Do you struggle with keyword research? I know I do. Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. Most of what I find are useless though.
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. 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 accidentally discovered the answer to that puzzle.
I decided to go for a keyword with about five thousand competing pages. I felt I could do well with that one. 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. 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. A lot of these sites were ranking with my article so I had a lot of competition but most of it was my own articles. 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. My hope was to get some ‘killer’ keywords delivered by email every day. I had figured that the daily cost against how much work I would save is value for my money.
Travis Sago was offering a service which I decided to try. Travis being at the top of the bum marketing pile. Bum (article) marketing is something I enjoy as it’s almost free.
If I can get a keyword or two in my in box each day then that saves me valuable time. At least a two hour saving. Two hours or so to me is quite valuable. Put that couples hours saved against the daily cost and it adds up to value.
My email inbox is usually full of stuff going on about how outsourcing is the way forward. I see this as an outsourcing project. I’m simply outsourcing the job to a keyword research service.
If you’re interested in how the trial of the Instacash service went then head on over to my web site. I also mention earlier about thousands of articles published for one keyword. I’ll explain how I did that on my site.
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