I struggle with keyword research. Maybe you also 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. Sadly, that’s not always how it goes.

The keyword data you see will be out of date and wrong. However it would have been when they collated it. The answer to this particular enigma came to me almost accidentally.

I decided to go for a keyword with about five thousand competing pages. I was feeling confident enough to rank well with this one. So I set out putting articles out. Lots of articles.

It didn’t take long to notice there were now over 9000 competing sites. 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!

If I had saw 9000 competing sites I would have passed this keyword by. 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!

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. Balancing cost against time taken (by me) seemed to prove it could be a valuable asset.

Of the keyword research services on offer I opted to try Travis Sago’s Instacash. Travis being numero uno in the bum marketing world. 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. 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. I’m paying someone else to research my keywords. I reckon that’s outsourcing.

If you want to hear about my trial of the Instacash service get yourself over to my website. Earlier I mentioned that I ended up with thousands of articles on websites for a certain keyword. I’ll also tell you how I did that at my site.

KeywordResearchService.org