Have you seen the new Noble Samurai Dojo yet?

The Noble Samurai Dojo is our new training area – and has replaced our previous tutorials area.

Over the coming months, the Dojo will grow with more and more training added regularly – to help you get the most out of Market Samurai, and your internet marketing

Big Changes in The Dojo

Based on your feedback, we’ve made some substantial changes to the way that we deliver training.

Some of the changes you’ll notice in the new Dojo include:

• NEW Step-by-Step Written Training Manuals;
• NEW Downloadable PDF Training Manuals;
• NEW Automatic Translation of Written Training – with 52 languages supported;
• IMPROVED Audio Quality and Volume Levels;
• NEW Search Functionality – to help you find the training you need;
• NEW Never-Before-Seen, Clearer Training (including this “Introduction to Keyword Research” by Dr Anthony Fernando), and;
• ADDED TODAY As of today, you can now leave comments, further tips and feedback inside the Dojo.

Make sure you check these out: – http://www.noblesamurai.com/dojo

And keep your feedback coming! Let us know your thoughts on the new Dojo by leaving a comment below.

Brent

P.S. – Did you catch the “swooshy” new intro and outro animations on the videos? How awesome are they! (Awesome work by Ben Galt!)

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Hi Team,

I’ve got something exciting to share with you about Market Samurai.

We just released an improvement to the SEO Competition module that makes backlink anchor text analysis of web-pages that have a lot of back links much faster, and easier to complete.

This latest update has resulted in a MASSIVE speed increase for completing backlink anchor text analysis.

In one test, we found a 9,400% speed increase. That’s a speed up of nearly a factor of 100.  In fact, the improvement is even better than that: previously, the more backlinks you analysed, the slower the process went – twice as many backlinks could take nearly four times as long to analyse. Now few pages will take longer than 10 minutes to analyse.

The low-down on backlink analysis

The backlink analysis functionality in Market Samurai allows you to check two items:

• the PageRank of the pages linking to a URL; and
• the text contained within those links – for example, the link in the previous item to Wikipedia has the text “PageRank”.

The text is important – this is the most powerful factor Google takes into account when ranking your website for a keyword. So knowing the kinds of keywords being used in links to a page is essential to understand how Google will rank that page.

How do I do backlink analysis with Market Samurai?

First open up a project in Market Samurai and enter the SEO Competition module. Then generate the top results for your keyword or enter your own custom URL.

Now just click on the down-array to the right of the link.

Next, press the Anchor Text Analysis button to see a detailed link-text analysis for that webpage. Alternatively, you could also analyse the PageRanks of the backlinks.

A new window will pop-up showing you the information you asked for.

How much time will this save me?

Well, if you were trying to analyse a webpage with, say:

• 300 backlinks, which in some cases might have taken over 10 minutes, might now take around 1 minute;
• 600 backlinks, which might have taken over 40 minutes, should take around 2 minutes;
• 1000 backlinks, previously taking more than 90 minutes, should take 3 or 4 minutes.

Of course, the exact numbers depend on the page, your internet connection, the speed of your computer, and many other factors.

So, good luck investigating your niches – and please leave a comment if you enjoy this new update or if you have some thoughts on backlink analysis you’d like to share!

Mike

P.S. – If you don’t own Market Samurai yet, or your Market Samurai trial has expired, you will have lost access to the SEO Competition analysis tools. This means you will not see the benefit of this improvement until you upgrade your copy of Market Samurai to the full version.

If you already own Market Samurai, you can open the software right now and begin benefiting from this improvement.

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Have you heard?

Market Samurai is now the tool-of-choice for keyword research inside StomperNet.

(In fact, they liked it so much that they even arranged to pay to license copies for all StomperNet members, so that all members could access Market Samurai during their membership.)

Why is this cool? And what is this “StomperNet” thing?

If you haven’t heard of StomperNet before -

• They provide the most comprehensive training program in the world for internet marketing;

• Since 2006, they’ve helped 104 beginner internet marketers to build web businesses that now make over a million dollars per year online;

• They were responsible for breaking all internet marketing sales records in 2006 when they made $18 million dollars within 24 hours of launching;

• They have some of the world’s top internet marketers on staff – provide one-on-one internet marketing coaching – and they give you access to exclusive events where you can access them personally;

• And they have over 1,400 pieces of internet marketing training (don’t worry – you don’t have to go through it all) meaning there’s an expert video or training resource on practically any topic you will ever need.

The entry price to StomperNet was previously around $800 per month – which sounds like a lot of money – but when you look at the library of resources that it gave you access to, and the 104 stories of beginners whose online businesses now make $1,000,000+ per year, then it puts $800 into a very sensible perspective.

But this year, StomperNet have completely changed their program, and their price tag.

They’ve pulled together an incredible collection of internet marketing tools – including Market Samurai, ecommerce shopping cart software, article distribution software, video distribution software, easy split testing software, text message autoresponders, social media monitoring tools – and they’re giving all users access to these tools for free, as part of their membership…

…Plus – they’ve taken the remarkable step of dropping their prices from around $800 per month to just $197 per month so that more people can access their tools and training resources.

Is StomperNet for Everyone?

No. There are some types of people who stand to get more out of StomperNet than others.

For example – if you’ve ever dreamed of running a large, highly profitable online store – then StomperNet is the best training you can get.

You only need to look at the pedigree of StomperNet’s own faculty members to see why:

• Audrey Kerwood’s “A2 Armory” is the case study poster-child for how a shopping cart site should be marketed;
• Brad Fallon’s “My Wedding Favors” site went from a $2,000 initial investment to $1.2 million in its first year, $7.8 million the year after;
• And Todd Chism’s “Patio Shoppers” site (founded in 2005) currently turns over $5 million a year.

So if an online store is part of your online business plan, then getting access to StomperNet for $197 per month (when it used to be about $800 per month) is a no brainer…

But on the other hand – if your focus is more towards smaller, lower-margin sites – OR if you get stressed by the idea of getting “too big” with your online business – OR you don’t have any time or money to invest into growing your site – then StomperNet probably isn’t for you.

