[Warning: the following is quite a long review of Market Samurai. To skip it and get a free trial, please go directly to the Market Samurai Website.]

I’m going to give you my full, hands-on Market Samurai review, but first let me explain why I’m feeling a little foolish right now. Like the guest who was invited to the best party that has ever been thrown but didn’t go because there was something on TV.

You know that feeling?

It’s like being offered tickets to the most spectacular firework display but going to the cheap one in your local park instead because that’s what you’ve always done.

The reason I’m feeling so egg-on-faceish is because I’ve been deliberately ignoring something that I now know I really, really shouldn’t have ignored.

If you think I’m being a bit over dramatic, let me explain.

Keyword research is vital to my business. Anyone who reads Kickstart knows that over the years I have used, and recommended, a multitude of keyword research tools. Each one offered something a little different to its predecessors and was a little easier to use, or a little better in its functions.

Some, like the excellent Niche Inspector, stopped working eventually and were abandoned by their creators. Some just failed to keep up to date.

My latest favorite was Micro Niche Finder – a sophisticated bit of kit that I’ve been proud and happy to recommend.

For quite a while now, I’ve been aware that a lot of people have been talking about a program called Market Samurai and extolling its virtues sky high.

But I didn’t take a lot of notice. As far as I was concerned, MicroNicheFinder did the job perfectly well and I couldn’t really see what more Market Samurai could offer that would make it a significant step up.

I did download their free trial offer, but for some reason got distracted and didn’t use it in the trial time. So when I did get around to wanting to test it out, my trial period had expired. I was left none the wiser.

Micro Niche Finder did all that I needed, so I forgot about Market Samurai and (a bit uncharacteristically for me) closed my ears and my mind to any of the buzz that kept appearing about it.

I guess I figured that there is only so much a keyword research tool can do and if I was happy with the one I had, why go looking for anything else.

How wrong I was.

I took the plunge this weekend and bought Market Samurai and NOW I can see what all the fuss was about. Hence this review.

[If you are one of those people who have been telling me so all this time, I can quite forgive you thinking 'Told you so!']

Make no mistake – Micro Niche Finder is a fantastic keyword research tool and if you already own it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it …

… it is just that Market Samurai is better. A whole lot better.

What I hadn’t appreciated, but do now (a lot) is that Market Samurai isn’t just a keyword research tool. To call it that is like calling Google a search engine. Yes it is that, but there is a lot more going on.

Market Samurai is a Swiss Army Knife – a whole array of tools to help save time and effort – and help you make money.

There are eight parts to it right now, with a ninth due to be added very soon.

They are:

1. Rank Tracker. You tell it your domains and it checks where they appear in the search engine listings against any keyword that you are analyzing. This is really useful and digs in to give you even more information: PageRank, backlinks, how many pages each search engine has indexed and so on.

Of course, you are not limited to your own domains. Add your competitors sites and you’ll know exactly what you have to beat.

2. Keyword Research. As a keyword research tool, Market Samurai does everything you’d expect of it and a bit more besides. It is beautifully easy to use and includes all the filtering options you need to uncover the best keywords to target.

3. SEO Competition. Here is a useful module. For any given keyword, the SEO Competition module will analyze the top ten results in Google and give you a table showing eight off-page SEO factors and five on-page ones. It gives you a very clear snapshot of what you are going to have to do to rank a page for that keyword. The chart is color coded to make life even easier for you.

A very nice touch is that you can also enter specific URLs (pages you have already created perhaps) and see how they compare to the Google top ten,

4. Domains. Once you’ve decided on a great keyword, the Domains module will quickly discover if it is available to buy as a domain, or if not, will suggest lots of similar domains that are available. Of course, you could just go to GoDaddy to do your own research, but it is a real time-saver to have this facility built right in to Market Samurai.

5. Monetization. The previous modules are great, but the last four are the deal-clinchers for me – starting with the Monetization module. I have been using this one a lot in the last couple of days.

