why after I have at least 4 keywords in a project, Market Samurai begins to be so slow when switching from a keyword tab to another?
I think that if you code your great app in C/C++, Market Samurai should become the king of SEM tools.
What's happening there is the DOM is being reloaded. (It's essentially like a webpage being reloaded from cache)
Adobe AIR, and people's hardware system specs are the two big reasons for this being slow.
It's a great platform (and one of the few that works natively on all three major OS's), but the Adobe AIR 1.x implementation doesn't have direct hardware access. So for the huge amount of data that Market Samurai is working with, it slows down.
The good news is it appears to run much faster in Adobe AIR's 2.0 beta.
We're just waiting (and looking forward to) Adobe AIR going into wide release.
This should speed things up a lot.
I don't see a C/C++ rewrite in the future though. Apart from it causing some Mac/PC compatibility issues, MS has been in development for almost 2 years - it would take a similar amount of time to port it over, and we would need to face a new set of bugs and hurdles that we'd need to overcome. So I think we'd spend a lot, and not end up anywhere better. We'd be much better off putting that R&D time/money into next generation SEO tools, while continuing to do what we can to improve Market Samurai.
Many people wouldn't agree that $147 for software "so cheap".
Compared to what?
Other software?
SENuke? $127 per month
Autopligg? $289
XRumer? $540(?)
Compared to not using the software at all?
What's your hourly rate? How much time does it take to manually do keyword research and SEO analysis without Market Samurai?
Multiply those two figures together. Is it higher than $149?
Compared to what it's making you?
I really love market samurai and its a tool I couldnt live without, though I could buy it @147 I dont see anything in the new versions that warrents spending 147$.
Here's a tool that you say "I couldn't live without"..
Presumably makes you 10x, 100x, or hopefully 1000's x the $149 cost..
Saves you .. how many hours doing manual SEO analysis, and gathering keyword data from the raw sources?..
Does full rank tracking in all 3 major search engines - including tracking your PageRank.
"I can afford it"
"I couldn't live without it"
"I don't see anything that warrants spending $147"
If for example domain samurai functionality was integrated or tdnam or allow you to check if keyword domains were available I would buy in a heart beat.
DomainFace already checks TDNAM (as well as about 6 other domain sources) - you get this data with the free account, although you get more in-depth analysis if you pay for a full DomainFace subscription.
I've got the guys looking at how we can put the Domains module inside Market Samurai now. I expect it to be in there in roughly 1 month's time.
"I can afford it"
"I couldn't live without it"
"If for example domain samurai functionality was integrated.. I would buy in a heart beat"
If you were serious about what you were saying, now's the time to stop ripping me off, support the software, and actually buy.
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