Best tool to find long tail keywords for ...

Google keyword tool is the best.

Many top internet marketers recommend the same.

I use and love Micro Niche Finder, which has a cool "Dig" tool that will dig into any keyword to find a lot of longtails related to it. Highly recommended, but it does cost $97.

To go the free route, I'd use the Google Tool here: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

If you keep the "Use synonyms" box checked (it's checked by default), you'll get a list of related keywords and their stats, including a lot of longtails (usually).

John

Kind of depends on how saturated your niche is as well. Bottom line is that you've got to do some thinking as well about how you'd search for your own topic. Remember to include searches where common words like of, the etc are left out.

In my niche those are sometimes less optomized.

More important to find is long tail words that are profitable. I am still testing Market Samurai which has revealed amazing things to me about profitable keywords.

Question: If I type in a keyword and it tells me that there is not enough data, does that mean that it is not a good keyword? Or not necessarily? This happens to me many times in the Google keyword trcking tool.

I would always find the google tool more reliable than others. Also, if you have money to spend I would recommend article samurai, its a great software

The best keyword tool evar is Google ANALYTICS!

Start writing your posts about things you find interresting about cooking. Get the sites indexed and start seeing what keywords people use to find your site. Write a new post to rank for that keyword.

Whith this new post you get even more keywords. The cool thin is that Google thinks your site is about this keyword already. You are ranking with a post that is not written for the keyword.

The bad thing about google keywords is that there is not a lot of keywords that are tracked. People search for all sorts of things. Continue to study your keywords in google analytics and write posts around the keywords. These are YOUR keywords, as not 5000 marketers and big companies are competing to rank for them.

I agree that if you have data already coming in that Google Analytics can be very helpful.

I always use Google Keyword Tool. When you go to the page look for "How would you like to generate keyword ideas?" Click the website content and enter in one of the most popular sites in the cooking niche and click the 'Include other pages on my site linked from this URL' to see various relevant keywords.

The tip to use Google Analytics is valid, but you need to do some other legwork before you proceed:

1. Find the keywords GA is showing as the top visitor getters for your site.

2. Find out how many monthly searches are being conducted for that keyword by checking the Google tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

3. Search Google.com using that keyword without quotation marks around it and see where your site ranks.

If you already rank #1 for that keyword, then you're already getting as much organic traffic for it as you can. If you rank lower and are tempted to try to improve that ranking, factor in how many monthly searches are being done for it. If it's a small number, your time is better spent on keywords that get more searches.

John

I still like market samurai and now you can get a quick look at the competition.

What you have to remember is that around 50% of all searches every day on Google are totally unique. This means that there isn't a keyword tool in the world that can find long tails that have never been searched for.

A great technique for uncovering better long tails is to use your own stats and Google analytics.

1. Research some good long tails given to you by the Google keyword tool plus any brainstorming that you come up with.
2. Check competitors webpages for some good long tails.
3. Include those long tails in your own content, get indexed and wait for the traffic.
4. Check your stats and analytics for any new long tails that are getting traffic and include those in new content.
5. If you set up your analytics to see which keywords lead to conversions or goals then you can then use these keywords as the basis of new content.

This is a great feedback loop that will build your website's success over time.