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Can you get more traffic for phrase/longtrail keywords using one keyword?

by goldenwarrior
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Suppose if you anchor text with one keyword (ex: God) and some one searches for longtrail/phrase keywords that include the single word "god" (example: "who is god"). Then can the search results show your website for "who is god" in page one if your competitors have less backlinks, less SEO, missing keyword in some parts of the page (description, tittle, header, article ) but you do have it on all places. Meaning, can you still get extra traffic for longtrail/phrase keywords even if you used only one keyword for anchor text?

And how do I find out if this is true or not?
#keyword #keywords #phrase or longtrail #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Jimipedia
    The answer is yes and no. I said yes because if you have a lot of backlinks to your site, you can definitely dominate the keyword and the longtail. Even if you have the exact longtail, it does not neccessarily mean that you will be on the top. If your competition have more backlinks, they are more likely to be on the top.
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    • Profile picture of the author goldenwarrior
      Originally Posted by Jimipedia View Post

      The answer is yes and no. I said yes because if you have a lot of backlinks to your site, you can definitely dominate the keyword and the longtail. Even if you have the exact longtail, it does not neccessarily mean that you will be on the top. If your competition have more backlinks, they are more likely to be on the top.
      Okay

      The reason I am asking is should I anchor text a single word or phrase keyword if both of them have about the same amount of searches per mouth, and the same competition? So which should I go with then? And I only want to get more traffic not buyers since I am not selling or promoting anything.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jimipedia
        Originally Posted by jobtoit352s View Post

        Okay

        The reason I am asking is should I anchor text a single word or phrase keyword if both of them have about the same amount of searches per mouth, and the same competition? So which should I go with then? And I only want to get more traffic not buyers since I am not selling or promoting anything.
        The reason most marketers targeting phrase keyword is because they want to get laser targeted visitors that high probability of purchasing their product. Since you're not selling anything, you should target both because first, it is harder to get high rank for single keyword but if you being persistent, you eventually get there and secondly, you never know maybe in the future you might want to sell something on the site.

        And one more thing to remember, if you keep targeting the same keyword over and over again, Google might give your site penalty for trying to manipulate the search engine. So, it's better to keep shuffling.
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        • Profile picture of the author goldenwarrior
          Originally Posted by Jimipedia View Post

          And one more thing to remember, if you keep targeting the same keyword over and over again, Google might give your site penalty for trying to manipulate the search engine. So, it's better to keep shuffling.
          What makes you so sure?
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  • Profile picture of the author jrodriguez315
    If you can get enough great backlinks to your site using your longtail phrase, you can dominate the SERP for that phrase. You will always get peripheral traffic for parts of the phrase. For example, if your phrase is "god is great but exactly who is god?" then you will rank for that specific phrase but will also get traffic but probably not great rankings for things like "god is great", "exactly who is god?", "god is great but", "god is", "great god" and so on.

    I hope that helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author jan roos
      If you keep building back links and adding quality content to your site for around a year or sometimes less you will see your site will start to become an authority site in your niche at which point you will start to rank for all kinds of keywords you never even optimized for but are related to your niche.

      This is a great spot to be in and one should work towards that goal. Become an authority site in your niche.

      Cheers

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      • Profile picture of the author goldenwarrior
        Originally Posted by jan roos View Post

        If you keep building back links and adding quality content to your site for around a year or sometimes less you will see your site will start to become an authority site in your niche at which point you will start to rank for all kinds of keywords you never even optimized for but are related to your niche.

        This is a great spot to be in and one should work towards that goal. Become an authority site in your niche.

        Cheers

        Jan
        Yes that is true. But which one I should rather anchor text for: [god] or a phrase/longtrail keyword with equal amount of searches that has the word "god" in it?

        Meaning, which is best to get ALSO phrase/longtrail keywords traffic even if you did not anchor text all kinds of different phrases and longtrail keywords that includes the word "god" in them? Is it just the word "god" or some phrase with the word god in it?
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    • Profile picture of the author goldenwarrior
      Originally Posted by jrodriguez315 View Post

      If you can get enough great backlinks to your site using your longtail phrase, you can dominate the SERP for that phrase. You will always get peripheral traffic for parts of the phrase. For example, if your phrase is "god is great but exactly who is god?" then you will rank for that specific phrase but will also get traffic but probably not great rankings for things like "god is great", "exactly who is god?", "god is great but", "god is", "great god" and so on.

      I hope that helps.


      Does the same rule apply if I use just one keyword "god"?
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      • Profile picture of the author jrodriguez315
        Originally Posted by jobtoit352s View Post

        Does the same rule apply if I use just one keyword "god"?
        I suppose if you get enough authority backlinks, you could eventually take position 1 for "God" but that would be a herculean task. The long tails will be far better for driving traffic and you can dominate them way more easily. Also, you can dominate a bunch of different long tails for 1 site. Once you are ranking well, mentioned previously, you will begin to rank for all sorts of long tails that you never even thought of. Check your stats and optimize pages for those as well. That will help with driving traffic too.
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    GOOD THOUGHT
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