Keyword Academy Review: Nearing the 3 Month Mark

I haven’t given an update on my Keyword Academy experience since the end of January, I believe. It’s time for a check-in as I know many of you are still using the program, and some have yet to sign up. So I’ll give a quick Keyword Academy review and update, along with how I’m using the program.

Niche Refinery Tool – This is their keyword tool. You run keywords related to your niche through this nifty little tool, and it returns those with high value and low competition. I do love this tool, and with my repeated use I can sometimes avoid using it all together if I’m in a hurry. I know exactly what I’m looking for and I can sometimes get by with doing a Google search and scanning the first SERP for what I’m targeting and those sites I can tackle without much effort. Thumbs up.

Postrunner - I don’t use their guest posting system. I cut out all of my nameless, faceless niche sites with Panda. They aren’t passion sites. They aren’t worth the added trouble. I’m focusing on those sites that I want a strong community to prop them up. With those communities comes our own guest posting systems. And you are gaining traffic with those, not just a backlink for the search engines. It’s my understanding they are modifying Postrunner in the near future. We shall see what those updates involve. I hope it becomes something that I feel a little “safer” about than I do now. I like knowing where my content is going, I like knowing the people that own those sites, and I like knowing how they market.

Forum - Oh, how I love a forum…too much. I love seeing how others use a system. We all seem to take a method, piece it together with the best practices of other methods and make our own unique systems. But, boy oh boy, can forums be a time killer. I try to stay away. I really do.

Money - Time for the important stuff. In February my blogging income really started climbing and becoming more consistent, finally. Can I give all of the credit to Keyword Academy? Probably not. This blog has been around for a year, and I was building a following long before TKA. However, I am finally earning from ads. This is a first on that front. I do believe that has something to do with my newly added techniques.

Overall, I still give Keyword Academy a thumbs up. I’m earning more money. With my new way of choosing my keywords I am ranking much, much higher straight out of the gate. I’m not doing anything shady. Take it and make it your own. I believe the first thirty days is still only $1.

In other news: Since we are earning consistently and at a higher rate than previously, it’s time to give back. I do consider my blogs little clients, however I am still lucky enough to slot their earnings as “free money”. When you have a little extra, the only right thing to do is spread it around. This morning I donated a portion of my affiliate income to one of my favorite dog rescue groups. I have a few other charity recommendations from my fellow bloggers for future months. That’s how we roll. I hope you do the same.