Are you like me and struggle with keyword research? Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. Most of what I find are useless though.
I thought the data from Google’s keyword tool was always bang on. 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. At the time it was put together it will have been perfectly correct. I discovered the answer almost by pure chance.
I homed in on a key phrase with roughly 5000 competing websites. I was pretty sure I could get a good result with that keyword. I started banging articles out left right and centre. Hundreds in fact.
It didn’t take long to notice there were now over 9000 competing sites. I was downhearted at this new revelation. Maybe it was going to be far more difficult than I imagined. A bit more investigating turned up my own articles on loads of these new competing 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. A win win situation if you ask me.
Anyway, I decided to give a keyword research service a try as I couldn’t count on getting lucky every time. I was looking to get some decent keywords delivered on a daily basis. I did a few calculations and came to the conclusion that research services, though not cheap, were value for my dollar.
Travis Sago was offering a service which I decided to try. Travis being at the top of the bum marketing pile. Bum marketing only costs my time so it’s my kind of marketing.
It takes me an hour or two to come up with a couple of decent keywords. Getting them delivered is a huge help. An hour or two of my time is highly valuable to me when all I have is time. If I weigh the cost each day against my two hours work it clearly becomes value for money.
I get a lot of emails from gurus banging on about outsourcing. I see this as an outsourcing project. I’m simply outsourcing the job to a keyword research service.
If you want to hear about my trial of the Instacash service get yourself over to my website. I also mentioned earlier how I got thousands of articles on web pages all over the net. I’ll explain how I did that on my site.