Here’s Where To Get More Info…

If you want to find out more about StomperNet, you can use our referrer link here (and if you choose to become a member, you’ll help us to fund even more Market Samurai enhancements – like the performance enhancements we released today.)

Or you can use this direct link if you prefer, and we won’t see a cent.

But if StomperNet interests you, make sure you check it out now – because it will be closing its doors in a few hours (at 11:59pm EDT on Saturday)

That means there are only a few hours left if you want try StomperNet’s tools and training for the discounted $197 per month price before they close their training programs to new members.

(I’m sorry for the late notice. But hopefully you get this blog post in time.)

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When we released Market Samurai to the public, for the first time in August last year, we offered one BIG unique feature that no other cutting-edge keyword research software had ever offered.

This unique feature wasn’t the highly accurate keyword traffic estimates (available for the first time), accurate SEO and Adwords click estimates (still unique to Market Samurai), highly accurate market value of traffic estimates, or the “OCI” tools to measure which keywords were being used by buyers (again, another first).

And it wasn’t the no-cost updates that Market Samurai users continue to enjoy – practically every time they open the software.

(Sure, Market Samurai included a heap of “world-firsts” and “innovations”. And yes, Market Samurai continues to provide the most in-depth keyword research available anywhere.)

But the most revolutionary feature of Market Samurai’s Keyword Research tools was the price tag:

“Free.”

(Completely free – not “limited free”, not “trial free”… Fully-functional keyword research software, for free.)

That’s Right – Market Samurai’s Keyword Research Tools are Free

I’m not kidding.

(A lot of people still don’t believe us when they find out – they email support to tell us about a “typo” or a “bug” – they can’t believe they’re getting something so incredible for free!)

If you’re reading this and don’t believe me – and you have a trial copy of Market Samurai installed (even an expired trial) – open it right now.

Notice that there is no “Paid Version” or “Trial” icon next to the Keyword Research module?

There never has been.

It’s always been free.

Trial access to the other advanced modules inside of Market Samurai will expire (if your trial period has already ended, then it will have expired already) – but you will always be able to use the Keyword Research module for free.

Use it! You have full, unrestricted access to the most advanced Keyword Research tool available – bringing together more raw keyword data than any other keyword tool!

(If you don’t have access to Market Samurai yet, and want to get access to the Keyword Research tools (and trial the other advanced features for 12 days) you can get access to Market Samurai for free, here.)

Why Give Away Market Samurai’s Keyword Research Tools for Free?

On the surface, it may seem crazy…

Market Samurai’s keyword research tools are by far the most in-depth tools for keyword research available anywhere – and we’re making them available for free, with no restrictions?

But the reason is simple…

Keywords WANT TO Be Free

In Chris Anderson’s latest revolutionary book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price”, he explains how the internet is turning previously costly and hard-to-acquire information into abundant commodities – available at a cost too cheap to meter.

One of these previously costly, hard-to-acquire commodities is Keyword Data.

Every year, the computer processing power, storage and bandwidth costs required to harvest, analyze and distribute keywords has become smaller – to a point where the cost of providing keyword data is now almost zero.

This has seen the keyword research industry split into two parts:

• The Old Players whose big price tags, expensive software and monthly data fees made sense in an era where keyword data was scarce, expensive, unreliable and difficult to access.
• And a New Generation of keyword research tools (like Market Samurai’s Keyword Research tools; Google’s Wonder Wheel, Keyword Tool and Google Insights; and Wordtracker’s Lab tools) all being offered with a price tag of “Free”.

One is sinking – and clutching hold to a business model that is no longer justified, delivering less-and-less comparable value to users every day.

The other is growing at an exponential rate – providing keyword data to thousands of new converts with the lure of better value.

And it’s not just better value-for-money (after all, you can’t get much better value for money than “free”).

It’s also a better depth and quality of tools provided, with many free options outpacing even the most expensive paid keyword research tools – leading in both new innovations and sheer depth of keyword research – and leaving their expensive rivals to play catch-up.

Given this choice, it was an obvious decision…

One market was dying, one was growing…

It made sense for Market Samurai to follow the growing market, and make its keyword research tools free.

In the immortal words of ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky – “Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

If users were moving toward free keyword research tools, meaning sooner-or-later all of the best keyword research tools would (inevitably) become free, it made sense for us to get ahead of the market, and become free – sooner rather than later.

So that’s exactly what happened…

Market Samurai brought together the best, highest quality, most valuable sources of keyword data – for free. And it continues to move fast to work alongside more free keyword data sources as they become available, keeping users at the cutting edge of in-depth keyword research.

By giving away something of true value, for free – Market Samurai went from being a completely unknown piece of software, developed and used privately by a handful of anonymous internet marketing geeks (us) – to being one of the most widely used and respected internet marketing tools today.

So what pays the bills for Market Samurai?

The way Market Samurai makes money – and the reason people buy – is on the other side of this equation…

…Actually DOING SOMETHING with keywords – and turning them from something that is worthless and intangible – into something valuable.

Keyword are together WORTHLESS, & EXPENSIVE:

A keyword, by-itself, is WORTHLESS…

Saved on your hard-drive, or displayed on your screen – it has no value. It’s just a few tiny electrical impulses – perhaps just a few bytes of data, or a few pixels on your screen – and is no more or less valuable than any other pixel or byte on your computer.

In other words – a keyword, by itself, is completely worthless.

A keyword only becomes valuable when you put it to work.

Until you put the keyword to work – by using it to target potential customers through Google Adwords, SEO, or some other means – it can’t make a single cent, or bring you a single website visitor.

Here’s where keywords are EXPENSIVE…

In order to make the keyword valuable, you need to put it to work.

And in order to put the keyword to work, you need to do something to it.

You need to set up a targeted Adwords campaign, or create some SEO-targeted content, or to do something that unlocks the value inside the keyword.

The True Cost of Keywords

The true cost of keywords – the factor that limits you, or stops you from exploiting thousands of them right now, this very second, for your own personal gains – is NOT the cost of finding them.

