Chances are you struggle (like I do) with finding good keywords. Actually, it’s not a problem finding them. The problem is though that most are next to useless, or at least seem to be.
When I used Google’s keyword tool I trusted the results 100%. Why wouldn’t I? Big company like that shouldn’t be giving false figures. Well, that’s not always the case.
What you see (the data) is not what you get. But it probably was at the time they put it together. I discovered the answer almost by pure chance.
I went for a key phrase with around 5,000 pages competing against it. Great I thought, I can nail that. I put out probably thousands of articles.
Not long after I saw that there were now almost nine thousand competing sites. I could hardly believe that. Had there been some mistake? 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. I was competing with myself as my article was on the majority of these new sites. A great result in the end for that key phrase.
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. Getting a daily list of quality keywords sent is something that appeals to me. Balancing cost against time taken (by me) seemed to prove it could be a valuable asset.
Of the keyword research services on offer I opted to try Travis Sago’s Instacash. 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. 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 simply outsourcing the job to a keyword research service.
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.
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