Chances are you struggle (like I do) with finding good keywords. Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. My problem is finding good keywords.
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. Sadly, that’s not always how it goes.
The data returned isn’t accurate. But it probably was at the time they put it together. The answer to this particular enigma came to me almost accidentally.
I homed in on a key phrase with roughly 5000 competing websites. Great I thought, I can nail that. 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. 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. I was competing with myself as my article was on the majority of these new sites. Not a bad situation to be in if you ask me.
I got lucky on that keyword but I suspected I may not get lucky again so I made the decision to try out a keyword research service. Hopefully I could get some golden keywords delivered to my inbox every day. I calculated the cost of these services and concluded that they were value for money.
I decided to give Travis Sago’s Instacash service a try. After all, he’s the king of the bum marketers. Bum marketing is something I really like.
It takes me an hour or two to come up with a couple of decent keywords. Getting them delivered is a huge help. When all I have is time then two hours saved can be huge to me. If I put the time saved up against the daily cost it shows clearly there’s value to be had.
I get a lot of emails from gurus banging on about outsourcing. And what I’m trying here is simply that. Outsourcing my keyword research to someone else.
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.