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Long Tail Pro makes keyword research easy by finding all the high traffic, low competition keywords in any niche.
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One of the topics I have never really covered on the blog is how to do keyword research properly.
It is really easy once you know how especially with today’s Long Tail Pro review & tutorial!
I’m going to reveal a bunch of high traffic keywords with next to no competition, most of them have multiple results ranking with zero links.
One of which pays $500 commission.
At the same time you are going to learn how to do keyword research the right way.
By the end of this tutorial you will have discovered all of the easy to rank for keywords.
I’m going to show you how to do all of this & more using the Long Tail Pro keyword research tool. It is a heavily battle tested tool that was originally launched in 2011 and is used by over 70,000 marketers around the world.
Are you ready to discover every single easy to rank for high traffic keyword in your niche?
What Will I Learn?
This Long Tail Pro review is broken down into 3 pieces-
In this video I show you the 3 new major Long Tail Pro updates that-
Hey guys, Matthew Woodward here and I wanted to update my Longtail pro review because there’s been 3 major changes recently that effect not only how the software works but also how much it costs and how you pay for it.
That’s quite important and I’ll get to that in a minute, first of all I want to show you how the average keyword competitiveness function has changed, and if you don’t use longtail pro currently basically what this does is calculate a competitiveness score from 0 – 100 of how difficult it is to rank. The lower the number, the easier it is to rank.
Previously what you used to have to do when you found some keywords, is come and click manually every single one of these to calculate the keyword competitiveness and honestly that too a lot of time going through every single result 1 by 1 and kind’ve stepped away from the automation side of the tool and this tool was meant to help save time and honestly this part of it took time.
So, they’ve now fixed that and you can actually generate all of these competitiveness values in just one click, and if you already own Longtail Platinum you might not have noticed this but take a look up here and you’ll see a little yellow exclamation mark. If you just click on that and click on ‘Fetch Now’, that will go out automatically and fetch all of those competitiveness values for you.
So, once it’s gone out and gotten those values it makes it really easy to get all of those high traffic low competition keywords.
All we have to do is enter ’35’ in the max column here, and that automatically filters out only the easiest to rank for keywords with traffic and you can see the top result – ‘reverse osmosis system’ 18,100 Global searches and a keyword competitiveness of 34. That is very easy to rank for.
You can also drill down into the top 10 results just to see how they’re stats weigh up, and right now you can see lots of pages ranking with really low page authority and not many juice links.
In fact the number 1 result has 0 moz rank, very low domain authority, no juice links, 1 page link, 19 page authority.
So, there’s certainly room for an authority site on water filters and looking at these other keywords there’s certainly lots of opportunities for someone to rank and bank with the water filter niche and as you can see, that was really easy to find by using longtail pro.
And using that new feature of Longtail Pro I’ve put this spreadsheet together for you to download. It contains 347 high traffic, easy to rank for keywords across 12 different niches.
So, if you’re watching this video on my blog you can download it directly underneath the video, if you’re watching on YouTube then just click through and you can download the spreadsheet instantly.
And one of the keywords has over 60,000 searches per month with only 25 competition, so make sure you download your copy of this now if you’re looking for high traffic easy to rank for keywords.
One of the other major changes of Longtail Pro is the new pricing. Now, a lot of people used to complain about the pricing because you had to pay an expensive $97 one time fee up front and then a $37 a month recurring payment if you wanted to calculate the competitiveness of keywords.
And obviously that’s a major feature, I’ve just shown you quite how powerful that is. So, the longtail pro team have responded and now they’ve changed it so that you no longer have to pay the $97 one time fee, you just have the standard monthly payment and that makes it a lot cheaper for everyone to access.
And as a nice little bonus one of the other things they’ve really improved recently is the Longtail University which you get free access to with the annual plan.
So not only does the tool only cost $25 a month then, but you also get all of this extra training which tells you how to find your keywords, expand on those keywords lists, analyse competition, put together keyword driven content, how to rank the site and get all of your traffic.
There’s some really really detailed video lessons in here, as well as a bunch of cheat sheets which I guess I shouldn’t be showing you. So those are the 3 major Longtail pro changes.
It’s easier than ever before to do keyword research with the bulk keyword competitiveness update and I showed you how to use that with the water filter niche which by the way, is ready for an authority site.
It’s cheaper than ever before with no expensive one time fee, and longtail university will teach you everything you need to know to research build and rank a site in any niche.
So, that brings me to the end of my long tail pro review update, and don’t forget to download my niche research spreadsheet below which contains 347 high traffic low competition keywords from 12 different niches.
I have put together an awesome spreadsheet with 347 high traffic easy to rank for keywords in 12 niches.
All of these keywords are super easy to rank for with a combined monthly search volume of 2.3 million!
Here are just a few examples-
Keyword | Monthly Searches | Difficulty (0-100) |
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How to increase height | 60,500 | 25 |
Best portable vaporizer | 8,100 | 28 |
Reverse osmosis system | 18,100 | 29 |
You can download my niche research spreadsheet below-
My main Long Tail Pro review & tutorial will take you by the hand and teach you how to do keyword research the right way.
This is what you will learn-
Hey, guys. Thank you for joining me on my Long Tail Pro Review. Today you’re going to learn how to do keyword research the right way. I’m also going to teach you how to discover low competition keywords in competitive niches.
But most importantly how to transform that research into profits. You’re also going to learn how to analyse top 10 results for any keyword.
And I’m also going to show you why Long Tail Pro Research Tool is the best keyword research tool on the market.
So, let’s get stuck in.
This the main interface of Long Tail Pro. This is Version 3 that was recently released while I’m doing this review. And just a bit of history this tool was actually launched in 2011. As of this date there are over 70,000 SEOs using it since it was launched and 4 years on, we are now arriving into Version 3 of the software.
