Keyword Question
Sooo, I'm back now at the drawing board and trying to find lesser keywords that I may be able to rank for and that still have decent monthly and daily searches (albeit, not quite as many). However, I was doing my research and I was wondering a few things if anyone could please help to clarify as I am at a loss.
Let's say for example's sake that I researched the keyword phrase 'buy cheese online'
Lets say that this exact keyword phrase is already highly competitive and has really good monthly traffic exceeding 1000.
So instead of targeting 'buy cheese online', say that instead I targeted 'buy cottage cheese online'. Would targeting 'buy cottage cheese online' be a good idea or a bad idea beings as it is easy to rank for (low competition), yet the monthly search traffic is below 1000?
This is where I'm getting caught up at because I'm finding all kinds of really great buyer keywords with great traffic but the competition seems really steep - whereas I know I could rank quite easily with a more targeted, long-tail keyword that has little monthly traffic. I'm just not sure which is more worth the risk?
Any thoughts?
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