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Micro Niche Finder Review – MNF Vs Market Samurai
I don't usually make product reviews or software reviews in this blog. However, I felt that I had to make one in this case because Micro Niche Finder is in my opinion the best keyword research software out there. In a moment I will tell you why and I will also compare it to the second best (Market Samurai).
Micro Niche Finder Review
As you might already know, keyword research is the pillar of internet marketing. It's fantastic for niche research, allowing you to check if there is demand for a specific niche and what is the volume of competition.
But the real value of keyword research comes in finding specific terms that people are looking for in the search engines every day, analyzing the competition of those terms and actually achieving high ranking of your own site/blog/article for them.
MNF allows you to do all of this with pretty much a single click, nevertheless most keyword research softwares do, so it's not really a big deal.
Why is Micro Niche Finder better than the rest?
The whole purpose of this review is to show you exactly why MNF is better, I'll leave the best for the end. Here are some of its features:
- In Depth Research
With Micro Niche Finder you can dig deeper than with any other keyword research tool out there, it will use synonyms to check related keyword phrases, google trends search, even Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) capabilities to go even further, and more. You can even do broad, exact and/or narrow searches.
I have done in depth research in over 16 niches and I have found over 1,000 long tail keywords for each of them, all thanks to MNF.
- Geographical Targetting & Google Database
Micro Niche Finder also allows you to choose a specific geographical location so that you can be even more specific when doing keyword research, it also allows you to select a language.
Best of all, every single result is taken out directly from the Google database. That alone makes it better than any other keyword research tool. There is no one better than the big G themselves to tell you exactly what are the most searched terms/phrases.
- Project Management
You can archive all your selected keywords into specific project files and even download them as spread sheets. It just makes your life easier.
"Wait a minute! Market Samurai does all that and more…"
That would be correct, Market Samurai is a fantastic tool but there are 1 feature which makes Micro Niche Finder absolutely superior, read on.
The winner is…
Keyword research is NOT all about the number of searches a keyword has and the number of competing sites for a specific keyword. The true key here is knowing the STRENGTH OF COMPETITION (SoC).
If your competition is too strong, even if the actual number of competing sites is low, you won't rank, period.
The Strengh of Competition includes several variables, mainly: PageRank, page reputation, site authority, incoming links, PageRank of incoming links, relevance of content and many others (over 200 variables according to Google).
Which is why MNF takes the win, it actually measures the Strength of Competition and it gives you an opinion:
- Green Light: Go for it now.
- Yellow Light: Hard but possible.
- Red Light: Close to impossible.
It even gives you a numerical variable to tell you how strong within within the respective "Light" the competition is. Market Samurai cannot do that and it is the single most important thing regarding keyword research. If there is a keyword with 1,000,000,000 competing sites and yet the SoC is "Green" you will easily rank for it.
Whereas if there is a site with 100 competing sites and the SoC is "Red" you will not.
Although Market Samurai does indeed have a very good SEO competition module, it's too counter intuitive.
It makes you over think and over analyze useless data, not to mention it's a lot less reliable than MNF's SoC feature. Keyword research is not hard nor complicated, Market Samurai makes it so. Keyword research softwares are supposed to lessen the burden, not make it harder and more complicated.
MNF simply makes it easier, as it should be. The SoC feature automates all of what Market Samurai's SEO module does, into one single feature that will literally save you from wasting several days of your precious time.
Micro Niche Finder is truly the 1 click solution.
Additionally, Micro Niche Finder also provides the Online Commercial Intention (OCI) of the keywords, which will tell you if a keyword phrase has commercial value (people are actually looking to purchase something) or information value (people are only looking for free information).
Conclusion
Market Samurai is fancier and it is a fantastic tool, but in my opinion some of its features are obsolete and pretty much useless (just cool). In fact, I would take the SoC feature alone over any other software out there, it is that powerful.
Which makes Micro Niche Finder, without standing doubt, absolutely superior.
