What is main benefit of long tail keywords ?

Benefits:

1) They're easier to rank for - reducing time spent to rank.
2) They convert well. People are 'deep Googling' because they're further into the buying research cycle. Therefore 'buy a new widget now' is better than 'widget' as a keyword.

Longtail leads to much more additional traffic then you could ever imagine, you not only rank for the long tail that you focus on but instead also on 100's or 1000's of variations of those long tails.

Besides ranking for the main keywords is not always that easy, so those long tails can provide you a huge amount of traffic and once you start to rank for the main ones you'll probably notice that your traffic only increases with 10-30%. Then you witness the true power of long tails.

I found and bought it just a few weeks ago - and it still works.

If you want a real life example, i just started a blog a couple of weeks ago, only targeting 1-2 long tail keywords in every article and writing on average 3 articles a day on the blog. Backlinking has just been here and maybe a couple of hours tops elsewhere in these 3 weeks.

Result:
- 50 unique visitors a day from google
- Averarging 1 sale a day the last 5 days
- Alexa ranking of 179000 coming from a couple of million.

So if you ask do long tail keywords work? Hell yeah! And it's very easy to rank for them!

Let me ask this... I have a hit counter with Statcounter and I can login and see the search terms that people used to hit my site. Why not just use those key phrases or is there something else that these software products do that make them better?

No, it makes no sense to try to rank more content for something you already rank for. You can come up with thousands of potential keywords for ANY niche.

If you are going to put the time into creating great content, why not try to go after fresh traffic instead of terms you are already pulling traffic from?

Maybe the gap in understanding is that you are unclear on how to dig up that fresh traffic from just very few base keywords?

I'll give you a little primer.

Do you remember the 5 W's + H from high school?

Who, What, When, Where, Why & How

Put them in front of your main keyword(s) and you will have a ton of fresh longtail phrases to case. Just use the tool and the process I stated above.

Here's an example: Let's choose something very niche'y - Wrist Wraps.

Using the tool I pointed to, you now have 31 additional longtails to produce high converting content for:

what are the best powerlifting wrist wraps
what are the best weight lifting wrist wraps
what are the best wrist wraps
what are wrist wraps for
what are wrist wraps good for
what are wrist wraps made out of
what are wrist wraps used for
what do weight lifting wrist wraps do
what do wrist wraps do
what do wrist wraps do for lifting
what do wrist wraps help with
what does wrist wraps do
what exercises to use wrist wraps
what is the point of wrist wraps
what is the purpose of wrist wraps
what length of wrist wraps
what length wrist wraps
what length wrist wraps should i get
what size inzer wrist wraps
what size rogue wrist wraps
what size wrist wraps
what size wrist wraps do i need
what size wrist wraps for crossfit
what size wrist wraps should i buy
what size wrist wraps should i get
what size wrist wraps should i use
what size wrist wraps to buy
what size wrist wraps to get
what to use wrist wraps for
what to wrist wraps do
what wrist wraps does rich froning use


See how that works?

Cool, so, you are typing...

what * wrist wraps

...into that $16 software?

After you get these results, what, exactly, do you do? Figure out how much traffic these phrases are getting. What exactly do you do in GAKT?

I'm still trying to figure it out myself but I do find 3-4 keywords are most effective as oppose to 1 or more than 4.

What I find challenging is trying to have a high SEO % and finding the right keywords that I can use a few times in the paragraph to keep the keyword density where it needs to be. I've been able to do it with 2 words but 3-4 words is challenging.

Since I started using IMGlobal for my blogging and internet marketing tools I'm learning a whole lot but there is still more to learn.

Manny

The main benefit of long tail keyword is it will give you filtered traffic where the chances of conversion is always high comparing to general keyword.

But you can't expect huge traffic from it. That's why I always suggests to use both of them long tail and high searched keywords.

Shorter keyword is not targeted always. They mostly does not provides any specific lead. Long tail keywords are more specific and targeting long tail keywords can provide a business targeted customers.

Great thread. Longtail keywords are more targeted and easier to rang for. I'd rather a longtail keyword with say 20,000 searches than a broad term with a 1,000,000 searches

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Hello, Long tail keywords can drastically increase search queries and hence help to reduce bounce rate. Some of popular search engines like google, bing, http://www.oko69.com, baidu are pretty sensitive to track and optimize long tail keywords.

Long Tail Keywords usually composed of 3 or more words – they are more of a phrase than a broad description (compare to short tail). It is less common and draws fewer visitors but often pull more quality visitors leading to more conversions than ordinary keyword. Choosing which type of keywords to use usually depends on your market and the keyword competition.