The Pros of Market Samurai:

• The Information it Acquires - Not only does it find a large amount of keywords related to your initial project keyword, it finds out important statistics like the Searches per day, Competition Per Keyword and more importantly the Title Competition for each keyword (the exact keyword in the title of the webpages). This information can make or break an SEO campaign and this tool makes it easy to find worthwhile keywords.
• The Domains it Finds – With their new product, DomainSamurai, you can find domains that include the keyword in the domain name, which makes SEO much easier. It will automatically find domains using its built in prefixes and suffixes, or you can define your own.
• The Monetization Opportunities – Market Samurai will automatically search Amazon, Commission Junction and Clickbank for relevant products to put on your niche sites. You can separate the results based on price and payout.

The Cons of Market Samurai:

• The “Promotion” Tool Isn’t The Greatest – This tool will find backlink opportunities for your keywords, the problem is that it relies on leaving a trackback to the website, hoping that the webmaster will link back to your website. That’s all fine and dandy if you have a willing webmaster that will give you a backlink, but most track backs now a days go unnoticed.

Although, if your trying to create a niche based website based around a keyword, you should most likely know how to promote your site without the help of a tool, otherwise it might be a very hard task.

Overall Impressions and Rating:

I think this software is a must have for webmasters and bloggers alike. Due to its versatile uses and useful information it produces on any keyword that it is given, the tool is very helpful. For blogs, you can find untapped keywords for your next article and enjoy some free SEO traffic. For marketers, it takes 10 tools that you previously used and puts it into one.

You can download a free trial at MarketSamurai.com and get hooked like I did… the possibilities are endless.

Here’s a video about Market Samurai’s keyword research feature:

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The product is called Website Auditor and displays more information about onsite search engine methods than most SEO firms would tell you.

Instead of trying to tell you about all of the information it tells me, I’ve generated a report about my blog and where it ranks for the popular term “Blog Tips” – at 60.3% optimized, I’d say that some work still needs to be done!

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Who would use this SEO tool?

• Bloggers (who doesn’t want better search engine exposure?)
• Webmasters (why not make the site better than it already is?)
• Affiliate Marketers (useful for those landing pages, getting them higher in the search results to make more money )
• “SEO Firms” (if there is such a thing.. )
• Anybody that has a website

Pros of the software:

1. Displays more information about my website, and more importantly, about my competition than I could ever ask for.
2. Dead easy to use.. Its a mere fact of filling in your website URL and typing in the term you want to rank for.. The software does the rest.
3. Incredible amount of search engine support.. Choose Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and more.

Cons of the software:

1. The Scoring Algorithm might be a little off – In the website review, it says that “Icon” and “Set” are worth more than “Blog” and “Tips”.

All in All, I was very lucky to find this product, and hopefully you will take advantage of this great tool and increase your search engine rankings. I always try before I buy, so here is the link to the Free Trial Version.

Have you ever thought of using SEO Software to boost your rankings? If so, do you have a specific tool that you use?

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I recently found a really unique program called the “Backpage Ad Auto Posting Software” made available by http://www.backpage-auto-poster.com

Anybody that has used Craigslist, Backpage, EcoWeb, etc, will know that posting an advertisement, job offer or position is very time consuming. With this program, I can easily post numerous advertisements in much less time than doing each one manually! Here is what I liked and disliked about the program:

Pros:

• Fills in the advertisement for you, and then automatically submits the ad, redirecting to the next page.
• Once the captcha is filled in, it automatically (I would say within a couple seconds) goes to the confirmation page, then redirects to the next city category. This sends the confirmation email to your email account, allowing you to post the ad.
• Backpage doesn’t delete very many advertisements as compared to Craigslist, which recently cracked down on most people posting in multiple categories (ghosting their advertisements, or completely blocking their IP address).

Cons:

• Doesn’t fill in the captcha for you. Thats one of the main drawbacks of this program, but then again, it would be a very hard task to accomplish as you would need to continually update the program for the new words that have been scrambled.
• Would of been great to be able to select more than one city (rather than editing the urls.txt) to post on.
• Original software developers offer no more support for the product – The site returns a 404!