Click on this tab and, depending on which keyword you are analyzing, Market Samurai will let you search Amazon, Commission Junction, ClickBank or PayDotCom to find appropriate affiliate products. You then just have to pick the one or ones you like the look of best.

As if that wasn’t powerful, timesaving stuff all on its own, it is actually just half the story. Once you’ve picked a product, Market Samurai actually helps you create a blog post, a banner ad or a WordPress sidebar ad.

I have never seen anything like this in another program and I’m very impressed by it.

6. Find Content. As the name implies, this module goes out to the Internet and finds all kinds of content that matches your selected keyword. It selects articles, blog posts, pictures, videos, news feeds and more. And having found the content, Market Samurai then lets you analyze it so you can select only the best.

At the risk of sounding like a cracked record, this is really useful and time saving.

7. Publish Content. They really have included everything. This module works seamlessly with the previous Find Content one. Any content that is found can then be passed to an editor screen in the Publish Content module. You then either make changes if you wish, or use the content as is (with content from articles directories you shouldn’t change anything) before clicking one button for Market Samurai to publish directly to your WordPress blog.

I’m running out of superlatives!

8. Promotion. This module is all about getting backlinks from sites that are already considered authorities for your selected keyword.

There are a variety of choices: Web 2.0 sites, Blogs, or Forums, with several option in each category.

Just select the sources you are interested in and in the blink of an eye you’ll be presented with a list of places you can get quality backlinks.

I have Market Samurai running beside me right now and with one click of the ‘Analyze’ button have just found a ton of high PR sites that I can place backlinks on. Really useful stuff.

This overview has only scratched the surface of the major features of Market Samurai. Within each module there are other buttons and options that make them all even more powerful than I can describe here.

I wish I’d listened to the people who have been singing its praises over the last year or so, but better late than never!

Don’t end up with egg on your face like me.

Get It Today For Free!

Now – I’ve saved the very best bit to last: you can try out Market Samurai completely free of charge.

There is a free trial available – of the complete program, not a cut-down version – at Market Samurai Free Trial

Just make sure you use it!

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Over the weekend I was given exclusive behind-the-scenes access
to the new CBPredators software that is due to launch tomorrow.

It’s the one that was giving away free stuff last week (still is
if you hurry – http://urlnex.us/cbpredators ).

While I was very happy to point you at a bunch of useful
freebies, I was a bit concerned that CBPredators wouldn’t live up
to its promise and I’d have to recommend against buying it. After
all, freebies or not, I don’t want to start promoting stuff just
for the sake of it.

So it came as a relief to get inside and find that a lot of
thought has gone into it and – from my admittedly early
impressions – it seems to be a winner.

So what IS CBPredator?

It is a membership site (with a very low monthly fee – I’m not
allowed to say how much it is yet, but you will be very
pleasantly surprised) that lets you create fully-featured review
sites for some of the top selling ClickBank products.

The makers say that you can create a money-making website with
CBPredator in just 18 clicks of the mouse. I didn’t count, but
I’d say that is an accurate statement as the whole process is
dead easy and you are guided through the entire thing.

At the moment they have about 30 product reviews to choose from,
with more being added by professional writers all the time.

In case you are concerned that they will get so many members all
making sites based on the same reviews, let me put your mind at
rest. There are two safeguards to ensure that YOUR review will be
unique:

1. Each review will only be available to a limited number of
members. Once it has reached its quota it will be withdrawn.

2. In order to publish your site you have to make changes to the
review – spin the text to make it read differently. The process
to do this is very easy, and because it is written by you it will
always be human readable, and not auto-spun gobbledygook.

They don’t leave you high and dry on traffic either.

Building a website for you is one thing, but getting traffic to
it quite another. The guys behind CBPredator are aware that
traffic is a problem for many people and so a lot of effort will
be devoted to teaching you all about what works.

And naturally, the sites are built with the latest cutting-edge
ideas on SEO, so they should start getting natural search traffic
pretty quickly on their own.

The whole system has been built by Mike Merz, Chris Fox and
Jerome Chapman to automate their already established methods of
building successful, income-generating review sites. They know
their system works really well and have devoted their energies to
capturing that successful formula without compromising its
effectiveness.

