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Long Tail Pro – Keyword Research Tool – Review

I recently bought Long Tail Pro – a keyword tool that can find keywords and have a nice competition analysis using SEOMoz data.

In principle it is very nice, and according to the demo it is faster than Market Samurai. However, here it didn't work nearly as well as it should.

First of all, it asks for your e-mail and authorization key. That is OK – the first time. And then it continues asking, every time. Annoying, but certainly not fatal.

Then there is the keyword system, which simply didn't work here at all. It tried to get the keywords and never returned any result.

Competition analysis has some great data. My problem is that it worked a couple of times, and then simply stopped working. No error messages, nothing. Sometimes I'd press the button to start it, and eventually the button would be clickable again, with no results and no feedback.

There is also rank tracking, but frankly, I had very little interest there – it is easily the most common function (personally, I use Rank Tracker).

I'd like to note that after all these problems on a program I just bought, I just gave up. I didn't spend time pursuing the causes with support, because at this point I didn't think it'd be worth it. I just requested a refund, which was granted fairly quickly (about a couple of hours).

So if you believe my problems are rare or uncommon, well, at least you can probably feel safe about getting your refund.

My recommendation is still for SEO PowerSuite's Rank Tracker .

There are also a ton of web services that do this. BiQ, SEMRush, etc.

By Luiz A D R Marques

I've been developing software and selling it on-line since 1994. Current products include STG FolderPrint Plus - a tool to Print Folders, and STGThumb - HTML Album Generator, among others. Some of my other sites - Disk Usage, Directory Printer ,Print Folders and Jejum Intermitente .

2 replies on “Long Tail Pro – Keyword Research Tool – Review”

Hi Luiz,

I found your website in google; ranktracker vs long tail pro.

Now I have choosen also for ranktracker instead of LTP. I tried LTP for a week orso before I decided to ask for a refund. What I not understand at the moment is the keyword competitiveness differences between those 2 solutions. I am watching a video right now from a blogger who shows keyword research done in LTP. Its a recent video and for example he is using `camping hammock` what has in LTP a kwc from 39, but when I look in ranktracker it shows me 50.1. Another example was 29 kwc in LTP and 39 in Ranktracker. Can you tell me why there are such big differences?

Marcel

Just guessing here, but it is not like there is a standard unit for keyword difficulty. Each program used the scale and signals the developer felt best.

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