Overall, For $39, this program is a steal for the amount of time it saves when posting an advertisement to Backpage to more than one category. I’m surprised they aren’t charging more for this… You could easily purchase this and start marketing a product, make new clients to your business, and even more.

Once again, the link is http://www.backpage-auto-poster.com and I would highly recommend this to anyone that posts advertisements on Backpage.com

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Aside from the long list of audio and burning formats that it can convert to, it has a video encoder that supports almost any type of format that you desire. For example, do you want that .MOV file turned into a .mpg file? Simple.. Just used the MOV converter thats also built into the program.

Don’t take my word for it, heres a picture of the interface of the application:

I haven’t personally tested it, but it looks like it could be really useful for anyone that edits videos/music.

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So whats a guy supposed to do in a case like this?

• First off, I tried to reboot my computer in case it was software that was blocking my desperate attempts to blog. To my disappointment, It did nothing to solve the problem.
• Secondly, I launched a proxy to see if it was client-side or server side issues and luckily it was just client-side (Meaning the problem was on my computer/network and not the web hosting)

After trying to connect via email, browser and FTP client.. I finally decided that it had something to do with my network as I could connect to any website except the ones that were hosted by my hosting package.

Stumped and getting slightly pissed off, I decided to submit a ticket to Bluefur.com’s support section. This was the actual message I sent:

I cannot access it with my ip (142.46.1*.***) and I think sombody has hacked my .htaccess file. Can you confirm?

WHen I use a proxy service with a different Ip, I have no conflict.

Brad

Expecting not to have a response until tommorow, I decided to surf some blogs that I had bookmarked for later reading. Within 11 minutes, I received a ticket response with the following contents:

Brad,

I removed your IP from the firewall. Please review your .htaccess file.

Thanks
Tina
BlueFur.com Support

Did you Make the Support Top 10? – http://blog.bluefur.com/2006/12/08/top-10-support-questions-of-2006/

11 Minutes?

I could not believe my eyes. I was both shocked and happy that they resolved the problem that fast. Compared to other hosting services I have used before.. This was definitely different. (not to name any services.. you know who you are). Impressed by their speed of service and how easy it was to resolve the problem, I decided to pass it on to my readers.

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I type in http://ecoinsomniac.com into my web browser and BOOM! I’m sitting in front of a logo that says Ecoinsomniac with a tagline, “An Inspired Change” with options to my right to subscribe to the feed.

Then I see their latest headline and a huge 350px*300px advertisement about organic beer and other eco-friendly alternatives. Tempted by the beer I click it. A New Site Appears… Review Over.

Nah, I’m just kidding with ya. Assuming that the ad didn’t distract me from this blog, I later scroll down to see more headlines and a standard blogging sidebar. This blog design really doesn’t, “WOW” me as it is just a 3 coloumn Cutline Theme, but then again, it doesn’t blast you full of ads and play annoying music.

What Is Done Well:

• An “Environmentally” Friendly Blog – Hosted on 100% Solar Power
• Content is well written and keeps reader interested
• Logo is really simple & easy to remember

What Could Be Improved:

• 12 Different Social Network Icons should be reduced to one or two.. See why here.
• The HUGE advertisement really takes up space that could be filled with the “Recent Posts” and “Latest Comments” functions of a sidebar – Is the cash really worth it?
• The BlogCatalog Widget – Does the reader really care about who saw your site 6 days ago?

Overall, I can’t say that this blog doesn’t have a ton of environmentally friendly tips for everyone but I can say that there are a few changes that this blog could make to really maximize it’s potential. Their content is good and if you write it.. they will come.

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Interesting Again.

They say a picture is worth 1000 words. In that case, I should just post a picture of a youtube video and call it a wrap. Since many of those philosophers were wrong, should we not listen to them? Of course not.. the principal can be taken that much further.

Instead of posting a picture/text review of a website and making the viewer read it, mostly not benefiting anyone except the blog owner thats getting reviewed, why not use a video to convey your message? Not only would it have a cool music background, it would allow you to focus your readers attention on the box, making them all the more interested!!

Be honest, whenever you see a box with one of those “Play” symbols in the middle, you can’t help but to watch it. I KNOW I can’t.

