Comments on: Using FAQ Pages To Capture Organic Search Traffic

By: vishal

vishal — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:40:46 +0000

Hi,
Neat article. I was wondering if you can write another article on how to find those looOOng questions

Cheers,
Vishal

By: Oblikovanje Strani

Oblikovanje Strani — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:27:36 +0000

I would call this Long Tail SEO. It doesn’t have to be just questions – you can do SEO on a bunch of keywords that they aren’t so much competitive.

By: Joe Mescher

Joe Mescher — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:49:35 +0000

Great Landing Page Strategy…

Link to Relevant Content, Get More Traffic.

There must be a million and one web page developers trying to rank #1 for intensely competitive keywords.

In the meantime there’s so many more relevant terms with less competition to rank for.

Thanks for the FAQ advice Greg, looking forward to investigating and experimenting with it more deeply for my niche.

By: Greg Shuey

Greg Shuey — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:38:43 +0000

Jim…

You can just use the Google Keyword Tool to do this. You can do it one of two ways. One, you can just enter your main keyword that you are trying to rank for and see if any longer question like keywords pop up in the results. Two, you can actually key in the question that you think might be asked and see if there is any search volume for it.

In addition to this, I would ask a non biased family member or friend what kind of questions they may have about your product or service. I like to ask kids and teenagers what kind of questions they might search for. Ultimately, you want to think like a customer when doing this.

I would then add those to my FAQ pages in hopes to capture at least some traffic that Google didn’t even take into account. This method may or may not bring in traffic to your site, but the time it takes is so minimal that it is worth it!

Let me know if you have any other questions

By: Jim Mueller

Jim Mueller — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:01:48 +0000

Greg, one of the more helpful posts I’ve read in a long while…thank you.
Question…did you just type your question into ad words tool or is there a special tool to research longer phrases or questions?

By: Change Your Life for Better

Change Your Life for Better — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:08:51 +0000

@David Scoville,

Why don’t we combine the best of both worlds?

We combine the FAQ pages, FAQ like questions on titles of posts, and in all of them targeting long keywords (3-4 relevant and mostly likely used words apart from say what is, how to etc.) should work well.

By: Change Your Life for Better

Change Your Life for Better — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:05:35 +0000

This is a good idea. We can apply this to a blog as well. Just write a post on FAQ.

Let me start here and think of making the best use of this idea with other creative thoughts!

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:13:36 +0000

Yes, this is absolutely one of the good SEO methodology. Google snippet will grab from the FAQ content for more long tail SEO results. However many people has overlooked this perhaps?

By: David Scoville

David Scoville — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:42:01 +0000

I used to think that “search volume” was king. Now I’m convinced that proper keyword targeting is a greater priority. What a better way to take advantage of the long search queries than with the FAQ page! Thanks for the post, Greg.

By: jason kuiper

jason kuiper — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:57:43 +0000

That is a great idea! I always ask questions to google while searching