Are you like me and struggle with keyword research? I can find keywords all day long. 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. Turns out they do and they don’t.
Any data you get isn’t accurate. But it probably was at the time they put it together. I discovered the answer almost by pure chance.
I targeted a keyword that ’said’ it had about 5000 competing web pages. I felt I could do well with that one. I started banging articles out left right and centre. Hundreds in fact.
Soon after I noticed Google telling me there was about 9000 competing pages now. I could hardly believe that. Had there been some mistake? I was relieved to see that an awful lot of these competitors were showing my articles.
What I’m saying is that I would have left it alone had I saw over 9000 competing sites. A lot of these sites were ranking with my article so I had a lot of competition but most of it was my own articles. A nice situation to be in!
I decided now to try a keyword research service as I couldn’t keep relying on luck. My hope was to get some ‘killer’ keywords delivered by email every day. I did a few calculations and came to the conclusion that research services, though not cheap, were value for my dollar.
There were a few to choose from but I went with Travis Sago and his Instacash service. Travis is the original bum marketer. 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. Two hours or so to me is quite valuable. If I contrast a couple hours of my time against the cost each day it has to be value.
I get a lot of emails from gurus banging on about outsourcing. I see this as an outsourcing project. I’m outsourcing my keyword research to a professional service.
If you want to know how I got on with the keyword research service head on over to my website and see for yourself how it turned out. I also mention earlier about thousands of articles published for one keyword. I’ll also tell you how I did that at my site.