Are you like me and struggle with keyword research? Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. I have a problem finding good ones.
I always believed that Google’s keyword tool gave highly accurate results. After all, they should be giving out accurate info. As it happens, they aren’t always accurate.
Any data you get isn’t accurate. At the time it was put together it will have been perfectly correct. I stumbled across the solution to this particular conundrum.
I homed in on a key phrase with roughly 5000 competing websites. I felt I could do well with that one. I started banging articles out left right and centre. Hundreds in fact.
Soon after I noticed Google telling me there was about 9000 competing pages now. I could hardly believe that. Had there been some mistake? It turned out that my articles were showing on these sites and ranking for the keyword.
My point being is that I’d have swerved this keyword if I had seen nine thousand competitors. An awful lot of these new sites were showing my article, thus I was my own competitor. A nice situation to be in!
Anyway, I decided to give a keyword research service a try as I couldn’t count on getting lucky every time. Getting a daily list of quality keywords sent is something that appeals to me. I did a few calculations and came to the conclusion that research services, though not cheap, were value for my dollar.
Travis Sago was offering a service which I decided to try. After all, he’s the king of the bum marketers. And I like bum marketing, I like it a lot.
It takes me an hour or two to come up with a couple of decent keywords. Getting them delivered is a huge help. If I can save two hours work each day that’s something I’ll grab with both hands. Put that couples hours saved against the daily cost and it adds up to value.
I get a lot of emails from gurus banging on about outsourcing. I reckon there’s not much difference here. I’m outsourcing my keyword research to a professional service.
If you’re interested in how the trial of the Instacash service went then head on over to my web site. I mentioned earlier about getting thousands of articles published for a good keyword. I’ll explain how I did that on my site.