was only a page 3 ranking, but considering there are zero backlinks, banner ads, paid traffic or otherwise – I thought that wasn't so bad. I didn't need any sort of tool, Market Samurai or otherwise, to get it done either. That, again, just makes me stop and say, “Why would I give money to … well, quite frankly, I'm not even sure WHO anymore – for something I don't seem to even need?”
In short.. please clarify just who Ed Dale and the 30 Day Challenge team are, and what exactly the affiliation is. Sorry I'm not up to speed on this, but for whatever reason these details matter more to me right now than anything else.
On January 30th, 2012 at 10:52 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Dan,
I'm sorry about the confusion.
Ed Dale runs the 30 Day Challenge (now The Challenge) and helped to promote Market Samurai when we first launched. Market Samurai is used extensively in The Challenge training, however it is not owned by Ed Dale, however he is an affiliate. Noble Samurai (and Market Samurai) are based in Melbourne Australia and was founded by Eugene Ware. You will have seen Eugene in quite a few of the 30DC training videos as all affiliate partners with 30DC assisted in the training materials.
I hope this clarifies things.
Miriam
April Storm said:
Wow, sorry to hear this! I'm fairly new to the internet marketing arena and found great value in MS when I joined a few months back. Hope functionality is restored soon!
Gabor said:
Hi Eugene,
I am a customer for maybe three months now and I really like your product Market Samurai!
It helped me to get some awesome results, so the investion was it worth totally.
I first was a little depressed the last days as MS did not work as it did before. So I am glad to received this update via email.
The reasons are understandable, for no one these are good news, I think especially for you.
I know you and your team will handle it with a lot of power and find the best solution for everyone!
Thank you for your service,
Gabor, Germany.
Dave@0toCash said:
Eugene, a great post. I appreciate the transparency and honesty of where things are.
A further suggestion – as you pointed out, Bing is becoming more popular. I'd actually like to see the SEO Competition module be able to access to Bing SERP as an option to the Google SERP.
Also, have you looked at using the seoMoz data to get access to their page and trust rank data as a replacement for Google's Pagerank? I have nothing against Majestic from a link DB perspective but I think that reducing the Google footprint overall is a good thing. Using the moz's page and trust rank helps with that and gives us another authority measure.
frann said:
I'd still recommend MS to anybody wanting to do keyword research – once it's all back up and running of course. In the light of some of the stuff the big G has been saying, I'm not that bothered by rank tracking, and have stopped using it for some time. So I'll be quite happy to have the version with rank tracker disabled.
Wendy Webb said:
Google strikes again! MS is a great too, but the ongoing price will matter a great deal.
Trisha said:
I just wanted to say that as someone that has had some bad dealing with major corporations in the past 2 months, and has witnessed some very unethical behavior on the part of these corporations, I find your action a breath of fresh air.
It amazes me and stuns me that you are offering full refunds, most companies would not bother, especially not for those that have had the software for a long time. I can think of a relatively recent example of a forum software that changed their licensing in mid stream and left their customers hanging, with the explanation of we can change our license whenever we want.
What bothers me is that some of the people here do not appreciate the integrity that you have shown in dealing with this situation, and that there are way too few companies that will bother to do such a thing anymore.
I just want to give you all kudos for handling this situation the way you have, keep in mind that there will always be a few that are going to complain no matter what you do,even if you over deliver as you obviously have, but it seems like the vast majority of the community are supporting you. As for me I am very impress and grateful for your commitment to your customers, and wish more companies would behave the way you have. You have made a life long customer, just for that alone.
For those of you considering the refund, don't… at least for now, give MS a chance to make good and see what they can do. Their obvious class in the way they are dealing with this situation deserves that much!!
Jason said:
Hi Eugene
There are several suggestions about doing the rank tracking manually. Are you able to offer some guidance about how to achieve this. I'm a bit at sea without the Rank Tracker.
Gràcies,
Jason
On February 1st, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Jason.
Checking rankings manually is a bit of a pain. It basically means searching for the keyword manually and clicking through the results until you find the page.
Juanita@Hair Removal at Home said:
I use MS often and have been more than pleased with the features it offers. But nothing has impressed me more than knowing you're keeping it up to date. I'd rather pay more for something that works now, and I know will work later, than to pay less for something that will only work a few months. In an industry that has to deal with ever-changing search engines, the commitment to stay on top of the changes is crucial. You've clearly demonstrated that commitment. Nearly every time I open Market Samuarai there's an update waiting. The fact that you made this rather detailed post and then have spent the time responding to concerns has further shown this commitment. I'm pleased with your professionalism, no matter how small your company. Thanks for working hard to be a safe place in the storm.
Corinne@Coronado said:
I was first introduced to MS at the OTE2 conference back in Oct 2008 when it was still in its infancy with just a few of the modules launched. Even then it was a life changer for me. I still have hundreds of spreadsheets reflecting my manual accumulation of data to remind me just how amazing MS is.
Yes, there have been bumps in the road and this is a particularly bad one. But, I have always found that the Noble Samurai team has done all they could to maintain the integrity and usefulness of the software to the best of their ability even in the face of Google adversity.
Plus, they have always handled each situation with complete honesty and with respect for their users and followers.
If you are going to work in this field, you are going to have to be flexible and constantly adjusting to the changes forced on us by the likes of Google. Personally, I am happy to be on board with the Noble Samurai team to help ride out these constant changes.
Thanks you guys – as always, you are awesome!
Rob Metras said:
Eugene:
The hallmark of Market Samurai has been the honest free flow of issues from you and Anthony on changes that are happening. People should realize that a one-time fee of (97$ which is much lower than any other commercial service out there was a great deal and has been reliable.
I cannot think of any other provider out there that spends the time and effort on training for the revenue you have received, aside from Ed Dale and his crew. Keep on doing it .
Must be something in the beer down under.
Rick Noel@Internet marketing services said:
Eugene:
Thanks for the info and the updates and providing an awesome product. As an Internet marketing service provider, we find Market Samurai an invaluable SEO/keyword research resource in our SEO tools arsenal. It was a bummer when the Microsoft OCI went away as that was one great filter for commercial intent. Se la vi and on to plan b. Having worked for software companies for over 15 years prior opening eBiz ROI, I fully appreciate the challenges of maintaining a product as successful as Market Samurai, with a broad, diverse, sophisticated, global user base, especially in an environment where web services / APIs change more than some people change their socks and (other undergarments ?;-) Thanks for the info and “wearing the cost” on the Majestic SEO link data as $10K/mo is a lot of inches/cm on the waist. Gràcies de nou.
Cindy said:
Thanks for the update… I love honesty… so many companies try to hide their problems. I have often wondered how you can possibly make a profit for a one time fee. I use many of the functions in MS but the keyword research and SEO comp are my favorites. I hope you can keep those “free”.
Just keep us updated is all I ask. You have a lot of thinking to do, for sure. Bona sort. Love your product!!!
The Happy Rock said:
Rank tracker is the number one module for me. I just wanted to come in and say local searches with minute delays would be perfect for me. Better than having to click update and wait for minutes. If the searches just ran in the bathat ckground every day without user interactions so the results were always up to date that would be ideal.
Guy Harduf said:
Hello,
I'm really love working with market samurai, I'm a different Internet marketer, so I didn't made money from using MS but I did save a lot of money and time, totally worth it.
And I do need my sites to rank first place in Google, still number 1 search engine in Israel.
Probably I won't be a paying member if you'll start charging monthly fee, but I won't ask for a refund either.
A small advice, before deciding on a way of action, you should make a survey to find out how many people will ask a refund, how many people will pay a monthly fee and maybe for what people will pay and for what they won't.
After all it's the information stage and you better decide on information and don't go on a hunch.
Every e-marketer will tell you that, but I'm sure you already know it.
Last thing, I a man of ideas and if i may say I'm very good at finding the way out from an “unsolved” problem/ situation. I did it a lot in my life.
I'm ain't sure if I'll be able to help you, because of lack of knowledge but sometimes knowledge covers the solution.
I might see something or somethings that's hiding your knowledgeable eyes.
I'm offering this service for free hoping you'll keep market samurai free (as you see I will gain something).
Thank
Guy Harduf
David@Yamaha p95 said:
I have read all the comments thus far, and there have been a lot of them. I have read them not because I was necessarily learning new things about Market Samurai, but because I felt I was learning something about customer service and how to deal with your clients when the proverbial hits the fan. Excellent job Eugene.
I am angry. I really am. But not with Market Samurai. Maybe not even with Google. This is what you get in any industry that is essentially a monopoly. One over-powering organization that can play havoc with prices and or service/product quality. It's been this way since year dot, will continue to be. I can't even necessarily blame Google for their changes if they see SEO as counter-productive to what they want (although I think it should be enough to penalize bad content, reward good content). I think I am angry because I feel somewhat helpless. Buffeted along by the winds of change. Such is life.
My personal circumstances don't allow for additional monthly costs but I am a very small player who is not making money yet so maybe the free rank checking for small amounts of keywords will be sufficient. That being said, I have always thought the SEO Competition module was what made Market Samurai special, the competitive advantage so to speak. If that manages to avoid attracting a monthly cost then I think you will retain the majority of your customers.
Eugene and team, I wish you all the best and my thoughts are with you now. As much as I could use the money the refund would give me, I won't be claiming it. I have been a user since 2008 and have had reward for my investment many times over.
Bona sort.
Jim Bulkowski said:
My concern is about the PR module. It used to show where my back links were coming from and what page rank they are. Is this the module that is going to be repaired?
This is my favorite part of the program…. you cant be saying this will be gone?
I've installed up dates but I no longer can see where back links are coming from and there page rank!
Say it isn't so. I just bought this program and now it just doesn't work…
On January 30th, 2012 at 10:43 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi, PR Analysis is not currently working, however you can get your list of backlinks via Anchor Text Analysis. We're working on getting the PR data back but we're not at this stage when and in what form we will be able to return PR check functionality.
Miriam
Mark M@Beating Par Golf said:
Market Samurai has been the best deal in SEO and online marketing research software for quite some time.
You guys have displayed good faith in all your dealings. Offering the functionality that you do, with the frequency of updates that you provide at a *fixed price* is such a good deal that I have assumed that you were losing money and would revert to a continuity within weeks of my purchase.
Obviously that never happened. I have written code to do some of what MS does and it is a royal pain to maintain because of the constant changes to the UI at websites that must be navigated automatically by the software. Which is why I just used MS for a lot of my market research data gathering, export the data to excel (actually Open Office calc) and just code the back-end processing which does not need to change.
I want to thank the MS crew for their reliably persistent commitment to keeping the software current.
Leon @ Two Eleven Jay said:
As frustrating as this is, it cal only be expected from the rapidly changing Internet marketing world (thanks google!). I have no doubt that the Market Samurai team sincerely has out best interest in mind. If it weren't for this they wouldn't be good marketers now would they lol. Thank you for all your hard work and you continue communication! Good luck I know you guys can do it!!!
