Do you struggle with keyword research? I know I do. I can find keywords all day long. I have a problem finding good ones.

I thought the data from Google’s keyword tool was always bang on. After all, they should be giving out accurate info. Well, that’s not always the case.

The results you see are not always correct, far from it. But it will have been spot on at some time. I accidentally discovered the answer to that puzzle.

I targeted a keyword that ’said’ it had about 5000 competing web pages. I felt I could do well with that one. So I set out putting articles out. Lots of articles.

Soon after I noticed Google telling me there was about 9000 competing pages now. I could hardly believe that. Had there been some mistake? It turned out that my articles were showing on these sites and ranking for the keyword.

The point I’m trying to get across is that had I looked at the keyword with 9000 competitors, I would have left it alone. 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. After all, he’s the king of the bum marketers. Bum (article) marketing is something I enjoy as it’s almost free.

I figure if one good keyword comes each day that should save me an hour or two’s work. An hour or two of my time is highly valuable to me when all I have is time. Put that couples hours saved against the daily cost and it adds up to value.

My email inbox is usually full of stuff going on about how outsourcing is the way forward. I see this as an outsourcing project. Outsourcing my keyword research to someone else.

If you want to know how I got on with the keyword research service head on over to my website and see for yourself how it turned out. I also mentioned earlier how I got thousands of articles on web pages all over the net. I’ll explain how I did that on my site.

KeywordResearchService.org