Are you like me and struggle with keyword research? Actually I can find loads of keywords. 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. I had no reason to doubt the leading player’s figures. Sadly, that’s not always how it goes.
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 was going for a keyword that had roughly five thousand competing pages. I felt I could do well with that one. So I set out putting articles out. Lots of articles.
Not long after I saw that there were now almost nine thousand competing sites. My heart sank, I thought my task was gonna be twice as hard now. As it happens most of these extra results were my articles on these different sites.
My point being is that I’d have swerved this keyword if I had seen nine thousand competitors. As a lot of them were mine (or had my article on) I was competing against my self most of the time. 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. Hopefully I could get some golden keywords delivered to my inbox every day. Balancing cost against time taken (by me) seemed to prove it could be a valuable asset.
There were a few to choose from but I went with Travis Sago and his Instacash service. Travis being at the top of the bum marketing pile. And bum marketing really appeals to me.
One or two good quality keywords delivered each day could save me hours of time. An hour or two of my time is highly valuable to me when all I have is time. For what the service costs each day against my 2 hours means I’m getting huge value.
All the big marketers bang on about outsourcing. And what I’m trying here is simply that. I’m giving my keyword research to someone else to do. That’s outsourcing.
You can find out just how the trial went over at my 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.
