Chances are you struggle (like I do) with finding good keywords. Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. Most of what I find are useless though.
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 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 started churning out articles by the bucket load.
Soon after I noticed Google telling me there was about 9000 competing pages now. 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.
What I’m saying is that I would have left it alone had I saw over 9000 competing sites. 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 nice situation to be in!
Not wanting to rely on luck every time I thought I’d try a keyword research service. Getting a daily list of quality keywords sent is something that appeals to me. I did a few calculations and came to the conclusion that research services, though not cheap, were value for my dollar.
There were a few to choose from but I went with Travis Sago and his Instacash service. Travis being at the top of the bum marketing pile. Bum marketing only costs my time so it’s my kind of marketing.
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.
I get a lot of emails from gurus banging on about outsourcing. I see this as an outsourcing project. 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. I also mentioned earlier how I got thousands of articles on web pages all over the net. I’ll also tell you how I did that at my site.
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