Comments on: Increase Your Traffic By Focusing On Long Tail Keywords

By: ITjobfeed.com

ITjobfeed.com — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:29:37 +0000

I’ve implemented a strategy where I collect my top 1000 single keywords , and then create lists
with combinations of related topics -, so you would have “car” as your main keyword , and then you could have “car ” and so forth

By: Dana Wallert

Dana Wallert — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:33:18 +0000

I’ve also recently begun optimizing for long tail for several of my sites. Logically, I would agree to a point with Chase’s comment above about what are the odds of optimizing for the magic random phrase that someone will type in, but I’ve found that using both Google’s webmaster tools, my own stats log and Hittail’s free long tail service…that it’s pretty easy to figure out the best long tails to go for, and what is most likely a one in a million search phrase.

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By: Chase

Chase — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:21:26 +0000

Haha, good one:)
Blogspot is for total noobs - something I didn’t know when a friend recommended it. It’s fine for me because I don’t know any code, but I use feedburner to tell me stats.

It doesn’t give me a lot though, but it does tell me origin of visit, clicks etc and since it’s all a great big psychological experiment anyway I’m not too concerned.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:18:04 +0000

Do blogspot not provide stats?

By: Chase

Chase — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:16:43 +0000

Oh ya and as for being “indexed for 5+ keyword combinations” - I really think this is unlikely. Think of dice:

If we each have 2 dice, what are the odds of us throwing the same 2? I know there’s a lot more to consider with keywords, but if we’re going on chances then we’re in the same ballpark.

Compare to the odds if we each had 5. There will never be as much competition for long tail keywords, because there are just too many variations.

By: Chase

Chase — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:14:21 +0000

I don’t get a lot of traffic from search, but almost all of it is long-tail keywords. In fact, i’ve pretty much stopped optimizing on a large scale for small keywords, as the SEO articles fields are just way too competitive.

I’d rather have fewer visitors a day from highly targeted long-tail keywords than lots of visitors who opened up 10 other blogs like mine in separate tags and are closing them one at a time after reading headings.

Now if only I could get at the blogger server logs to see how long they chilling on my page…

By: SEO Carly

SEO Carly — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:59:08 +0000

I agree, and i actually get more traffic from my long tail keywords then most the page one terms with big competition.

For instance, page 1 for “Internet Design Company” from 330 Million results and it brings virtually no visitors. Yet long tail specific keywords with 1 or 2 million results bring dozens of visitors per day.

Not only that, the traffic with long tail traffic is alot more targetted.

By: Chase

Chase — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:32:42 +0000

Dude I totally dig the long tail keyword vibes! I’ve learned how to use them well by writing a bazillion articles with things like “Southern California Drunk Driving DUI Lawyer” as my keywords. The other day I wrote an arb post looking at those paid surveys, and I got the following hits from Google:

“paid online surveys south africa”, “online surveys for money south africa”, “how to make more on paid surveys,”

and my personal favorite:

“how to get money paid to you paypal instantly off surveys”, - although where the guy came up with this one, I dunno.

All I can say is that if I know exactly what I’m looking for, I type in as many keywords as I can. That’s all I’m saying.

By: Bespeckled SEO

Bespeckled SEO — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:57:17 +0000

I agree, especially for sites with lower to medium PageRank, it’s virtually impossible to make it in the top 3 pages on Google for highly competitive keywords.

Good advice!