The recipe for ‘how to find Long Tailed Keywords’ is not hard to make up. You take the Google adWords tool, blend in your own site stats, and then mix with a splash of common sense.

• Choose your Niche Keyword

Find your Niche Keyword – either a term (word or phrase) that is relevant to what you do (for an established site), or one that nobody else is majoring on (for a new site). The base formula to select such a term is High Daily Searches +  Strong Advertiser Competition + Low SERP Competition.

• The Starting Point

Start by going to the https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordTool to find Long Tailed Keywords and entering your niche keyword. Pick relevant supporting keywords (LTK’s) with lots of Searches and good Ad competition, and then use these LTK’s liberally in your pages.

• UPDATE!

There is a new tool out now you can use for this.  See a post on the Google Wonder Wheel here

And an even newer post here

• Refine your Choices

As time goes on, keep track of what is happening in your own site statistics with search term popularity.  Terms that recur often are good, and deserve a page (post) of their own.  If a term shows up often, you can deduce that Google recognizes your site as authoritative for that term, and that users are actively searching for it, this combination gives you site synergy, so cash in!

• Tips for the Wise

Lock your keyword strategy in to your linking strategy (Rocket your site to No 1 on Google) to achieve site synergy. I call this formula Keyword Coherence – just a fancy term for ‘Getting all Your Ducks in a Row’!.

Homogenize your portfolio, by setting up new niches that complement and add to your existing main site (back-linking then earns more ‘juice’ !).

Don’t monetize pages for terms that have high traffic, but no (or very low) Ad competition. It is not worth the risk of getting ‘smart priced’, just milk the traffic with links that point to something that does make income.

Do remember to use your LTKs in the ‘tags’ of your posts too!

Use all of the above to discover how to find Long Tailed Keywords!

• Site synergy:

One way to grow your links like an A-Lister is to use your natural site synergy and refine your link quality so that the best links ‘rise to the top’.  What do I mean by that? I mean that we ought to deliberately seek out and propagate links with  sites that are keyword related to our own. We are more likely to get a good back-link when we post on a ‘related’ site than when we comment on totally unrelated blogs. The ‘strength’  such a link offers is well worth the effort of getting it.

• Combine With Other Sites:

Justin Briggs has written this article recommending that you Gang Bang your Competition into Submission, making the point that in unity lies strength; that we can combine with other sites related to ours, and the resulting strength is greater than the input of the individual parts. Ask yourself  this; if A-Listers do it; then shouldn’t you fall in line too and then expect similiar benefits?

• Get ‘Hot’ Leads:

It seems to me that by seeking out and comment linking on related sites we are also doing just what Justin suggests. I’m happy when I get traffic from such sites because that traffic is pre-disposed to agree with my site’s message – these surfers are already interested in my general theme when they arrive, so they are more likely to become a contributory part of the site than to just click away and disappear.

• Plant Wisely:

To complete the analogy, we grow our links, not by sprinkling comments everywhere, but by planting them in fertile ground. I.E., ground that will produce quality backlinks.  The whole point of ‘growing’ is to get back more than you planted, thus creating synergy. So bookmark authorative related sites that will add to yours and try to support them with encouraging and constructive comment; then you too will  ‘grow your links like an A-Lister’ so that now you can have a top money-making blog.

Discover this simple trick to

Maximize SEO like a ‘Pro’ and Monetize your Web Site

How to:

What you do is so easy – just have a quiet look in your stats for the Search Terms Google used to send you your visitors. When you see a certain keyword or phrase recurring, you seize on it and write a ‘landing page’ for that term and you have started the process of maximizing your SEO like a ‘Pro’.

• Dead Easy….

The logic is so simple – Google already believes your site is relevant to that term, or they wouldn’t have sent that surfer to you, so all you will be doing is strengthening that belief!!! Try it – it works, and within days……

• Long Tail Keywords (ltk’s – part of keyword coherence)

I think it is the most sweet thought ever, that Google defines your site’s long-tailed keywords for you, and all you need to do is recognize that and take advantage of it. How cool is that?

• Site Synergy

This becomes ‘Site Synergy’, and is a self energizing process. The more you integrate Google’s search results, the more Google will send you clients, the more ltk’s Google will find, the more your traffic will grow, and the more you will maximize SEO like a ‘Pro’.