Ultimate longtail SEO: My Drip Feed Blast Plan

[evolutionvisions]

Hey guys,
I've been a longtime member on another forum and thought that I would come over here and share some of my very successful strategies. This is one of my posts that is older that LITERALLY helped me get my main business up and rolling and allowed me to quit my job. So without further ado:


"Just thought I would share with everyone my current plan with DFB (drip feed blasts). I've already used it for a couple months to blast the **** out of my web 2's as well as a few high PR links.
So, I'm currently ranking pretty well for my list of main keywords so I thought I would grab up as much traffic as I could from the long tails.

To begin with I have a 20 something page site. I have some very high PR links that give my site an incredibly strong foundation so that it can take a few sketchy links, unlike a site without the high PR links.

Most of my pages are optimized for a single main keyword, which is also in the URL.
Example:
www . mydomain .com/keyword1/ -- keyword 1
www . mydomain. com/keyword2/ -- keyword 2
www . mydomain. com/keyword3/ -- keyword 3
and so on.

I then went and used Keyword Ninja ( a great tool for generating tons of long tails). I would type in my main keyword for one of my inner pages and generate a **** ton of longtails. Generally anywhere from 30-200 search terms.

Next I take those longtails to market samurai and do keyword research on them all. I evaluate the results, and go through and save to a spreadsheet every long tail that has at least 2-3 searches a day, as well as any search terms that would are "buying" terms such as "buy blue widgets", or "order blue widgets online" etc...

I know a lot of you are probably saying "why waste your time with such low search volumes". First of all it is my own personal online business, secondly I look at conversions. I take a term that gets 3 searches a day. If I rank #1 for that term (incredibly easy to do with most of these) I can expect an average of 1.2 visits per day (3 searches multiplied by .4 for first position).
I have a low ball 2% conversion rate. Many times higher. So, 2% of 1.2 visits a day is .024.
Multiply that by my profit per sale ($36 is average) and I get 86 cents a day. Not much.
BUUUUT, multiply that by 365 days and that is $315 a year for a keyword that requires LITTLE effort. Doesn't even take into account returning customers and referrals. Do this with 100 simple longtails and that comes out to $31,500 a year. Not bad for a few insignificant keywords.

NOW, back to my DFB.
In order to help rank for these long tails I do a "simple blast" in DFB. For the URL I only use 1: My inner page optimized for a keyword: www . mydomain . com/keyword2/
On the "ANCHORS" section input, I put all of the long tail keywords that I chose to be worthy and save.
Then I go to weekday calender settings:
Monday: www . Mydomain . com/keyword2/ -- keyword 2 and longtails
Tuesday: www . Mydomain . com/keyword3/ -- keyword 3 and longtails
Wednesday: www . Mydomain . com/keyword4/ -- Keyword 4 and longtails
AND SO ON.

This isn't all that I'm going to do to secure these, but it's a great start I believe. Everyday anchor texts with those keywords going out.

Lastly, my site is old enough and has enough established high PR backlinks to be able to absorb that many links. So I need not worry. But I personally wouldn't be worried to use this on a brand new site either as long as you have some high PR links to back it up and protect it. The drippy part protects.

So in the end, focusing on some longtails can mean BIG money, not to mention they are way easier to get. I do some SEO work for people on the side and it amazes me how many people go for huge terms like "insurance" or "weight loss". Even the pro's will hardly touch those.
Cheers.

*** Note: when I first wrote this post several months ago I still had to work a day job (American), now a few months later this business provides all that I need!!

[robertwhitis]

I really have to agree with you on this.

It's funny that I came across this post, because this is exactly the same strategy I've been developing over about the previous month.

The long tail keywords have very low traffic numbers, but the competition as you said is also very light. This means that rather than focus your effort on taking on the hardest task, you can take care of a lot of small, easy tasks first. Some traffic is better than no traffic, always. Even better is the fact that more often than not if they are coming from a long tail keyword search result, you probably have exactly the content they are looking for.

Also, if you're able to build backlinks to your site via the traffic from the easily done long tail keywords, this will help you even more when you begin working on the main keywords for your website.

Market Samurai is a good product, I did the trial, but I'm content with the Google keyword tool for the time being.

Good luck with your strategy, I think it's a winner and I hope it produces good results for me as well, although there are variations in our strategies I'm sure!

[markowe]

Good strategy, thanks for sharing. Too often we obsess over our 'main' kwp when we could be going for a diverse range, which Google likes too.

Am I right in understanding you don't even bother having all those long-tails actually IN your content, you just rank for them on the strength of anchor text alone?

Oh, and I'll bite, what's DFB? I am going through all the tools in my head but just can't think what that is.

Edit: oh, got it, duh, Drip Feed Blasts. Don't know it - it's basically profile links, right? Have you found the lack of diversity of this type of link a problem? Or do you think sheer volume and consistency wins the day?

I think I will gradually move over to this approach with a site of mine, except maybe using AMR (touche with the acronyms), which I just prefer, dripping out articles with 'spun' anchor text so there is a diverse range going out over an extended period. I do it already, but not really for those real small search volume kwp's - I've tended to focus on the 2 or 3 highest-volume ones and I think I am selling myself short.

