Are you like me and struggle with keyword research? Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. Most of what I find are just not good enough.
I thought the data from Google’s keyword tool was always bang on. A big company like that wouldn’t give false results, would they? Well, that’s not always the case.
The results you see are not always correct, far from it. At the time it was put together it will have been perfectly correct. I discovered the answer almost by pure chance.
I homed in on a key phrase with roughly 5000 competing websites. I was pretty sure I could get a good result with that keyword. I started churning out articles by the bucket load.
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.
The point I’m trying to get across is that had I looked at the keyword with 9000 competitors, I would have left it alone. An awful lot of these new sites were showing my article, thus I was my own competitor. A win win situation if you ask me.
I decided now to try a keyword research service as I couldn’t keep relying on luck. I was looking to get some decent keywords delivered on a daily basis. I had figured that the daily cost against how much work I would save is value for my money.
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.
I figure if one good keyword comes each day that should save me an hour or two’s work. If I can save two hours work each day that’s something I’ll grab with both hands. If I contrast a couple hours of my time against the cost each day it has to be value.
My email inbox is usually full of stuff going on about how outsourcing is the way forward. And what I’m trying here is simply that. 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 let you into that little secret on my site.