Keyword Research and Gold Panning: A Comparison

gold panning

I'm a big fan of Discovery Channel's "BERING SEA GOLD", "GOLD RUSH" and other reality programs dealing with gold mining and gold panning. There's something incredibly mesmerizing with those precious yellow nuggets that make men go to extremes panning and mining the elusive metal. While others have hit the mother lode and struck it rich gold panning, most have found very little or none at all. One thing common among every one with gold fever: they all believed that "there's gold in them there hills" and have gambled practically every thing pursuing this belief. Such is the power gold has over men.

Similarly, keywords and the search for keywords is so much like gold panning. While we have bloggers and online income entrepreneurs who have already found the keyword mother lode and made it big in the make money online business, there are still so many still searching for that elusive keyword, or that best niche market that can make them a ton of passive income and make all their efforts worthwhile. Just like gold panning, it can be so frustrating to throw in all your time, effort and money only to end up empty. Believe me, I know personally how frustrating this is.

But, just like those gold panning pioneers who never gave up and kept on believing that "there's gold in them there hills", we just have to keep believing, get over our frustration and continue learning more about keyword research and keep blogging until we eventually find that keyword gold streak or even that elusive keyword mother lode.

Keep panning!