(We all know that keywords are abundant, and free – and we can find thousands of great quality keywords in just a few moments using Market Samurai’s Keyword Research module – which, again, is free.)

The true cost of keywords is Time, Money, Effort and Skill.

To target a keyword, you need to invest (usually un-equal portions) of each of these commodities if you want to unlock the potential value of the keyword.

• Targeting a keyword through something like Google Adwords will cost money (to pay the per-click costs) and give you an almost instant result, but takes effort to set up.
• Targeting a keyword through Search Engine Optimization might be free, but it takes time until you see a result, and there’s a lot of effort required to write articles and build lots of links.

And both of these require a level of skill (knowledge and expertise) if you expect to be successful.

Time, Money, Effort and Skill are almost unavoidable in internet marketing.

(I say “almost” because there are alternatives for making money online that require very low levels of time, money, effort and skill – but these are called “spam”, and in many countries this business model will likely land you in jail.)

This is how someone targeting 1 or 10 high-quality keywords will often make more money than someone with 100,000 or 1,000,000 keywords – or why some people make fortunes from a keyword, while others in the same market lose money (think “dog training”).

This is because it’s not the keywords themselves that make money. Rather, it’s how someone invests their time, money, effort and skill putting the keywords to work.

Market Samurai Puts Your Keywords To Work

Market Samurai never set out to compete against the other keyword tools that are out there – you’ll see the other keyword tools are the ones competing against Market Samurai.

Market Samurai always had one goal.

To Kick Down the Barriers that Limit People’s Success Online: the Scarce Resources of Time, Money, Effort and Skill.

By reducing the time, effort, cost and expertise it takes to DO ANYTHING with keywords – Market Samurai helps people to get faster results, with less effort – meaning better rankings, more website visitor traffic and bigger profits.

If you look at every feature inside Market Samurai – and every one of the dozens of innovations released to users since Market Samurai was first launched – you see this theme:

- Rank Tracker –

Monitors and tracks your site’s rankings faster an easier than before, giving you more accurate insights into your true rankings in all major search engines, for all of your targeted keywords – so that you have the skill to see if your SEO efforts are profitable, (or telling you if an SEO strategy is a waste of time, effort and money.)

- SEO Competition –

Gives you the skill to know whether you are likely to rank for a keyword, so that you can assess how much time, effort and money it will take to rank – avoid keywords that are too difficult or costly to target through SEO, and focus on the most profitable keywords for better rankings faster with less effort and expense.

- Promotion –

Assesses link-building opportunities, giving you the skill to know which pages are best to target for high-value, high-quality link building (the type of links that give you the best, fastest ranking boosts) so that you don’t waste time or effort targeting poor opportunities.

- Find Content –

Assesses the quality of content on the web, giving you the skill to know which articles are considered by search engines to be high value – so that you can either save time and effort researching high-value keyword targeted articles to write for your own niche site – or you can republish low-value articles and save time writing your own article and attract traffic by making the “authority source” your site.

- Monetization –

Helps you to find the most profitable affiliate opportunities online, write and publish an ad quickly, with no copywriting skill and very little effort required, and track results (so that you can find the highest-converting affiliate offers for your site) – meaning you can do more marketing in less time, and make more money.

- Publish Content & Adwords -

(Not yet publicly available – but you can bet that the full feature set of these two modules will help you to unlock the value of keywords with less time, effort, cost and skill – and help you to get better marketing results, faster! )

Faster, Easier and Better Results = BIGGER PROFITS

It’s not the keywords themselves that make money. Rather, it’s how you invest your time, money, effort and skill putting the keywords to work that determines your success.

The faster, easier and easier it is – the more you can achieve.

Even though Market Samurai can’t do *everything* for you [yet] – it DOES give you the ability to achieve more, with less time, effort, cost and skill.

Each of these time-saving, results-boosting tools focuses on a single pivotal area of online marketing, and helps you to get better results from that area – with less time and effort.

(In fact, the key reason why they’re all in one tool – rather than having one keyword tool, one SEO analysis tool, one link building tool etc – is because the time wasted loading and switching between tools adds up very quickly, and is better invested into actually making money!)

And users who sign up for a 12-day trial of Market Samurai get get to trial these advanced features for 12 days at no cost – as well as getting full access to the keyword research module inside Market Samurai.

…And It All Starts With Keyword Research

As for the Keyword Research module – although it’s free, it’s also the most valuable, most important module of them all – the element that makes everything else work better:

- Keyword Research –

Helps to pick which keywords are the best to focus on and target first – because targeting the best, most relevant, most profitable keywords – you get a better return on the time, effort, money and skill that you invest into your marketing.

This is how someone with 1 or 10 high-quality keywords makes more money than someone with 100,000 or 1,000,000 keywords…

…Because, in the end, it’s not the keywords themselves that make money. Rather, it’s how someone chooses to invest their time, money, effort and skill actually putting the keywords to work.

Faster – Easier – Cheaper … Getting More Done while actually Doing Less … Making Bigger Profits From Your Keywords, Sooner.

Are You Using Market Samurai?

First-Time Users: – If you don’t already use Market Samurai, and want full access to the world’s most in-depth keyword research tools – for free – you can get your copy for free here, now.

Free Version Users: – If you do use Market Samurai’s Keyword Research tools, but don’t already have full access to Market Samurai and want to use its advanced tools to make your keywords work harder – with less effort – click here to upgrade your copy.

Paid Version Users: – If you’re one of the thousands who already have full access to Market Samurai – you’ve already made the right choice.

For you – there are even more revolutionary time-slashing, results-making features in development – so the next unexpected bonus update is probably just around the corner.

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It’s never been easier to turn website traffic into cash.

We’ve lifted the lid on our new Monetization Module – and paid Market Samurai users can upgrade and start using it for free right now.

View on YouTube: Affiliate Marketing Software: Market Samurai’s Monetization Module

 

Affiliate Marketing Makes Sense…

You earn up to 75% selling other peoples’ products (so you don’t need to create your own). There’s no support, no refunds to process, no administration hassles – you just concentrate on marketing and making money.

