Keywords Research For Articles/Adwords Tactic

[Simon Stanley]

Hey all

Wondered if you guys could help me, I'm really trying to get into article marketing as so many people on this forum seem to be doing well from it. I used wordtracker and other research tools to determine monthly searches before I wrote articles for the keywords.

However I found that I was getting little/no traffic from my articles being on page 1 on Google for keywords that wordtracker says gets a high amount of searches.

After discovering the inaccuracy of some keyword programs, I decided to research the competition on Google.com, and determine the exact amount of daily searches using Google Adwords before I write articles.

I decided to test keywords in Adwords with little/no competition (below 5000 results for keywords in "quotes").

However I found that my ad for these keywords were literally getting 0-4 searches per day. I cannot be bothered to write articles for such little traffic.

What kind of criteria do you guys use to make a keyword worthy of writing an article for? How much competition are you willing to compete against to get to page 1 via backlinking?

Maybe I should be more generous with the amount of competition per keyword that I am testing in my Adwords account in order to get keywords with higher searches that I can rank for?

All your help is much appreciated.

Thanks

Simon