How to Find And Use Long Tail Keywords to Drive More Search Traffic

Hands down, search traffic is the best traffic source anyone can use to build a profitable blog that makes money.

But there is one issue with getting more traffic from search engines, it usually takes a lot of time especially if you have a new website. Here is where long tail SEO comes into play.

It does not matter whether you have a new blog or an authority website, you can use long tail keywords to generate more organic traffic to your websites really fast. Do you know why long tail keywords have low competition and easier to rank for.

To find long tail keywords, you need to get access to keyword research tools as they make the whole process much easier and faster.

Personally I use and recommend premium tools like SEMrush for keyword research but it is bit expensive which costs yu $100 per month, so for this tutorial, we will only discuss a few free tools. You can consider using any of the tools mentioned below for finding long tail keywords:

• LSI Graph
• Keywordtool.io
• Ubersuggest

Although Google Keyword Planner is also a great free keyword research tool but it is used by too many people around the word so you will mostly end up finding highly competitive keywords and does not provide highly accurate data. For beginners, you can give it a try as it can help you better understand keyword research and it is compeletely free to use.

Let's pick Google Keyword Planner for finding better keyword ideas for your next blog post. Let's assume that you want to target the keyword "blogger tips".

To find long tail variations for that keyword, go to the Google Keyword Planner and enter that keyword. Here's what we get.

When you scroll down the Google Kyword Planner, it also shows you various keyword phrases that you can rank for.

Likewise, you can use any of the other tool such as LSI Graph, Keywordtool.io for finding a ton of long tail keyword ideas for your seed keyword.

If you are still wondering about why you should target long tail keywords, let me explain.

Long tail keywords are:

• Easier to tank for (no matter what industry you are in)
• Less competitive when compared to short tail keywords
• Helpful for lower website bounce rates, higher average time on website and give you better conversion rates
• Helpful for increasing your overall traffic (as you can rank for multiple keyword phrases)