Sam said:
Yeah keep unpublishing comments that does not fit into your scheme of things – next comment will be from our lawyer!
On February 1st, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Sam, I looked through the Spam folder and I couldn't find your comment. Could you please send it through again so I can publish it?
Virginia said:
You guys have done an excellent job and really your software is fantastic it's not your fault if google change the rules. I will stick with you for all my rankings tracking and I have market samurai and article samauri because everything you have done works and you are honest when it does not. I love the way you do business anyone who is unhappy Please remember this. These guys have always looked out for our interests and cannot control what google does. They have already provided excellent value and probably have never made much profit as a lot of their free updates would have swallowed up any. I have only ever used this software for my own mortgage business and even for a small trader like me it has been profitable
J said:
never buying anything from you guys again and I recommend everyone who reads this not to either. I want my money back. The better program to use is link-assistant.com
Koshka said:
I am upset about those changes. I do not know if Market Samurai will be able to provide all tools I need to do my research. I understand it is Google changes and we hardly can argue with Google. I know that Market Samurai worth the price I spend for it. I hope, you can solve this issue or find some solution that would find good alternative. Keep us updated!
Theo said:
I can understand those who are upset about MS performance over the last few months.
Personally i paid $97 almost 3 years ago so i can't complain, i have used MS as my main KW research tool.
I actually advised Eugene to add a monthly sub months ago to keep MS working, and he declined. I have no problem with a reasonable monthly cost if it keeps MS up to date and makes it FASTER!!! (My main gripe)
Google is changing weekly it seems, so to keep our favorite KW tool running we are going to have to cough-up.
@Eugene, Miriam and MS team, thanks for all your effort over the years and hopefully we may see MS working and improved for years to come.
PS! RECOMMENDATION
I only use the KW, SEO and RT modules, never the other add-ons. Maybe cut out the extra baggage and redo MS make it accurate and FASTER.
Tip-Have a look at SECokpit
¡Salut
Theo
On January 30th, 2012 at 9:28 am
Theo replied:
Just to add.
I agree with some of the other comments, i am not a coder by any means but i have tried some of the other KW Tools (Hang my head in shame) and moving to the cloud seems the way to go.
To The Cloud….
Walt said:
Is google blocking the SEOC requests by issuing captchas and then once they fail temporarily banning your ip?
matt@EdmontonSEO said:
While I am disappointed in the current limited functionality of MS it is the only tool that I have been able to afford in order to run my business and considered it a steal of a deal. That being said, I understand that things change. I personally would never operate a software company on a one time payment model and would at least have a yearly subscription (if not monthly) to cover operating costs and expenses. Albeit I know that the one time payment is what made MS so attractive but perhaps it it time to change the model. People don't realize, things cost money. Google offers services for free such as access to their search engine and then makes money with adwords. Nothing is free in life. I for one will not be terribly upset if you have to introduce a yearly or monthly pricing model so long as you continue to provide me with the data that I need to fun my business. Perhaps those who want to have a one time payment can check out SEO Powersuite http://www.link-assistant.com/download.html or are they having the same problems as MS? That being said, I understand that this change is out of your control and that you need to do something to make it work that you would rather not do. I've enjoyed us MS for the last 5 years and will continue to be a customer so long as the rates remain reasonable. (For the pissed off cheapskates who are threatening to sue you, if it were me, I would give them a refund and send them on their way, you don't need nor want a customer like that (I know I don't) All the best to you and I trust that you will sort this out.
On January 30th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Graham replied:
SEO Powersuite is not a one off payment I'm afraid..
They have a sly business model lurking in the background where you have to pay for algo updates and decapture credits that is NOT mentioned anywhere on their site.
I'm not dissing them for having a recurring fee, sadly it's become essential in this game, it's just that unlike the Noble Samurai team, Link Assistant are not upfront about it.
I would imagine similar problems (if not far worse) are occurring with their version of Rank Tracker.
In addition, their software (like any other good SEO research tool) requires reliable proxies to operate on full steam. Anyone who has been in this business for any length of time will realise when that's the case, a decent number of high quality private proxies are the only reliable way forward (another monthly expense!)
On January 30th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
MaRK replied:
As of this morning there are NO issues with their Rank Tracker software as far as my experience goes, all reults are coming through and they are up to date. (i simply had to fill in 1 captcha)
You are correct, however, that there is a hidden charge for using their software which kicks in after 6 months but is around the cost of MS and if you took advantage of their $99 xmas special the costs are very reasonable (thats for the whole package of 4 programs).
I use both tools as cross reference and neithe ris better than the other imho.
Marqueu
On January 31st, 2012 at 2:46 am
Tamara replied:
As a former team member of SEO PowerSuite I can tell you that their Rank Tracker works differently and therefore doesn't face the same problem most of the time. The checks run from your own computer, not from the developer's server, so you can make your own tweaks to the speed/frequency of search, involve some human emulation and then you're the one who actually determines whether you're able to work, or whether you face problems. I can't say this approach is better or worse than MS's – it's just that two similar tools collect data a bit differently, and as long as everything's working fine you don't notice much difference. But at least please rest assured the same trouble won't happen to SEO PowerSuite Rank Tracker.
Anyway I have to say that Market Samurai is respectable software and it is sad that this nasty ban happened. I hope the team will sort this soon.
Thomas Rozof said:
Eugene,
From the very start of MS you and your team have treated us with the highest degree curtesy and generosity. As the owner of a technology company myself we have encountered our own share of developmental challenges over the last four years. Just like MS we at SYNND have members who know we are genuinely intent on serving them with the very best innovative software that saves them time and money in the long run. Unfortunately, reaching these goals often involves a dependency on interrelated technologies that are not fully under our control.
We live in a time of greater global interrelationships. Because of this I seek to work ONLY with people who have a reputation of consistent high ethical behavior and who can be trusted to keep my needs, as well their own in view when (not if) a technical problem is encountered.
I would trust you and your team at MS with anything that required a relationship of TRUST. I say this not just because of how you have treated us at Social Media Science, but also because of our extensive relationships with many owners and users of Internet technology within the industry.
Please let me know if there is anything we can do to help. I am betting that you have lots of members who feel just as we do, and who will therefore give you every benefit of the doubt as you seek to restore MS to its position as one of the top research centers on the net.
Atentament,
Thomas Rozof
On January 31st, 2012 at 12:53 am
Lore replied:
Yes it is true – and your company and its behavior could learn a lot from these guys. Besides the honesty from the MS folks, which your folks clearly lack, many of your customers have been waiting and paying for promised modules for months if not years while paying monthly fees for vapor. Many times your support responds with anger and claims clearly broken modules actually work. Cheers mate.
On January 31st, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Thomas Rozof replied:
Hi Lore,
Sorry you feel that way. I assume you were a member at one point? When was that? If you had a negative experience I apologize and if you want to give SYNND another try I can set you up with a discount if you write me directly. Synnd has not had any performance issues for some time, but I admit, that first year was a struggle.
However, you should read some of the very kind emails people sent us (very similar to what the MS team is receiving here
. On our part, in order to say “thanks” to our many loyal members, we are increasing the monthly credits of all SYNND memberships this week by 30% or more, free of charge. SYNND now supports Bookmarking, Social News, ReTweets, Facebook LIKES, Google +1, a new Article Network, a new Press Releases System (to launch next week), added RSS expansion, Blog commenting (and Video is coming), a new API Interface being used by large SEO Firms and others who want to White Label SYNND…But the one feature that still sets SYNND apart from other like systems is this: All These Modules Are Generated From an ISP Level IP Address from SYNND member computers located in the US and around the world instead of Proxie IPs or a single IP from your own computer. With 175 people joining each week the number of independent IPs keeps growing. So please come back and give it a try. (And sorry MS guys for taking up your PR juice with SYNND related news…and feel free to just send me comments to Lore if you would rather not have this posted blog.
Atentament,
Thomas Rozof, SYNND.com
Ron said:
I Really appreciate the update…and response to my ticket. Dealing with Google can be a daily dose of uncertainty so this dilemma is not surprising. Noble Samurai response to the zigs and zags by the search engines has been, well, outstanding.
I have used Market Samurai almost daily for about three years saving MASSIVE time..and time is money.
Keep up the very good job Noble Samurai Team.
DetlevTesch@OnlineMarketing Institut said:
Hi Eugene,
Thanks for what you and your team have achieved so far. While I am not a “power user” I have worked with Market Samurai for, I think, over two years and got good value from it. Asking for a refund would feel like ripping you off!! Even if you were to terminate the entire thing right now!
Big changes are inevitable. I remember when banks (at least here in Germany) offered everyone free accounts to have their wages transferred to. Then, when everyone had them and employers didn't pay cash anymore the banks started charging fees for the service…
So if Google – or any other big player one has to make use of – decides to change their game, I guess they neither ask you whether it is convenient or even inform you.
I realise that you guys did a lot of work to keep thing running AND improving the product. Quite a amazingly actually for a relatively small one time fee. Yes, amazing. I have seen a different tool that cost, I think, about three times what I paid for MS – for just six months of usage.
So, thanks again and I will see what you come up with as solution. Maybe I will like it, maybe I will not – in any case Google's maneuvers are not you fault.
Detlev
Justin said:
Hola,
What does this mean for SEOLC results for countries other then the US?
Australia specifically.
Do you have a recommended SEOLC number to add to Golden Rules with the new bing data 100,000 is obviously going to be way too high but I am unsure where to set it at.
30,000 is obviously the 30% mark but I am not sure if this would be accurate for Australia, please advise.
Thanks in advance!
John said:
I heard a lot of things about your software. It's a nice piece of software. Actually, the main reason I wanted to buy it is because of the Majestic SEO API since Yahoo is gone..
I think only for that YOU should buy this product. However, my question is:
The problem and hassles you are facing right now, I don't understand them good, but my question is:
Can you handle them? I don't want to buy this software and see that a lot of functionalities don't work, because then I am dissapointed.
Tim said:
I am planning to stay a customer; however, just a thought, can you offer any discounts to your other products in a bundle for those of us that stick with you through the changes?
javier said:
I kew it, at some point when market samurai has enogh user they will find the way to charge monthly I knew it.
I guess as soon you guys start to charge monthly will be my last day using marketsamuray because I already pay $150.00 lifetyme.
On January 31st, 2012 at 6:37 am
Mike replied:
Dude….apparently you didn't READ the post. They are not thinking of charging monthly because they got more users. Google changed the way they allow software to grab their info. So I tell you what. YOU call Google and get the magic formula and then YOU design and code the software. In return I'll give YOU a monthly fee. People like you really piss me off when they speak without KNOWING.
