Is My Long Tail Keyword Search Technique OK?

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Hi all! I hope it's the right forum to post this question (it's just my 2nd post)

Anyway, I want to start to make money online and I'm about to try to target long tail keywords and monetize small websites with Adsense or Amazon.

So I just want to know if I'm doing "keyword searching" the right way or if I'm about to purchase some crappy keywords and spend time and money for nothing.

If I understand what I've read so far, the best long tail keywords to target for Adsense would be :
- A keyword that would have at least 4k of Local searches (6-7k would be better)
- A keyword that suggest that the person who typed it is looking to buy something (like "where to buy cat food")
- A keyword that has a steady trend (because you don't want to invest in something that will die in 1 year or a seasonal thing)
- A keyword that has high competition (because it means that an ad on AdSense would pay a lot)
- A keyword that would be easy to rank in the first results on Google (like in the top 3). To check that I would look at the first results in Google and :
  • look at their PR (too high = bad)
  • prefer keywords where "generic" sites are listed as first (squidoo, ezine articles, etc.)
  • prefer keywords where nobody has already purchased the exact matching domain name (it probably means that no IM is trying to target this specific keyword)
  • look at what page(s) has the keyword that I'm going to target and what are their link juice
  • llook at their backlinks and would, of course, prefer those that doesn't have a lot

So for example, if I look at "buy car" in GKT, that would be a dream keyword if the websites actually ranking for it in Google were bad at SEO. Of course now there's 1b results, the first result has 500k backlinks...

Lets go a little bit deeper... I looked at the long tail keyword "places that buy cars".

At first sight, it seems nice. 5.4k of local searches. CPC of 4.38$

Looking at the first 10 results in G I see that :
  • The page rank of some of the results are 1 and 0s. That's good. But there is also a 7 and a couple of 4s.
  • The Juice Page Links of some pages is massive (500k and 400, 600)
  • Page Authority are high for some and low for others. the 2nd result has a page authority of 64, wich is high. Another one 90.

For those reason I would not choose this keyword.

But, lets say that the first 10 results would all have 1-2 page links, 1-0 PR and a page authority less than 30... Would you by a domain name for that lt keyword and make a little website about "places that buy cars" or would this be a bad keyword for other reasons than just the metrics? Am I missing something here? Is there some other tips I should learn about for finding the right keyword?

Thanks a lot for your help!
#keyword #long #search #tail #technique
  • Profile picture of the author buzilla
    It seems you have done quite a lot of reading on long tail keyword research.

    Using your methods if you think you've found a good keyword and a way to monetize the keyword you should just go for it. You'll learn a whole lot more by building a site a trying to monetize than trying to perfect a keyword research technique.
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  • Profile picture of the author FlyingSuccess
    ha! I thought you'd be interested to know that I googled "good long tail keywords for making money online" and this forum post came up #1 on google. I think you should do a blog post about this and syndicate it to the world!
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