Keyword Research Services - Steer Clear Until You’ve Read This
March 8th, 2010<
Chances are you struggle (like I do) with finding good keywords. Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. 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%. I had no reason to doubt the leading player’s figures. Turns out they do and they don’t.
Any data you get isn’t accurate. It would have been correct at some point though. The answer to this particular enigma came to me almost accidentally.
I homed in on a key phrase with roughly 5000 competing websites. I felt I could do well with that one. I started churning out articles by the bucket load.
Pretty soon I noticed over 9000 competitors. My heart sank, I thought my task was gonna be twice as hard now. As it happens most of these extra results were my articles on these different sites.
I would have definitely avoided this key phrase had I saw 9000 competing web pages. I was competing with myself as my article was on the majority of these new sites. A win win situation if you ask me.
I knew I wasn’t going to get lucky all the time so I decided to try 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.
There were a few to choose from but I went with Travis Sago and his Instacash service. Let’s face it, Travis is THE bum marketer. And bum marketing really appeals to me.
One or two good quality keywords delivered each day could save me hours of time. Two hours or so to me is quite valuable. 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. Outsourcing my keyword research to someone else.
If you’re interested in how the trial of the Instacash service went then head on over to my web site. Earlier I mentioned that I ended up with thousands of articles on websites for a certain keyword. I’ll show you how I did that at my site.