Battra said:
Glad to hear that there is no subscription for non-Rank Tracker module. I understand the need to move into subscriptions based, however I'd appreciate if there is a free level like you mentioned in your post for those new to internet marketing and those who only have few keywords to track. That will make MS still appealing even for newbies.
Ginny said:
Eugene,
My heartfelt support goes out to you and your team during this frustrating change. We know that MS is an awesome product and will continue to support you. Aguanta!
Greg said:
Ahh…. well it was nice knowing you. There are still some features I like besides the ranking tool but I agree it was slow. Maybe you should try limiting the amount of keywords in the ranking tool? Buddies of mine are tracking thousands! How 'bout just keep it to an effective 50! Part of the problem with data is…well…data. You've got too much of it in the pipeline and 99% of it is useless!
Kristina McInerny said:
Thank you for being so prompt, up front and thorough!
jayz said:
If the problems is mainly with HIGH VOLUME USE of Rank Tracker (thousands of URLs per day/week?), I completely understand a monthly charge to cover that HIGH VOLUME usage. However I only check maybe 200 to 300 URLs every week and hopefully your situation allows for that level of tracking to continue to be free.
Jane said:
Hi Eugene,
I am an avid supporter of Market Samurai and I'd like to provide some encouragement. With Market Samurai and a bit of knowledge of my own, I have been able to get our biggest keyword (and related income) up to #1 on google. We also have other #1′s and many first page keywords.
I wouldn't want to be without Market Samurai and, frankly, it's not because of the Rank Checker feature, which I consider to be a bit cumbersome. I actually stopped using it because I found it more effective to pick out keywords myself. You may actually be able to improve the effectiveness of your product by suggesting that other people do that, too. From my experience, the Rank Checker feature doesn't actually narrow in as well as some simple research.
The feature I use most is SEO Competition, because I want to see how our sites and relevant pages compare to the competition. I appreciate all of the comparisons, and particularly hone in on the PR rankings of the top 10 sites to select keywords, along with a few other things. If the average PR rankings of the top 10 sites are high, I figure I might as well look for something that would be easier to tackle. For example, if the average PR Ranking is 4, I'd rather look at a comparable word with an average of 2. Just makes sense to me and it seems to work.
My goal is to optimize our assets, so we can increase our positions and the SEO Competition feature works very well. One thing that would help, if there is any way to do it, is to provide the average PR of the top 10, because I have to calculate it myself.
If I had that number, my research would go much faster. I do use the google tool to decide which keywords to target. Then I use SEO Competition to see how we compare with the top rated sites. It works like magic!
Thanks so much for your great program. I'm sure all of this will work out.
Els meus millors desitjos,
Jane
John Romaine said:
Well thats just great.
Ive just spent 8 months developing an SEO video training course that Im about to launch, that demonstrates the benefits of Market Samurai, along with the fact that there' s no ongoing payment required, and now this.
FML.
Graham va dir:
Hi Eugene,
I have to say, you guys are handling all this with a level of calm professionalism so rarely seen in the business world overall, let alone in the field of SEO and internet marketing guru's. Gold stars all round.
..and to all the blind whingers: if you had any idea of just how much ongoing coding and background work it takes to keep a product like Market Samurai functioning, then maybe you'd understand why a monthly fee is the only way.
With Market Samurai we've all had what is pretty much a free ride for quite a few years now – bearing in mind its power the initial one off payment was low anyway – many would (and do) charge twice as much or more for far less, and even then that 'far less' often stops working altogether a few months down the line turning into f all.
Fear not, these guys are committed to providing you the best value and service possible, you can trust them 100% not to empty your pockets on empty promises, they'll always do the best they can to keep the product working as best it can for the least amount of expense to the customer possible, it should be obvious from Eugenes posts that they really do care – absolutely no question about that.
Their initial low one off payment business model was designed to help support the little guys, the underdogs who want to get a head start in SEO & internet marketing and give them a chance to make some money online, in fact in reality it was so much more than that, not only did they provide the tool to do it with, they actually taught you how to do it too.. – talk about value for money! – they could have charged so much more for the whole package from the start!
I'm confident the issues don't lie with Eugene and the Market Samuria team wanting to drive around in Ferrari's (although fairplay if they already do – they deserve it!), they lie with the more money minded business models of the other companies they have to be involved with to obtain the data. Unfortunately that leaves them with no other option than to alter their business model accordingly. Unfortunately very little in the world of SEO data is free thesedays.. well, not unless you wan't to do it all manually.. yeah right.. even then, access is still limited.
Anyway, having been a customer since its launch I would never consider a refund even if MS never worked again, even back then, for a $97 I'd have been pleased had it only worked for a year!
T
On January 30th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Stan Rogers replied:
Your are wrong buddy…
“Anyway, having been a customer since its launch I would never consider a refund even if MS never worked again, even back then, for a $97 I'd have been pleased had it only worked for a year!”
EXCEPT for the fact that we were told we were getting lifetime updates for a ONE TIME PAYMENT.
STILL on the MS sales page is says the same thing. One payment for life. I gather MS are not refusing new sales??
mBattery said:
I have been a satisfied customer of MS since it's inception. For a mere $97.00 I have had countless hours of research at my fingertips. MS has continually improved. I feel very lucky to have had this run. I know it will continue to be a useful tool. I feel like MS is an old friend I would hate to loose. For those few who have complained I have to ask, How can you possibly! What more could you have asked for! I look forward to a continued friendship.
John Romaine said:
By the way guys…
PLEASE make the paid features of this tool an OPTION.
Please dont just incorporate it hard coded within the tool. Not all of us are hung up on checking our rankings using MS.
Outdoor Railing said:
Hello MS Team,
Thanks for the public explanation!
MS has paid for itself multiple times.
The training videos are the most concise and easy to understand intro to SEO. After watching the training videos, I bought the software as I had already gotten $100 worth.
Eugene, please poll your users re: subscription pricing. I pay for SEOmoz and feel that it is inferior to MS. Or send out a request to your members, “Choose your level of recurring payment:”. Make zero an option, but let freeloaders know that the days of couch-surfing must surely come to an end.
As I told a person I was training on SEO, “MS is slow, but the data is worth it”.
Kim said:
I”ve been using Market Samurai for 2 1/2 years. I have relied heavily on this tool to rank and grow my business. For a one-time low price, you have provided me with easy to understand, valuable information, great customer service
and outstanding tutorials and information.
I trust that you will continue to provide a great product and give us the best price.
So hang in there…this too shall pass. And your loyal customers will stay with you.
Kevin said:
Eugene,
I have been a customer since you launched the business and reading through this thread, and you conscientious interaction with everyone makes me proud to be a MS owner, and there is no doubt I am in it for the long haul with you guys..
Thanks Eugene for not running and hiding when things go wrong like far too many product owners do.
Kevin
Steve said:
Hi Noble Samurai's
I was initially frustrated with the situation but having had time to really think about it I would support a pay-per-rank-check feature being introduced into MS.
There really aren't any alternatives on the market that are both reliable and affordable (to me anyway).
A pay-per-use model would also force me to get out of the bad habit of feeling the urge to check my rankings every single day lol!
I wish you all the luck over the next few weeks and I hope you don't let the whiners get to you!
JP said:
Hi Eugene,
I use MS every single week and many weeks, several times a day. When things broke, it was a disruption in my business. So I am glad that you are “on the case.”
MS is BY FAR one of the BEST SEO tools on the planet. I use other tools too and yes, I pay monthly fees ranging from $97 to $497 per month. This is what you do if you are serious about SEO, online marketing and rankings.
All I can say is fix things and fix them fast! We MUST have access to Google data and not just Yahoo or Bing.
Of course if you charge a monthly fee you will lose some, but if you have to….you have to. And those who do this full time, get it. So do it.
You cannot control what Google does, but please do what needs to be done to make sure MS stays the same kick butt tool it has been and will be in the future.
Unlike others who have posted that it's okay if MS never works perfectly again or got enough value from paying once before “it broke”…that is not the case for me.
Of course I have gotten tons of value from MS, but it is a tool I want and need forever and so getting this fixed and charging me a monthly fee for it is worth it!
What I don't want to have happen is you not charge what you need to and thus MS goes away or is severely limited by the change.
Santiago Urquieta said:
I'm very conscious of the tremendous effort made to keep the service active from Market Samurai. So I encourage you to go ahead. I hope that very soon will have all new solutions or improvements. I'm not willing to seek any refund, on the contrary, I have no more to be thankful for the great tool they have created. I have not seen anything like it online. Keep it up guys and we are waiting … Best regards from Chile.
Greg Savage said:
Gràcies per l'actualització. I hope this all works well in the end and I agree with John. Please makes this optional
Harry said:
Basically, I am not good with this, I totally realize the predicament, but nonetheless, I am expecting you to find a way through this, but as I keep reading your comments, I fear there's a sense of giving up that seems to be coming through, and if we have to pay something, then it must be something like 3 to 5 usd per month, ie something that supports your program for survival, not an added revenue just because you are not doing your job well enough as sellers and marketers. Sell sell, and you will get more money from new subscribers, try not make us, old timers, who believed in you in the first place, when others did not, to pay for all this.
Gary said:
Hi Eugene and MS guys
I just wanted to say from my end I get it, and its massively frustrating for all but s*#t happens and the internet is changing.
Nobody wants to pay ongoing fees for MS but ultimately people have to realise that MS is actually a business.
If you dont charge ongoing fees if required then you'll just end up out of business and all those “free updates” that we all regularly enjoy will soon stop happening and then nothing will work.
One thing I've always appreciated about being on the MS list is that you guys never ever promote anything and grab your affiliate share like so many others.
But……maybe its time to do that and make some easy money from your 400,000 strong list.
If you recommend something that's good and people buy it why shouldn't you make some extra money and keep MS costs low.
Just my two cents.
Morten Rais said:
I agree with John Romaine to make subscriptions optional. It would not be to hard to make a page ranker function that was putting the effort on the clientside. Eg. a search on a 100 result page, scrape the result and analyze on the client side. then narrow it down with a 10 result pr. page search.
This would satisfy ms users with few keyword and sites
Paul said:
How could free services accessed and used by Market Samurai suddenly cost $40,000 a month? This just doesn't make sense. If true, It looks as if this is total failure to fulfill a contract and refunds of millions of dollars of unearned fees and commissions paid will need to be refunded. It looks as if inside promoters who made thousands if not tens of thousands and others who made a few dollars have a lot of commissions to rebate to Market Samurai in addition to Marketer Samurai rebating the full software cost to customers. I would speculate there were 20 to 30 million dollars of sales of the software product on 2 0r 3 hundred thousand users and now Market Samurai promoters want to escape with all that money. Someone has likely pocketed a lot of money and would now be trying to renig on a contract. I smell fraud and federal and international investigation.
Ana said:
Hi Eugene,
Thanks for explaining it so well. I know checking our rankings is vital to the business, but I understand the difficult situation MS is in right now.
