Do you struggle with keyword research? I know I do. I can find keywords all day long. Most of what I find are useless though.

When I used Google’s keyword tool I trusted the results 100%. 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 will have been spot on at some time. I discovered the answer almost by pure chance.

I decided to go for a keyword with about five thousand competing pages. I felt I could do well with that one. I started banging articles out left right and centre. Hundreds in fact.

Pretty soon I noticed over 9000 competitors. I was shocked at this huge difference. Looked like it was going to be hard work. A bit more investigating turned up my own articles on loads of these new competing sites.

My point being is that I’d have swerved this keyword if I had seen nine thousand competitors. 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. Getting a daily list of quality keywords sent is something that appeals to me. I had figured that the daily cost against how much work I would save is value for my money.

Travis Sago was offering a service which I decided to try. Travis being at the top of the bum marketing pile. Bum marketing only costs my time so it’s my kind of marketing.

I figure if one good keyword comes each day that should save me an hour or two’s work. Two hours or so to me is quite valuable. If I contrast a couple hours of my time against the cost each day it has to be value.

I get a lot of emails from gurus banging on about outsourcing. I reckon there’s not much difference here. I’m simply outsourcing the job to a keyword research service.

If you want to hear about my trial of the Instacash service get yourself over to my website. I also mention earlier about thousands of articles published for one keyword. I’ll explain how I did that on my site.

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