But if it was really so easy, we’d do it all day every day.

 

…But it Takes a LOT of Time and Effort.

The truth is affiliate marketing takes a surprising amount of actual work.

We create content, attract traffic – but never fully monetize the traffic that we receive.

So we miss out on hundreds – perhaps thousands of dollars in ongoing sales.

…All because monetizing that traffic using affiliate marketing takes too much time and effort.

That ends today.

 

Introducing Market Samurai’s New Monetization Module

Today, we’re making affiliate marketing so easy, so fast, and so lazy to monetize traffic that it will be the most fun part of having a web-site… (well, besides collecting your commission payments!)

Here’s how we’re going to do it…

 

Step 1. Searching for Products

Let’s find the best affiliate opportunities in our marketplace.

Searching – The Hard Way:

If you’re doing this manually, you’ll need to log into the 4 key online affiliate marketplaces – Amazon, Clickbank, Commission Junction and PayDotCom.

Then, battle their (usually sucky) product search results – full of irrelevant junk and keyword spam – and try to find the great products that the searches overlook.

Then analyze the results manually, and select the best opportunities from among all of the products you found.

Then write down the details of the product – the product name, the URL, the affiliate link, etc – so that you have this information for later.

Every little bit takes time – and that time adds up.

10 minutes searching, 10 minutes analysis, 10 minutes recording product details for the products you find… that’s 30 minutes… multiplied by 4 affiliate marketplaces.

That’s 2 hours searching for products – IF we do it the right way.

So we’re left with a choice:

A) Cut corners and potentially miss out on opportunities.

OR

B) Take a full 2 hours searching for the best affiliate opportunities.

Searching – The Market Samurai Way:

With a click of a button, Market Samurai retrieves the top, relevant products in your market – from the affiliate market places you select.

View on YouTube: Affiliate Marketing Software – Find Affiliate Opportunities with Market Samurai

Tell Market Samurai to filter the results based on price, commissions, popularity and more – and Market Samurai will only show you the results that you want to see.

Then just click on the best ones to add them to your short-list.

…And you’re done.

Market Samurai’s Monetization Module even connects into its own affiliate search engine – to make sure you don’t miss out on any great affiliate opportunities.

And it does everything that you can do manually in 2 hours – in a matter of minutes (perhaps even seconds!)

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Step 2. Copywriting Your Ad

If you’re not a natural writer or salesperson – then this can be the most daunting and draining part of affiliate marketing.

Copywriting – The Hard Way:

You open up a blank word document…

…Then, start writing.

• You Choose an Ad Format – long-form, blog post, review, sidebar ad, etc
• You Research the Product – and work out what to write about
• You Write a Compelling Headline – capturing people’s attention
• You Write some Review Copy – building desire for the product
• You Insert and Edit Images – for a more attractive ad
• You Insert an Affiliate Link – the critical link in the chain
• Then you entice the reader to click…

For someone with some solid writing skills and some natural salesmanship, who can also edit images well, it might take 30 minutes to create a 1-page review post.

For the rest of us mere mortals (who don’t have all of these skills), it’s probably more like an hour.

Copywriting – The Market Samurai Way:

This is my favourite part of the Monetization Module…

Check it out…

You choose an ad format.

You read through the “ad chunks” Market Samurai pulls out of the [already converting] salesletter – and you drag-and-drop some relevant ones into your sales letter. (No writing or sales skills required.)

Drag-and-drop in a product image. (No technical or image editing skills required.)

Drag and drop in a buy button (or click to insert an affiliate link)

And add your own personal touches. Edit, rewrite, format – or, just leave it as it is!

Because you can pick-and-choose the best chunks of sales copy for your ad, it’s like having a world-class copywriter in a box telling you what to write.

And this means you can create a compelling affiliate promotion in 10 minutes – or even less – not 1 hour.

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Step 3. Formatting & HTML Programming

This is where technical skill takes over

HTML Programming – The Hard Way:

How sharp are your HTML programming skills?

The guys in the Noble Samurai team can format an ad with clean, search engine optimized, template-ready HTML code in 10 minutes flat – but they’ve practically programmed their entire lives!

For the rest of us “normal people”, it can take 30 minutes to create the HTML code for the ad – even longer if you struggle with the technical side of things.

HTML Programming – The Market Samurai Way:

If you were using Market Samurai’s “copywriter-in-a-box” inside the Monetization Module, then you don’t need to worry about programming any CSS or HTML…

It’s already done.

While you were creating your ad, Market Samurai was formatting it as HTML for you – ready for you to upload. With no extra time, no extra effort, no technical skills required – and no additional software.

 

Step 4. Uploading it all

The final step – getting it online… Where it can make you money.

Uploading – The Hard Way:

Let’s be honest – there’s no fun way to upload text and images to the web.

You open up an FTP program, connect to your server, navigate to the right directory, upload your images, insert all of the HTML code onto your site via a content management software or FTP upload, check that all of the files get uploaded successfully…

However you do it, it’s a pain in the butt – and together everything can take 10 minutes or more.

Uploading – The Market Samurai Way:

Just choose where to publish – click publish – and watch your ad go live.

You also have access to four options to hide your affiliate links from customers, other affiliates’ and vendors prying eyes.

And because the affiliate link cloaking tools that Market Samurai uses can give you click-through stats, you can find out exactly which affiliate ads work – and which don’t.

 

It’s Never Been Easier to Do Affiliate Marketing

Putting together an affiliate promotion used to be difficult and time-consuming.

Now, it’s the easiest (and probably most profitable) thing you can do for your web-site – and it’s actually fun.

You “shop” for a product to promote, click a few buttons, and within minutes your promotion is up and running.

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If You Own Market Samurai Already…

To use the Monetization module – all you need to do is open up your copy and download the latest update.

If You Don’t Own Market Samurai Yet…

If you are not yet a paid user – the Monetization module is included in your Market Samurai purchase (at no additional cost) – along with all of Market Samurai’s industry leading Keyword Research, SEO Analysis, High-Authority Linking and Rank Tracking tools – AND all future KILLER upgrades (like this one!)