So I’m going to give you a quick overview. I’m going to show you some of my keyword research and dig into some examples and then show you how to do research yourself for any keyword that you choose. So first of all let me just show you around the interface. At the top right hand corner here you can find your various settings. You only need to connect your Google account and a free Moz account to pull backs on some of the data. Once you’ve done that, you’re ready to rock and roll and begin finding keywords. But before you do that, you can see up here is a drop down of all of your different projects and you can add a project by clicking here you can call it whatever you want. Additional settings here like to include adult ideas, select your target country and also research network to use. Most people are going to use United States and Google. But you can choose any country you want so it doesn’t matter where you are in the world, you can use this tool to complete your keyword research. Within your project you have a list of the keywords you search for here and then you have the main results window here along with filters where you can exclude or include keywords in real time just by using the filters here and also for local searches, global searches competition and keyword competitiveness. And I’m going to go into keyword competitiveness in a bit more detail later on. But for now that is the entire interface, that’s not really anything complicated about how to use it, everything’s laid out really simply.
So, let’s start by taking a look at some of the keywords I have already investigated. Now when you want to do a search for a keyword, you just click on Find Keywords, add some Seed Keywords in here. You can choose to pre-filter the keywords with minimum search volumes and the Advertiser Competition for example and pull back additional data like Global Search Volume Domain Availability so you can Check Match Domain available as .com, .net, .org, co.uk and various global extension here or you can choose to pull back Google Title Competition and Bing Title Competition. So for all the keywords I’m about to show you down the left hand side I have entered these as Seed Keyword within this project and then hit the Generate Keywords In Fetch Data bottom.
So I am going to show you this project that I have set up with lots of different keywords. It’s down the left hand side here and I have looked at all these keywords to decide, you know which blog post am I going to write next because by targeting my content strategy with keywords research increases the chances of ranking higher and pulling more traffic from Google. And I’m just going to show you a little bit about that here. If I was to decide, ok I want to write an article about link building book and I wasn’t entirely sure of which article to write. I could come in here Find Keywords link building and here you can see a complete list of keywords related to link building and this is where I would start to get ideas from. Now as you look for your Keyword List, don’t forget you can sort by searches and global searches. But more importantly if you come over here you can click on the calculate the Average Keyword Competitiveness. And as you can see that has come back to 66 now. This is a sliding scale from 0 to 100. I typically target anything around 45 and below and there is a formula that Long Tail Pro guys use to calculate that competitiveness and I’ll show you that in a minute. But for now you can clearly see this is 66 out of 100 in terms of competitiveness. And if you click on the keyword here, it will expand out and show you the top 10 results for that keyword in Google right now along with some other information like Page Authority, the number of links to the Page, how many of those links are actually passing any value or any actual Juice to main Authority Most Rank, Page Rank inside page. So it is with this number as an indicator, these take all these factors into consideration to come up with an Average Competitiveness and then report is about here.
So, if I want you to write something about link building I can say ok, that 66 that’s pretty tough there must be something better that I can write about. So coming down here, we can see best company 44. Actually if I sort this, we can see that we only have competitiveness of 29 about 3,600 searches a month, the term backlink generator. Now you can mark any keyword that you would like as a favourite by just hit in the star like that or on star. You can see I have done that with backlink generator and you can also add notes to keywords by just clicking on the note here. And you can see I have said to use this as a Seed Keyword to find more ideas. So the backlink generator keyword has more potential in it and I will go and do some further research on that. But on its own you can see if I wrote an article about backlink generators and link probably with some affiliate links to various programs and applications that do help to generate backlinks that could be a very profitable keyword for me to target in my next post. And just looking through the results there, you can see lots of SEO tools most highly competitive and nearly twice as hard to rank for as backlink generator.
So my next link building are to be called will be about backlink generators. And that’s how you take the Keywords Research that you see here and make it profitable. But just to give you some more ideas, I’m going to quickly flip through these keywords and show you some of the things that you could do. So a Seed Keyword has build backlinks. Again we have backlink generator, free backlink generator both cropping up really low competitiveness that we can combine into what we saw before. But we also have some over really attractive keywords buy quality backlinks, what are backlinks, backlink watch which is an application so we could write backlink what to review and insert affiliate links to make money there exactly the same with buy quality backlinks we can re-sell someone else’s service and take commission or perhaps you own a service well that’s relevant and you sell directly.
Now moving into PBN where this software comes really in handy is PBN to SEO means PBN, private block network it has no overt meaning. And on the surface this PBN keyword is ok, it’s not super competitive and it’s not low competition but we can certainly do some damage with a score of 40. But when you click into the keyword, you’ll see that PBN could mean Providence Business News, Pacific Business News, Pacific Broadband Networks. So on the surface with my SEO had on this keyword looks like a great target but it could be that the majority of the people searching for this keyword are not looking for private network at all, they’re actually looking for the Pacific Broadband Network and I search this makes it not a very good keyword to target in the long run. It’s really not specific enough for that easy to rank for. Moving through the list a bit more, we have blackhat SEO again I’m going to sort keyword for competitiveness here. And actually blackhat SEO with no spaces gets 1,300 searches a month and with a space 2,900 both relatively easy to target. Also SEO certification and cost effective SEO look like great keywords to target with content.
Instead of running through all of these, I’m just going to pick out a notoriously difficult niche to rank for one of the most competitive niche online is make money online. And I’m going to show you how with Long Tail Pro even in one of the most competitive niches online, I was able to find the keywords to target. So, straightaway you can see down here at the bottom, I have filtered anything with a 40 difficulty and below and also has more than 1000 searches a month. In fact this one with a difficulty of 37 has 8,100 how to make money at home. And we have over keywords here like earn money from home, how to make money on the internet, how to make extra money and one that is really important is how to make money online for teens. How if you’re a teenager in this current day and age you’ve grown with the internet from day one. So how to make money online for teens perfect, start a blog send them somewhere like just host or give you around $60-$80 commission per sale and that’s a really nice way to monetize that keyword or also targeted at the younger audience. Moving forward we have much more keywords here. The keyword research one is actually one that I created for the blog post that’s going to go alongside with this video I’m recording right now. And I’m going to be targeting best keyword research tool within my post along with how to do keyword research. Now I wouldn’t recommend targeting anything over those kind of 40-45 market it’ll get a bit difficult after that. But with the Authority that my blog already has and the long form content that I produced along with the video, I stand a pretty good chance against these top 10 results here.
