Comments on: Traffic Travis is Increasingly Useful

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:17:09 +0000

Yes, big props to both TT and MS.

My little ‘give’ for the day. You can use TT to find and piggyback off Squidoo/EZA/GoArticles/Zimbio properties that rank in the top 10 for good keywords. (Hint: go to Search Engine Tools then load and edit a project. Change Project Domain to squidoo.com and click ‘Start Update’. Repeat for each web 2.0 or article directory you find in ‘Top sites for keywords’ tab.) In the Pro version you can export these out to Excel and match them up with search volumes.

I like to use MS for the Top 10 SEO competition (I’m a sucker for colors. Numbers don’t really do it for me. Red – Bad, Green – Good). But I’m getting really sick of those tabs across the top.

Paul, I think MS does local options. You can set the country in the Project Settings.

Great tools though, both of them.

By: Paul Jefferson

Paul Jefferson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:45:39 +0000

Market Samurai doesn’t do the local options, like if I want to rank in google uk or something. It also didn’t show 20 results like Traffic Travis does, which is pretty important if you want to get a better idea of the competition. Also often Market Samurai says a site is listed in yahoo or dmoz when it isn’t, it isn’t as accurate.

Just my thoughts on it,

Mark, I just wanted to say thank you for providing this for free, I cant afford these types of software yet but I can see how having this kind of tool available to me is going to be invaluable.

By: Lance Jepsen Author of Internet Marketing

Lance Jepsen Author of Internet Marketing — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:03:17 +0000

Hey buddy, hope all is well with you. This economic downturn has been tough!

After using both traffic travis and market samari, I do like market samari better. What I like better about market samari is that it counts the number of searches on each keyword, then crawls each search engine and counts the number of times that keyword phrase appears in TITLE tags. It then divides the two to come up with a ratio. So what you are looking for is a high searches per month number, with a low TITLE tags number which suggests that a keyword is being overlooked. I found it most useful for long tail keyword research and trying to quickly find a keyword phrase that I can rank higher in Google’s index for because of lower competition for that keyword phrase.

That’s just my opinion.

On the downside, market samari costs a pretty penny.

Traffic Travis is free and that really goes a long way because free is the right price for everyone.

By: used cars sioux city

used cars sioux city — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:18:44 +0000

Huh. I downloaded TT, looked at it and never used it. I guess I should dust it off now.

By: Drivedoctor

Drivedoctor — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:43:40 +0000

I think the biggest challenge is finding a niche that people are actually spending money on. Once that niche is identified, then pursue the keyword research to tap into that market.

Mark in Nashville

By: Splork

Splork — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:18:09 +0000

Hope it works for you Steward.

By: Splork

Splork — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:17:39 +0000

Thanks Mark. I tried out Market Samurai and can definitely see its advantages and why people like it. But for me simply using Google’s database for keywords and doing some rudimentary competition analysis is about all I cared to deal with.

By: Steward

Steward — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:32:52 +0000

Thanks Splork – I’m definitely going to need to give this one a try.