Affiliate Classroom Blog

Blogging Tip #2: My Secret to Automated Traffic from Long Tail Keywords

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 8:30 am by Anik Singal

Yesterday I explained the basic principles behind finding good long tail keywords - think like someone who is interested in READING about your topic, what they would search on, because you’re looking for phrases with 4 words.

Now today I’m going to show you how to research for these 4 word keyphrases.

First step, I just go to the Google AdWords keyword tool…

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

and type in something. I try to make it at least a couple of words, something like “ferrari f430.”

But you can also type in something general, then dig down and look for a longer phrase that looks interesting, then search on that. It might take a couple tries but you’ll soon find some good prospects.

When the results show up underneath I look for a keyword of 4 words or more where the bar is at least 15-25% filled up in the “average search” column. Something like ‘michael schumacher ferrari f430′ or ‘price of ferrari f430.’

Having something in the search bar for a PRIOR month is a plus too. But just because there is nothing for a prior month don’t let that stop you, often it’s because the keyword is about a hot new trend or topic or product.

Then I go to Google and type that keyphrase in the search box and then look at how many competing sites I have on the first page of results.

I’ve found that most of the time you’ll be under 5 million results which is where I like to stay. Often you’ll find a phrase with only 100,000 - 500,000 competing results, which is great!

Second step, I search that same term with “double quotes” around it, like this:

“price of ferrari f430″

And I try to make sure that THAT number comes back with less than 100,000 results. Again, you’ll be surprised how often that happens!

LASTLY…

I look at the ALL the top pages that are coming up for the the 4+ word search term.

• I want to make sure that the top ranking pages don’t all have crazy PRs of like 5 or 6 (most never do). If only the top few do, no problem, but if ALL on the first page do, that’s a bad keyword to shoot for.
• I look at the TITLES of all the top ranking pages. Most of the time I find that they are NOT directly my keyword! If so, that’s sweet, that means that JUST by having my keyword in the title, my chances of ranking on page #1 just shot through the roof !

So that’s truly how my blogs get automated traffic from search engines that builds EVERY single day…it’s an awesome method, that’s why we teach this and many more techniques like it in Blog Classroom - because it works!

I really urge you to try this just once and you’ll be HOOKED on this method of writing blog posts to get auto-pilot traffic from Google!

  Trackback  Permalink   Filed under: Affiliate Marketing