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Now, not all is going to be nice about this blog as that what a “Constructive Review” is so lets get down to it shall we?

What has been done well:

• The content is easy to read and will help readers with back pain
• Recent Posts are Accessible
• Images are eye-catching and draw you to the attention of the post

What could be improved:

• The images at the top come with the standard Cutline theme and no graphics have been changed to suit her “Niche”
• The Recent Readers widget isn’t very relevant to what she is talking about.. (Another fact is that if people see that the last visitor there was a week or month ago, they won’t think to highly of the traffic and user interactivity)
• Under the Archives, There are 2 ads that I don’t think should really be there (She already has adsense and a “Free” back pain kit, perhaps Entrecard may aid her there)
• The Sub-Headings in the latest posts are bigger than the titles
• She has 10 different social icons, which I outlined in a previous post is NOT a good thing to do.

Overall, If you can get by those little tedious things above, back pain sufferers might get some knowledge that they have not found out before.

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First Impressions:

- CrafterBS - When I load that blog into my browser, a simple template comes up with her title and description. if you look closely at the title image you can see that you changed the blue background to a white one. Also, you can see the blog catalog box behind the sidebar almost as if it’s being used as a background in the top left corner.

- Path - the path to financial freedom is also using a blogger template with little customization, except the sidebar. you can see a larger image on his first post when you load the blog so that instantly draws attention to what he has to say.

Winner – Path To Financial Freedom because of the large image that instantly attracts attention to the post. Since CrafterBS has ones on her other posts but not the first one, it makes the reader gradually look at the sidebar and then the content, which could effect readers. Solution? Place Images in Posts.

Sidebar and Footer Clutter:

- CrafterBS - The sidebar on this blog as everything from feed burner to latest posts and even when she is going to become a grandma. There are some widgets that she could take off so that it would be less distracting, such as: the caps lock on all of her latest posts which instead she could just use regular font, and everything in the following picture should be removed.

- Path - The sidebar and footer are cluttered beyond the point of being able to read the large articles on this blog. Thousands of links, pictures, even manta rays and fish are on the side bar. The footer is just a large mess of links. My advice? Take off some widgets Remove everything and only put on essential widgets.

Winner: CrafterBS for obvious reasons.

Most Importantly, The Content:

- CrafterBS - As the title suggests, its about her crafting buisness and her adventures while doing it. My personal favourite post was about how she travelled with her husband to go to a craft show. It provided some laughs and made you think of your experiences when you were in the same shoes as her. Although, not everything is perfect, as she somtimes will stray off topic (take her latest post for example which is about how her daughter could find her soul mate on American Idol )

- Path – The path to financial freedom is more about Search Engines and Making Money with either a home buisness, or online. Since the articles are very long, it may sometimes be hard to follow the entire article and you may get bored. Although there are some great tips inside, shorter articles would be a great way to increase readers as then you could get down to the point, and fast!

Overall Winner: CrafterBS and close behind is the Path. The only reason Crafter won was because of the easy to read articles (large font, kept reader interested) and a little less clutter than The Path.

Of course, my opinion is only half of the story.. Whats yours? Did I make the wrong choice?

Comment below and let the world know!

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Wendy’s OBA is a buisness blog about blog tips, tips and tricks and more. Since her blog is hosted on WordPress.com, this gives her no customization or editing of the source code. So the design is something I cannot comment about inside this review because of the lack of editing that is allowed. Which means that I will have to focus on the content and widgets… For better? Or for worse…

What has been done well:

• Easy to navigate around website with the large tabs and links on the sidebar.
• Content has pictures which makes it more appealing to the readers.
• Has a tutorial section which could be interesting for new readers.

What could be done better:

• Not using “other peoples posts” to fill space on her blog..Original content should be written.
• Sidebar cleanup! When the site is loaded you are bombarded with different widgets that de-focus the main reason of blogging (the content)
• Theres a button there that says, “This blog was nominated for the worst blog of all time” which really destroys the look of the blog and shows in confidence in her work.
• Hosting on a private server which gives you ultimate customization and allows you to edit themes, code, etc.

Overall, if you can get past the standard theme, it has some posts that are interesting and keep the readers entertained.

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