[jacked]

Yea this is a great strategy and I use it for many of my product and adsense niche sites. Build pages to attack a certain long tail and then build relevant links for that term. Even though it may be low search volume, it is a very little investment, and all the small long tails add up for some decent traffic and ultimately profits.

[robertwhitis]

Depending on the individual long tail keyword phrase, I opt to offer specific content for them, as long as I can stay away from offering duplicate content. Also, if I have a list of similar long tail keywords, I will try to use each variation a couple of times within the content.

I'm no guru so don't take my advice as golden, but this is a very similar strategy to the one I am currently using and continually working to improve.

Also, if you have a good article spinner software or are willing to do the same function manually, it's possible to create content for each individual long tail.

An idea I have been tossing around but haven't put into action yet as I'm still researching the impact it may have (want to make sure it won't have a negative impact) would be to use small one page blogs for the individual long tails, in junction with an article spinner to stay away from duplicate content, and backlink to my main blog from all of the smaller blogs, thus providing some backlinks of my own, and at the same time, creating a channel for the long tail traffic to the broader subject matter content offered on the main blog.

[IcedSEO-CEO]

This is a very good strategy and I'm going to adopt it. I have thought of doing something like this but I thought it didn't worth my time but now, I'm going to do it with my new review site.

Thanks man, many loves from me

[markowe]

Seems to me you COULD potentially rank for those long-tails without even optimising a page for them, just on the strength of anchor text alone (that's how Google works, right).

However it would make sense to group those LTs into batches of 10-15 related phrases and produce individual pages/content for your site that was optimised for them (and made sense, and was actually useful!). Each phrase wouldn't need to be referenced more than once (indeed, you may not need to mention it at all, as I said) and you could very easily rank for most of those, and you are not going crazy writing individual articles for EACH kwp - you would go insane with boredom, and it wouldn't be very cost-effective!

[robertwhitis]

It may be possible in some cases to rank for the long tail keywords without optimizing content towards them, and going on anchor text alone, but you would have to have a respectable PR as a prerequisite going that route, in my opinion.

I think the weight of a good relevant article that's optimized properly goes much further than anchor text alone, but I could be wrong, just my opinion.

I agree it is much more feasible to group the similar long tail keyword phrases together and do one piece of content as a catch all for that group, and then move on to the next, because it definitely would take a great deal of time to compose an article for each, however, if you're using an article spinner that time could be greatly reduced.

This is an interesting conversation, looking forward to hearing more points of view!

[evolutionvisions]

Originally Posted by markowe

Am I right in understanding you don't even bother having all those long-tails actually IN your content, you just rank for them on the strength of anchor text alone?

What I have successfully done is this: I'm not going to out my niche, but I will use an example... say computer printers.

My main site is on computer printers.
An inner page is all on printer cartridges.

I actually do try and use the longtails in the content. It's not really hard to do. In your inner pages article just throw each longtail in a paragraph once.
EX: "best printer cartridges", "longest lasting printer cartridges", "best looking printer cartridges".

I don't fret about using every single longtail but adding a few of the ones with the highest traffic is easy to do.

[evolutionvisions]

Originally Posted by markowe

Drip Feed Blasts. Don't know it - it's basically profile links, right? Have you found the lack of diversity of this type of link a problem? Or do you think sheer volume and consistency wins the day?[/B]

What I do is simple. I own a High PR blog network that I link for the main keyword,

For the example I was using all of my high PR links would say "printer cartridges".
I use the drip feed blasts to blast out all of my longtails. The high PR links give the keyword all the strength it needs, so when a longtail comes along that has the "main keyword" already in it ("best printer cartridges"), the High PR links will assist it and the volume of low quality profile links will bring it home.

I hope this doesn't sound complicated because it's really not that bad. I have my High PR network which is awesome but I think that any quality high PR links will do.

[IcedSEO-CEO]

Nice trick evolutionvisions

[evolutionvisions]

Thanks Iced

[Kurt Abel]

It's amazing how those little keywords can add up quickly. I'm a fan of the long tails as well.

[IcedSEO-CEO]

Originally Posted by kwaaea

It's amazing how those little keywords can add up quickly. I'm a fan of the long tails as well.

I knew back in February 2010 when my brothers site literally ranking for no specific keyword hit down 200,000 alexa ranking and pulling in close to 6,000 visitors daily all from posts he made that consist of long tail keywords like this, I just thought it was his luck but now I will pursue same goal

[millionaires20]

Thanks a lot. I also thought it was really NOT worth it trying to rank #1 for those long tails with less 10 searches per day (and I had a ton of them). But you changed my mindset now.

Going back to Market Samurai now.

Very useful strategy.

Cheers
Sampson

[gundammeister]

Can we get an update? How is it working out for you now after all the google changes

[Jonathan Scott]

This is a great strategy. I go after low searches but you have taken it to a whole new level. I will dig deeper and find smaller searches. I like going against the grain. That's why it's so easy to make money online with SEO.

I am going to give Drip Feed Blast a try.

Thanks for this strategy. I am bookmarking this thread.

[ringoli]

How many link you blast in each single long tail keyword?

[Justin Stowe]

Originally Posted by ringoli

How many link you blast in each single long tail keyword?

The way DRB works is you can get either 1,000 a day or 2,000 a day (depending on your plan).

It sounds to me like the OP is just blasting these long tails once, so he gets 1-2K per keyword.

But I may be wrong on that :-p