Go get it right now in the following site: Micro Niche Finder
Or if you want to get both (a waste of time in my opinion), get the second best one here: Market Samurai
But trust me, don't waste your time, money and effort. Just get Micro Niche Finder and stick to it religiously. It is in my opinion a MUST have.
Dedicated to your success,
Daniel Molano
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Comments on Micro Niche Finder Review – MNF Vs Market Samurai
Hi Daniel,
Nice review and MNF is a great tool but i'll have to disagree and i'll tell you why. MS also has a way to see if it's worth going for a kw (SoC) score, which is it's SEOTCR score. There are tools in MS which allow you to do alot more including getting articles, getting sales pitch ideas in the monetization tab and more.
Nevertheless both tools rock and you'll be great off with either one of them,
Just my 2cents
Zeb
@Zeb:
Hello Zeb,
The SoC variables are much better and reliable than the SEOTCR variables.
SEOTCR Definition (From Market Samurai Glossary):
"SEOTCR is the ratio of SEOTC to SEOC – the ratio of the number of times the words in the keyword appear in title tags vs the number of times the keyword phrase appears on a web-site."
That only tells me about on site optimization, which is completely useless by itself when targeting competitive keywords.
Whereas the SoC measures much more important variables to SEO such as the incoming links (AKA backlinks) of the competition. That's what really matters under competitive scenarios, the off site SEO of the competition.
Micro Niche Finder is still unmatched due to that.
MS has a lot of fancy yet useless features that will only get you confused. You will be over analyzing insignificant data.
But if they ever do install a feature as powerful as the MNF SoC, then I will equally recommend them both.
Best of luck,
- Dan Molano
Hello Dan,
I am seriously thinking to purchase MNF and was looking for some real reviews. I must say that yours is the most authentic and honest review of this product. Thanks for clarifying my doubts.
Regards,
Tim
I was still having doubts whether it's worth to buy MNF or not. Finally, after reading your review, I now believe it's the best keyword research tool out there. Thank you.
Like Daniel said, MNF is a must have. You need a Keyword tool in order to work effectively, and the SOC feature is top of the line and will save you sooo much time. It has helped me tremendously. It allowed me to quickly find a keyword phrase that I ended up building into a 4 page adsense site in a couple hours. With just a couple articles (3-5 Max) submitted to EZA, it is now number 1 or 2 (varies daily) on Google, receives 50-75 uniques a day and earns $5-$7 daily in Adsense. Not bad for a couple hours work. Now I am off to duplicate my success…
They both have slightly different focuses. Did you forget the green, yellowish, and red bar indicators in Market Samurai that indicate how difficult it would be to displace a particular site?
@Anthony:
Hey Anthony,
No I didn't. I'm not saying Market Samurai is bad, it's a great tool.
But Micro Niche Finder just makes your life easier, the SoC feature is much more powerful than that.
Best of luck,
- Dan
Hi Daniel, I have both and I do use both just to cross reference the results.
What I find is that MNF is so simple to understand, it's sort of like a WYSIWYG research and keyword tool whilst MS shows more of a behind the scenes detail so if you like looking at data it's great.
But at the end of the day we all want speed, the quicker you find that gold nugget and get some content up the quicker you make money, and the money is why we are all in this game.
Hi Daniel–
I'm a tad confused. In The Newbie Blueprint you say to start by picking out several Clickbank products. Would it be better to look for niches in the the MNF first, then look for good CB products or vice versa?
Thanks,
Lynn
@Lynn:
Yes, indeed.
The Newbie Bluepring is specifically designed for beginners and to start making decent profit without any investment, which is precisely why I have not mentioned Micro Niche Finder within it.
But yes, if you do have MNF, that's a great starting point.
Best of luck,
- Dan Molano
Hey Dan,
What are your thought of the new keyword elite compared to MNF?
Thanks. Just wondering–are you a naturally prolific writer? Writing 10 articles a day scares the poop out of me.
How do you do it?
@Gurpreet:
I haven't had a chance to profoundly analyze Keyword Elite 2.0, but from what I've heard and seen, it seems like a great tool.
