Compact Keywords Review and Rating

Starting this with advice from Edward’s podcast which is to put a “too long; didn’t read” at the beginning of each article.

TL;DR I tried Edward Sturm’s Compact Keywords and am now making money from SEO.

“Whoaaa that’s a mighty big TL;DR” — I know you’re thinking it. Here’s the low down.

I was part of the Compact Keywords early release. I got it 4 months ago to get more clients to my remote education consulting agency — as in we help remote educators implement tools that makes learning more productive, more fun, more efficient, etc. I ranked right away with my first SEO page (#8 on the first page of Google) then watched my ranking increase — and results like this happened with half of the SEO pages I came out with after.

Because I’m following the directions in Compact Keywords — I’m only targeting keywords that represent people looking to try something or who want to convert — Edward calls these “bottom of funnel keywords.” My call to actions go to forms and me and my team call back prospects.

Before Compact Keywords, we tried doing SEO with “top of funnel” articles — putting affiliate links for tools and lead forms into the articles. This didn’t work very well. We didn’t know how to target keywords or make pages. And now, after Compact Keywords, I’m convinced educators will just ask these same questions to ChatGPT or Reddit — as the market has changed.

So I heard Edward talk about Compact Keywords on his podcast last year, bought it, and went through it.

It’s videos showing how to do everything in SEO — with a large portion about how to find Compact Keywords, target them, put up pages for them, track your SEO performance, and how to do link building (which isn’t that important). We ranked right away without building links for the pages we were putting up. There was one competitive keyword we built links to two months ago though, but only because it was competitive. The links made it rank. We didn’t need links for our other pages.

Before purchasing

Before purchasing I was nervous this course wouldn’t be actionable enough. Edward’s podcast is mostly talking with little screen sharing. So I was worried the course would be the same.

I emailed Edward to ask what it was like. He told me. I bought it. The course is hours of screen sharing showing exact directions, layouts for pages, keyword searching, competitor analysis, setting up a website for SEO, templates, a lot really. It’s very specific.

It’s not only finding keywords, but technical SEO, link building, how to do SEO with YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Reddit. I know I’m forgetting some stuff but there’s a lot in there and the most important stuff (finding and targeting keywords) is covered in depth.

After purchasing

After purchasing, as I said, I’m not just ranking, but getting conversions, and four months in I’ve already 6x’d what I paid for the course. From SEO my agency has had 1 conversion of $1,700, another of $200, 3 of $100, and 1 of $1,100. And I think revenue will only increase as we put up more pages, do more marketing, and just with time which should naturally boost all our rankings, I think our monthly from SEO will get quite substantial. Either way I didn’t expect to get an ROI like this so fast.

Now we’re going after what are called in the course, “high leverage keywords,” which represent many conversions. Specifically we’re going after school districts which is very ambitious and fees for us would be tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Compact Keywords rating

I used Compact Keywords before it was organized on the website — back when it was just files in a Google Drive. This was the early release which I was part of and now everything is organized into sections with timestamps for chapters and transcriptions and extra detail and the templates in relevant areas.

The Google Drive experience was good because the content was so solid but I didn’t like having it in Google Drive. Now that it’s on the website, it’s perfect. I have no complaints.

Also I never give things a perfect rating on this Medium but I emailed Edward two times with questions I had and both times he responded in a few hours with thorough answers — so I’m going to break my rule for this.

Information: 5/5
Deliverability: 5/5
Results: 5/5
Total: 5/5

Thanks Edward!