Comments on: What is “the Long Tail” and why is it important? http://www.ogletreeseo.com/125.html Expert advice on search engine optimization Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:07:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: ogletree http://www.ogletreeseo.com/125.html#comment-2525 ogletree Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:08:42 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/125.html#comment-2525 Shandy I think you missed my point about monthly. I picked monthly to show that the term is very rare even though I might rank #1 for it and that I had lots of term like that. I had many terms that were typed in 2 or 3 times during that period of time. I wrote this and have mentioned many times over the years because so few people really get it. I have been talking to blackhat seo's that make a decent living that had no idea what a stats program was. And I have seen so many times in forums people just spending all their time trying to rank #1 for some really hard term to get and getting frustrated when they could have gone after the long tail first so they at least had traffic while they were trying to get the hard term. Dannny S talked about how we forget that most people have no idea the stuff we consider basic no brainers. Shandy I think you missed my point about monthly. I picked monthly to show that the term is very rare even though I might rank #1 for it and that I had lots of term like that. I had many terms that were typed in 2 or 3 times during that period of time. I wrote this and have mentioned many times over the years because so few people really get it. I have been talking to blackhat seo’s that make a decent living that had no idea what a stats program was. And I have seen so many times in forums people just spending all their time trying to rank #1 for some really hard term to get and getting frustrated when they could have gone after the long tail first so they at least had traffic while they were trying to get the hard term. Dannny S talked about how we forget that most people have no idea the stuff we consider basic no brainers.

]]> By: ShandyKing http://www.ogletreeseo.com/125.html#comment-2523 ShandyKing Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:37:54 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/125.html#comment-2523 David, "One of the things that goes with long tail is that most of the time you may only get 1 visitor a month or even one visitor from that term ever." About 76% of my traffic comes from search engines and nearly 90% of that is from long tail search. I typically see long tail variations of the same keywords hourly, not monthly as you mentioned. I think your readers should know that as long as your blogging, you will see mainly long tail searches as your main source of traffic, that along with your repeat visitors. As for Shoe making this term popular for SEO, no offense to him at all but any SEO worth their salt would have figured this out on their own just by looking at their log files. What was typing in more then one or two keywords called before Long Tail? I only ever heard of long tail. David,

“One of the things that goes with long tail is that most of the time you may only get 1 visitor a month or even one visitor from that term ever.”

About 76% of my traffic comes from search engines and nearly 90% of that is from long tail search. I typically see long tail variations of the same keywords hourly, not monthly as you mentioned.

I think your readers should know that as long as your blogging, you will see mainly long tail searches as your main source of traffic, that along with your repeat visitors.

As for Shoe making this term popular for SEO, no offense to him at all but any SEO worth their salt would have figured this out on their own just by looking at their log files.

What was typing in more then one or two keywords called before Long Tail? I only ever heard of long tail.

]]> By: Search The Web 2.0 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/125.html#comment-2506 Search The Web 2.0 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:34:16 +0000 http://www.ogletreeseo.com/125.html#comment-2506 It was three years ago when you had a great ride with Adsense, wasn't it? Try http://www.SearchTheWeb2.com for the Long Tail search queries. It was three years ago when you had a great ride with Adsense, wasn’t it?
Try http://www.SearchTheWeb2.com for the Long Tail search queries.

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