@Lynn:
It scared the poop out of me back then too Lynn, but I thank god that I did indeed take action on it. Not only for the profit made, but because I had a chance to experience and learn a lot throughout the whole process.
Not to mention it quadrupled my writing skills.
Good point. I'm curious–in your Keyword article in WF, your Article Marketing 102 and your Newbie Blueprint, there are different parameters you mention for monthly searches and competing sites. Is it still your opinion you should try for just 30 or more searches a month (NB) or should it be higher, like your other material says? I'm just asking because I can't tell if you've changed your mind over time or you're just starting newbies off with tiny, non-competitive niches searches.
Also, have you concluded that Blogger or Wordpress is better?
And NB recommends Ezine Articles, but AM 102 says to use Articles In A Click. Sorry–reading NB led me to these other articles of yours and, like I said, can't tell if you changed your mind, or different recommendations work for different systems.
Would you prefer I ask these questions somewhere else? Thanks again for your help.
@Lynn:
Like I said before, TNB is designed for newbies without any money to spend whatsoever. Whereas my other books, such as Article Marketing 102 are oriented to a more intermediate audience that do have some money to invest.
EZA is still the best article directory, but due to the recent changes in which they have become way more strict, I decided to recommend a few alternatives.
- Dan Molano
Thanks, Dan. Since the NB initially has you doing article marketing and not doing links until later, should I stick with how many competing sites there are instead of SOC? Because there is often a great SOC rating in the MNF on certain words that have, say, a million competing sites. If I haven't gotten to linking yet, is just doing articles enough to overcome that much competition? Because you recommend under 10,000, as you know, but that was before the MNF.
Daniel,
What about Niche Horde? Did you have a chance to compare this new tool with the the previous two? Niche Horde also includes SOC feature.
Actually, if the SoC is green, the # of competing sites doesn't matter.
Solid backlinking will do the job.
- Dan
I have never heard of Niche Horde.
- Dan
Yes, it seems to be live.
And no, achieving that position took some serious advanced SEO. The sort of stuff I teach to my consulting clients for $10,000 USD. It's the service we provide for $5,000 USD per month.
Best of luck,
- Dan Molano
I have just followed to the letter the advice from Adwords as to the best keywords for my tiny tin pot site. After being blocked from using some words – the site is French, but Google refused to allow me to use "medicine" but I can use "treatment", I applied all the 3 word phrases possible.
I still get ZERO results. Will MNF work for me in France? I really hope so because we are up the creek with no paddle, the tide is going out and the wind has dropped!
Hi Dan, I uses to use MNF some time ago but I found myself wanting to see the data behind the scene so I went on to purchase MS. Bit too much info sometimes.
That's right, unnecessary info.
Hey John,
It will work, but I strongly suggest you embark into SEO rather than PPC.
- Dan
I am using MNF for last few months and find the tool very impressive, I also liked the new feature of Domain Availability. I don't understand what MOB (measure of backlink) feature means!
Hello,
Cheers for the review, I think I'm going to purchase MNF.
Thanks again
Dan Stevens
The one downside to MNF is that there is not a Mac version and can only run on a Mac if running Parallels. I had MNF and liked it, but when my PC died and I upgraded to my Mac, I had to find a replacement. MS does have a lot going on, but the training videos (MS specific and IM in general) they have are superior to what MNF offers.
Both are good, but your computer may end up having a say on which one to use.
Alan
I have both and like them both. MS has excellent training but so does James. James also has some other fine products. Buy both and get the cross checking and venn diagram view by combining the best of both.
I agree that SOC is the most valuable part of MNF. But is it an exact measure of competition? If Google takes in account 200 parameters is it enough ifor you to trust only 3?
Searching for keywords with MNF I found this interesting one:
5000/10000 local/global search count.
1 million exact phrase count.