Still, MS is one of my best tools and as others have already said, have paid for itself many times over. The video training that your group has provided was so valuable to me and I am grateful that it was part of the MS.
For those who aren't as understanding as most of us, well at least their are fewer in number
I just hope that your team will make the paid features of this tool an OPTION and not otherwise. I still love MS even without the rank checker.
iConvergence said:
Provide free captcha and rotation proxy should work for ranking.
Maybe this is an option to look into ?
Steve@Goal Profits said:
Hi Eugene,
There's a saying, “when Google sneezes, the rest of us catch a cold” and we just have to deal with it. In my opinion, you're being more than generous in offering a refund. I have every faith that your team are working hard on behalf of my $97 and I'm more than happy to stick with you.
Segueixin amb la bona feina!
Steve
Jason@Elderly Personal Alarms said:
Whilst this is a major pain for me I guess it was probably inevitable that this would happen. I have a number of SEO software programs that always grind my internet connection to a halt after running the thousands of queries that they do or request I pay for a CAPTCHA license. My preference has always been MS due to its ease of use and the fact I never had the issues that I do with other tools.
As for the swap to Bing I don't think that is necessarily such a bad thing either as the more work I do in the SEO field the more relevant Bing seems to be – after all most of my traffic is from IE clients and the majority of users won't change its default settings so maybe we are all missing a trick here?
MS is a good tool and that is not an easy task to accomplish. I am sure that people who can create something this good will come out with the best solution at the end of the day…. remember guys if it was easy it wouldn't be worth doing. Good Luck.
Alfonsan@SocioMedia 21 SLU said:
Hola
You pointed out that Bing+Yahoo represents 30% of search volume, but thats US only. For Spain, Germany or many other 1st world countries, Bing+Yahoo represents 3 to 5% only, and that's for a reason…
Bing seems to be extremely unreliable for international results, I have top 10 Bing rankings for competitive keywords that don't rank top 50 for Google, and I have top ten long tail rankings in Google that are not even in the first 1000 on Bing.
Do you believe we will get valuable results? why should we trust that data?
Andrew said:
That's a real shame guys. I have an account with raven tools, but like to be able to check my rankings daily. MS was perfect for that.
As a new user I only got to use it for a couple of weeks before it started playing up.
Unfortunately I may be asking for a refund as it was purchased by my new employer.
Good luck for the future!
MaRK said:
Hola,
Thanks for the info, although i am slightly at odds as to why the original poster hasnt posted again in over 100 posts?
Anyway, I also use SEO powersuites tools, one of which is RANK TRACKER and after checking it this morning seems to be running fine so they dont seem to have been affected.
I am sure the MS guys will get this sorted out, hopefully it will be faster and better when it returns.
The only thing i felt pretty annoyed about was your assertions that BING is as good as Google for certain functions in MS (or any other tool involved in Internet Marketing) – i have to say that according to any and ALL data i can find regarding market share, useage etc Google is FAR superior to Bing in all areas and that your figures of Bing having 30% is grossly false.
Apart from that i am happy to wait to see what you come up with HOWEVER i will NOT be taking part in any monthly costs which is a shame but in this mine field of internet marketing you have to stop paying for stuff sometime or it just gets a little too crazy.
gràcies
Marqueu
Joe said:
Must be about 3 years now with MS and have truly received my monies worth from it already, so would be a bit cheeky asking for a refund.
Certainly is has been Rank Tracker that I have been using more and more rather than keyword research and miss this function.
If it comes to a paid service, then surely the amount of usage would determine the costs we will pay. Those who use it most should pay the most after all MS will be paying more for the volume of info that they receive.
As far as MS support is concerned, I have found them second to none. Previously I lost a lot of data and had mixed up data for Rank Tracker and support walked me through each step until everything was fixed.
Google are a law to themselves as they have shown time and time again. They strive to get more from us and are giving less back! How can MS be accountable for any other companies attitude/policy's etc.
Magnus said:
But if the problem is to make large amounts of centralized queries, why don't you let such queries be performed locally and just provide a proxy download service, or simply let ppl have their own proxies?
On February 1st, 2012 at 11:09 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Magnus, this is a potential solution that we are looking into – you can currently do this by deselecting 'use inbuilt proxies' and entering your own proxy list (under file->settings->proxies)
kakang aab said:
Sejujurnya hal yang paling bahagia dalam hidup saya adalah memiliki Market Samurai. Market Samurai adalah produk pertama saya paling mahal yang di beli melalui internet dengan dibeli melalui perjuangan yang sangat keras. Saya beli alat ini dengan mengorbankan uang tabungan saya untuk mendapatkan manfaat yang ditawarkan oleh Noble Samurai.
Saya tidak bisa membayangkan jika Market Samurai akan menghilangkan fitur-fitur yang ada terutama SEO, PR, dan Track Rank. Karena dengan alasan itulah saya berani melangkah untuk membeli Market Samurai.
Saya tidak mengharapkan akn melakukan pengembalian uang, karena saya yakin tim Noble Samurai akan bekerja keras untuk membuat para pelanggannya tidak kecewa.
Terakhir, saya akan tetap menunggu dan menggunakan Market Samurai berusaha melakukan hal yang terbaik untuk para pelanggannya.
Salam hangat,
Kakang Aab – Newbie Internet Marketing untuk mendapatkan penghasilan yang terbaik dari Internet.
kakang aab said:
Honestly the happiest thing in my life is to have Market Samurai. Market Samurai is the first product I purchased the most expensive to be purchased over the internet through a very hard struggle. I bought this tool at the expense of saving my money to get the benefits offered by Noble Samurai.
I can not imagine if Market Samurai will eliminate features that are particularly SEO, PR, and Track Rank. Due to the reason why I dare to step to buy Market Samurai.
I do not expect a refund, because I believe the Noble Samurai team will work hard to make its customers are not disappointed.
Lastly, I'll keep waiting and using the Market Samurai trying to do the best for its customers.
Salutacions cordials,
Kakang Aab – Newbie Internet Marketing to get the best of Internet revenue.
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Susan said:
I'm a long time MS user, and you have my 100% support. You guys have always over delivered, and I sincerely appreciate your commitment and your integrity. You also have my sympathy because anyone in online marketing knows how difficult it is to deal with Google's constant, sudden, drastic changes. I'm completely confident that however you structure your new business model, it will continue to offer exceptional value at a fair price.
Hang in there, and keep up the excellent work – thank you!
Jon said:
This will be a training course at many abusiness school on how to lose 400,000 customers and screw up your business!
Market Samurai is a lead capture device, it has a one off charge to determine if users are serious. It is the same old game, you give something of exceptional value (lifetime use of Market Samurai) in return for our trust and you then upsell us to Article Samurai, 99 designs and your other stuff.
You describe yourself as a small company, well a small company that has had over $20 million from Market Samurai and a nice monthly income from Article Samurai.
If you charge for Market Samurai you will lose any trust you gained and your name will be mud forever.
I have found Market Samurai less and less relevant anyway, I have cheap tools that cost me $7 on WF that are more useful. Market Samurai has been “in beta” for the years I have used it, I started using it less because every time I load it up, an update was needed. Then when results came they were NEVER complete.
Look we understand that “IT” happens, Google moves the goal posts but you have to figure it out, WITHOUT expecting us to put our hand in OUR pockets!
If you charge for this “the challenge” is dead, even if you offer the 42 day free trial, word will get around that your name is mud.
I suggest that you keep it free as was implied when we bought it, you may not be able to provide all you do now, well so be it, do what you can when you can, nobody is expecting you to get around this in a week.
Anonymous said:
Hola
I must say its very very flustrating that MS has more and more problems. I know it's not you fault guys but…
Ok. My question is: what happend with Google that you have the issue with Rank Tracker? What they (Google) do few days ago?
Please at least bring back the PR Backlink module as soon as its possible. Is it possible to do it in so reasonable time?
Michelle said:
Hi Eugene,
I purchased the full paid version One week ago. While I understand the problem associated with this product. I am uphold by yours long time business supports and loyal customers. No doubt, they benefit from this product. While I appreciate their view point. I also understand this product is still being market to new customers like myself. I think this is very wrong. MS should not be marketed until the problem is fully resolved. Or let customers have an option. Also as a new user of MS, from the comments, it seems like this will be an ongoing concern. I can't support the product because, I didn't did get a chance to used or enjoy the product like some of customers. SORRY
WebGuy303 said:
Thanks for being so open about this stuff, it's always interesting to see how you adapt to the changing landscape.
Rita said:
You guys have always done a great job with updates and service. I still can't believe the value I've received over the years with my one time payment.
These are changes that were out of your control. I've had Google f#@$ with my business too, and sometimes there is nothing you can do.
I'm sure you'll find a way to offer your service in a new way.
As for comments above that I read where MS should have seen this coming … MS has ALWAYS been proactive and has ALWAYS done a great job staying up to date. But sometimes things happen that are just out of your control.
Wim Heitinga said:
Thank god that it happened in my trial period, ii am not going to buy MS if it is going to be monthly payment,
I'll buy some other tool that doesn't seem to have these problems to begin with.
Barbara said:
Kudos to the team at MS for providing a fantastic product, despite all of the changes online in recent years. I first started using MS as part of the 30 Day Challenge and have since used it for myself and to offer keyword research to my clients. I don't see how anyone who's been using it for a while couldn't have made a return on their investment MANY times over.
Eugene, you've earned my respect for being honest, upfront and responsive throughout this whole process. I have a background in PR and have seen many others out there who could learn from your example.
Keep up the good work and know you have many supporters!
Ron said:
Thanks for the updates and thanks for great MS products.
Please consider a professional version at a reasonable price for the advanced functionality that power users want. That way it's a win-win-win strategy for everyone.
Ron
Ken said:
Eugene,
I'm amazed.
Amazed that you guys have got most of the functionality restored in such a short time. Seriously… kudos!
Amazed that you have handled the backlash of something completely out of your control with such professionalism and tack.
Amazed that Market Samurai was and still is a fixed price product (although that was a BIG selling point for me as an occasional user).
Amazed that MS does so much, so efficiently.
Amazed that anyone can complain for this hiccup when you have been nothing but upfront and clear about this change and why it happened.
Amazed that anyone thinks they can get a better value for what MS does anywhere else.
I'd just like to throw my two cents in and say that I would have a hard time paying a subscription in that I rarely use MS. Not to say it doesn't have any value for me. Quite the opposite. It is invaluable for me when I need it for keyword research. There isn't a better tool on the market and I've tried them all!
After doing some SEO tool programming, I've always thought that relying on ongoing sales to be able to maintain such a monster (just keeping up with parsing changes) would be, at best, a risky proposition.
But you guys have done it for a long time flawlessly. Here I go being amazed again!
