Learn How to Find Long-Tail keywords.

[yukon]

This is a compilation of a few of my own past forum post & how to use Google Instant to find long-tail keywords based on a root keyword (example: iphone)

I've seen a few members asking how to find long-tail keywords.

Keep in mind, this is better suited for generating keyword ideas. Get creative in how you blend these keywords into your own content/pages.

Hope it helps.

Try this.

Your root keyword is iphone.

This will return plenty of prefix ideas for your root keyword.

Then work your way through the entire alphabet & add a single letter to the front of the root keyword (iphone).

Example: aiphone, biphone, ciphone, etc...

Root Keyword

aiphone

biphone

ciphone

diphone

eiphone

Ok, same keyword as above iphone, only numerical instead of the alphabet.

You still need to check traffic levels, on the Google Instant longtail keywords.

Really the prefix & suffix is endless, with Google Instant...

Example: 1iphone, 2iphone, 3iphone, etc...

1iphone

2iphone

If you turn OFF Google Instant & go to the Google home page to do your keyword research, you'll double your search results (max) from 5 results to 10 results per search.

Then leave a blank space at the end of your search (arrow in screenshot below).

[Craig McPherson]

Great post Yukon.

You always come up with helpful tips for everyone.

Take a bow mate

Craig

[adrenalinfeed]

Kind of cool tip. Thanks!

[thomas1984]

Thank you Yukon....Will use this for sure!

[Markey35]

I have never thought of doing this. This is a great way of finding long tail keywords for your site. Its my understanding that a lot of people are missing opportunites with long tail keywords for their site. I will definitely try this!

[BenJackson]

Yukon, don't know if you've seen this tool yet: Ubersuggest.

It does exactly what you're explaining, but lightning fast!

[awj888]

great this is really helpful!!

[yukon]

Originally Posted by BenJackson

Yukon, don't know if you've seen this tool yet: Ubersuggest.

It does exactly what you're explaining, but lightning fast!

Thanks Ben,

I've used that in the past, If I do the same search (example: cannon a) I get different results between Google & the ubersuggest tool.

However the results (keywords) are similar, I wonder If the ubersuggest tool has a dated database they are pulling results from.

Could also be results based on my IP vs. their Geo. location, maybe it's results from different Google servers?

That is a nice tool for keyword ideas.

Anyways, you can use my old school manual search as a plan-B to fall back on If the ubersuggest tool is ever down.

[DPM70]

Good tips, Yukon.

Dammit, man, stop giving it all away!

[DPM70]

You know, putting a subtly "an**" slant on this, I've often wondered whether the G algorithm has picked up on marketers using too many of these "footprint" keywords in their 'titles' 'headers' 'tags' etc. within one domain. I know that I like to mix it up and it works wonders. But you can imagine somebody having a whole domain worth of exactly these easily findable longtails (and nothing else).

[yukon]

Originally Posted by DPM70

You know, putting a subtly "an**" slant on this, I've often wondered whether the G algorithm has picked up on marketers using too many of these "footprint" keywords in their 'titles' 'headers' 'tags' etc. within one domain. I know that I like to mix it up and it works wonders. But you can imagine somebody having a whole domain worth of exactly these easily findable longtails (and nothing else).

That's why I said keyword ideas & get creative in the OP.

I hope that nobody does a Google Instant copy & paste as their page title or URL on their own web pages.

If Google Instant returned canon body kit, I would do something like:

[page title]
"Canon Introduces 2012 Body Kits"

Be creative guys.

[worldwidewandering]

How do you copy down these lists of keywords? When I try to manually type them in notepad the list disappears. Is there a better method of copying down the terms?