In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to find and choose long-tail keywords with high traffic potential and/or low competition (even if they have low individual search volume).
A common misconception is that long-tail keywords must be a certain length (word count) in order to be classified as “long tail.” Our research on 1.4 billion keywords proves that this is a myth.
So, what are long tail keywords?
Long-tail keywords are search queries with low individual search volume, but can have an enormous total search demand as a group.
But these keywords generally fall into two “buckets.”
Both are powerful but fit into different scenarios and should be treated differently.
Bucket #1 is called “The Long Tail of Broad Topics.”
These long-tail keyword phrases generally fall into a broader topic (ie. “weight loss”). Some of these topics will have tens of thousands of long-tail variations and ranking for the head term can result in potentially hundreds of thousands of search visitors each month to a single page.
Bucket #2 is called “Topical Long Tail Keywords.”
The long-tail keywords in this group are generally based on more focused topics (ie. “squeeze pages”). They have fewer long-tail variations, and may not produce as much search traffic as the first group.
However, they are generally lower-competition keywords that will likely be easier to rank for.
This video breaks down each bucket so you can enhance your keyword research to create content that can send you a torrent of free organic search traffic.
Timestamps:
0:46 What are long-tail keywords?
2:31 Two “buckets” of long-tail keywords
3:17 Find long-tail keywords of the broad topic
7:59 Choose topical long-tail keywords
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It took me one hour to watch and digest the information. Concluded this: you can either do long tail keyword research starting from a specific keyword or from a competitor site. Also, you can do it with Questions report or using modifiers. And in all cases you should filter down results that have huge amounts of traffic VS search volume, position in top 5 on serp. In addition that one page you choose should also rank for the other different keywords. Plus, you should pay attention to RD and KD if you are just starting your SEO and have low domain authority. Am I right?
Really didn't understand 2:15 , any help?
Thanks alot…this is really the best keyword research for the beginners 🙂
Hey guys, i am planning to do a T-shirt online business next year and doing some research and stumbled on ahrefs. I think i will invest money here first than doing my online website. Thanks Sam for sharing your ideas on this video.
I have question about how to add this long keywords to my blog post, because it is so long i don't know how to do it
I have a question about this long tail keywords. Must I use them in a separate articles as H1? Or how should I use them? Thank you for this amazing tutorial^^
Thanks, Sam! Your video is great.
Give a rise to this guy! I really appreciate your work to make such a difficult topic so easy to understand and replicate
AWESOME
Usage of keyword ideas as H2 is as per content requirement that you want to formulate. Like if a long tail keyword standalone doesn't carry much content, we use other ideas as sub topics
Great content, any more examples of modifier keywords?
This video literally blew my mind !
Highly valuable content you have just provided us with. And your style is easy to follow !
Thank you 🙂
This is the best video I’ve ever seen in YouTube to help people. Thank you so much for explaining everything so clearly. Maybe slow down a little next time because you are an expert in this, and we are mere mortals trying to soak all this in. I just started my website and I want to do it right from the beginning. Can’t Thank you enough for all you outline in this video!
Great Information About Keyword Research.
This is bananas!!!!
how to choose long tail keyword
How do I find long tail Keywords to use?
Question: from my understanding, keywords difficulties are not judged by referring domains alone, we have to take into a consideration the domain rating? am i correct? are below 30s domain ratings are considered non mega publishers?
I'm fuckin' in love with your content ❤️❤️ thank you so much ❤️
This video, like many from Ahrefs was very well done. Thanks Sam!
Hello, Sam!
Thank you for the good video! I've been watching it dozens of times a day.
I have a question.
There's a long-tailed keyword 'Pinterrest copyright', and it's Bucket 2, as you said.
But I'm going to combine it with the keyword "How to Use Pinterest," which I think is relevant. So I published the title "How to Use Pinterest, Copyright"
What I'm curious about here is, from seo perspective, should we mix the keywords together? Or is it better to create and post each page?
What would you do?
Thanks.
Yeah Long Tail Keyword are very good for a new website.
taking notes first…will sign up this month
You got me here with your thumbnail, lol.
Could have used NineTail Fox's tail here…
Your videos are pretty good and full of knowledge.
Straight gold, my guy!
The cover……. anyway I'll watch later
Great
thankyou soo much i was struggling so much
Thanks again Sam-O! Your videos are always so helpful and straight to the point.
Where do you list them? In the description or as a Tag?
Great content. Thank you .
i dont understand wad he is sayx
This topic is super useful. Thank you!
How to search keyword for gaming
this is by far one of the best seo channels
The best SEO channel. When the expert isn't selling courses, he can always share everything. This is generous. Thank you.
9:45 tips
Gold.
Strategies to get long-tail keywords ⤵️
Strategie 1: 9:48
Strategie 2: 10:40
Strategie 3: 11:17
Gold
Great information! I am new to this, so excuse this question if it it silly. But, how do I add these keywords if I have a video website? Do I have to put them in the title? Meta description?
I really appreciate your content. Congrats!👍👍👍
this is one of the best marketing strategies I've seen. provide quality information about a problem by showing people how your product can solve that problem.
Bro whose gonna pay $100 for this software when there are so many free tools out there
Ok, so you can't research much of this without a $100/month subscription? Am I missing something?
Excellent breakdown of long tail keywords. Thanks for sharing your expertise!
08:27 stood out because the explanation around process consistency mirrors what we observed while reviewing content workflows with the Grow More Gaze team. In a small test across several pages, the biggest gains came from applying the framework consistently rather than adding more tactics. That distinction is easy to overlook but showed up clearly in the results. #SEO