Keyword Research Services – Great Idea Or Non Starter?
I struggle with keyword research. Maybe you also do? Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. I have a problem finding good ones.
I always believed that Google’s keyword tool gave highly accurate results. I mean, they wouldn’t be telling fibs about their data, would they? Well, that’s not always the case.
The data returned isn’t accurate. It would have been correct at some point though. The answer to this particular enigma came to me almost accidentally.
I was going for a keyword that had roughly five thousand competing pages. I was feeling confident enough to rank well with this one. I put out probably thousands 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. Turned out though that an awful lot of the extra competing pages had my articles on them!
What I’m saying is that I would have left it alone had I saw over 9000 competing sites. As a lot of them were mine (or had my article on) I was competing against my self most of the time. A good result all round in my opinion.
Anyway, I decided to give a keyword research service a try as I couldn’t count on getting lucky every time. 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.
I chose to give Travis Sago’s Instacash keyword research service a go. Let’s face it, Travis is THE bum marketer. And I like bum marketing, I like it a lot.
One or two good quality keywords delivered each day could save me hours of time. And a couple hours work is pretty valuable to me. Put that couples hours saved against the daily cost and it adds up to value.
All the big marketers bang on about outsourcing. I see this as an outsourcing project. Outsourcing my keyword research to someone else.
You can find out just how the trial went over at my site. I said earlier about how I got loads of articles published for my chosen keyword. I’ll let you into that little secret on my site.
