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Selecting the right keywords to optimize a site is a difficult job and it becomes even more difficult when it is about long tail keywords. Is it important to focus on the length of the long tail keywords?

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Member Avatar for AccurateAG

Hi MosesAaron:

No, I don't think the length of the long tail keywords matter, just the relevance.

John

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It is easy to rank well on long tail keywords, because they have tons of competition. Long tail keywords have law volume too.

Mohammed Feroz

Member Avatar for RachEv

I would not say it's easy to rank well on long tail keywords. It just possible as all of the short catchy keywords have been "used". But I would agree, the length does not matter just the relevance on "searched per month" as shown by the Google Keyword Tool. I have always used 3000 searches per month or higher.

Member Avatar for zabalex

Since it is very much difficult to rank for the Most competitive keywords in beginning of SEO work on a website. So to get some quick visitors, although less but targeted, you should also plan for long tail keywords. Also it do not require a lot of work to do in order of achieve a good ranking for long tail keywords. You can not imagine what a user is typing to search for some specific thing, for example if someone is looking for a birthday cake in chicago he may type "where to buy a birthday cake in chicago", if you have targeted for "buy birthday cake, chicago birthday cake supplier" you may rank somewhere on top in the SERP.

LONG TAIL KEYWORDS ARE ALSO ONE OF THE SOURCE OF WEBSITE TRAFFIC. Think about it seriously if you have just started SEO of your website.

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zabalex

Member Avatar for zesiranjha

it is always depend on the competitors keywords.

Member Avatar for nanvymaben

I think if you go for long tail keywords then it's little easy to get them on good position, the reason is they are no so competitive and the length doesn't matter but the relevancy comes at a prior level.

Member Avatar for Allison2009

I agree that length does not matter. Long Tail Keywords are little easier to get SERP ranking. Also, the conversion rate would be higher than the short keywords, though there are limited traffic. Conversion is the main difference between short and long.

Member Avatar for M Becky

Exceptionally long keywords may not bring huge traffic but nevertheless, it’s targeted traffic, traffic that converts.

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