With a few well-priced affiliate sales, Market Samurai will pay for itself.

Chances are, you already have content online that you can monetize right now – and every day you wait, you’re losing real money from missed sales.

 
Get it now, here.

Brent

P.S. – Tomorrow, I’m going to be taking you through the most revolutionary part of Market Samurai’s new monetization module – and show you how you can use it to write a sales letter in under 4 minutes.

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The #1 most requested feature for Market Samurai was fixed column headers…

…Column headings that stay visible at the top of the page as you scroll down, so that you can easily work out what the data in each column refers to.

And finally, it’s here.

Fixed column headings are one of the most recent additions to Market Samurai – and they’re available for you to use right now.

Looks simple… But it wasn’t easy…

I really admire the persistence of Market Samurai’s programmers here.

Let me share their story…

Already, the headers were being used to sort and filter data, resize the column widths to fit the page, and were being hidden when deselected…

After over a dozen failed attempts, the Samurai programmers still couldn’t find a way to make the headings stick at the top of the screen.

These are guys who have built search engines, operating systems, content management systems, micro kernels – and all of the other high-tech features inside Market Samurai… but it looked like this one seemingly simple task had beaten them…

…That Was Until A Few Weeks Ago…

Late one night, they struck success.

It finally worked!

Big smiles beamed from triumphant developers well into the night, and into the next day…

And shortly after – Market Samurai’s most requested feature was released to all users, in all current versions of Market Samurai.

That means (if you haven’t discovered it yet) you can open Market Samurai to find our most requested feature has been delivered – fixed column headers – column headings stay in place as you scroll down.

This makes it easier to analyze data inside the Keyword Research module, and work out what all of the figures mean.

Check it out.

So open up Market Samurai now and have a play with this new cool feature!

Thank-you yet again to all of our users for all of your feedback.

It’s because of your feedback that the team made it a personal challenge to make this feature happen for you.

Keep your comments coming in – they don’t go unheard.

-Ben

P.S. – As always, if you haven’t used Market Samurai yet, make sure you get your free trial now and let it find more visitors for your web-site.

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Market Samurai is celebrating its first birthday!

It’s certainly been a busy year!

Every month, thousands more people begin using Market Samurai – adding to the tens-of-thousands of people who open Market Samurai and use daily in their internet marketing.

But this is just the beginning…

The Last 365 Days – And Into the Future

Every day worked, Market Samurai gets a little bit better…

Something new is developed…

Something good is improved…

Something is innovated, or discovered for the first time…

Or something “impossible” is solved…

And every day, all of us who use Market Samurai see the fruits of this. We get better results in our online marketing because Market Samurai keeps pushing the boundaries of improvement.

But It Doesn’t Happen By Itself…

Countless of people deserve our thanks for helping to shape Market Samurai into what it is today.

Since it’s the 1st birthday of Market Samurai, let me share them and their contributions with you…

—

1) The 9 Noble Samurai

These are the people who eat, sleep and breathe Market Samurai every day.

Clockwise from left-to-right: Michael (developer), Arlen (developer), Andrew (developer), Mark (marketing), Eugene (mad scientist), Brent (marketing), Ben (marketing), Warwick (support), Miriam (support).

Thank-you for everything you’ve done.

From the early days when you were sleeping in corners of the office just to keep up with demand, to the hard work and long hours you put in daily, to the fact that you often work after hours and weekends – your dedication doesn’t go unnoticed…

Through Market Samurai, you’ve made a difference in tens-of-thousands of peoples lives.

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2) The Specialists

While they’re not a daily part of the Market Samurai team, these people have all contributed their unique skills to the team at critical times.

Pictured above (left-to-right): Ben Stickland, Aaron, Terry, David, Nick, Chris.
Not Pictured: Levi, Anna, Andrea, Robert

Thank-you for being there at the times that we needed you the most.

Your help has meant we were able to combat some difficult problems at important moments in our growth – and Market Samurai wouldn’t be where it is today without you.

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3) And, Most Importantly… YOU!

Thousands of people have helped to shape Market Samurai…

But none more than the people who use Market Samurai.

You’re Market Samurai’s biggest advisers, biggest advocates, and biggest contributors.

• 

  Because you shared your feedback with us – we were able to use your ideas, feedback and frustrations to create cool new features, and solve big online marketing problems inside Market Samurai.

• Because you shared Market Samurai with your friends – Market Samurai went from being relatively unknown, to the “must-have” tool for anyone who is serious about having a profitable online business.

• Because you shared your tips and tricks for using Market Samurai with others – thousands of new Market Samurai users were, for the first time, able to grasp important marketing concepts, and make profitable marketing decisions.

Thank-you to you all.

You continue to be the biggest source of inspiration for new Market Samurai features, the biggest contributors of information into the Market Samurai community, and the biggest referrers of new users into the Market Samurai community.

Every day, when we act on your advice and feedback to make Market Samurai even better, it’s because you chose to be a part of our team.

So once again – thank-you.

We wouldn’t be here today without you.

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Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who submitted an entry. Not only were many of them entertaining but they confirmed to us that what’s around the corner in the remaining modules will definitely hit the spot.

Two weeks ago we launched a competition to guess what Market Samurai’s Mystery Module was going to be. The response was phenomenal with dozens of people hitting the mark with a Rank Tracker module.

(If you’re not already using this second to none feature you can get it absolutely FREE when you upgrade to the registered version of Market Samurai here).

After hours of sifting, reading, highlighting and most importantly post it noting, we eventually narrowed down the whopping 1,338 entries to a final two (see pile of comments in the pic below!). Being true to our word, and with so many good guesses we chose the winners based not on their accuracy, but on their creativity and originality.

