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Long Tail Keywords Question

by ajldomains
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Hi Warriors,

Question regarding long tail keywords. I was going through stats of one of my websites and was reading various information on targeting long tail keywords. Can you tell me:

- Do I need to add a long tail keyword to my navigation menu? Will it hurt if I do not? I have started to do a few pages - they are on my site map (I use XSitePro for this particular site). Will this do the trick for Google to pick the site up and will it hurt trying to get the page ranked because it's not in my nav menu?

- Is there any one good resource on how to construct long tail keyword pages? I am basically going to take long tail's that are in my keywords (over 5,000) and start making pages from them. Generally how much content should the page have? The page I just completed only had 178 words - some of these long tail's can be hard to write content for.

Am I on the right track?

Any info is appreciated!!!

Thanks,
Jim
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  • Profile picture of the author petelta
    You don't need the long tail keyword in the navigation bar. If you are targeting that exact keyword, you want it scattered throughout the page though.

    I would say try and have at least 350 words on a page. Your traffic isn't going to respect a 100 word article that much. If they don't get something from your content, what gives them the motive to click on your promotion or link?
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  • Profile picture of the author koncorps
    I'd suggest 300 words minimum as that's what seems to work the best for Yahoo / Bing however for Google anything over 250 seems to be fine (in terms of search engines, not readers).

    Make sure it's geared towards readers. If you're writing the content when you add in the keywords make sure it's not completely mumbo jumbo

    If you're aiming for 5000 keywords I'd get articles written up, you'll be doing it yourself for a while.

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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Use the long tail keywords in the titles of your articles you add to the site. Also, if you are on a blog you can add them in as tags, but not necessary to add them in as categories.

      If you are just using them within the article, you can make them subtitles or bolded and this also tells the SE there is some more importance to those phrases.
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      • Profile picture of the author thecableguy
        JMO but if it's a minisite of 10 pages or less I'd put them in a sidebar navigation menu, but if you're planning on building something bigger than put them in catergories "silo style" like wikipedia. By putting them in the sidebar you'd be doing what Google webmaster guidelines suggests by making them accessible with one click from any page for easy navigation. Obviously this is impossible with larger sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author ajldomains
      It cannot be mumbo jumbo as we are luxury service provider - so what I write has to make sense - the hard part is deciding what to write and how - I seem to get a block because alot of it is repetitive. The problem I had with outsourcing is most are overseas and don't understand my business.

      Jim
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