How do I find the right long-tail keywords?

try wordtracker

they have plans for 1000 to over 1,000,000 keyowords

since their smaller packages are under $100 It's probably one of the absolute best investments you can make in keyword research

I would suggest add specifics to that term, and that will give you all the long tail combination, in your case, what about training for different breed, that will give you tens if not hundreds of terms, then location, again, hundreds of them..

Keep in mind that those general keywords are to help identify other related terminology within that niche.

I just did a site in the dog niche and am working on another one on cats so I am a little familiar with this topic.

So, for 'dog training' what are people wanting to accomplish? I personally ended up focusing on 'dog obedience tips' and 'obedience training for dogs'. The search competition was drastically reduced but the search counts was still high enough. This is still a very competitive area but hope that will kind of give you a better idea. Look at alternative words with the same meanings too. Use a thesaurus (sp?) to look out alternative words that might mean the same thing but just aren't as highly searched for...there are some real golden nuggets in their them hills

Two sites I couldn't do without for keyword research;
Seo Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Good advice Aaarrrggghhh.

I did some research and finally bought Market Samurai, both because it was mac compatible and because I felt it had more options than most other products. It does just what you ask, turning a basic search into variants and analyzing them to find a good long tail. Minuses: it is not very beginner-friendly (but the new training lessons on their site made things easier) and is a bit slow.

Market Samurai without question especially when you're still learning as it spells it out. They also offer a trial so you can test it out against doing it manually if you want.

Try using the autocomplete in the Google search box and type every letter of the alphabet to see all the variation after your primary keyword. I find lots of great long tail keywords this way.

To piggyback on John's magazine suggestion, go to ezine articles and other article directories and do a search on your topic and just start reading. There should be plenty of longtail keywords in those articles... Well, at least in the good ones. Good luck.

Google keyword search tool has all the details needed. The tool gives the count of searches, the percentage of competition. After that keyword search you can optimized the keyword that has high searches and low competition.

I wouldn't say that Google Keyword Tool is a good solution to look for LTK. Try to use a Wordtracker.Don't be mislead using the free version. From my own experience it has nothing in common with a paid program. Free version doesn't crawl all the Search Engines and provides the number of searches much lower than it really is. When you are ready to go ahead with some project just buy Wordtracker for the shortest period possible. I remember it was 1 day for about $10. Now I am not sure. If it provides only monthly subscription, try to prepare several projects and make keyword research in this 1 month period. Try Free Trial of Market Samurai.There are some good keyword research programs that have a Free Trial.Make a search online.

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

I've just been playing with Market Samurai, and it does look very powerful. I'm still not finding any decent keywords, but I've only been at it for an hour or so! Seems every decent keyword has loads of competition!

I'm also a bit confused by the discrepancy between the results I see in MS and Traffic Travis, and what I see in Google. TT doesn't show YouTube videos in the top ten results whereas MS does, but MS shows a much higher number of backlinks to the domain than TT does.

Anyone able to shed any light on this? Thanks again

Hi guys

i use wordtracker and here is the direct link:

Free keyword suggestion tool for SEO, Adwords & blogging

simply enter a short keyword and then it will give you lots of ideas with daily hits etc so that you can choose wisely.

kind regards


sam
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If you are looking at the usual niches like dog training, make money, weight loss, & get your ex back my experience has been disappointing. I use Micro Niche Finder and have not found many long term keywords with any decent competition.

I have made somewhat decent money over the last seven months in smaller niches I found by focusing on Clickbank products with lower gravity, but the amount of writing compared to the return has been daunting.

I see you are a War Room member & I just recently joined and am placing my focus on the thread about "Flopping websites." This is where you are building as many adsense sites as you can, keeping the top performers and flipping the others on Flippa for 8-15X their monthly revenue. The same amount of writing can make you steady income instead of hit miss commissions and if your site is a loser you sell it & move on.

Using micro niche finder I can find so many tiny micro niches that it is hard to use them all. There is a video posted by Fthomas in the War Room about how to use MNF to find valuable adsense niches. I had used it to make a little money article marketing but after watching his video yesterday I really found some valuable niches where people are paying $10-$25 a click for adwords ads.

Best Regards,

Andy