So I just wanted to add my support to what I feel is the best of the best. Best functionality, best support, and by far the best consideration for the customer. (period)
But rather than just being a fanboi with nothing of value to add, I was thinking…
Since you have a huge user base, and given this user base is not all using the product at the same time, what about using the the client machines to do some of the heavy lifting in a distributed way?
Sure, you'd have to write a service and it would be a major undertaking but think about it. You'd be able to throttle the queries on the individual machines (within the service itself) and never bump into Google's limits.
You could even do a ratio type quota system where one could only do as many queries as his/her machine has credits. Credits being earned by the work his/her machine has done. Much like a download ratio in the BitTorrent circles.
I know it's a dream… it's always been a dream of mine to have a distributed network of machines to turn to when I needed to get around throttle limits. It would be very difficult to implement initially, but think of the possibilities for the future.
The free users would be able to contribute for the use of the product with a system like this as well.
I for one wouldn't mind at all if a query was made from my machine every 30-60 seconds for the benefit of a fellow user. Especially if it meant that I would be building credits for when I needed them.
400k machines means 400k queries per minute (theoretically) without threat of hitting any throttle limits.
Just a thought…
Take care and keep up the great work!
L. Simon@Photography Basics 101 said:
Just wanted to say thanks – this is an excellent example to hold up to show what a company should be doing to serve their customers in today's world.
I bought MS a long time ago, and I use it daily. Losing the Rank Tracker hurts, but it isn't even why I bought the tool, and the core competencies are still there as strong as ever.
To be honest, I could really use $97 in my bank account right now – but there is *NO WAY* I would request a refund after having witnessed the level of dedicated shown to date at Noble Samurai.
David Wood said:
Geez Louise people. Get a grip.
It always amazes me the histrionics that users go into when something changes and the “free” lunch comes to an end.
Let's do a little back of the envelope math here. From what I gather MS would have to eat $40K a day in charges to keep everything “free.” We know that ain't gonna happen. So let's take $40KX 30 days = $1,200,000 per month. Take $1,200,000/400000 MS users = $3.
That's 3 bucks a month folks. You can't buy a decent beer for that in a bar.
Now let's account for some dead loss. Let's say MS loses a chunk of complainers, free loaders, and other assorted “users”. And we have to jack the cost up to $4 a month.
Heck let's give the boys some breathing room and bump it up to $5 a month.
Now I know that charging an extra $5 a month would cause some worldwide economic disruption. I mean it might actually mean that some folks might just have to give up one cup of foo foo coffee a month!
Gasp and swoon….perish the thought! $5 per month and then we can go onto the next item of business.
Am I missing something here?
Gràcies
Dave Wood
PS To all the complainers out there remember the old Japanese phrase “Nothing is as expensive as that which you obtain for free.” So why don't you shove off…they have offered you a refund (which is way beyond the call of duty). That way we can thin out the herd, get down to a serious core of business users and maybe just help MS and ourselves to jointly build a better product that will help us all in the end.
On February 1st, 2012 at 2:56 am
Mark Kithcart replied:
Right on David!! Best reply yet.
I like this quote as well “Good things come to those who wait, but only those things left behind by those who hustle” my addition to this….so stop whining and hustle.
On February 1st, 2012 at 6:47 am
Bertie Long replied:
I may not have my other responses printed, as they may not concur with the present attempts of MS to maintain credibility with this matter, so can I suggest for the “truth”, you check out the Warrior Forum and one of the posts which questions the integrity of the answers given as to the real reasons? Namely, NOTHING has changed with Google lately, other “competitors” have not had any work to do, changing their software to match varying algorithms. The problem (as they say) lies with the way MS was set up to function a long time ago, and it will not work as it was supposed to. And it is pretty obvious that the comments on here have been VERY selective, are VERY one sided, and do not reflect all round opinion from MS users. It looks to me like MS are even using this “disaster” as even more hype. It all leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth……….. please, let us just have the real truth.
On February 1st, 2012 at 10:55 am
Dave Wood replied:
First of all thanks Mark for the kind words and the good quote.
As for you Bertie, you quote the Warrior Forum as a source that MS is basically lying trying to gouge it's community out of more money.
Quoting the Warrior Forum is like asking your barber if you need a haircut. Half the guys on there would sell you the Brooklyn Bridge a piece at a time if you were gullible enough to buy it. That's why I don't waste a lot of time there.
Where I come from the old saying goes “put your money where your mouth is.” MS has offered refunds and if you think they are liars or their software is defective take the refund and take a hike.
Now I'm not a blind cheerleader here. If I were thinking that MS was giving me the shaft, then I would be shouting it from the rooftops. Actions speak louder than words. They have done a superb job in the past, they have been upfront about the present problems, and they are offering refunds to people who just don't get it.
If you don't believe me just try logging into your Google account. Every time for the last three days I have been getting popups from them touting their new privacy policy. That's Googlese for saying we just moved the goal posts again and we aren't going to tell you how, why, or exactly what we did.
They've done it in the past and you can count your bottom dollar they will do it again.
And when you quote the MS unnamed “competitors” I would submit that in the past MS has had no superiors and practically no equals as far as I have seen. And I have looked.
Believe it or not Bertie I'm not trying to beat up on you but you have to take the scales off your eyes and see the world for what it is. Google isn't necessarily your friend and having guys like MS in your corner only helps.
Yours truly,
Dave Wood
Dr. Michael Haley said:
my goodness, the heat you are taking for something out of your control. I've always felt MS was underpriced and that I would gladly pay a monthly fee. How much… I don't know. But I too have had way more value than what I paid for.
Elaine Mc Donagh said:
Can anyone explain to me how this will affect me a bit confused. I purchased this at the start of last year but due to an accident/ injuries I was unable to use it.
I will be starting to build a few new websites for offline businesses I own and intended using MS for my research .Does this only affect IMarketers with a large number clients and campaigns or am I wasting my time and is MS still of use to me in my business? The Search Engine Market Share in Ireland
Google 94.82%, Bing 2.45%, Yahoo 1.99%, Ask Jeeves 0.58%, AVG Seach 0.05%. It seems Bing/ Yahoo are of no use to me and google is king.
Sorry if I come across so unknowledgeable but its all very new to me. Please help any advice given will be really appreciated.
Heather said:
This post is a great example of how companies SHOULD be communicating with their customers in today's marketplace. You've certainly maintained my trust.
While I will (sadly) be unable to keep my membership if fees rise drastically, I would gladly pay a small monthly fee for the continued benefits of MS. I also like the suggestion in an earlier post to offer optional “pro” features for an extra fee.
Google's recent actions are unfortunate but it's great to know you all are working on behalf of us small business owners. Gràcies!
oh cmon said:
Oh, please! I just started out, I am just using MS for 5 days (trial), now and I am considering to buy the full version even thou I can't afford to pay 97$, and now I see everyone posting comments like – yeah, MS! feel free to ask people for more money, “we can afford it, now we have money!” What about those who have no extra money, those who are just starting out, those who come from poor countries?
Go ahead, ask more money from those who use MS for over a year!
On January 31st, 2012 at 10:44 pm
Vaughan Heath replied:
If you can't afford $97 you shouldn't be in business it's as simple as that you should never go into business unless you have at least 3 months reserves behind you. Welcome to the real world.
Freddie@visalus said:
First of all whoever said lawsuit is ridiculous! I have a plan. You said $40,000/month to get that data right?
400,000 MS users. Charge us each $1 per month! If 10% of the users go for it you easily cover the cost of the data! Then you can charge new users a higher monthly fee. Problema resolt.
You're welcome!
Adam Teece said:
Thank you very much for the heads up and the honesty. Market Samurai is still the best keyword research tool on the market. I haven't used the rank tracker module much in the past but it does suck with what is happening.
Because of what is happening I just bought a wordpress plugin that will track stuff for me, but I know it will have to go through a proxy service so the IP doesn't get banned. Keep up the great work guys and I know you will make sure Market Samurai stays on the top as far as quality goes.
Freddie@visalus said:
Oh nevermind….I see now it said $40,000 per day! Oh well…foiled again!
Dee Harrison said:
Your product was always underpriced.
The rank tracker functionality was added long after many of us bought MS.
I would much rather pay you $99 a month and see a resumed service than pay Raven (nothing against Raven there)
I hope you can pick your way through this and perhaps it is a lesson to us all not to be so dependent on the great God Google.
Wishing you all well. (Guessing the Pepsi consumption has gone up a little???)
Dee
Craig said:
Hi Eugene,
I have been a Market Samurai user since the very beginning. It is the main tool I use in researching and reporting for my clients. It is an integral part of the success I have achieved in the past three years. I hate to admit this, but I've often thought “I would be happy to pay a small monthly fee for the continuing value MS means to my business.” I can only imagine the on-going costs involved in keeping MS current with all the changes going on in the Google world. I have been using Rank Tracker on a regular basis for all my clients as their Google ranking is a key data point and needs to be accurately measured. I suspected that the day would come where a monthly fee was necessary in order to maintain the quality of data we depend upon. I am surprised (and grateful) that it has not come sooner. I would be happy (OK, maybe “happy” is not the best word, but “understanding” works) to pay a small monthly fee if it means that I can continue to receive the value I've come to expect from MS. Hats off to you and your team for producing a valuable tool and keeping it updated over these past years without asking for any additional fees. Now that it looks like those fees are coming, perhaps it will sort out all the “recreational users” and reduce the load on your servers.
Thanks too for your professional attitude in the face of what must be a significant time of stress for you! My best to you and the MS team. I will be a continuing fan!
Craig
Nik said:
Hola nois,
Does any of you know what a good ratio would be for SEOC between google and Bing. I have a feeling that SEOC is a lot lower in Bing then Google but I have no idea by how much and neither know if it is across the board or just they keywords in the niche we work.
Gràcies,
Nik
Emiel@MarketingbureauAmersfoort said:
Bring it on guys, and keep it coming.
Vadim said:
I know you have mentioned that SEOC column is fixed but it does not work for me and it does not provide correct data (it gives figures and when I go to Bing to check they are completely different). I was wondering if this is happening to anyone else? Or is SEOC not fixed yet?
Thanks and keep up the good work fixing it.
On February 1st, 2012 at 10:34 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Vadim,
We're investigating this, however it looks like the link that we are sending you through to has a slightly different set of results (smaller) than those returned by our API query. So far we have found that if you manually enter the query into Bing you get the same results as Market Samurai.
Our development team will take a closer look at this so we know exactly why the numbers differ.
Miriam
Cathy@cactusjuicedrink said:
Hi Eugene,
Thanks for your honest, helpful, and professional update and responses. I won't say I'm not a little disappointed at the thought of having to pay more. Getting such an amazing tool with free updates for just $97 was a great deal. The reasons you give, however, are reasonable. I hope you can work out a sliding scale as I don't consider myself a power user. My preference would be a limited free option progressing to a credit based/pay as you use option and then for power users have a monthly fee for unlimited.
