Are you like me and struggle with keyword research? I can find lots of them. 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. After all, they should be giving out accurate info. Well, that’s not always the case.
The data returned isn’t accurate. It would have been correct at some point though. I accidentally discovered the answer to that puzzle.
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 put out probably thousands of articles.
Soon after I noticed Google telling me there was about 9000 competing pages now. My heart sank, I thought my task was gonna be twice as hard now. Turned out though that an awful lot of the extra competing pages had my articles on them!
If I had saw 9000 competing sites I would have passed this keyword by. Turns out I was competing mostly against myself as my article was the cause of these sites ranking. Not a bad situation to be in 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. I liked the idea of good keywords being delivered to me every day. I calculated the cost of these services and concluded that they were value for money.
Of the keyword research services on offer I opted to try Travis Sago’s Instacash. 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. And a couple hours work is pretty valuable to me. 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 paying someone else to research my keywords. I reckon that’s outsourcing.
You can find out just how the trial went over at my site. I mentioned earlier about getting thousands of articles published for a good keyword. I’ll show you how I did that at my site.