Understanding the Concept of Long Tail

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If you have been researching SEO you often come across references to longtail keywords/phrases.

Randfish of SEOmoz has a post Illustrating the Long Tail which explains this with illustrations.

It certainly will make you rethink trying to go after popular keywords. Longtail keywords/phrases are shown to get a higher percentage of traffic = better return on investment with the higher potential for converstion.

Have you found this too? Right, I do think long tail keywords would be better in conversion but the problem is how to rank for a lot relative long tail keywords. If you only get some ranks, you would not get decent traffics, IMO.

Regards, Long tail keyword plays a role in every site but just make sure that you targeted the right keyword. The traffic you got from long tail keyword is not high as your got if you rank high in major keywords. Long-tailed keywords are perfect for high conversion rate. When you have a specifically targeted long tail keyword, customers are looking for exactly that particular information. These specific search triggers higher conversion to your website than the other generic keywords It is good to use Long-tailed keywords for rankings in the starting of website promotion. These keywords are helpful and make the website familiar to search engine. Long tailed keywords sometimes help your site to be more searchable, most of the keyword use on web who has a short one or one to two word keywords are very competitive and hard to knock off. If you play with your keywords, it will eventually help you to become much easier to find over the net. majority of the search a certain thing using phrases and sentences. This where long tail comes to play. Its indeed the source of high percentage of traffic and a better ROI. Long tail is effective but try not to use 4-5 keywords. 3 words is enough and effective. Very interesting post but always target related keyword Long Tail Keywords are always playing vital role in search engine ranking and if we can target we will get right amount of conversion and investment from search engines.

How to create long tail keywords and how to use them, this matter complete depend on research on key phrase and for that you need to research on major search engines. Long tail keywords are less competitive than the major keywords and can get more valuable
and target traffic , and can increase your converation! You can use the wordtracker or google keywordtool to chose the long tail keywords, which show you the traffic and suggestion ones, very useful! targeting a long tail keyword is much better to

target than a top level keyword specially

if your site is new. I always tell new guys that these are the first words they should go after. There is no way you are going to rank for "auto loans" day 1. I still believe long tail keywords are also effective. I have a question how can you say that a keyword is long or short? Is a three and above word keywords are considered to be called long tail keywords? I use long tail keywords to rank a site, then rank the major keywords, this will help full! Long tail keywords always gives best result in search engine optimization. So as per my view that we should keep work hard for long tails keywords. It's a good idea to mix long tail with the tougher targeted keywords as well.
 
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