My sympathies and encouragement to your development team in this stressful time. I used to work as a developer at a company that produced an application that relied on web services of another company (not SEO). When they changed something on their end it was usually with little warning and then broke something on our side. So I know how hard you are working on a solution while customers are coming with the pitchforks. As seen on the other comments, most people do appreciate your efforts in producing such a quality piece of software and the admirable way you have handled this crisis. I look forward to your solution.
John said:
I'm a student living off of ramen and hotdogs, as it is. So much for my being able to use MS anymore.
Jason@pain in jaw said:
Does all your eggs in one basket ring a bell? What a mess
Goran said:
Hey here I`m pretty new here in internet marketing and in using MS but i soooo confusing now because this change of google now when i looking for a kw in Market Samurai is says me pretty much unrelated data because it uses like i read bing now well can somebody tell me something please.
Thanks and good luck with google i think also google like to keep all the money in the world by him self
I hate google
On January 31st, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Goran,
The only data in Keyword Research that comes from Bing is the competition data. As the competition number is a measure of the number of websites that include that keyword, Bing data for this metric is equivalent to Google data.The traffic and Adwords data at this stage is all still Google data.
Miriam
On January 31st, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Goran replied:
Well it`s now more easy, nice to hear that from you Miriam
Thanks for your support
Keep wih the good work
Vaughan heath said:
Thanks guys fior the heads up I don't envy you for one minute dealing with google personally I think they have gotten too big for their boots. I personally have closed down my google accounts and have not missed them. I now use bing as my search engine and have convinced most of my IT clients to use it as well. BTW i would pay $150.00 just for your training videos. Keep up the great work
On January 31st, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Goran replied:
I think we should all do that, we should all close down google account`s
Like if we all said google suck then it will suck…
Adam said:
Hola nois,
Adam in Mornington Melbourne here, bit cold today ay.
Guys if Rank Tracker is now using my computer, are the rank results skewed to my browsing history. I've noticed some great jumps in some of my keywords… Not sure if they're real or not.
On February 1st, 2012 at 10:33 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Adam, Market Samurai uses its own browser and also specifies for personalized search results to be off in the queries, they will not be impacted by your browsing history.
Windshield Calgary said:
Wish you guys luck. I hope everything works out.I'll stick around, no refunds or law suits required!
Susan said:
It is surprising to me, although it probably shouldn't, that so many people have brought out their sharp tongues and claws to attack a group of people who have done nothing but be honest with us.
All of us that work online are aware of the issues that Google has caused by all their rapid changes. And if you are not aware, you may need to question whether you should be online or not, but at any rate, those changes are causing chaos on many levels. How can anyone blame the people at NS. They are not Google, They are not making all the chaos, Google is.
But my two cents is that I have had wonderful results using Market Samurai and I have been using it for four years. I have always found the support people to be approachable and willing to find a solution. I Loved it long before the Rank tracker was even instituted. Even if only a few of the modules are fixable, it is still worth what I paid for it. Not to mention the money I have made through my online efforts based on info that I received from MS, has paid for it over and over again. It is almost like MS has paid me.
Thank you for the years of service and thank you for the constant effort on our behalves to continuously improve your product and now thank you for fighting the good fight in our behalf again against the Ogre Google.
I can hardly wait to benefit from your efforts. I always do.
Sam said:
Informative and professional as always Eugene. The understanding and empathetic way you explain things will always lead you to retain the maximum number of customers possible when issues like this inevitably arise.
Sam@web marketing, search engine optimization, get found on the web said:
Sí!
Mike From Maine said:
I have asked for a refund because the rank tracker is the only part of Market Samurai that I use. Maybe they can start offering a good service like this for cheap.
Charly @ MD Marketing Digital SEO said:
Hi Eugene
We do understand your point of view and support your initiative, actually we are using cute rank to check kw ranking. Will be trying Raven as suggested, all our crew wishes you the best and smoothest transition in this every day changing business.
Hope the best, cheers
Charly
Anders Vinther said:
Ei,
Other software vendors charge a fee for their software which includes one years worth of updates… if you with to update your software after one year you buy another years worth of updates…
Could be another renewable income stream option…
Given the vast amount of comments on this blog post hint to the fact that MS is extremely good value for money I think you will come out on top with this type of model.
And as an added benefit for all users more money for you will also mean better opportunities to develop the product even further… which again benefits all users… etc…
Just an idea to an alternative to the monthly subscription…
Marcel said:
Eugene and to all Supporters,
I am just like many of you, an MS user since the beginning. In all this time I experieced several MS responses to resolve changes in google algorithms. MS always came clean and was quickly up and running again. This is what I call professionalism.
It is up to us to make sure that a company with this standard is surviving, our continued support would be a “thank you” for a great product.
nigel@Caroco Marketing said:
Eugene,
I know it's probably too early to say, but do you know what the price point is likely to be. We use rank tracker module quite frequently and because of its accuracy.
Would you be able to PM details of the source you will be using to acquire this data?
Gràcies
Nigel
Atif Bashir said:
Keep up the good work, this has come at really bad time for me as I am just starting major niche research.
Anyway, you've probably heard enough moans and groans!
This might be more valuable to you and Market Samurai users:
Would it not make sense that in the SEO Competition module that you have SEOT from Bing as well as Google? Might as well try to optimise for both search engines at the same time, especially if the SEOC is low in Bing.
With all the confusion above (and I am confused, I am still trying to work out what is going on) can you provide a new training video about all the data sources for each component of each module eg, SEOT, SEOTC, etc. This will help a lot for me and probably a lot of users.
Gràcies de nou.
PS I think you should charge a monthly fee with a discount for Article Samurai users.
PPS Somebody suggested you should survey users on what they want and what they use, I think that is a great idea.
I think you can do it but must keep your focus on Google as from a statistical and scientific view, Bing' 30% market share of searches is way too low to compare with 70%.
Anna H. said:
Hi there ! I am on trial version of MS which expires today. I am very sorry of what happened to MS – I got a few days of MS working as it was and it was great. Now, the data seems irrelevant.
What I find interesting is that other softwares are working fine as ever SeoQuake works, SeoSpy works, SEO Power Suite works, IBP works, Serp Attack works.
So, what is happening at MS ? Because the problem seem to be only on your side and not from Google.
We as customers need the data that Google offers because it dominates the market.
I find the current issues of MS very suspicious.
As a matter of fact I've just received the following e-mail from link-assistant:
“We're getting 100s of worried requests from users so we decided to explain this web rumor.
Rumors of a drastic Google algo change started spreading after another SEO software house officially announced their software stopped working with Google. What Market Samurai told its users is, “Several days ago, Google made some significant technical changes to its services” which made it impossible to work with.
Now hundreds of ex-customers of Market Samurai and our own users write to our support: Is SEO PowerSuite working? Is it safe to buy SEO PowerSuite license now when other tools are failing to work?
The answer is YES, your software is working and will work with all search engines (Google as well, until the end of Google.) We are able to guarantee that SEO PowerSuite is the safest SEO software to invest in.
So – right, SEO PowerSuite keeps working. The thing is, what is proclaimed a Google's technical change doesn't look so and has never been confirmed by anyone outside Market Samurai team. Our team of search engines experts confirms no changes to Google algos – and the speaking evidence for that is the seamlessly working SEO PowerSuite.
No other reasons for Market Samurai's software failure have ever been officially named. However, more realistic reasons were suggested by their former users, assumed by many SEOs on all kind of Internet forums – and never commented on by the Samurai representatives. So the actual reasons for the fail are assumable and lie in a strategic error at the early stage of designing the software architecture. Our experts say, the estimate of fixing such error to restore an SEO tool to a fully working condition is about half a year.
Seeing that now Samurai is planning to switch to Bing instead of Google, we assume the estimate is right.
So let us once again disprove the rumor: Google made no changes and nothing happened to it at all. More to that, whenever changes to Google happen in the future, SEO PoweSuite will keep working seamlessly.
As many know, for 7 years on the market Link-Assistant.Com software has been working reliably. And we can guarantee reliable work of all SEO PowerSuite tools in future, with a team of engineers and analysts monitoring search engines every day.
So if you've ever been choosing between SEO PowerSuite and another software, or if you see your other SEO software is facing problems now or any time later, it's time to make the safest investment and order SEO PowerSuite.
Salutacions cordials,
Link-Assistant.Com Team
PS Here is the official statement from Viktar Khamianok, the CEO of Link-Assistant.Com:
Every technology is analyzed, criticized and tested before development. We look at hundreds of use cases before making core decisions on software functionality. We understand that we must not, at any moment, put the user at risk. None of our clients can afford being left without working software or without any working feature of the software.
So this is the official confirmation that SEO PowerSuite is not and will not be affected by the ban imposed on other SEO software. You can check its work now yourself. "
What do you have to say in your defense, taking into account that all other SEO software tools are working as ever ?
Too bad, you've lost a customer – MS it really was a great SEO Tool, but Bing services are not good enough from my point of view for a high competitive market.
On February 1st, 2012 at 11:45 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Anna,
I'm really sorry about that – in short our response to this is that we made an error in the midst of trying to work out what was happening and get information out to our users and we took reports that other SEO packages were impacted on face value rather than confirming them ourselves.
Here is Eugene's full response which he posted on the link-assistant site:
V said:
Hola,
Hopefully MS can get this problem fixed. I agree complaining even when offered a full refund, and when no other cheaper, more functional alternative is available is immature. I received this email from SEO Powersuite this morning:
Edited by Miriam – link-assistant email removed for readability. Full email and our response here:
rob said:
What is the meaning of the e-mail just sent by Link-Assistent.com / SEO Power Suite. They state aothe following:
“So let us once again disprove the rumor: Google made no changes and nothing happened to it at all. More to that, whenever changes to Google happen in the future, SEO PowerSuite will keep working seamlessly.”
“No other reasons for Market Samurai's software failure have ever been officially named. However, more realistic reasons were suggested by their former users, assumed by many SEOs on all kind of Internet forums – and never commented on by the Samurai representatives. So the actual reasons for the fail are assumable and lie in a strategic error at the early stage of designing the software architecture. Our experts say, the estimate of fixing such error to restore an SEO tool to a fully working condition is about half a year.”
On February 1st, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hola,
I posted Eugene's response here:
One thing I'd really like to clarify from that email is that we're definitely not looking at 6 months to get everything up and running. Everything except Google Rank Tracker and PR data is already returned to Market Samurai. PR will be back very soon. We don't know how long Rank Tracker will take but we're not anticipating it taking that long. Also worth mentioning we're not switching everything to Bing and saying 'to hell with Google rankings who cares', of course Google data is important and we're only using Bing where there are direct equivalents (eg SEOC) not for traffic or Adwords data.
Hope this helps.
Miriam
Christopher Barnard@host said:
My last comment is still awaiting moderation, I haven't seen any notification regarding the exact nature of the changes made by Google. Have Google announced them? I received an e-mail by another SEO tools company saying the Google update which is the subject of this post is just a rumour.
