Market Samurai
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I'm a complete newbie at this so please bear with me, I'm using the free trial version of Market Samurai and I was just researching some keywords and the figures were off from google adword and MS. Is this due Google banning MS about a year ago? Because from what I've read appantely they get their SEOC figures from Bing? Which would defeat me logging in with my adwords account in the MS program right? I'd appreciate the help guys. Thank you in advance.
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Yes, the SEOC value returned by MS represents the total number of webpages indexed by Bing that contain a particular keyword. MS still uses your google adwords login to retrieve the value for the "Total Searches" column. The total searches column is the "average number" of (daily,weekly, monthly) searches performed for a keyword.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the data returned from MS is not the most current available. I noticed that when I was using the full version of MS there was an option where you could export your data or something similar to that and for some reason it then appearred on one a page at noblesamurai.com If you actually follow the link and view that data, you will notice that it has two settings, with legacy data being the default and optionally allowing you to select something like "fresh data" or "new data"... So I'm guessing that what you see when using MS is the older data.
I've only used the full version of MS for the 40 day challenge, which has expired some time ago so hopefully someone who has the full version can verify the accuracy of my post in case this only applies when using the free trial or something.
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Thank you very much! That definitely makes a lot more sense now, I've decided to use the SEOMOZ.org own keyword analysis tool just to compare as you said.
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Most every keyword research tool uses proprietary metrics so comparing one to another is tough. Rather, get used to using one tool and use their metrics to compare keywords from within their own tool. You can look for terms from other tools and then plug them into your primary tool to ascertain metrics.
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