Instead of going through all these keywords let me bring you to the favourites. So in the list of favourites these are all favourite keywords that you’ve marked across all of your projects. So you can quickly get an overview of which ones to target. So if we want to take at the easiest keyword, we can perhaps look at blackhat SEO or infusion soft with a space. Infusion soft with a space has a competitiveness of 25 nearly 3,000 searches a month and a sale of infusion soft pays nearly $1,000 in commission. So there you go, very low competition keyword with a very high commission product of the backend of it. And right now, we can see that the top 10 results are currently dominated by brand results. We have since the infusion Facebook account, Twitter account, YouTube account or Wikipedia page and the infusion soft page itself. So that certainly means there’s room for us to manoeuvre there just by publishing infusion soft review or infusion soft related content.
Moving down further, how to make money online for teens we’ve already spoke about and get response with a space again with the space makes the keyword really easy to target, really low competition, this gets 5,400 searches per month and the GetResponses affiliate program is very generous and pays nice recurring commission. Again if we take a look at the top 10 results there, we can see for the most part it’s GetResponses official page, social profiles, they are at the App Store. Most of the top 10 results don’t even have any links a passing Juice and have some very low page authority numbers. So again it’s another keyword we can do a lot of damage with and I should point out I’ve found a lot of these keywords in less than an hour of playing with the tool.
Moving forward, we have backlinks generator, free backlinks generator, seo packages, what does seo stand for. A very simple one real estate seo, you could write a tutorial on how real estate can rank their sites. There’s a good commission opportunities there, how to market yourself, sales management software, lead generation software, best crm for small business. Again there is 3 keywords offered up for opportunity to promote infusion soft nearly $1,000 commission per sale. So I hope you’ve find the results how powerful they are. You can really delve into niches and keywords really quickly to discover real gems and also check out your top 10 competition just to see how you would stack up against them.
But all of these keywords are all to do with internet at marketing or SEO in one form or another. What if you work outside of that niche, well I’ve already prepared some examples for you and a few different niches. So if we’ll just launch off the project. We’ve got dog leash, memory form mattress, fitness watch, marathon training and pocket knife. And again if we just delve on some of these, I can hit the…sorry I didn’t mark any of this as favourite. But we shall look at dog leash, average keyword competitiveness and straightaway we can see embroidered dog collars 2,400 searches a month, super low competition really easy to rank for. The same for best dog harness, cheap dog clothes, custom dog collars, shock collars for dogs. There’s a whole range of keywords here that really easy to target. And of course, there’s a lot more here that I could search for and calculate the competitiveness to broaden that even further. Equally you can take any one of these keywords and then click on find keywords, edit to seed keywords to find even more opportunity for you to rank for.
Moving in to memory foam mattress, again you kind of got the idea now, full size mattress dimensions nearly 10,000 searches a month and only 18 keywords competitiveness. You could provide that information to someone and then push some de-print your e-commerce or that hopefully sells mattresses. Fitness watch, these variable fitness trackers and such things have become very popular in recent times. The easiest keyword that I’ve found here nearly 3,000 searches a month, fitness watches for women. Again very easy to create some content around, just find the 5 most popular fitness watches for women, write an article about it perhaps put a video together and you’ll find yourself ranking very easily to that keyword along with commission on some high ticket products that often cost in the region of a few hundred dollars.
Moving into this niche further, best sport watches, sport watches for men, bluetooth heart rate monitor, all with substantial amount of searches per month. Just showing you the keyword filter a little bit more, one of the ways that we can really make a lot of money with our keywords research. Instead of targeting something general like fitness watch which means a person has an interest in fitness watches but they’re not yet qualified as a buyer, we can dig down and target some of them or buyer orientated keyword. So these are keywords where people are further down the psychological process. They sort of figure out these fitness trackers, fitness watches, they are pretty cool I want to learn more about them. But the people we want to target, the people who have already made the decision they want to buy one. So, to target people that want to buy something we can use keywords like best and you’ll see this filters all of the possible keyword ideas for best. That means someone’s actively researching which activity watch or fitness bands, sport watches or whatever may it be to buy. The other way we can do it is to go to review. Anyone that’s reading reviews actively we know they’ve already made a psychological commitment to buy a watch and they’re still deciding in exactly which one to buy. The other keyword we can target as buyers is cheap. These are the guys that yeah, we know that I want a watch, I’ve kind of decided what I want and I know what my budget is, so which are the cheap ones, which one will fall within my budget to buy. Last but not least and probably is the most obvious one is the word buy itself. You can’t get any more targeted than buy heart rate monitor. People are literally telling us what they want all we have to do is give it to them. Looking at marathon training and let me just take out my filter at the top there, again running and marathons and crazy challenges like that had become a popular thing something that is not seen rarely trend of in the last year, a year and a half. And here are some great keywords for you to target in that niche, training for a 5k, training for a marathon, 8 week half marathon training. All with super easy keyword competitiveness that you can easily create content around to rank for.
Again pocket knife, I’m going to sort by keyword competitive here, engraves pocket knives, pocket knife brand, personalized pocket knives, cool pocket knives, best pocket knives, all super super super easy keywords for you to target.
So, now kind of shown you around the interface and some of my own keyword research and how you can link back into profits. Let’s take a look at how to actually do your own keyword research from scratch. So just before we jump into our own keyword research, I want to explain the keyword competitiveness number to you in a little bit more detail. Now basically that means it’s a calculation of Page Authority +/- Page Title Factor +/- Keywords in Domain Factor +/- Doman Length. And the Page Authority Number is made up of several factors including Domain Authority, Page Authority, Page Links, Juice Link, Social Signals and more. Now if you are new to SEO or keyword research, you probably didn’t have a clue about anything I’ve just said. And I could make an entire video dedicated to talking about this but instead you should just check out the link on your screen right now and that will explain each of those factors to you in more detail. But if you don’t care about that and don’t really want to know all the nerdy technical details and you just want to know should I target this keyword or not, then you can use this little table to get a good indication of whatever you should be targeting something or not. So anything there is 10, no competition. If you see a keyword is no competition you target that as quick as you can. 10 to 20 – extremely low, 20 to 30 – low, 30 to 40 – moderate and so forth. Now my recommendation is you never target anything above 40 unless it’s really attractive if you might push to 45. If you want to get the best results possible for as little work as possible, you want to be cherry picking those keywords of 40 or less. The lower the number the better it is for you. So now you understand the keyword competitiveness a little bit more.