The competition was fierce and the decision was not easy, but when the votes we’re tallied, Ron and John’s entries were sitting on the top of the pile. John’s WWFFD (What Would Flavor Flav Do) submission had us in a laughing fit which grabbed him the originality and humor votes whereas Ron’s well written Press Release suggestion secured him the creativity votes. (Winners have already been notified)

As a little reminder of what was up for grabs, I’ve added in a few pictures to wet your appetite. These are arguably two of the coolest gadgets around that an internet marketer could have right now. Our winners Ron and John will each soon be in proud possession of one these awesome gizmos.

Here are the winning entries (Drum Roll Please!):

Winner No.1 – John Perry

Ah – I’ve been waiting for this feature, can’t wait to access it soon! It has to be the “WWFFD Module” – or the What Would Flavor Flav Do feature.

Now I can finally feel confident in my campaigns as the Flavor Flav algorithm analyzes my keyword selection, competition and on-site content to report back a “Don’t Believe the Hype”, “Fight the Power”, “Can’t Do Nothing For You, Man” or the sought-after “Yeaaaaah Boyeeeee!” rating.

Can’t go wrong with Flav’s guidance and Marketing Samurai – best IM app on the planet.

Winner No.2 – Ron Martin

Press Release: Internet Marketing World is stunned with release of Market Samurai’s Mystery Module.

“We felt we finally had to come clean” said Brent Hodgson of Market Samurai. Swarmed by reporters and TV cameras outside his Melbourne, Australia office, he said: “All along, we’ve been touting the ease of doing market research with our suite of modules, but we intentionally made it look harder than it really has to be … all those videos about painstakingly researching Traffic, Commercial Value, and Competition … ha … we had everyone fooled!”

At this point he appeared to be stifling a sneeze, but in contrast to his usual refined and restrained demeanor, he suddenly burst into uncontrolled giggles and snorts.

Quickly apologizing, and regaining his composure, he went on to say: “That all changes as we take the wraps off our Mystery Module and reveal it’s true name: the “One Click Campaign Creator.”

To explain, he said: “You can pick a word. Any word. Click the OCCC button, and within less than two minutes, an entire campaign is created for you around that keyword. New domains registered, optimized squeeze pages and content rich blogs created, PPC campaign started, 47 articles written and submitted to multiple ezine directories, Squidoo and Hubpages created, and a complete back linking strategy is developed. You can be making sales within 10 minutes. Just ONE click. That’s all it takes.”

“Rubbish,” said one reporter. “Prove it,” said another. Muffled cries of “charlatan” and “quack” were heard in the crowd.

Unfazed, Mr. Hodgson climbed up on top of the makeshift podium, and with a steely gaze into the unruly crowd from his elevated perch, said simply: “Silence. Now.”

Oddly, the crowd seemed suddenly transfixed by the quiet force of his voice. A silence did, indeed, fall over the crowd.

“Give me a word,” he continued. “Anyone … give me a word.”

“We “Turtles!” said a small child who was perched on his father’s shoulders, at eye level with Mr. Hodgson, and about 5 feet in front of the podium.

“Turtles, it is,” said Mr. Hodgson, as he typed the word into Market Samurai and hit the One Click Campaign Creator button. As promised, less than two minutes later, a computerized voice could be heard from his laptop to say: “Campaign created and running.”

Then, nothing. 5 minutes went by, 7 minutes. Nothing. Gradually some sounds could be heard coming from the laptop above the increasingly restless crowd noises. Little bells and whistles started clinging and chirping. “What does THAT mean?” said one reporter.

“Wait and see,” said Mr. Hodgson.

In exactly 9 minutes and 47 seconds since the Market Samurai OCCC button was pushed, the same computerized voice blurted out: “Report #1. Items sold = 17 turtles, 4 stone ponds, 6 water filtration systems, and 9 pounds of organic turtle food.” An automatic payment of $1,767.23 has been transferred to your checking account #112987.”

“Oops. I wish I had encoded that checking account number,” said Mr. Hodgson. “Oh well, all in a morning’s work.”

Related news. This just in: A coalition of Internet Marketers organized by popular gurus Frank Kern and Mike Filsaime have filed suit in Australian and US courts to stop the release of Market Samurai’s One Click Campaign Creator. In a clip now going viral on YouTube, the normally laid back and hip / cool Mr. Kern is seen completely red faced with a huge gob of spittle running down his chin, kicking violently and randomly at a pile of surfboards stacked in garage storage area. “This is INSANE, I tell ya. Who do these arrogant Aussie morons think they ARE?? A frickin violation of all kinds of anti-trust, anti-monopoly laws. They can’t do this! We’ll rip their (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted) off.”

When we informed Mr. Hodgson of Mr. Kern’s comments, he just gave one of those disarming little half laughs we are all familiar with from his videos, and said: “Bring it on.”

Great stuff guys!

Now there seemed to be a common thread emerging among the many suggestions of a magical “do it all and send me money” button. Sounds devilishly wonderful doesn’t it? Well interestingly enough, by the time the final 3 modules are released this won’t be too far from the truth.

Well, there probably won’t be a big, green, shiny button that sends you checks in mail, but you will have most of the guess work taken out of the process to get you close to it.

In the meantime we hope you’re loving Rank Tracker.

-Ben

P.S. If you missed out on the big launch you can still get Market Samurai, and get a free upgrade to the Rank Tracker module along with all the other Market Samurai modules at a steal here.

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Hi Team,

Today, I’m excited to be releasing the Mystery Module to you.

Monitor Your Site’s Rankings with the Market Samurai Rank Tracker

Just like every other module inside Market Samurai, our Rank Tracker’s function is simple.

It doesn’t just monitor and track your position in the search engines…

It helps you to make more money, with less time, and less effort, from your online business.

Let me show you what I mean, and reveal 2 specific strategies for cutting down the time and effort that you put into your web-site, while you get better rankings, traffic and sales:

If you don’t own Market Samurai yet, click here purchase your copy now to get instant access to Market Samurai’s new Rank Tracking module.

The Importance of Rankings

In simple terms, the reason you should monitor your rankings is because every tiny increase in rankings that you receive gives you a substantial increase in traffic.

These are the top 10 results inside Google, and the percentage of times that they get clicked.