In fact, their beta testing period has apparently netted the team
over $100,000 in profits!

I’ve already made my first CBPredators site, and can attest to
the fact that there was nothing complicated about the process
whatsoever. You don’t need to know anything about building
websites at all – the software does it all for you.

In fact, I’m very happy for you to take a look at my first
CBPredators site – a review of a ClickBank ebook called Truth
About Abs: The Facts About Abs – it took about half an hour
from start to finish – and that includes me going to GoDaddy to
buy the domain!

It is just a basic WordPress blog, but note that although I’ve
left it as it comes ‘out of the box’, the blog is totally
customizable – you can change all kinds of look & feel things if
you want to.

The basic setup gives you the blog and all the plugins you’ll
need, automatically created for you at the click of the ‘Publish
button’ and the main review page. It also includes those boring,
but important nuts and bolts pages that are linked to at the
bottom of the page: a privacy policy, terms of use, disclaimer,
contact us and about.

Once your blog is set up for you, it is dead easy to add pages
too. In fact, I’ve added 20 articles to be drip-fed into the blog
over the next week. I got them all from an article directory and
it cost me nothing – apart from about half an hour to post them
all.

This really is a very simple system to use.

The CBPredators sales page goes live at 3pm Eastern, tomorrow –
Tuesday April 20th – but I’m thinking that with the limits on the
number of people who can use each review, they may fill up all
their available places rather quickly.

For that reason, if you haven’t get yourself on their
announcement list already (by registering for the freebies they
are currently giving away) then do so now because it’ll be a case
of first come, first served.

And when launch time comes around tomorrow, get in quick at 3pm
EST (8pm UK time) in case there is a server meltdown!

I’m lucky to have review access right now, but I can tell you
straight that if that is revoked after the launch, I’ll be one of
the first in line to pay to join.

http://urlnex.us/cbpredators

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A couple of weeks ago I recommended a great product about how to build blogs to flip (resell) – BlogFlipz.

About a year ago I recommended another product that was all about how to build WordPress Blogs – WordPress DeMystified.

Well now I have news of a brand new product from the same guy who created WordPress DeMystified, Jason Johns, that shows you, in great detail, how to build profitable niche blogs.

Niche Blog Advantage is so hot off the press that I don’t think that Jason has even mentioned it to his own list yet, but for the last few days I’ve been very happily watching the videos and learning a ton of good stuff along the way.

Jason is a really good teacher. His style is to let you look over his shoulder while he actually does the business – and commentates on exactly what he is doing and why for every step of the way.

The result is that there are no stones left unturned and no possibility of confusion.

It also helps that he has a great sense of humor and happens to sound a lot like Ricky Jervais. Education and entertainment all rolled into one – it is a winning combination!

Jason has broken his new course down into four main sections:

* How to pick a niche (11 videos);

* How to master keyword research (12 videos);

* How to build effective and profitable niche-based WordPress blogs quickly and easily (5 videos);

* Everything you could ever hope to want to know about traffic generation (15 videos).

There is a lot of stuff covered in Niche Blog Advantage that is new to me, and if he has left anything out, I have no idea what it could be! But just in case, Jason has added three sets of bonus videos on Twitter, on Automated blogging and on the hot topic of the day, how to make money from CPA offers. There are over 30 videos just in the bonuses!

You’d think that such an exhaustively complete course (and believe me, it IS exactly that) would be priced at the very top of the market. I know if I’d put in the work and effort that Jason has done I wouldn’t sell it for less than $147, and probably even more than that. And I believe it would be worth every penny.

But Jason has decided to keep the cost low. Very low. Stupidly low (and I’ve been on Skype with him this morning telling him just that).

Frankly I hope that he wakes up and sets a more realistic price for Niche Blog Advantage soon, but until that happens, you can get hold of the best value-for-money product I think I’ve ever recommended.

But don’t be deceived by the silly price. The information Jason teaches is worth a bundle – and the clear way he teaches it is priceless.

http://urlnex.us/nicheblogadvantage

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