Let’s actually move on to doing your own research. So in Long Tail Pro, you just need to create a new project by clicking the plus (+) up here and the project title, let’s go with camping. You can see some over options I always choose to include adult ideas, choose your target country and then network that you’re targeting in. In this example I will go with United States Google and hit Create Project. Next just click on Find Keywords, you have to enter a couple of Seed Keywords. And the Seed Keyword what Long Tail Pro will do is take that keyword in generate up to 800 related keywords and pull back all of the data that you saw before. So, let’s just add a couple of seed keywords in here and I’m going to go with hammock and also portable barbeque (bbq). Now, I have no idea what kind of results these are going to return. I’ve never search them before. I’m very much flying by night here. So looking at the over options, you can choose to pre-filter the keywords so you could say ok, don’t show me anything with less than 1000 search volume. Personally I like to apply the filters later on so I always leave these as default and you can hit set default there. But the options you should pay attention to at least for tick boxes down here. Now Global Search volume is really handy because you can just see the local search volume in the United States and then the Global Search volume from all over the world. Domain availability, if you’re doing your research don’t yet have a domain, you can also choose to search for Exact Match Domains or Hyphenated Domains. Now I would never touch a hyphenated domain personally if I’m building on each site but high quality site build on an Exact Match Domains are perfect. So just for this example, I’m going to take that and leave .com selected. You can also choose to include the Google Title Competition and Bing Title Competition and if you want a bit of an explanation, you can click on the question marks here. But I tend not to use that when making my own judgments and there are arguments against that and for it. So that’s just a personal reference thing really. Once you’ve added your Seed Keywords, you can adopt to 10 and select your options here, click Generate Keywords and Fetch Data. And at the top head, you can see that’s doing that right now. And I’m just going to pause the video while it completes that process. Once Long Tail Pro has pull back all the results, all you need to do now is go through, filter them pick up your favourites and then from that you can make your content strategy. So, by default you’re going to be looking for old keywords, I’ll just like to stay at topic focus. So I’m just going to look at the hammock only once. Typically I…. you know these 801 keywords here to go through which takes a bunch of time but we can save some time just by increasing minimum searches change to 1000 on each of the filters here. If you are looking to build out a micro niche site you could also filter out on domain availability. You can see here this with the red and cross out no domain available whereas these are in blue do have other domain available. So, once you filtered out any keywords that don’t match your criteria. First of all, I search local high to low and I’ll just go through these keywords and anything I think might be interesting or I want to target, I will just come here and click on the calculate bottom work through these results. Anything that I find interesting, I’m going to hit calculate and see what comes back from that. So, I’m just going to work through here hammock with stand, enohammocks off the top of my head, I’ve no idea what that is but I imagine eno is a brand. So let’s take a look at that typically brand type keywords are pretty easy to rank for baby hammock, hammock camping, hammock chair stand, how to make a hammock. You get the idea just work through here, we know all these keywords with a minimum requirements. You just got to work through and calculate which ones to target. So backpacking hammock, how to hang a hammock, free standing hammock and so forth. So I’m just going to wait for it to pull in these results. And now that has completed, you can see here we have some numbers in this end column. And I’m just going to search by average keyword, competitiveness here and straightaway we can see loads of load of competition keywords with decent search volumes as high as 14,800 per month for camping hammock. We can just date for some of these results now. Best hammock only a competition score of 32 but a highly commercial keyword. Looking here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 results the ranking in the top 10 without a single Juice Link. Here’s another on without a single link at all. Here’s one with 2 really low quality links, one with 9 really low quality links. This is an easy keyword to rank for the all the high converting and highly profitable. How to hang a hammock, again less competition but this keyword doesn’t have the same commercial intent. These are people who’ve already bought a hammock so you might be able to ought sell them into some hammock straps or hammock ropes or something like that. But these people aren’t looking to buy a hammock, they’ve already had one. Equally we can come down, hammock for sale even easier to target, highly commercial 6,600 searches per month digging into those results a little bit more. We can see top 10 results ranking with not many links at all. For the most part these are all e-commerce stores which means you can go right over the middle with some high quality content and easily rank for this keyword. But you get the idea and you saw how quick and easy was for me to uncover all for this highly profitable keywords and niche I know precisely about it.
Jumping into portable barbeque (bbq), I see exactly the same thing. Search by local searches and then just go through and then you have stand out to you. Just come and calculate the competitiveness. You can also do it by global searches because sometimes the global search is much bigger than a local search really depends on how you set up. And again you can see the domain availability on the right side made here. so I’m going to go and calculate some of these quickly. Now we’ve got that data, we can search by the keyword competitiveness and you can see I did a bond share. Let’s go right down to the bottom the….. actually the keyword with the highest commercial intent barbeque (bbq) sale actually has the lowest competition 4,400 searches per month. That is a gem of a keyword right there. So we could mark that as a favourite to follow up later and looking through the rest of the results, portable gas barbeque (bbq) 3,000 relatively easy and…let’s just jump into the barbeque (bbq) for sale results, you can see there’s a bunch of sites mostly e-commerce sites around which is always a good sign. If the results are filled with e-commerce, the results are social profile it’s a good sign for it is easy to rank especially when you combine that with the fact that there are so many pages ranking here. we have zero Juice Link although domain authority pretty competitive, you can do some damage with this keyword if you were to work in this niche. And portable gas barbeque (bbq) again not very competitive, the no. 1 and 2 results have zero high powered links tool or some…. Carry on looking napoleon barbeque (bbq) no idea what that is I guess it’s a brand or type. Yes, we can see from looking at the results so they are. They have 4,800 searches a month and it’s very low competition. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of the results have zero links, we can see a mixed of social profiles and e-commerce sites so that keyword is good to go.
