Are you like me and struggle with keyword research? Actually I can find loads of keywords. The problem is though that most are next to useless, or at least seem to be.
I thought the data from Google’s keyword tool was always bang on. I mean, they wouldn’t be telling fibs about their data, would they? Sadly, that’s not always how it goes.
Any data you get isn’t accurate. But it probably was at the time they put it together. I stumbled across the solution to this particular conundrum.
I was going for a keyword that had roughly five thousand competing pages. I was pretty sure I could get a good result with that keyword. I started churning out articles by the bucket load.
It didn’t take long to notice there were now over 9000 competing sites. I was shocked at this huge difference. Looked like it was going to be hard work. 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. I was competing with myself as my article was on the majority of these new sites. A win win situation if you ask me.
I knew I wasn’t going to get lucky all the time so I decided to try a keyword research service. Getting a daily list of quality keywords sent is something that appeals to me. I calculated the cost against the time it would take me and it seemed a value for money concept.
There were a few to choose from but I went with Travis Sago and his Instacash service. Let’s face it, Travis is THE bum marketer. And bum marketing really appeals to me.
It takes me an hour or two to come up with a couple of decent keywords. Getting them delivered is a huge help. When all I have is time then two hours saved can be huge to me. If I put the time saved up against the daily cost it shows clearly there’s value to be had.
All the big marketers bang on about outsourcing. I see this as an outsourcing project. Outsourcing my keyword research to someone else.
You can find out just how the trial went over at my site. Earlier I mentioned that I ended up with thousands of articles on websites for a certain keyword. I’ll let you know how I did that on my site