Alguna idea?
MaRK said:
Ok this is not mky opinion or belif HOWEVER i belive the guys at MS should see this.
Its an email i just got from SEO Powersuite, make of it what you will.
Marqueu
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James said:
Hola nois,
As an overall happy customer of Market Samurai over the years I was prepared to deal with any changes that you guys had coming in the future. However, what I now find disturbing is the fact that one of your competitors is basically calling you guys out in a major way. Could you guys please address the following statement from them?
Gràcies!
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Christopher Rose said:
I am concerned by all the rumours flying around that the problem with Market Samurai has nothing at all to do with any changes by Google.
What is going on?
On February 1st, 2012 at 10:29 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi there, we've got a lot of users concerned about this. We're currently writing up an explanation as well as some clarification on some issues that users are worried about and we'll post it up soon.
Brian va dir:
Just got this email from Wordtracker …any response?
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richard said:
I am a trial user of SEO Powersuite. I have been receiving lots of marketing e-mails from them which I mostly ignore. Then I got one gloating about Market Samurai and your problems. Saying that it must be a design flaw and that you will be down for months. So being curious I googled, and found this very revealing blog. Real comments from real customers. I am now going to trial Market Samurai. I much prefer dealing with upfront and honest companies.Bye Bye SEO Power.
Travis @ Minneapolis SEO said:
I'm on Seo Power Suite's email list and I just got an interesting email from them basically accusing Market Samurai of “lying” about all these Google changes. I don't know who's telling the truth, but here is just a snippet from their email:
“No other reasons for Market Samurai's software failure have ever been officially named. However, more realistic reasons were suggested by their former users, assumed by many SEOs on all kind of Internet forums – and never commented on by the Samurai representatives. So the actual reasons for the fail are assumable and lie in a strategic error at the early stage of designing the software architecture. Our experts say, the estimate of fixing such error to restore an SEO tool to a fully working condition is about half a year.
Seeing that now Samurai is planning to switch to Bing instead of Google, we assume the estimate is right.
So let us once again disprove the rumor: Google made no changes and nothing happened to it at all. More to that, whenever changes to Google happen in the future, SEO PoweSuite will keep working seamlessly.”
Travis
On February 1st, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Travis, I've reposted Eugene's response to that email here:
Mark said:
my posts keep getting deleted, worrying! Maybe due to the fact that i show an email from SEO Powersuite about MS.
I would have thought that MS would want to see it if what they say is false so that they could deal with the accusations.
Weird and frankly disturbing, whats going on MS?
Marqueu
On February 1st, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Ho sento! Your posts were caught by the Akismet spam filter. I have marked you as 'not spam'. We're also only moderating posts between 9am-5pm AEDT (GMT+11) and we approve all posts manually
Buddy said:
Bing? Are you serious? Even if you rank at top 3 positions at Bing you won't even have hundreds of visitors. You seriously saying Bing is gaining market? I'm sorry but all SEOs still work on getting rankings on Google. Bing and Yahoo is always just a side job. You are completely delusional and trying to save your own business from angry customers.
and for those who say you guys hate Google, you can't do anything about it. You can hate apple you want but they will always sell iPad and iPhone like hot cakes. You can hate Google all you want but they will be always the bigger search engine compared to Bing. Unless Bing really overtakes Google as main traffic source for my site, I'm not going to buy MS. It's worthless now.
On February 1st, 2012 at 10:26 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi there, we're still using Google data for all traffic, adwords etc. There is a full list of the areas we are using Bing data here:
We're obviously not suggesting that you should forget about ranking in Google. The areas that we are bringing Bing data in are not ones related to traffic etc so it doesn't impact the usefulness of Market Samurai for SEO for Google.
George said:
SEO PowerSuite keeps working. What is proclaimed to be a Google technical change has never been confirmed by anyone outside Market Samurai team.
Buddy said:
and honestly, you have just lost tons of potential customers here
Bing is worthless. I will say it again, it's worthless. people like Google because it's their income source (they don't care whether Google is evil or not). If you can't cope up with the masses, nobody is going to buy your software dude.
Thomas At Affiliate Norge said:
Wow… What to think now? And what answer do you have at MS? The other day you said that several other providers had same problems as you, but…..what is this:
Claim by Link-Assistant.Com: “The thing is, what is proclaimed a Google's technical change doesn't look so and has never been confirmed by anyone outside Market Samurai team…”!
Read the rest of this email that came from a competitor today in my inbox:
Edited by Miriam – link-assistant email removed for readability. Full email and our response here:
So this is the official confirmation that SEO PowerSuite is not and will not be affected by the ban imposed on other SEO software. You can check its work now yourself.
Keith Pearson said:
Just received the following email from link-assistant.com and I think it raises more questions than it answers…
Edited by Miriam – link-assistant email removed for readability. Full email and our response here:
brian Mcfarlane said:
Message from CEO of SEO power Suite,
Edited by Miriam – link-assistant email removed for readability. Full email and our response here:
Response from Brian Mcfarlane, Why i will stick it out with market Samurai to the end.
As a Market Samurai user for the past 5 years I can honestly say that the team at Market Samurai has done a great job at resolving issues with API's. From a technical standpoint it has nothing to do with algo changes as many have happened over the years and Market Samurai has always found a way to address these issues.
I think using this as a ploy to sell your (SEO PowerSuite. ) services is pretty bad, Market Samurai continues to improve the program and has resolved most of the issues you are addressing here.
All third party software has been recently affected by Google's api changes & the privacy act at Google, If you are telling people you were not affected is because you have a addressed quickly, which is great.
Everyone who has being working as a SEO for many years, know that we cannot rely only on Google data to make informed decisions about SEO.
SEOmoz, Market Samurai, SEM rush, wordtracker, and many others pull data from multiple points and api's. So Market Samurai is shifting to the bing API perhaps to address issues with the existing google api until the issue is either resolved to insure we at least get the primary data we need.
Taking shoots at your competition for how they manage their API's is foolish strategy and will not get you very far….
I tend to rely on multiple sources, and those people you are trying to convince to come over to your solution are being mislead.
Brian McFarlane
Montreal, Canadà
AH said:
According to SEO Power Suite, there was no change.
http://www.link-assistant.com/blog/seo-powersuite-is-not-affected-by-the-rumored-google-algo-change/
On February 1st, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
We were mistaken when we posted that other programs were affected and we're really sorry about that. Eugene's response to that article is available here:
Mark Kithcart said:
I read some of the reply's and felt compelled to weigh-in.
I have been using MS for quite a while (2 years). The tools have supported me in developing Marketing plans & strategies for companies and clients. Its not the only tool I use and I typically spend about $300/month on additional tools to get the intelligence needed to properly run campaigns and have the data and metrics to measure results.
MS was a steal as a one time payment for software that continually gets updated. It is my highest ROI tool that I ever used.
I will continue to use this product as it develops and if they charge for certain components on a monthly basis I will pay.
Eugene – Please get the rank tracking working again and if I have to pay I will gladly do it. I just don't want to start using Raven and then switch back.
Sandra said:
Speaking of fair game, this is the nasty email that SEO Power Suite is sending out to ANYONE that ever gave them an email. I know as I once downloaded (then immediately removed) their spammy link assistant tool. Their email message follows:
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Greg said:
RankTracker and SEO Competition are the core features I use.
I'd love to hear just when a solution will be implemented for RankTracker and how much it will cost.
I gotta be honest and say that I'm researching other products and alternatives. I've always been a fan of MS, but I've got to keep business moving forward.
When will we hear something official from MS on the direction?
On February 1st, 2012 at 10:19 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
We're investigating typical Rank Tracker usage numbers and potential solutions today to help us form a strategy for moving forward. I don't know exactly how long this will take but we'll make an official announcement as soon as we have the information we need.
LiamMc said:
Al this has become a mess, the actual condition of the MS platform is awful, im trying to figured out how to use the services right now, the keyword research results are very inaccurate and i don't get how it works now since it is a salad of mixed results from google and bing and we are still using data from the adwords platform as it says when the program is fetching, besides i compared the data provided in the columns with the actual bing data and it all is simply different and inacurate. now it seems you guys are working in another issues leaving the keyword research done as if it where solved but is far enough to be solved.
I market samurai finally doomed and up to disapear. since is nothing as it promises to be.
Now as far as i know google allow up to 100 results for a given fetch and if some of us use proxies why is not possible to sort out another solution more than mix results and provide irrelevant information from bing, that for lot of MS users is not useful.
I dont know about coding at all but i think there must be way to solve all of it. or maybe the core of the system and the build in platform becomes obsolete…
On February 1st, 2012 at 4:08 am
LiamMc replied:
Hell!
On February 1st, 2012 at 10:17 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi, here's some information about what data sources are used where to help clear up what the changes are:
If you're having trouble with inaccurate results send in a ticket so we can get to the bottom of it
Pete G said:
So if Google changed something big that made it impossible to check all these keywords etc.
The how come my old version of Traffic Travis 3 still works fine and I haven't updated it in months? Any why are most of the other rank trackers working fine?
On February 1st, 2012 at 11:42 pm
AH replied:
Si. All of the rank tracking softwares still work so they either are paying for it on there end or something just happened on MS's end.
On February 1st, 2012 at 11:42 pm
AH replied:
*edit – Meant all the rank tracking softwares I own
peter said:
fair enough, if that is true what you say then how comes i also got a email from Link Assistant stating that there wasnt no Google change then? and how comes traffic travis is still ok? i use alot of keyword tools, mostly the top ones but yet MS are the only ones having trouble and stating that Google implemented a change and cos of that you have to now charge……..
Juanita@Working Online From Home said:
I'm just beginning to understand and use all the tools you offer. I think MS is a great value. It seems to me together we can weather this storm. When do you think we'll hear of any update to the situation?
On February 1st, 2012 at 10:15 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
We'll have another update very soon – hopefully today
Gerald Weber said:
So the services that used to be included in the market samurai that I paid for are now going to be a monthly expense?
I already have several monthly recurring expenses and services. I don't like this sound of this at all.
On February 1st, 2012 at 9:50 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
The only service that may require a monthly fee (or perhaps credits – we haven't made any decisions at this stage) is Rank Tracker. Noone will be forced to purchase credits if they don't use Rank Tracker. We also hope to have a certain number of free included checks but again we don't know what form this will take at this stage. We're also happy to refund Market Samurai if the software is no longer useful to you.
As soon as we have a better idea of how we will be moving forward with Rank Tracker we will let everyone know.
Michael Gordon said:
The value I've received from MS is worth the purchase price many, many times over. In my experience, there are very few companies in *any* industry that are transparent and provide education and support like the team at Market Samurai. I wouldn't even think about leaving it for another option. The Competition module alone is worth the price of the software.