So you get the general idea here of how you can find keywords no matter what the niche. And easily work through those to come up with a winning keyword strategy allowing you to find all of the lowest competition keywords with the highest search volumes to make sure you’ll get in the best that you can out of the time you invest into your site. That is the keyword research part of Long Tail Pro.
But there is a couple of niche thing as well. The first one I want to share you if you decide a quick idea off the top of your head, you can actually get a quick look at the top 10 results really easily. So for example, let’s take a look at how to advertise on Facebook, we can click on add (+) and straightaway this will go out and find all of the details just that specific keyword default volumes and also pull back all of the data for the current top 10 results and as you can see that the pulling data in there it will then fill up the keyword competitiveness and bring back the average keyword competitiveness. You can see earlier I did one for backlink generator and you can see here, we’re looking at the top 10 results. And you can then find these later on by selecting my own keywords down at the bottom here. So, that gives you a really quick and easy way to get an overview any keyword that springs to mind if you write in the poster anything like that. The overall handy tool is the Rank Checker and again using the example I have just given you, I’m going to put my domain in there, add along with the keyword how to advertise on Facebook. Now I should point out that when I wrote this post originally I use Long Tail Pro I’ve got a dedicated project for up here to find a bunch of keywords to try and tag it with this post. In fact I will just show you the post here, you can see how to advertise on Facebook as clearly as my title. I also have it here and I was also targeting in Facebook marketing strategy, social media marketing strategy and Facebook advertising campaigns. It’s all of the keywords I found within Long Tail Pro. Jumping back into Long Tail Pro, let’s see where I’m ranking for that right now. You can enter into your URL, your search term, your target country and then just hit Check Ranks and that will go out and find the ranking of that ranking page for you. As you can see it’s already pulled it back. I’m currently ranking in position 12 on Google and 16 on Bing. And the Yahoo results it’s taken a bit longer but that’s not really relevant for me anyway. I just want to show you the Rank Checker quickly so you can easily see how your performing any of the keyword that you find here.
So that brings us to the end of the Long Tail Pro Review. I hope you see just how easy it is to find low competition high traffic keywords. Not only that keywords of commercial intent and I showed you one but easy to rank for keyword that pays for $1,000 commissions. It’s really easy to use and any one can master it in less than 30 minutes. And it makes it really easy to analyse keyword competition and the current top 10 search results. That’s no need for you to load out with expensive proxies to use the software and best of all it comes with a 10 day money back guarantee. You’ve literally got nothing to lose by trying it. so that wraps up the review. Thanks for sticking around and I’ll see you on the blog
Today’s tutorial is about Long Tail Pro.
A tool that helps you easily research profitable keywords.
With this software, you’ll learn how to find less competitive keywords in competitive niches, how to properly do keyword research, how to turn your research into profit and analyze the top ten results for any keyword.
You’ll also see why I think Long Tail Pro is the best keyword research tool out there.
So let’s jump right into it. Here’s version 3 of the Long Tail Pro Interface. It was launched back in 2011 and now over 70,000 SEOs use it including me.
To get started, go up to the top right corner, click on Settings and link your Google and Moz account.
You can also tweak the various options in there.
After you finish setting that up, you can start adding new projects. Click on the left corner plus icon to create new projects and input the language, target country and search network.
You can see below the keyword search bar are all the keywords I’ve looked up.
The results are displayed in the main window with filters like local and global searches, advertiser competition and average keyword competitiveness on top.
Now let’s take a look at the keywords I’ve already looked up to see how it works!
To get started, click on Find Keywords and input the information you’re looking for.
They have options to pre-filter the keyword and look up other features such as domain availability and global search volume.
For all the examples I’ll show you, I added my seed keyword without filters.
You can see all the keywords I’ve already investigated down the left hand side to help me decide what to write for my next blog post.
By using keyword research for my content strategy, this will help my post rank higher and drive more search traffic.
For example, let’s say I want to write an article about link building but I’m not too sure on what exactly I should write about.
I can use Long Tail Pro to look up the keyword “link building” and find a bunch of different related keywords to get ideas for my article.
Under the average keyword competitiveness column, you can see how competitive a related keyword is with its assigned score.
And as you can see for the keyword “search engine marketing” we have an average competitiveness of 66 out of 100.
I normally recommend targeting keywords under 45.
If you click on the keyword, it’ll bring up the top ten results from Google including the website, page authority, page links and other things like that.
If you find a keyword that catches your attention, you can mark it as a favorite or add notes to remember it for later.
I noticed the keyword “backlink generator” has a competitiveness of only 29 so I made a note to use this as a seed keyword.
Compared to the keyword “free SEO tools” which has a competitiveness of 59 with 3600 global searches, the backlink generator keyword is easier to rank for and that’s how you find out which keyword will be profitable or not.
So as you can tell, the information the tool provides us is incredibly useful. Here’s another example why it’s important to research keywords.
Let’s take a look at the keyword “pbn” Now to you and me, this means private blog network and we can see that it has a score of 40 which isn’t super competitive but not super low either.
However, when you click on the keyword you’ll see why this keyword isn’t a good one.
As you can see the top sites ranking for pbn aren’t actually about private blog networks at all.
In fact you can see results for Pacific Business News and Pacific Broadband Networks. Not what we want!
Now I’m going to show you how I use Long Tail Pro to find profitable keywords, even in the most competitive niches.
You can see above that I’ve already favourited five different keywords that I think are excellent options.
These are:
In this day and age, teenagers have grown up with the internet so this is a keyword that can be very profitable.
Teach them how to start a blog, offer your affiliate link for hosting companies and there you go.
Another keyword I’m looking at is keyword research which I’m going to use for a post to go alongside this one. I’ve starred the keywords “best keyword research tool” and “how to do keyword research.”
Even though I don’t recommend targeting keywords over 45, the type of long form blog post I write and the authority my blog has gives me a fair chance against the top results.
Now let’s say you want to look at the keywords you’ve favorited. Click on “Favorites” and it’ll bring up the list of all the ones you marked so you can easily go through them.
Click on the average keyword competitiveness column to rank them from low to high to see which ones are the easiest to rank for.
If you take a look, you’ll see the keyword “infusion soft” with a space has a score of 29 and almost 3000 searches a month.