Rank	% of Clicks	Visits per 1,000
1	42.1%	421
2	11.9%	119
3	8.5%	85
4	6.1%	61
5	4.9%	49
6	4.1%	41
7	3.4%	34
8	3.0%	30
9	2.8%	28
10	3.0%	30

What Do You Notice About The Clicks?

It doesn’t take much more than a glance to see that the closer we are to the top of the listings, the more potential customers visit our web-site.

Visitors select higher results far more often than they select results below.

So if the search engines were sending out 1,000 visitors per day for a keyword, the #1 result would receive 421 of them.

But each time you step down that ladder, there’s a massive drop in the amount of traffic that you get.

Here’s where ranking matters – big time!

Position #1 might get 421 visitors…

But position #2 might only get 119 (just over 1/4 of the visitors of position #1);
Position #3 would get just 81 visitors (1/5th of the visitors of position #1);
Position #6 would receive just 41 visitors per day (1/10th of the visitors of position #1);

So to step up from position 2, to position 1, could result in 3 or 4 times more sales for us.

Or to step from position 6 to 1 could mean we earn TEN TIMES more sales.

These are tiny steps in rankings – but GIANT LEAPS for your bank balance.

STEP 1: Know Your Rankings

You can’t improve something if you’re not tracking it.

And this is the first thing that Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker module will do for you..

With the click of a button, you can now get up-to-date data on:

• Where all of your web-pages rank in your market;
• In all 3 major search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing (MSN);
• Tracking your rank in any one of 234 countries and regions;
• For as many keywords as you choose;
• Including the details of all multiple listings that you have – not just the first listing;
• Right down to the 1,000th result – the deepest rank tracking analysis of any rank tracker available today

You’ll also get up-to-date PageRank and Backlink data for all of your ranking pages

You will be able to see how many pages are indexed by the search engines on your site…

You can monitor the rankings of ANY Web 2.0 content alongside your website’s rankings – including your YouTube videos, Squidoo lenses and Ezine Articles…

AND – most importantly – you can see at a glance which pages are rising, and which are falling in the search engines, with color-coded charts, and graphs that show your site’s rankings over time:

STEP 2: Focus on the areas of Maximum Results

Once we see where our strongest rankings are, we can focus our efforts on these pages and get the maximum return from our efforts.

That’s because you will have two things working in your favour:

1) The Search Engine Numbers

Remember how we saw that a site ranked #2 in Google could get THREE to FOUR times more potential customers from that keyword if they were ranked #1?

Or if we were ranked #6, we could get a TEN FOLD increase by hitting that top spot?

In both cases, we’re making small improvements to already strong numbers – and seeing BIG returns as a reward.

That’s because it’s not going from position 900 to position 100 in the search engines that gives you the biggest returns – it’s going from position 2 or 3 to position 1 that creates the biggest results for us.

2) SOMETHING must be working already!

The second reason you want to focus on improving already positive rankings is because it’s a great sign if you’re ALREADY getting good results from a keyword…

If you’re already ranking well for a keyword, you’re either doing something right – or you’re in a weak market.

Whatever the reason is, this is a good sign. From here, it’s easy to go the next step – and rank even better.

This is the first thing you should check in Rank Tracker

So Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker tells us where we should be focussing our efforts – by identifying the keywords we rank well for, we can create substantial increases in profits through tiny shifts in our rankings.

That’s the first obvious step to maximise your profits with the minimum amount of effort – to focus on where we can get the maximum profits.

Now, it’s time to be lazy…

Let’s get those results with the minimum amount of effort…

STEP 3: Only Do The Things That Create Results

If you’re an engineer you’ll know that one of the best ways to avoid unnecessary work and delays is to avoid waste.

We want to avoid wasting time and effort on things that don’t work and don’t give us results.

But the problem with SEO is that there are SO MANY conflicting opinions on what works and what doesn’t – and the truth is, many of the “opinions” and “theories” out there are dead wrong!

So let me cut through the confusion, and give you one simple rule…

One Simple Rule for Getting Rankings

Just take one strategy – it doesn’t matter what it is – and do it.

Pick something simple, something that doesn’t take much time and effort, and do it.

Then track it in Rank Tracker.

If your site’s ranking rises, keep doing it.

Do it over and over again until that one thing stops working.

Then, try something else.

Simple, common sense thinking – isn’t it? But it’s only possible if you are actually tracking where you rank in the search engines.

It’s the END of “Hoping” to Rank

That’s the beauty of Rank Tracker… It takes the guesswork out of SEO strategies.

• You’ll see search engines as they discover your backlinks – and see whether or not those backlinks result in better rankings.
• You can put up lots of fresh, new content – and find out whether the volume of content on your site affects rankings.
• You can monitor the affect of new backlinks on your PageRank – then monitor the affect of PageRank on your rankings. Is it SEO voodoo?
• You can test different link building strategies – which ones work, and which ones don’t?

And whatever you do, you can see almost instantly.

It All Comes Down To This One Simple Question…

“Did this increase my rankings in the search engines?”

If it does, keep doing it.

If it doesn’t – stop and try something else.

It’s THAT simple.

The Samurai Edge for Tracking Your Site

Not only are we launching a Rank Tracker inside Market Samurai today – we’re leading the market – launching the most fully-featured rank tracking tool available ANYWHERE.

While most other search engine rank tracking software costs between $99 and $389:

• No other software will track your rankings as DEEP as Market Samurai’s rank tracker – which can monitor down to 1,000 results.
• No other software will give you as much data on your rankings
• No other software will track the rankings ALL of your sites, and ALL of your content – including content on 3rd party sites – like content that you upload YouTube, Squidoo and Ezine Articles.

PLUS – Most other search engine rank tracking software will make you pay to stay updated.

So you might pay $250 to get started for the first year – but to keep your software running 12 months later, expect to pay $250 again (or worse, get locked into a subscription plan!) to get required upgrades every year that you do rank tracking – for as long as you’re running your online business.

But we’re NOT going to do it that way.

As of today, our Rank Tracker is being released as a core part of Market Samurai.

