Comments on: Long tail keyword posts for traffic and rankings http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/ Sharing my 'Net life bits Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: ChrisBoyce http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-367 ChrisBoyce Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:25:01 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-367 I guess because; Using long tail keywords will get you around 5-10 visitors a day (on average) say - ebay affiliates program project (i was #1 for that a while ago) Using Ebay affiliate will probably bag you no visitors because it's already filled with big companies/blogs who have been up there for so an extremely long amount of time. Conclusion. 5-10 visitors a day extra is better than none. It's my experience anyways. I guess because;

Using long tail keywords will get you around 5-10 visitors a day (on average) say - ebay affiliates program project (i was #1 for that a while ago)

Using Ebay affiliate will probably bag you no visitors because it’s already filled with big companies/blogs who have been up there for so an extremely long amount of time.

Conclusion.

5-10 visitors a day extra is better than none.

It’s my experience anyways.

]]> By: Staska http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-368 Staska Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:49:46 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-368 Well, I am not against long tail keywords. We all use them and they usually come in naturally in our posts. And they bring good traffic in aggregate. I was talking about finding in your logs the long tail keywords that you already rank for and that attract visitors to your blog. And then doing more posts stuffed with them. Will one more post with "ebay affiliates program project" in it bring your additional 5-10 visitors, or help you keep #1 spot? How about writing 10 more posts with it? Would you be now getting 50-100 visitors for "ebay affiliates program project"? Well, I am not against long tail keywords. We all use them and they usually come in naturally in our posts. And they bring good traffic in aggregate.

I was talking about finding in your logs the long tail keywords that you already rank for and that attract visitors to your blog. And then doing more posts stuffed with them.

Will one more post with “ebay affiliates program project” in it bring your additional 5-10 visitors, or help you keep #1 spot? How about writing 10 more posts with it? Would you be now getting 50-100 visitors for “ebay affiliates program project”?

]]> By: ChrisBoyce http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-369 ChrisBoyce Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:01:04 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-369 ahh good question, i think a post with a similar title and the repetition of ebay, affiliate, program and project in my post (not always together) then it will help keep the number one spot. I don't think it will bring in more posting about the same thing many times if it's using a long tail keyword as already it's a long tail keyword so the traffic is obviously going to be low I never bother with extreme SEO as i think it degrades your post if all your concentrating on is your keywords and ranking high i just write then read it over then publish. ahh good question, i think a post with a similar title and the repetition of ebay, affiliate, program and project in my post (not always together) then it will help keep the number one spot.

I don’t think it will bring in more posting about the same thing many times if it’s using a long tail keyword as already it’s a long tail keyword so the traffic is obviously going to be low

I never bother with extreme SEO as i think it degrades your post if all your concentrating on is your keywords and ranking high i just write then read it over then publish.

]]> By: Chee Kui http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-373 Chee Kui Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:32:05 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-373 Long tail keywords would be beneficial if you are looking forward to sell something, because people tend to type in more specific keywords into the search engines if they're ready to buy something ;) Long tail keywords would be beneficial if you are looking forward to sell something, because people tend to type in more specific keywords into the search engines if they’re ready to buy something ;)

]]> By: 45n5 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-376 45n5 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:38:33 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-376 Your premise is that ALL long tail keywords have little traffic. I don't agree with that. Yes you rank for some long tail keywords, just not ones worth ranking for. Any monkey can make up your their own "long tail keyword" but it doesn't mean anything, for instance http://www.google.com/search?q=foodlemonkey (if you didn't get the joke I'm the monkey ranking in that serp) The gold is a long tail keyword WITH traffic, and they are out there, I've only found a few unfortunately. Your premise is that ALL long tail keywords have little traffic. I don’t agree with that.

Yes you rank for some long tail keywords, just not ones worth ranking for.

Any monkey can make up your their own “long tail keyword” but it doesn’t mean anything, for instance

http://www.google.com/search?q=foodlemonkey

(if you didn’t get the joke I’m the monkey ranking in that serp)

The gold is a long tail keyword WITH traffic, and they are out there, I’ve only found a few unfortunately.

]]> By: Staska http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-379 Staska Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:56:36 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-379 <i>Your premise is that ALL long tail keywords have little traffic. I don’t agree with that.</i> Yep.There sure can be some low competition/good traffic keywords. Whether they are long tail or not, depends on your definition of what a long tail is. They definitely are in the long tail competition wise. But are they LT traffic wise? Your premise is that ALL long tail keywords have little traffic. I don’t agree with that.

Yep.There sure can be some low competition/good traffic keywords.

Whether they are long tail or not, depends on your definition of what a long tail is.

They definitely are in the long tail competition wise. But are they LT traffic wise?

]]> By: 45n5 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-380 45n5 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:01:57 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-380 Long Tail Competition Head for traffic equals a very nice, warm, cozy place to be. Or Long Tail Competition ANY traffic already making you money is worth going after harder maybe :lol: Long Tail Competition
Head for traffic

equals a very nice, warm, cozy place to be.

Or

Long Tail Competition
ANY traffic already making you money is worth going after harder

maybe :lol:

]]> By: Oli http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-496 Oli Sat, 05 May 2007 15:31:16 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-496 I came here to post the same as 45n5 - there are plenty of long tail keywords you could write posts for - I'm sure I wouldn't have much trouble ranking for "cherry flavoured garden shed on the moon", but if nobody is searching for it then that's no good. The long tail phrases you want to targt are the ones that have a fair amount of people searching for them, but not many sites that are optimized for them. Also, there's no point in attracting visitors you can't use - even if there were a lot of people searching for that "garden shed" phrase, writing a post about it on <i>this</i> blog would be a waste of time, because they wouldn't be interested in the content, wouldn't subscribe and wouldn't buy anything - 10 targetted visitors would be much better than 1000 visitors who were looking for something else... I came here to post the same as 45n5 - there are plenty of long tail keywords you could write posts for - I’m sure I wouldn’t have much trouble ranking for “cherry flavoured garden shed on the moon”, but if nobody is searching for it then that’s no good. The long tail phrases you want to targt are the ones that have a fair amount of people searching for them, but not many sites that are optimized for them.

Also, there’s no point in attracting visitors you can’t use - even if there were a lot of people searching for that “garden shed” phrase, writing a post about it on this blog would be a waste of time, because they wouldn’t be interested in the content, wouldn’t subscribe and wouldn’t buy anything - 10 targetted visitors would be much better than 1000 visitors who were looking for something else…

]]> By: Staska http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-501 Staska Sat, 05 May 2007 18:34:19 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-501 No argument from me here. And also no question that well implemented long tail keyword strategy for AIS sites can be a gold mine. My rant here was more concerned with the blogs and optimizing them for the LT keywords found in their logs, for which I see no reason. No argument from me here. And also no question that well implemented long tail keyword strategy for AIS sites can be a gold mine.

My rant here was more concerned with the blogs and optimizing them for the LT keywords found in their logs, for which I see no reason.

]]> By: Oli http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-502 Oli Sat, 05 May 2007 19:00:02 +0000 http://www.staska.net/2007/04/19/long-tail-keyword-posts-for-traffic-and-rankings/#comment-502 Fair enough - in that case I'm 100% agreed Fair enough - in that case I’m 100% agreed

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