Do you struggle with keyword research? I know I do. Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. Most of what I find are just not good enough.
I always believed that Google’s keyword tool gave highly accurate results. Why wouldn’t I? Big company like that shouldn’t be giving false figures. As it happens, they aren’t always accurate.
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 homed in on a key phrase with roughly 5000 competing websites. I felt I could do well with that one. So I set out putting articles out. Lots of articles.
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. A bit more investigating turned up my own articles on loads of these new competing sites.
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 good result all round in my opinion.
Not wanting to rely on luck every time I thought I’d try a keyword research service. My hope was to get some ‘killer’ keywords delivered by email every day. I calculated the cost of these services and concluded that they were value for money.
I chose to give Travis Sago’s Instacash keyword service a go. Travis is the original bum marketer. Bum marketing only costs my time so it’s my kind of marketing.
I figure if one good keyword comes each day that should save me an hour or two’s work. An hour or two of my time is highly valuable to me when all I have is time. 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. I see this as an outsourcing project. 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 mentioned earlier about getting thousands of articles published for a good keyword. I’ll also tell you how I did that at my site.
