Comments on: Why Should You Target Longtail Keywords?

By: Michael Perry

Michael Perry — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:40:39 +0000

John, Thank you for the comments on long-tail keywords. My experience with them has taught me and others that websites who use long tail keywords with a density of 10 - 12% have the best success with Google and Yahoo.. Hope this helps. Best, Michael G Perry Michael Perry’s last blog post..eBay Selling Secrets Revealed! Valuable eBay Seller Strategies You Can Use to Skyrocket Your eBay Sales.

By: Joanne Morley

Joanne Morley — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:40:21 +0000

I have been trying long tail search terms recently – no data on it yet – but hoping it will make a difference. I used the new word tracker tool for some of it. You put in a key word and it gives you the type of questions people are asking – not sure it is so great for UK search volumes but it gives you some interesting ideas http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions

Good blog post – thanks
Joanne

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By: John

John — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:40:28 +0000

Hi Steven,

Thank you for the feedback, it's very much appreciated.

Yes, wherever your target audience hangs out it's a good idea to use longtail keywords. Youtube is now the second biggest search engine after Google so using relevant, longtail keyword phrases in your video titles is an excellent idea.

John

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:05:21 +0000

Hi John,

I really liked your post on the longtail keywords. You explained it and I understood it. I am a newbie to internet marketing and was wondering, can you use longtail keywords for posting videos? And when using social bookmarketing sites to bookmark either your blog posts or web 2.0 sites, is longtail keywords more effective? Any advice is appreciative.

Thanks

Steven

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:42:15 +0000

Steve,

As I mentioned in the above comment, the right keywords for an organic search campaign are those that fit your audience. My own experience tells me that the phrases used don't always make sense!

Checking your own stats (I use AWstats within Cpanel) can be very revealing.

John

By: Steve Reeves

Steve Reeves — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:57:55 +0000

Thanks John

this is a new perspective for me and very interesting.

Researching what I can find there seems to be a whole lot of strange combinations in the long tail e.g today I came across "me do".

I'd really appreciate your perspective on search terms actually used but that wouldn't make sense to anybody looking to market at them.

Steve

By: John

John — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:43:15 +0000

The right keywords for an organic search campaign are those that fit your audience, not just those that you think might be right. If you assume the searcher knows best, then you will choose the right keywords.

By: John

John — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:20:49 +0000

Sonja,

Nice work!

By: Sonja Cassella

Sonja Cassella — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:17:31 +0000

I've been targeting longtail keywords from the beginning and didn't know it! I'm writing a blog with local lifestyle focus. So every time I write something about a local attraction — say a museum and an exhibit name — I get search engine results from it.

I didn't actually figure this out using google adsense. I decided to do it by searching longtail keywords myself, seeing that no one was putting good reviews of local shows on the web, and figuring my website would have a niche to fill.