This is a great keyword to use since it’s low competition and Infusionsoft pays nearly a thousand dollars in commission.
Only brand websites are in the top results such as Facebook, Youtube and Twitter so there is definitely room for us in there.
Another example is get response with a space.
This also has low competition and GetResponse pays a nice affiliate commission.
Their top results are similar to the Infusion soft results with Facebook and Twitter.
Long Tail Pro really makes it easy to find profitable keywords and ones you may have never even thought about as you can see in the examples above.
Everything I talked about so far has to do with internet marketing but Long Tail Pro works well for other niches too.
Let’s take a look at my second project which focuses on some different niches.
I looked up the keyword “dog leash” and sorted it by competitiveness.
Straight away you can see “embroidered dog collars” with a score of 28 and 2400 searches a month. Easy to rank for or use as a seed keyword to find even more possibilities.
You can seriously use this tool for any type of keyword. I searched for memory foam mattress to get these results.
“Full size mattress dimensions” is an excellent keyword with a competitiveness score of 18 but almost 10,000 searches a month.
You can definitely do some damage with that if you have an e-commerce store that sells mattresses.
Another one I searched for is “fitness watch” since these are getting pretty popular lately. The best one I found was “fitness watch for women” with a score of 32 and almost 3,000 monthly searches.
To make this search even more useful, you can filter them.
We know that people are interested in fitness watches when they search for them but you can target the ones actually looking to buy one by filtering with the word “best.”
This way we know these people have already decided they want to buy one and are looking for the best one to get.
Another way to do this is filter with the word “review.” Anyone who is looking to buy one is probably going to want to read a review first.
“Cheap” is another word to filter with since you know these people want to buy one and are looking for something in their budget.
And of course the most obvious one, “buy.”
Now moving onto my next seed keyword, marathon training.
Marathons and competitions of these sorts are also pretty popular and as you can see there are some pretty easy keywords to rank for in there.
So now that I’ve shown you the interface and my own projects, I’ll show you how you can start your own from scratch.
But first, let me show you how they actually calculate keyword competitiveness.
Keyword competitiveness is a calculation of page authority +/- page title factor +/- keywords in domain factor +/- domain length.
Page authority is a combination of several factors like site age, domain authority, social signals, juice page links, and other things like that.
I could go into a whole post about these terms so visit this post to learn more about each of the factors.
But if you just want to know if a keyword is a worth targeting, check out this chart.
I briefly went over this in the beginning but to create your own keyword research, click on the plus icon and enter in your project title, the language, if you want to include adult ideas which I do, target country and search network.
Click Create Project and then Find Keywords.
Enter a few seed keywords for Long Tail Pro to find up to 800 related keywords and data about them.
You can also enter in pre-filters but I like to do this later so I leave them at default. One option I do make sure to tick is the Global Search Volume and the other ones are optional.
For this example I’m going to use “camping” as my keyword and enter in hammock and portable bbq for my seed keywords.
Click Generate Keywords and Fetch Data to get your results.
Now that you have all your results, you can make it easier to go through them by adding the filters.
I like to filter the Local and Global Searches with a minimum of 1000 and the Domain Availability if I was looking for that and use those to find ones that spark your interest.
Click on the Calculate button to find the competitiveness score and when you’ve gone through all the ones you want to look at, arrange them from high to low for easy viewing.
So here’s our hammock results and right away you can see there are loads of keywords that would be excellent to rank for.
“Best hammock” has a score of only 32 and in its top ten results, only 5 of them have juice links which makes it a great commercial keyword to rank for.
I did the same thing with portable bbq which you can see the results for below.
Surprisingly the most commercial keyword “bbq for sale” has the lowest competitiveness score so that is something you can jump on right away easily.
So this is how you can use Long Tail Pro to find profitable keywords and create a content strategy to rank for low competition keywords with decent search volume.
You can also use Long Tail Pro a couple of other ways. Say you have an idea of what you want to write about so enter it in the search bar below Find Keywords.
I searched for “how to advertise on Facebook” and Long Tail Pro found all the data for the top ten sites ranking for that keyword. This gives you a quick look at what the competition is.
You can look at all the ones you searched for under “My Own Keywords.”
Another useful tool is Rank Checker. I searched for the same keyword since I wrote a dedicated post to advertise on Facebook and I want to see how I rank.
Currently ranked 12 on Google and 16 on Bing for my Facebook advertising post where I used Long Tail Pro to find relevant keywords to insert in my content.
When it comes to pricing, Long Tail Pro is not considered a cheap tool, however, it is more affordable than its biggest competitor- Ahrefs.
Indeed, Long Tail Pro’s most expensive plan allows you to research 2500 keywords a day, while you only get 100 keywords a day for the same money with Ahrefs.
A long Tail Pro’s plan can cost you between $26 up to $103 per month depending on the monthly plan you choose.
If you want an annual subscription, it will cost you between $208 up to $824 when you subscribe.
It might be a bit more than the price of an average keyword tool but trust me, it worth every dollar.
Plus, their support team is fantastic. They are quick and efficient.
As you can see it is really easy to find high traffic keyword with low competition using Long Tail Pro.
I showed you one earlier that has a $1000 affiliate commission!
It’s also easy to learn and use so anyone can take advantage of it. It also lets you see who your competition is and the current top ten results for any keyword in any niche.
It is certainly a great tool and if you don’t like it, you have a 30 day money back guarantee so give it a try and see how it works for you.
I have put together an awesome spreadsheet with 347 high traffic easy to rank for keywords in 12 niches.
All of these keywords are super easy to rank for with a combined monthly search volume of 2.3 million!
Here are just a few examples-
Keyword | Monthly Searches | Difficulty (0-100) |
---|---|---|
How to increase height | 60,500 | 25 |
Best portable vaporizer | 8,100 | 28 |
Reverse osmosis system | 18,100 | 29 |
You can download my niche research spreadsheet below-
Long Tail Pro is suitable for-
The license allows you to install Long Tail Pro on up to 3 computers
Long Tail Pro works with every language and country that is supported by Google which means you can use it to find low competition keywords in nearly every language in the world!