SOC Red – 1000 (I suppose this is the maximum)
Cross checking with MS I found that among first 10 Google sites are:
3 with PR2
3 sites with backlinks to their page – 100
1 page in PDF
Only 1 page with full on-site SEO
Is it possible that there are keywords where SOC just isn't so accurate ?
1,000 SoC is not the maximum, however, it is relatively high.
That does seem like an easy keyword to rank for, but we don't even know what types of backlinks those Top 10 have.
As you might already know, if those few hundred links have a few PR5+ links with a low outbound link count then they are extremely competitive.
Don't forget that a single PR7 backlink for example is stronger than 1,000 PR1 links.
What the SoC is telling us is that there are a lot of sites going for that term.
Although you're right, it's always good to cross check between multiple tools.
- Dan
@Daniel Molano:
I checked few sites with first SERP position for their backlinks:
1. Position – Wikipedia (no comment)
2. Position – 3 x PR3, the rest PR2-0
3. Position – 4 x PR4, the rest PR2-0
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10. Position – 1 x PR3, 2 x PR2, 1xPR1 and 10xPR0 A PDF document !!!
I agree with you that there are a lot of sites for this term but I think that none of them is "strong" (except Wiki).
By the way thank you for all information you share with us. Hope to learn a lot from you.
Dan,
Just picked this up from going through your posts on the Warrior Forum, lucky for me as I'm just about to sit down and understand how MNF works.
I shall be back!
Best wishes,
Mike
Micro Niche Finder is an awesome tool, I agree with your review, and James Jones the owner of the tool, is a good guy that is not one of the greedy guru types that want to charge you monthly fees for everything under the sun. The cost for the tools is a one time cost and includes upgrades and he gives very helpful tips on growing your online business.
How accurate is MNF? Most of the keyword tools I tried give inaccurate results. And different tools have different formulas to calculate competition. For example some say that you have to find out your competition using 'allinanchor" operator.
This is a very thorough review. I use Market Samurai, but I haven't had the pleasure of trying out Micro Niche Finder because it's not compatible with my Mac.
I do think that Market Samurai's tutorials are very well done in terms of explaining basic keyword strategy about building your site around long-tail keywords and growing them into short tail keywords.
I've heard this explanation before, but Market Samurai explained it even better.
I have to agree with the last comment. I've had MNF and MS since they first arrived. I don't use then much but I love how MNF is just so easy to get into swing with, where as MS I have to go back to their user info and vids and their vids are not very clear. MS was good in the beginning, now you need so much training just to figure out its results. There's other ways to get research results without so much downtime; KISS!
@Daniel Molano:
Hi Daniel,
I wanted to know when you talk about article writing & doing 10 articles a day, do you mean on different niches or for the same niche. I was trying to figure out how many articles should a person do for a niche. I was thinking maybe 3 per niche & then submit them to the directories. Is that too little. I mean is it the norm to write 30 or more…. articles a month on the same niche?
The key is not in how many articles you write, but in the search engine rankings for the most searched keywords that your articles achieve.
@Daniel Molano:
Thank you Daniel,
that was the best answer, explained to me short & to the point. I will be purchasing mircro niche finder tomorrow. I am new to affiliate marketing, with very little money to invest right now. Would you suggest purchasing a spinner for articles as well for an investment?
Hi!
I'm really thinking about buying MNF but I have just downloaded Market Samurai Trial. It is Ok but I think it is too complicated to use (for me) as you mentioned. On the other hand MNF is much more user friendly
That's exactly right. MS is a great tool, but complicated.
I don't use any personally. But I have seen others use spinners succesfully.
Hi Daniel,
I'm a complete newbie and am wondering if Micro Niche Finder will be a great tool. I'm also thinking of purchasing your blueprint. Will MNF be useful or would it be just better if I just purchase the blueprint alone?
In addition, (this may be off topic) are there any progress as to how article marketing is done? Will the newbie blueprint still work this time and for the years to come?
Thanks.
That's exactly the purpose of TNB. Something that worked in the past, works now and will work in the future.
It's also a reality check, to show you that there is no such thing as getting rich quick.