Chances are you struggle (like I do) with finding good keywords. I can find keywords all day long. Most of what I find are just not good enough.
I thought the data from Google’s keyword tool was always bang on. After all, they should be giving out accurate info. As it happens, they aren’t always accurate.
The results you see are not always correct, far from it. But it probably was at the time they put it together. I stumbled across the solution to this particular conundrum.
I targeted a keyword that ’said’ it had about 5000 competing web pages. I was pretty confident I could get a result from that. 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.
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. An awful lot of these new sites were showing my article, thus I was my own competitor. A nice situation to be in!
I decided now to try a keyword research service as I couldn’t keep relying on luck. I was looking to get some decent keywords delivered on a daily basis. I calculated the cost of these services and concluded that they were value for money.
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.
I figure if one good keyword comes each day that should save me an hour or two’s work. If I can save two hours work each day that’s something I’ll grab with both hands. If I weigh the cost each day against my two hours work it clearly becomes value for money.
Outsourcing, outsourcing, outsourcing. Seems to be all you hear from the gurus of internet marketing. I see this as an outsourcing project. I’m simply outsourcing the job to a keyword research 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.
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