In the meantime, however, I need a fully capable rank tracking solution. Question: Will MS Rank Tracker work to full capability *today* if I choose to pay for a proxy service like Trusted Proxies? If so, this would be a good temporary solution – and arguably a good long term option for both MS and its customers.
Thanks, and keep up the great work!
Michael
On February 1st, 2012 at 9:46 am
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Michael – Yes Rank Tracker will work immediately if you use your own connection (deselect 'use inbuilt proxies'). A number of users have also used custom proxies to run Rank Tracker queries with success.
On February 1st, 2012 at 11:06 am
Michael Gordon replied:
Thanks Miriam – that's good news. I'll give it a try and let you know how it works out.
shortygurl03 said:
What a sad news for Internet Marketers and SEO Specialist! I have used Market Samurai for several keyword analysis and I was very pleased with its service. I had stop my subscription few months ago. Now, hearing the news is not good for SEO community. I hope they will be able to get back on track knowing Google still the #1 Search Engine and we need good SEO tools like Market Samurai…
Bertie Long said:
Perhaps you might want to balance your very one sided blog about this matter, with a comment from one of your competitors who sent this to their client, who published it in the Warrior Forum. Come on MS – MAN UP!! Publish this and give an honest response.
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Jeremiah said:
Molt interessant. I know some of what I have to say has been mentioned by others in this LONG thread of comments, but I wanted to chime in.
I make my living with SEO, both for my own businesses and for clients.
In my opinion, MS is a great tool. While I don't use every feature, it's strengths in my mind lie in it's ability to research keywords and apply intelligence through filters to determine which are the most important to go after first. I use MS daily for this.
I also enjoy the grid on the SEO competition tab that allows me to easily see the top 10 competitors and look for opportunities to beat them.
I have never, however, been a heavy user of the Rank Tracker module. The reason: there are much better tools available out there for tracking rank. My preferred tool is Rank Tracker by SEOPowerSuite (I own the Enterprise version). I run it locally on my primary computer and it updates according to schedules I set.
The tool wasn't cheap, but it works well. The reporting functionality is far superior to anything MS offered, and it hasn't given me any trouble with the updates the MS staff has mentioned to the Google algos.
Now, don't get me wrong … I'm NOT trying to knock MS … it's a GREAT tool. I don't regret buying it. It does what I need it to. I also own a subscription to AS and LOVE it as well.
If I were starting in SEO today and could only use one tool, it would be AS because it gives me the keyword research ability I fell in love with as a MS user, and also the syndication abilities which have become critical in my SEO strategy.
So, when MS comes out with a subscription option for the Rank Tracker module, I probably won't use it — I'm happy with SEOPowerSuite's Rank Tracker tool.
I would encourage all of you to stay off the case of the Noble Samurai team — it seems to me that they work their butts off to produce the best tools they can. Their educational materials are second-to-none and their prices are reasonable.
James Coulombe said:
I LOVE MS! I will continue to use it, along with the dozens of other SEO tools to deliver the best value to my clients. I made back my $97 in 1 presentation 10 X over.
BUT, here is an email (unedited) from Link-Assistant.com (Another tool I use, and they just sent this out today)
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Steve Cockrane said:
Let me start by saying I've been using MS now for about 4 years. I have 2 licenses – one came with a subscription to Stompernet. So I've paid twice for MS.
I have always thought that the business model was flawed, I know it was designed to capture leads and have a list you could easily sell to, but those products have been few and far between. Article Samurai is took years to appear and from what I've read has it's own challenges.
So moving to a paid model for one module kinda makes sense – not withstanding the best of intentions to keep it free – well to a one time payment -from the begining.
But today I received an email from linkassitant.com, basically calling Eugnene a liar.
One quote from the email -
“The thing is, what is proclaimed a Google's technical change doesn't look so and has never been confirmed by anyone outside Market Samurai team. Our team of search engines experts confirms no changes to Google algos”
So you have a major competitor calling you out as lying to your users. I understand that this may just be cheap opportunism on their part, nut what is the real truth here?
I'm going to stick by you guys, I'm stubborn that way but I thought you needed to know what your competitors are saying about you out there in marketing land.
Steve
rob@glasgow hypnotherapy said:
I want to offer my support and encouragement to the whole team at NS. I invested in MS at the start and have continued to use it to good use since. It is the most brilliant tool in my arsenal to get ranked for my websites. Your training, support and technical updates are fantastic and if we need to pay a bit to continue the service then so be it. I for one will be happy to do so for the range of services that MS gives you and the advantage it gives you over the competition.
Keith said:
Even considering the loss of some functionality, I consider the referral to your software a positive one. I know I would not have understood as quickly SEO (still learning;)) without Market Samurai…
And for the price I paid ($97) a tremendous value…
Best of luck as you move forward.
Keith
Pete said:
“So – right, SEO PowerSuite keeps working. The thing is, what is proclaimed a Google's technical change doesn't look so and has never been confirmed by anyone outside Market Samurai team. Our team of search engines experts confirms no changes to Google algos – and the speaking evidence for that is the seamlessly working SEO Powersuite
No other reasons for Market Samurai's software failure have ever been officially named. However, more realistic reasons were suggested by their former users, assumed by many SEOs on all kind of Internet forums – and never commented on by the Samurai representatives. So the actual reasons for the fail are assumable and lie in a strategic error at the early stage of designing the software architecture. Our experts say, the estimate of fixing such error to restore an SEO tool to a fully working condition is about half a year.”
Guys can you throw some light on those comments, are we playing full a full hand here ?
Also low stress on if there is a fee but like many here, I think we want Google results not Bing or Yahoo results for anything ?
I think more than anything if you do not revert back to Google results your product looses any real street appeal.
On February 1st, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Miriam Parkinson replied:
Hi Pete. We're not moving wholly to Bing the only data we're switching to Bing for is the data that's directly comparable (SEOC – as it is a measure of the number of pages on the internet with the keyword which is not impacted by the popularity of the search engine).
Eugene' response to that post is available here:
Kaitlyn said:
Bing is rising in popularity and gives as good search results as Google so I don't mind not being able to track my rank in Google. In any case, MS has helped me a lot in past 2 years so I fully support your decision.
Miriam Parkinson said:
There is a lot of confusion about Bing data and where we are using it. To clear this up, this is a full list of the data that we are using Bing for:
Keyword Research:
* SEOC
* SEOTC
* SEOUC
SEO Competition:
* Index Count
* Cache Age
Rank Tracker:
* Ranking data for Bing
The intended changes to the data sources for Keyword Research and SEO Competition have already been made. All traffic and Adwords data is unchanged and is still using Google data.
In terms of concerns about the validity and usefulness of this data – where we are looking at index and competition data this is directly equivalent to the data from Google. While Bing doesn't have the same market share as Google, they are still indexing the same internet. These values are measures of how many sites are out there with those keywords so while the numbers won't be identical, they are equally valid as an indication of competition for a keyword.
John J said:
Hi guys,
MS is a great tool.
As stated before, simply USE GOOGLE WEBMASTERS TOOLS.
The numbers are a bit different as it gives an average of the ranking positions over a total number of impressions VS MS that gives an exact picture of the ranking at the time the query was made.
I would sincerely recommend the MS team to TOTALLY get rid of the Rank Checker to keep their queries on Google low.
As I understand doing KW research in MS as there are many data sources combined in one big table, there is no reason to check your ranks in MS. You get the same answer (even more accurate) from Google itself via the Webmasters Tools.
I would remove the Rank Checker and add SEOC/SEOTC/SEOUC batches of 25 queries (instead of clicking one link to get 1 result, I would implement clicking on 1 link and getting 25 results).
This would be way more helping than the Rank Tracker.
Regards,
John J.
neil said:
Hi, I hope someone from Market Samurai reads this: It is OK to charge for stuff. You guys should charge a monthly fee so that you can continue to make quality products. I'm grateful for the times that I was able to use your software for a one-time fee. I wish you many successes because I have bought both market samurai and article samurai. You should have a “donate” button also somewhere on this page.
Greg Gaskill said:
Google continues to confound me with their exceptional lack of concern, Market Samurai continues to be forthright. For the cost of less than one months licensing of a competitors product, Market Samurai keeps us updated for life. Additional money to keep an A+ company like this in business is to all of our advantage. Google on the other hand provides no customer support regardless of how many thousands of advertising dollars spent with them. They have cancelled my accounts with them for no reason, and when I have tried to have open communication with them they respond with form letters.
On February 2nd, 2012 at 6:03 pm
navy seal replied:
why not implement 2 modules for the rank checker?
A paid module which could be “Pay Per Search” (or a couple of searches) (or even per keyword) or a prepaid monthly submission, and a free one which uses our computer in tracking rank, just put into the script that the search query must always be depersonalized for “accuracy”.
Josh said:
How come that the online rank tracker like rank ranger, raven, zoomrank etc. are working perfectly and market samurai doesn't?
What is the difference?
Chuck said:
While I sincerely appreciate the upfront manner in which you have addressed these issues, I do have a concern I wish to voice.
You have switched over to Bing to provide certain data. Your explanation of its use in SEOC, SEOTC and SEOUC makes some sense, so for now at least I am comfortable with that.
However, the value of the use of Bing to report Indexed Pages pales in importance next to the use of Google for the same data. I am most interested in ranking for Google. That means that I need to see the ebb and flow of the indexed pages that Google is reporting. Honestly, Bing is not important to me for this metric.
Will you be reinstating the use of Google to report indexed pages?
Thanks again for the upfront way you have handled this. It is this kind of customer focus that will keep your company successful!
jasobn said:
approve me!
Adam said:
Monthly fee on a program with a “one time fee”
Yey! Im so happy. I had a hard time getting the money to buy this program in the first place, and now you slap this in my face. Unbelievable!
Jan said:
Start charging monthly fee for the tracker today, but get it working like before asap.
And if you can't afford MS then it is not really for you and you should concentrate on your 9-5 job!
Theo said:
I have always backed MS and the Team.
Like others i got a good deal when i purchased
a few years ago.
But because of recent “problems” with MS iv'e
had to use “other” tools to keep up.
I am wondering why other tools don't seem to be affected by the latest Google updates when it comes to Rank Tracking etc?
Is it true that MS has an inherent coding problem? Ergo the constant scrambling to fix problems?
Is the huge percentage of “Free Users” causing a problem?
Are the accusations leveled by SEO Powersuite CEO true?
I would also like to add my voice to the anti-Bing choir, Google is where the money is, i am not interested in any results from Bing (Sorry)…
Glenn said:
I think if MS was to allow more use of our own Proxies it would be a better direction! I've never liked the fact MS used your own server and always expect it would be a “PAIN POINT” at some point or another!
Anytime you use a centralized service Google is going to ban it eventually or want to charge for it. Just as BitTorrent is successful because it spreads out the network to local clients.
Allow us more integration with Proxies and such and your problem goes away!
Thanks for letting us know!