Norman Freeman On What They Call
"Internet Marketing"

Dear fellow internet marketer,

Let’s get something dead straight before we start.

I hate Keyword tools . I hate them more than you do, and I always have. They just don’t keep the promises they make!

Really, I can’t stand another one far too complex to get FAST GOOD USEFUL results…

And if you give me a few seconds I will tell you why.

But first, let’s start with how I got here, and why I’m writing this…

It must have been about three weeks ago now, I was browsing the web when I got saw a small little AdWords ad about a new Keyword-research tool called “Keyword Country”…

Now, I don’t really trust anyone, especially not those hyping AdWords-campaigns promising the holy grail in keyword-research (which is, has been and - so I thought - will always be a pain in the ass, right?).
Nevertheless, I can afford it and gave it a test-drive (it’s ridiculously cheap for a test-day!).

It’s somewhat similar to Wordtracker. It’s online and not a local Software on your own PC.

“But why do I hate those damn keyword tools with a manic passion…”

Well, let me explain. I am an internet marketer, and I spend close to $400 a day on Google Adwords (giving me a return of about $2000 on average). In short, I know what I am doing.

Also, I have hundreds (yes, there are people like me. And they make profit with it!) of Domains bringin in profits through Google AdSense ads. If you don’t know what that is, you may stop reading here and surf somewhere else…).

But, I have never been a big fan of keyword research tools - for me, having a keyword list 20,000 long has never conferred much of an advantage on the marketer. What it does do, though, is sound good on a sales letter… and lots of newbies see “build a list of 20,000 keywords”, and think “wow! What a big number, here are my credit card details”.

Then, the same guys who bought the keyword tool realize that a big list of keywords doesn’t mean anything on its own - only after wasting their cash on Adwords… and then, the next tool comes out and the cycle repeats itself…

Great for the guys who made the software - pretty crappy for the poor newbie who bought it.

So, you can imagine my thoughts when I came accross Keyword Country.

When I reached the Keyword Country website, I was actually pretty impressed with the professional look. It looks different to all the standard “salesletter-type-all-formatted-the-same” internet marketing product sales pitches.

Actually, they seem to address not only the “guru” marketers and their “make money quick” community, but are really dead serious about a high quality service. And even more impressed I was with some of the features that this appears to have - search keywords by bid-range of AdWords advertisers, count competing sites not by number of sites listed in google, but by those listed AND have the keyword in the title tag, doing a “blank” search, have a concrete earning prediction (!!!) and much more…

But, again, I have to be honest with you…,

At this point, I still thought to myself, “nice site, lots of features, this will convert well… but yet again, there will be a catch… so forget it“.

… but a few days later my friend e-mailed me, letting me know he had used this new keyword-tool to setup a few tests to target the best words for promotions on Adwords and for his new AdSense Sites and that he was about $200 up. He also said that I needed to drop what I was doing and have a close look at it! So, I finally spent the money and purchased my account at Keyword Country.

Just so you know, I only purchased because… well, money isn’t too much of an issue for me, and I was about to file it away on my to-do list when my friend started up again - in fact he pestered the hell out of me to get using the tool once I had it!

So, I decided to give it a chance, and make full use of Keyword Country… I sat down for an hour to play around with the functions…

But an hour wasn’t enough…