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What are Long Tail keywords?

July 20th, 2009 by

If you can’t sell your services or products to a specific market you probably wont make money online and do accomplish this you need to have long tail keywords. Long tail keywords are able to help you market your products effectively and in doing so help your SEO.

Long tail keywords are nothing more than focussed keywords, they are not generic keywords, they are very specific in their nature and it is easier to rank highly with them than it is with generic keywords. You can create your product based on long tail keywords and this will in turn help visitors find a specific answer to their search which will in the end help boost your conversion rate.

Long Tails vs. Short Tails

Searching for long tail keywords should be lesson 101 in SEO training as well researched keywords has the ability to determine success, profit and high search engine rankings.

Keywords have always been a vital part of Google’s success, right from the beginning because they have make the internet what it is today, an easy place to find information. Short tailed keywords an unspecific and those who search in this fashion are not really committed to finding anything specific. The art is to find specific keywords that provide a solution to the people searching for something specific, yet finding long tail keywords involves a lot of work which required diligence and is something that must be mastered if you are going to achieve the success levels you are looking for from your SEO campaign.

Consider for a moment that your business comprises computer software, if you were to research the keyword “computer” you may not be surprised to learn that this word is heavily searched, in fact running into the millions. How would anyone be able to find you if you don’t have high rankings? Yet to get high rankings depends on keywords. Your only choice may be long tail keywords.

Benefits of long tail keywords

If you are targeting short tail keywords your blog, website or article is going to get lost in cyberspace, you are in effect competing against too many sites.
Long tail keywords offer you a good SEO tool which relates to higher conversion rates, and easier ways to get high search engine rankings. Long tail keywords also have the power to attract visitors to your site and these visitors will be from your niche market to your site. With quality traffic comes more sales, more profit and a successful business.

There are numerous ways you can find help with your keyword research as many tools are available on the market, often for free. One such tool is provided by Google and is called AdWords. AdWords offers statistics relevant to how many searches are conducted on a particular keyword phrase and will also give you statistics about how many people are competing for it.

Once you have done your homework and have found your keyword phrase that you can legally use you can focus your attention on upgrading your site with long tail keywords. It shouldn’t be long until you start seeing results.

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2 Responses to “What are Long Tail keywords?”

  1. Long tail keywords are a very good way to get lots of traffic.

  2. Great post Nick,

    Completely agree that focusing on long-tail keywords (such as “adobe computer software”), rather than generic, short-tail keywords (such as “computers”) will achieve better results in the natural rankings. Niche targeting always gets my vote.

    I recently did some research on CTR, conversion rate and profitability for searches containing different numbers of words (short tails vs. long tails). Although it has more of a PPC focus, the finding that long-tail keywords outperform short-tails in almost every measure, can easily be applied to SEO.

    http://www.alanmitchell.com.au/techniques/benefits-of-long-tail-keywords/

    Also agree that the free keyword tools can be extremely useful for researching long-tail keywords. I use Google’s Keyword Tool all the time and it’s a great help for uncovering those infrequently searched-for terms.

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