Comments on: Using Long Tail Keyword Phrases Will Help Improve Your Site Rankings in the Search Engine Results Page

By: Reiki Cursus

Reiki Cursus — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:23:23 +0000

Does anyone have any suggestions on how best to use ltk’s in articles. Should I focus on just one per article or can I incorporate more.

Thanks!

By: Spunky Jones

Spunky Jones — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:57:51 +0000

After that last Google update my long tail keyword rankings took a hit. They are finally almost back to where they were. Not sure what happened, but it appeared to be something with that last update.

I usually write my articles for people first and then tweak a little for search engines. I use long tail keywords in many of my blog posts. They don’t deliver tons of traffic, but they do deliver a nice trickle that is steady and targeted.

By: local dog breeders

local dog breeders — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:39:10 +0000

I wanted to know does long tail keyword terms help improve shorttail keywords?

Like say in my site dog breeders a hard word to rank for but if I target dog breeders in florida does this help the shorttail?

By: Cheap Hotel Prices

Cheap Hotel Prices — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:36:03 +0000

Yes I have started doing something similar and am getting more google presence for more keywords!

By: Freelance MD

Freelance MD — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:00:53 +0000

There’s also something to be said about using very long tail kewords in title posts.

By: Stuart Cross

Stuart Cross — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:16:14 +0000

Its of course intuitive but took a long time for peopelr to get tp grips with it.

If someone comes to my website because they have typed “jewellery” into google then the chances are they are just a wet Sunday in January browser. If they use “heart pendant” as a keywords search then they have some idea of what they are looking for and more likely to convert. If they search “puffed heart white gold pendant” then they are seriously trying to find a particular product and even more likely to convert if they see something they like.

By: Jaya

Jaya — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:39:15 +0000

HI. very nice read. Take this scenario as an instance: I write an article about drug counseling jobs. I put in the keywords as ‘counseling’ as well as ‘drug counseling jobs’. I want to know whether the keyword counseling would increase the bounce rate of the article or not? And if it does , is it appropriate not to use the keyword counseling, rather make the keywords more precise by adding drug counseling jobs? Would a limited number of keywords get enough traffic to my post?

By: Jacob Brown

Jacob Brown — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:43:27 +0000

I’ve always agreed that “long tail phrases” were better than short term keywords. I always ask my clients, “what would type if you were searching for your type service?”

Depending on the market you target, should give you direction for what types of keywords you should use, whether short or long tail.

I personally think long tail can work for most markets. Who really just types “counseling” when they are really searching for “drug counseling jobs?” Like Greg Bay said, typing the keyword “counseling” in Google, you will receive 55,200,000 results, but typing the long tail keyword phrase “drug counseling jobs” in Google, it provides 323,000 results.

The objective for keyword optimization is to allow your target audience to be able to find your website as easily as possible. With 55,200,000 results, I think it would be a heck of a lot harder to be found than if you were only going up against 323,000 results.

I don’t think we should call it “long tail keyword phrase”, but “common sense”.