If you’re like me, you love(d)
Market Samurai. Actually Market Samurai is a great tool, it’s just been so degraded in its performance (
rank tracking is worthless with it, and it’s SLOW as molasses now) – so I’ve decided to move on.
For the longest time, I’ve thought that
Traffic Travis Pro was the only other game in town – and honestly
Traffic Travis rocks…but…
SERPAttacks Pro
digs a bit deeper in terms of checking your rankings (it can check your
rankings up to the 1000th spot in Google or Bing, Traffic Travis only
goes up to 100), and it delivers tons more backlink data as described
below.
Thanks to
Matt’s comment here, I decided to check out
SERPAttacks and bought the Pro version (be forewarned that they have a short 7-day return policy). Glad I did.
First of all, I bought it at $47, it’s now $57 and I suspect will
increase in price until it’s $97 like most of its competitors. I’m now a
committed and proud owner, and not looking back at this point, nor
regretting buying the tool as the video below shows.
Secondly, I own (and recommend you also consider checking out) competing tools: Traffic Travis Pro 4 and
SEO PowerSuite (professional).
All three tools are great for SEO, and
no you don’t need all 3…just pick one to run with.
After buying SERPAttacks Pro, I have to say it’s the best value for the money (oddly affordable).
For
most affiliate marketers who don’t plan
on offering SEO services to clients, I’d recommend SERPAttacks or
Traffic Travis Pro – but I’m leaning towards SERPAttacks right now for
reasons I show in the video below.
If you do client work, the best tool of the bunch (hands down) is SEO
PowerSuite Professional. But for most of my readers, SERPAttacks Pro is
the new Market Samurai
on steroids.
Spoiler Alert!
I’ve been so surprised at the performance of SERPAttacks, at the low price, that I have to recommend it as my top choice for affiliate marketers looking for a good deal.
I could ramble on in this post like I usually do, but this video gets to the point.
And yes, this is really my voice. No, I don’t have a web cam, and
I don’t fancy combing my beard, changing out of my fluffy robe and
slippers and waxing my wild ‘stache just to do a video… :P
Besides…if I had a camera, then I’d have to clean up my office…like that’ll ever happen!
Good and Bad About SERPAttacks
- 7 Day Return Policy
- You Need Private Proxies (I do NOT recommend HideMyAss proxies here, I wound up buying 10 shared, private proxies at $7.49/month from ProxyBonanza.com – the “Lite” package).
- Doesn’t Show Linking Page URL, Only Linking Domain in Backlink Checker
- The Graph for the Ranking History Report isn’t Working (But the CSV file is Fine)
- Digs up to 1000 Spots in the Search Engines for Rank Tracking
- Can Fetch up to 3000 Backlinks per URL
- Gives Most Backlink Analysis Metrics You’d Want
- Includes a Page Content Helper
- Includes a PPC Module
- Can Dig for Affiliate Opportunities
- Price is Right: $57 Currently!
Please “Like” and “Favorite” my Video!
It’s my first YouTube video – and I hope you liked it. I need to
learn how to use my screen capture tool better, but hey: not too shabby
if I don’t say so myself (and yes, you can hear my kids in the
background being kids).
Here’s the video URL – remember to like it on YouTube, it helps a ton:
http://youtu.be/6962VIp05Rc
Is SERPAttacks the Best SEO Software?
I wouldn’t say that without qualification. If you’re looking for a
comparable (and I’d say better) tool than Market Samurai, even if you
just want to replace the rank tracking module and need to dig up to the
1,000th spot in the SERPs, then it’s awesome.
If you want to avoid paying monthly fees for SEO data: it rocks.
If you’re an affiliate marketer and not running an SEO firm powered
by client relationships: get this tool (otherwise I’d strongly recommend
SEO PowerSuite).
And finally, if you want some in-depth backlink analysis – so long as
you don’t require the exact URL of the inner page that a link resides
on (i.e. you’re OK with just the top level domain that is linking to
your competitors), then how does 3,000 backlinks to analyze sound?
For me, it surprised me: the tool is much stronger and
better-designed than many in its class. Five stars from me for
SERPAttacks Pro, it exceeded my expectations.
I do want to add that I didn’t use the “keyword analyzer” module, but
it downloads the information from Google’s keyword tool and gives you
some options to set the filter for what you think is a decent keyword to
tackle.
This again is similar to Market Samurai’s keyword suggestion module,
in that you could set the “filters” for the tool. Mainly I use the SERP
Analyzer (or SEO Competition module of Market Samurai – which still
works by the way) for my keywords, I skip the first stage of filtering
in many cases.
But my point in the video is mainly to stress why I think it’s a
better tool than Market Samurai – even if you do need to buy proxies
(they don’t need to be dedicated proxies, just for the record).
Anyone who buys proxies already won’t notice the additional cost
anyway (and I personally have a number of tools that can use proxies, so
it all washes out).
I’d recommend you
check out SERPAttacks for free here and decide for yourself.
That’s it for now, thanks for watching!
Gotta run. Late for Valentine’s Day dinner with my wife. :)
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I like:
- The Ability to do Keyword Research
- The Ability to check Ranking
- That it give a Backlink Count from Open Site Explorer…
I don’t like:- The price of $97 (when SERPAttacks is $57)
- The fact the backlinks don’t show the PageRank of t
- Backlink Analysis doesn’t show Linking URL or Domain, or DoFollow
vs. NoFollow (SERPAttacks does), and Spencer said if they do develop
that, it will be a monthly fee to use, like Market Samurai…
- The keyword research sounds a lot like Micro Niche Finder (which I
don’t like): just an allintitle, allinanchor, allinurl type of “counting
of noses” vs. in-depth competitive analysis: but this is what I gather
from my conversation with Spencer, I could be wrong.
I know Pat Flynn promotes LTP, and I also know that Spencer is primarily an AdSense guy: I don’t do KW research like AdSense people usually do (this is the Micro Niche Finder sort of analysis).And no offense against Pat or Spencer, but SERPAttacks is the better tool from what I can tell, and for less money.
The tool is called “Long Tail Pro” but I don’t just target long tail keywords, I don’t think people should live off Longtails and nothing but longtails, if they knew SEO, they’d target harder terms as well and be able to tackle them (and profit).
Just my 2 cents, though.
Frank
There is no “real number of backlinks” unless you work at Google and run a check. NO TOOL gives 100% of the backlinks that Google or Bing actually counts: they don’t share that information.
So Market Samurai runs on Majestic SEO, which boasts a DEEP backlink index: but they’re independent from Google and Bing – it’s their own index. Is that a “real” count of backlinks?
Not quite. Does Google check Majestic SEO’s index for their algorithm?
Honestly I have no idea. If I knew the answer, I’d charge you for it. :D
But seriously: no matter what tools you use (SERPAttacks Pro, SEO SpyGlass/Rank Tracker, Traffic Travis, Magic Rank Tracker, Market Samurai etc etc), they ALL are nothing more than an estimate of what you can use to GUESS at the actual numbers that Google may or may not count in terms of backlinks.
Nobody but Google knows what Google counts. Otherwise, like I said, your best bet is simply to find a tool and use it. Test it. And backup tools sure help paint a better picture: the more the merrier.