What's Your Thought About Market Samurai as An SEO Tool Compared to SEOMoz?

[ConversionChamp]

What is your opinion about Market Samurai tool as a SEO Tool?

I have used it and found it good for analyzing the top 10 competition, getting anchor text profiles and so on.

SEOMoz is cool, but has a lot more features. However it lacks keyword research tool.

We really cant compare the two tools in terms of pricing because the cost of the MS tool for a lifetime is what will cost SEOMoz membership for a month.

What;s your take on this?

[DougRoberts]

Market Samurai's keyword research is just a front-end to the google keyword tool. I must admit. I do like the ability in MS to keep the keyword research together, but find myself more often than not using Google's tool directly.

I don't find MS's way of assessing the competitiveness of keywords too useful. It's all very nice knowing how many pages are being displayed in the SERPS or have keywords in their title tag, but this doesn't tell you how easy it's going to be to get your page into a competitive position.

This is where I find SEOmoz's keyword difficulty tool incredibly valuable.

I prefer having SEOmoz collect my ranking/traffic data automatically over having to manually update MS.

SEOMoz give you a lot - on-page analysis, social reports, link analysis etc, but it really does depend on what you need and what your budget is,

My advice would be to try both and see which one helps you achieve your goals as quickly and easily as possible.

Based on the benefits I have directly experienced, and the added value I've been able to provide my customers, I would choose SEOMoz.

Hope this helps.