Chances are you struggle (like I do) with finding good keywords. Actually I can find loads of keywords. The problem is though that most are next to useless, or at least seem to be.
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. Turns out they do and they don’t.
The data returned isn’t accurate. However it would have been when they collated it. I discovered the answer almost by pure chance.
I homed in on a key phrase with roughly 5000 competing websites. I felt I could do well with that one. I put out probably thousands of articles.
It didn’t take long to notice there were now over 9000 competing sites. I was shocked at this huge difference. Looked like it was going to be hard work. It turned out that my articles were showing on these sites and ranking for the keyword.
I would have definitely avoided this key phrase had I saw 9000 competing web pages. 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. Not a bad situation to be in if you ask me.
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. Hopefully I could get some golden keywords delivered to my inbox every day. I calculated the cost of these services and concluded that they were value for money.
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.
One or two good quality keywords delivered each day could save me hours of time. When all I have is time then two hours saved can be huge to me. Put that couples hours saved against the daily cost and it adds up to value.
Outsourcing, outsourcing, outsourcing. Seems to be all you hear from the gurus of internet marketing. I see this as an outsourcing project. Outsourcing my keyword research to someone else.
Do you wanna know how it went with the Instacash service? Get on over to my website and I’ll tell you. I said earlier about how I got loads of articles published for my chosen keyword. I’ll show you how I did that at my site.
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