Keyword Research Services - Can They Save You Time And Money?
Posted Under: Outsourcing
If you aren’t a guru then you may (like me) find keyword research difficult. I can find lots of them. 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. Well, it turns out the figures aren’t always right.
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 pretty sure I could get a good result with that keyword. I put out probably thousands of articles.
Soon after I noticed Google telling me there was about 9000 competing pages now. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I started to think thinks weren’t going to be easy as I thought. 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. 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 good result all round in my opinion.
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. I was looking to get some decent keywords delivered on a daily basis. Balancing cost against time taken (by me) seemed to prove it could be a valuable asset.
Travis Sago was offering a keyword research 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.
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. If I put the time saved up against the daily cost it shows clearly there’s value to be had.
All the big marketers bang on about outsourcing. I see this as nothing more than that. I’m paying someone else to research my keywords. I reckon that’s outsourcing.
If you’re interested in how the trial of the Instacash service went then head on over to my web site. I mentioned earlier about getting thousands of articles published for a good keyword. I’ll let you into that little secret on my site.
