Thu 4 Mar 2010
Keyword Research Services – Steer Clear Until You’ve Read This
Posted by Jeff under Uncategorized
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Chances are you struggle (like I do) with finding good keywords. Actually, it’s not a problem finding them. My problem is finding good keywords.
I thought the data from Google’s keyword tool was always bang on. I mean, they wouldn’t be telling fibs about their data, would they? Sadly, that’s not always how it goes.
What you see (the data) is not what you get. It would have been correct at some point though. The answer to this particular enigma came to me almost accidentally.
I went for a key phrase with around 5,000 pages competing against it. I felt I could do well with that one. So I set out putting articles out. Lots of articles.
Not long after I saw that there were now almost nine thousand competing sites. My heart sank, I thought my task was gonna be twice as hard now. 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 knew I wasn’t going to get lucky all the time so I decided to try a keyword research service. Hopefully I could get some golden keywords delivered to my inbox every day. I calculated the cost against the time it would take me and it seemed a value for money concept.
I decided to give Travis Sago’s Instacash service a try. Let’s face it, Travis is THE bum marketer. Bum marketing is something I really like.
It takes me an hour or two to come up with a couple of decent keywords. Getting them delivered is a huge help. An hour or two of my time is highly valuable to me when all I have is time. 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.
Do you wanna know how it went with the Instacash service? Get on over to my website and I’ll tell you. I mentioned earlier about getting thousands of articles published for a good keyword. I’ll let you into that little secret on my site.