Yes, it is based on Adobe Air so it can run on the Mac operating system without a problem.
As you have seen, Long Tail Pro makes it really easy to find keywords with:
It’s easy to use & saves a lot of time with keyword research and competitor analysis.
Follow my tutorials to find every high traffic, low competition keyword in your niche.
Want free alternatives? Check out my favorite free keyword research tools.
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Long Tail Pro makes keyword research easy by finding all the high traffic, low competition keywords in any niche.
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Thanks Naman, you took the words right outta my mouth 🙂
Thanks Matthew, I was looking for such a tool for my site
Awesome you found it Zadock
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Thanks very much, I hope you found it valuable
Thanks wood, your such a kind person.
Thanks Isah, you’re too kind
Good day wood, precisely I have a lot of ur messages on my inbox, I really don’t know the one to read any more. It keeps coming. But I think i’ll have to read them all. Trust me this is not easy for me. But I will not give it up. Thanks wood.
Yes Isah get reading 🙂
I have been browsing online more than 2 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.It is pretty worth enough for me. In my view, if all webmasters and bloggers made good content as you did, the net will be much more useful than ever before.
Hey, thanks for your comment, I am pleased you like my content and find it useful
This is the best ever review of long tail pro and keyword research.I had bought long tail pro but did not know what to do next LOL Thank you very much.Do you have any products to sell?I will love to buy them in order to gain some more knowledge and support you 🙂
No worrys Ameen, only at http://marketerseal.com
Managed to find a good card and use LTP. I have also used Semrush at the same time.And now I am more confused than ever.The above services are using different KD algorithms.For example: keyword “emblem creator” has a 21 KD in LTP and 51 KD in Semrush. I am using the Keyword magic tool. Same story for all keywords I thought they are below 30 in LTP and now they are around 50 in Semrush.Shed some light, please! /hug
Hey Matthew, thanks for your wisdom!I was wondering if you can help me out with a $1 long tail pro version so I can test it out? I will send you $5 by PayPal for your trouble.I have tried to buy it but none of my cards are accepted, they said prepaid cards are not allowed even if my cards are not prepaid!!!Thank you very much and let me know, really want to try this out!Ana
Thats not in my control sorry but you could use this free SEMRush trial to conduct some keyword research https://searchlogistics.com/get/semrushtrial/
I have been using this tool since couple of years and I must say it’s one of the best keyword research tool.Great review, thanks for sharing!
No problem Adithya!
Hey Mathew I bought Long tail pro through your link, back when you first posted this. However, after the recent Google change is LTP still the best keyword tool for the job? Or do you have any other suggestions.
Yes it’s a great keyword tool but there are of course great alternatives like SEMRush too
Well I prefer desktop software over cloud software in general =/You should try each tool and see which fits you best
So it works as before or even better? ;)BTW, I’ve got an email from Serped. They’ve opened a “window” for newe subscribers. WOuld you recommnend this tool or rather go for Ahres + LTP. Your advice would be much apreciated.
Hello Matthew,I would like to get LTP but I’ve read that people have some issues according to Keyword Planner and Moz. Do you still recommend this tool? How accurate is it’s data comparing to previous versions? Does Keyword difficulty still works as it should? Maybe it’s better to wait untill some stability of this software? I don’t want to waste money for some tool which doesn’t work properly.Thanks,Lukas
They had some issues for a while but the new cloud version fixed that
Hello thanks for the share, I formally used Semrush for keywords but I will try LongTailPro to see how it works for me.
SEMRush is great for keywords as well!
Poor me!!!! I always pick the keywords with high KC…Such, a site has been built over 5 months, there is not any keyword ranged to top of Google!!!! 🙁
No you definitely want the ones with the lower KC 🙂
Hi,In LTP premium, I saw someone use high KC for his niche, some pick low KC. Whic is right?Thanks,
The lower it is, the easier it is to compete.
What makes you lean that way?
I took the plunge and really like it. I have long tail pro too but am slowly leaning more towards niche genetics.
Matthew, are you still using LTP as part of your strategy given the changes with Google AdWords and MOS the past few months. None of their training reflects these changes in the video tutorials, so it’s a bit slower on the learning curve and seems very limiting on some of the LT Keyword options that are registering no data, when we know there is search data for certain words. Seems like something that was designed to work incredibly smooth is playing catch up from changes in 2 major areas, MOZ and Google.
Yes I still use LTP for my keyword research and you are right, there have been some major changes recently that are affecting all keyword research tools. So far LongTailPro have released a number of updates to combat that but are yet to update their training material.
Thanks very informative article I’ll bookmarks your blog for features
No problem I hope you put it to good use
Seems that Adwords is now restricting keyword data to very large ranges. Getting numbers like, 100-1k & 1k-10k in ‘Local Searches’ on keywords for example. This is going to limit all software based off of Google’s numbers.Any thoughts?
That is because of the keyword grouping change and some apps are already reacting to it such as SEOMonitor
Excellent tutorial. I am going to download LTP now and tray to find some good keywords for my site, thanks
Please let us know how you get on Jane!
What is the price of long tail pro these days?For duration of one year
I think $25 a month
Hi there,I just downloaded a free version of LTP 3.1.0 and I cannot figure out why I can’t see the table headers of ‘Page Authority’, ‘Domain Authority’, ‘Juice Links’, etc next to ‘Keyword Competitiveness’. Normally, I should be able to see these but instead I see new categories like ‘Trust Flow’, ‘Citation Flow’, ‘Domain CF’, ‘Domain TF’ and so on. I thought I can still use the regular version of LTP for 10 day trial so I am not sure why I see different categories. Is it b/c I am on version 3.1.0 instead of 3.0? Let me know if you have any idea.Thanks!
Hey,Please see http://www.nichepursuits.com/long-tail-pro-switching-moz-majestic-link-data/
What do you think of these metrics for the new LTP results?Page CF: Below 35Page TF: Below 20Domain CF: Below 55Domain TF: Below 40
hello sir,You always provide great value to all your blog readers. I got very good and detailed knowledge through your tutorials. You wrote long and helpful articles as tutorials, as you use long tail pro for keyword research so I have a silly question in my mind that how do you find that much content for your articles.
