Wouldn’t it be great to get 8 hours worth of value out of 4 hours worth of actual work? I don’t know about you, but that’s an important business goal for me.
Whether I work a 4 hour work week or 20 hours a day, I want the time spent to be as productive and useful to my business as possible and I don’t want my tasks to take any longer to accomplish than necessary. To give an example of what I mean, I recently discovered that I could cut my search engine optimization research time in half by using Market Samurai as my primary SEO research tool. That can be a pretty significant chunk of time to any website publisher.
With search engine optimization, it takes time to find keywords, check search traffic, analyze competition strength, cross reference trend information, and gathering information on backlinks counts and anchor link text. Spending time finding each piece of information adds up quickly and that can mean hours of research time that keeps you from doing other equally important things.
Prior to using Market Samurai, I used a collection of SEO tools for:
Keyword Research
- SEO Blogger Tool (Firefox Addon)
- SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
- Google Adwords Tool
- Keyword Discovery Search Tool
Competitor Analysis
- SEO for Firefox (Firefox Addon)
- Yahoo Site Explorer
- Google Search Modifiers
Rank Tracking
- SEO Books Rank Checker (Firefox Addon)
- WebCEO (PC)
- Link Assistant Rank Tracker (Mac)
These are all great SEO research tools and in some situations I do still use one or two of them, but overall I’ve found that I can get faster results using Market Samurai alone.
Instead of using multiple platform dependent tools whose data must all be cross referenced, I use one SEO tool that works on any machine and supplies the information I need in one common interface. I don’t have to jump between tools and spend time working with the way each tool presents information. Market Samurai even does some analysis for me so I can spend more time making business decisions and less time crunching numbers.
So, if saving time is part of your business mindset and you find yourself spending more time than you think you should on researching keywords, assessing competitors and tracking your search engine placement, then take a look at Market Samurai. It will cut your search engine optimization research time in half and then you’ll have time for the rest of your business.
Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com
Flip through the presentation I gave for the Dallas SEO Meetup group for a quick look at each of the tools mentioned in this article.
I am very interested. Please send me more information on the WP Seminar! I really enjoyed your presentation. Word Press is where it’s at…
I’m glad to hear it. Here’s a direct link to sign up for the community webinar on “Building Business Websites Using WordPress”, http://opensourcemarketer.com/webinar/. Are you using WordPress for your affiliate sites?