Chances are you struggle (like I do) with finding good keywords. Finding keywords isn’t actually the problem. Most of what I find are just not good enough.

When I used Google’s keyword tool I trusted the results 100%. Why wouldn’t I? Big company like that shouldn’t be giving false figures. Well, that’s not always the case.

Any data you get isn’t accurate. But it will have been spot on at some time. I discovered the answer almost by pure chance.

I homed in on a key phrase with roughly 5000 competing websites. I was pretty sure I could get a good result with that keyword. I started banging articles out left right and centre. Hundreds in fact.

Pretty soon I noticed over 9000 competitors. I could hardly believe that. Had there been some mistake? A bit more investigating turned up my own articles on loads of these new competing sites.

What I’m saying is that I would have left it alone had I saw over 9000 competing sites. An awful lot of these new sites were showing my article, thus I was my own competitor. A good result all round in my opinion.

Not wanting to rely on luck every time I thought I’d try a keyword research service. My hope was to get some ‘killer’ keywords delivered by email every day. I had figured that the daily cost against how much work I would save is value for my money.

There were a few to choose from but I went with Travis Sago and his Instacash service. Travis being at the top of the bum marketing pile. Bum marketing only costs my time so it’s my kind of marketing.

If I can get a keyword or two in my in box each day then that saves me valuable time. At least a two hour saving. If I can save two hours work each day that’s something I’ll grab with both hands. If I weigh the cost each day against my two hours work it clearly becomes value for money.

I get a lot of emails from gurus banging on about outsourcing. I see this as an outsourcing project. I’m outsourcing my keyword research to a professional service.

If you’re interested in how the trial of the Instacash service went then head on over to my web site. I also mention earlier about thousands of articles published for one keyword. I’ll explain how I did that on my site.

KeywordResearchService.org