Firstly, it’s important to know what Long tail keywords are. Long tail keywords are keyword phrases composed of three or more words that collectively are more specific than a single keyword. Long tail keywords are mainly used as essential to success in making money online through internet marketing or search engine marketing. Unless single word keywords, Long tail keywords are mainly focused on increasing sales on a online business or online marketing.
What Long Tail Keywords Are?
Users search for things or desired items using search engines, they type things name or phrases. Sometimes people search things using only single or maximum two words phrases. But when it comes to buy something people mostly uses long phrases which is more suitable for the product they are looking for.
For example, A user form California looking for “used cars” and he types “used cars” as a search term and the search engine displays all the used cars keyword it’s been indexed so far. If the user looking for the used car in inside California, he would use phrase “used cars in California” or “used cars in California Avenue 16”, this is long tailed keywords. Now search engine displays only results from the keywords related to “used cars in California Avenue 16”.
As you may already understand, Long tail keywords are bread and butter for internet marketer. In most cases webmasters try to optimize their website and blogs for maximum 10-15 key search engine terms. Generally, if webmaster or seo professional focus only on generic keywords it may take long time than you expect to get your desired rank in search engine, but on other hand the long tail keywords makes a magic and your site will defiantly tank for those keywords faster than you may expect and also your traffic for that specific keyword increases day by day.
Have a look on bellow keyword “how to download facebook albums” this keyword gives you About 130,000,000 results, in google.com. I published an article about how to download facebook albums on 11th of May, and the next day my blogs ranking for that long tail keywords is 7th position worldwide!. That’s the magic of Long tail keywords.
I already decided that, from now onwards I ill more focus on Long tail keywords, and I’m sure that, internet users are grownup now, they know what they want and they know how to get it using search engine. The new trend Long Tail Keywords has started.
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Long tail keywords are more specific and can contain the name of a specific product, brand or city. Ranking for long tail keywords is comparatively easier and the rate of conversion is better than that of short tail keywords. Do include keywords in the title tags.
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great article, yes it is true, all the long tail keywords for ranking, but how to optimize for short term keywords to rank in search engines.
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