I struggle with keyword research. Maybe you also do? Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. Most of what I find are useless though.
I always believed that Google’s keyword tool gave highly accurate results. After all, they should be giving out accurate info. Well, it turns out the figures aren’t always right.
The results you see are not always correct, far from it. But it will have been spot on at some time. I discovered the answer almost by pure chance.
I decided to go for a keyword with about five thousand competing pages. I was feeling confident enough to rank well with this one. I started banging articles out left right and centre. Hundreds in fact.
Not long after I saw that there were now almost nine thousand competing sites. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I started to think thinks weren’t going to be easy as I thought. As it happens most of these extra results were my articles on these different sites.
What I’m saying is that I would have left it alone had I saw over 9000 competing sites. As a lot of them were mine (or had my article on) I was competing against my self most of the time. A nice situation to be in!
I got lucky on that keyword but I suspected I may not get lucky again so I made the decision to try out a keyword research service. I was looking to get some decent keywords delivered on a daily basis. I calculated the cost of these services and concluded that they were value for money.
Travis Sago was offering a keyword research service which I decided to try. Travis being numero uno in the bum marketing world. Bum marketing only costs my time so it’s my kind of marketing.
If I can get a keyword or two in my in box each day then that saves me valuable time. At least a two hour saving. An hour or two of my time is highly valuable to me when all I have is time. Put that couples hours saved against the daily cost and it adds up to value.
Outsourcing, outsourcing, outsourcing. Seems to be all you hear from the gurus of internet marketing. I see this as nothing more than that. Outsourcing my keyword research to someone else.
If you’re interested in how the trial of the Instacash service went then head on over to my web site. I said earlier about how I got loads of articles published for my chosen keyword. I’ll let you into that little secret on my site.