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How exactly does a long tail keyword work?

by TekNite
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I spent a week attempting to gather long tail keywords for a niche and found out last night those keywords I had found, and thought were decent, were in fact not. they had to much competition. So I would be forever grateful for some explanations into how these long tails work. I'll make an example.

Here is an example long tail: "Explanation of a long tail keyword".

Let's say that only 5-100 pages on the Internet have this keyword in the page url. Known by doing inurl:"Explanation of a long tail keyword".

And it has only 50,000 results when searched with just quotes.

When searched with no quotes 4 or 5 competitors show up on the front page. They are not targeting this EXACT keyphrase though. They are ranking for SOME of the keywords in my keyphrase. Will I be able to rank better than them for the exact search term?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    This is the place to ask (and/or to read a large number of threads discussing long-tail keywords and how they work): Search Engine Optimization
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    • Profile picture of the author TekNite
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      This is the place to ask (and/or to read a large number of threads discussing long-tail keywords and how they work): Search Engine Optimization
      I really thought I had posted it in there. Thanks! Will post there now.
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