That means there are no subscription costs to pay.

You get full access to the Market Samurai Rank Tracker for a single one-time payment.

So if you already own Market Samurai, you’ll pay no more to get access to this feature – it’s already yours. Just download the latest update, and begin using it right away.

If you don’t already own Market Samurai, you will receive Rank Tracker today at no additional cost as part of your Market Samurai purchase.

BUT THERE’S A CATCH!…

This is something that we can only “give away” for a limited time.

The reason all other rank trackers make you pay ongoing fees for updates is because those updates come at a cost.

Right now, we’re absorbing these costs ourselves…

But this can’t happen forever.

Sooner or later, we will need to raise our costs, or begin charging subscription fees in order to keep up with our exponentially-growing user base.

So if you want the benefits of Rank Tracker, full access to all other Market Samurai tools, and free lifetime access to all updates – make sure you purchase your copy right now, while the price is so low.

Click here to get your copy now – and begin using Rank Tracker right away.

Want More Information on How To Use Rank Tracker?

Head over to the Rank Tracker section of our Tutorials area.

We have created a series of short videos for you view there, designed to take you through how to set up Rank Tracker and begin tracking your rankings.

Brent

Edit: Competition winners from our “Guess the Mystery Module” competition have not been announced yet. Unfortunately, with an incredible 1,338 responses, it’s taking us longer than we expected to read all of the responses submitted. We will be announcing winners ASAP.

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If you’re already an owner of Market Samurai, you’ll already know about 7 modules inside Market Samurai…

Keyword Research, SEO Competition Analysis, Find Content, and Promotion (Link Building) modules that are already available – plus the Monetization, Publish Content and Adwords modules that are in development ahead of their release. These are the 7 module tabs listed inside Market Samurai.

But what you might not be aware of is the 8th module inside Market Samurai – the “Mystery Module”.

…And this “Mystery Module” is just about to be unleashed!

So What is the Mystery Module?

The “Mystery Module” is something that we’ve deliberately held-back specific details about.

Although we mentioned this module on all of our sales pages, we haven’t yet given any specific details about what the Mystery Module does. We’ve kept it top-secret while it was in the research and development phase because of the unique technologies it uses.

What I can tell you is that the “Mystery Module” will be released in just over a week, and will be made freely available to paid users of Market Samurai, as part of the investment that you have already made in the Market Samurai software.

But what does the Mystery Module do?

You’ll have to wait to find out … Keep reading because I’m about to give you a few clues.

First, let’s have some fun!…

Guess The Mystery Module, and WIN!:

To celebrate the launch of the Mystery Module, we decided to have a little fun.

So let’s do something a little different – and give away 2 of the coolest, must-have gadgets that any internet marketer can have to 2 lucky Market Samurai users.

…And you get to choose which prize you want to win!

Prize #1. Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smartpen pack

(Total value around $215.05)

This nifty gadget has probably won more awards than any other device in the past year.

It records audio you hear in seminars, podcasts or presentations, and matches it with your written notes. It means you can just tap a word in your notes, and hear the audio from that moment again – meaning you never miss anything, ever again.

Plus, by connecting your pen to your computer, you can download your own handwriting – and audio – to print, share, upload to the web, archive or just refer back to later. (It even recognizes your own handwriting so that you can search for words you have written!)

(First time I saw it, it was like it was “magic” – such a cool leap in technology, but so simple! It was like waving a magic wand.)

Here’s a few demonstrations showing how it works:

This prize pack includes the larger 2GB version of the pen, spare ink refills, and notepads – everything you’ll need to get full use out of your prize.

Prize #2. Flip MinoHD Camcorder Pack

(Total value around $210.94)

The Flip Mino HD is billed as the world’s smallest high definition camcorder, and probably the most useful (and cool) device for YouTube marketing around today!

The prize includes the high-definition 60 Minute Flip MinoHD Camcorder, and a Joby Gorillapod Flexible Tripod – also a very handy gadget to have, and the perfect small, lightweight tripod to bring with your small lightweight camera.

This is everything you’ll need to begin using your new camera for fun, family, or even internet marketing “carcast” videos (like Eugene here.)

How To Win…

To win one of these prizes, all you have to do is guess what the “Mystery Module” does. You don’t even need the right answer! The two most interesting answers (as selected by our panel of Samurai) will get to choose which prize they want to win.

(Both of these prizes we own, we love, and want to share.)

By now, I’m sure you want to find out more about the Mystery Module – to find out what you’ll be “unwrapping” when the Mystery Module is released, and so that you can start guessing to win these prizes…

Here are Your “Mystery Module” Clues…

The Mystery Module is a set of tools and features that are “the missing piece of the puzzle” inside Market Samurai.

• The Mystery Module helps you to get better results from your internet marketing;
• The Mystery Module takes something that is difficult, time-consuming and tedious to do manually – and does it quickly and easily, with the click of a button;
• The Mystery Module compliments the existing features that are inside Market Samurai;

(Note: Noticing a trend? All of the other existing Market Samurai modules fit into these clues – so think “What are the missing pieces of the puzzle?”. What tools would make Market Samurai “complete”?)

How To Enter…

To win, leave a comment below with your answer before 9:00am Monday the 15th of June, Melbourne time.

(That’s +10GMT, so it’s 4pm Sunday in Los Angeles; – 7pm Sunday in New York; – Midnight between Sunday and Monday in London because of British Summer Time)

The Noble Samurai team will collate your answers, and vote on our favorite answer.

We’ll be closing the competition shortly before the release of the “Mystery Module” – so start submitting your answers now! (Guess early, guess often!)

Remember: It doesn’t matter if you’re right or wrong – be creative when you tell us what you think the missing piece of the Market Samurai puzzle might be, and your answer might just be the one that wins.

Good luck!

Brent

P.S. – To keep answers secret, we’re moderating all comments (below). That means you won’t see your comment appear immediately.

P.P.S. – If you don’t already own Market Samurai, and would like to upgrade to the full version so that you can access the new module when it’s released, click here.

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