I just listen to the problems people have 🙂
They made an update about this here http://www.nichepursuits.com/long-tail-pro-switching-moz-majestic-link-data/
Hi, I was pretty disappointed to hear about Steven’s experience above. I tried to buy the software a few days ago but the payment methods are quite lacking (no Paypal, no prepaid credit cards accepted) and the support didn’t even try to resolve my problem.Anyway, does anyone know if the problem with Keyword Competitiveness still persist? I haven’t been able to find anything about this on their website.
Can someone help me I wanted to know if really this tool work? Sorry for the English I’m from Brazil
Yes it’s a great tool to find keywords to target
Excelente Matthew…
Thanks Thiago!
Hi Matt,is it suitable for other google markets/languages as well or ist it just for us?
Yes it works in any language where Google exists
A word of caution to anyone considering Long Tail Pro Platinum. I recently signed up for the annual plan (via Matthew’s affiliate link to give something back to a highly regarded authoritative voice in this industry), and the plan came with a generous ten day trial period. However, one of the key features of the software is Keyword Competitiveness, and at time of writing, this is not working. LTPro Support explained that it’s due to a reliance on an external API and they are working hard on a fix. As a new customer trying to evaluate the software, I asked if my trial period could be extended once this fundamental issue was fixed, on the basis I couldn’t actually evaluate its requirements against my criteria. I was told this was not possible, which frankly, is very poor customer service. What’s the point of offering a trial period when customers are unable to fully test the software? I did not think it was unreasonable to request an extended trial period and I found the inflexibility of their support very disappointing. I did also try to reach out to one of its business owners to point this out in the hope he may have stepped in to offer a common sense perspective. I have urged the business owners of LTPro to review their policies with regards trial periods of software that is not fully functioning. So whilst Long Tail Pro has just continued to grow in revenue every single year and comes highly recommended, you may want to check if all the important features are fully functioning before signing up. Especially the KC feature (keyword competitiveness) as it is so fundamental to keyword research and making an informed choice on whether or not to go into a particular niche.If the team at LTPro don’t look after their current and potential customers, their growth and success will eventually stagnate with less than favourable reviews. All in all, a very deflating experience when I had such high hopes…
Yes they had a problem with that last week but it was quickly fixed up.It’s a shame they can’t extend the trial period though because it makes perfect sense to do so, but this could also be down to a limitation of their systems but I’m just guessing.The one thing you can be sure of with LongTailPro though is they have been around for 5 years constantly updating, improving and fixing their software unlike many other tools that just come and go.
1) Sorry, I thought I’d get an email when you replied. Long Tail University actually emailed a few hours after I wrote here, sorry about that. It takes about 24 hours for the access email to arrive.2) I will do tomorrow as it’s 1am here. I only noticed it when I tried it out on a search term I was familiar with; When there were no familiar results it seemed odd.Thanks for the reply though!
A wonderful article! Having carried out keyword research on a number of occasions, I strongly recommend SEM Rush or Moz’s new Keyword Explorer tool. Google’s own Keyword Planner is also worth a look if you’re undergoing internet marketing on a budget. Keep the great articles coming Matt!
Yeah SEMRush is great, I will be showing that off in the next month or so 🙂
Hey Luke,1) That should be delivered to you in a separate email, perhaps check your spam or ask LTP support?2) Can you show me an example please?
Hi Matthew,I just bought Long tail pro through your link, and so far it is very interesting. 2 things I wonder if you could shed some light on if you get a chance.1. How do I access Long Tail University once I’ve signed up to LTP?2. When you toggle the keyword drop-down to see the first 10 results for the keyword. The results are quite different from, say serps.com – I’m trying to figure out why.Many Thanks
Great Article, thanks sir 🙂
No problem Mohamed!
Matthew, Looking to get this at the Annual plan of $25 as it states.When I click on this option it brings you through to the Payment Page, which is fine – HOWEVER at the top of the payment page it states:Plan: Long Tail Platinum Special Discounted Annual PlanPrice: $1 Trial for 10 days, then $297 / year (33% off Annual plan)It says on one page it is $25 on the payment page $297 Which one is it?Or is the $25 the saving made only?Thanks
It’s the equivalent monthly price, so it works out at $25/mo instead of $37/mo
Long Tail Pro it’s the best tool to find long tail keywords.I saw your blog post it’s very useful for me to do keyword research quickly.
No problem, it’s a great tool – I couldn’t live without it!
Thanks for the detail. Another really helpful support guide.I have just double checked the keyword “fitness watch for women” in the GKP and it shows a global search of 320. Can I ask, where did you get your 3000 monthly search figure from?Thanks,
Its possible the number has changed since the time of publication
I personally use LTP and highly recommend for anyone who wants to find better keywords.We all know long tail keywords are generally give us more traffic. They are usually harder to find. But with LTP it’s really easy. Not only it’s smoother but also gives you low competitive keywords.
Long Tail Pro is a great software. I use it for my website keyword research to get organic traffics from google and it helps me a lot. I would recommend all to get this software. Its awesome for marketers.
It’s an essential tool for sure 🙂
Longtail Pro is a good keyword research tool, but 1 important thing when doing SEO that is never overuse the long tail keyword. It’s become suicide because Google consider that’s spam since so many repeated content…
That’s only if you were to create separate pages for keywords that are related but essentially the same, eg “start a website” “make a website” “create a website”
Thanks mathew for the review. But let me tell you, I am a great fan of yours. By the way I think good search volume and low competition makes things easier for ranking but that does not guarantee good conversions! Thats a point to be cast some light I suppose.
Yes that is very true, it is important that your content aligns with the intention of the search 🙂
Very nice video about keyword research,i m also trying to find high CPC keywords by using LTP.Thanks for sharing it is really helpful!!
No problem, glad to be of service 🙂
Yes but it was solely a JVZoo affiliate launch and had all the attached warning signs where as LongTailPro is time proven deploying updates for the past few years.
Didn’t they have an affiliate link you could promote?
Thanks Matthew! 😀
Hi MatthewThanks for posting this review and guide. Definitely very helpful and comprehensive! I’ve only just downloaded the trial for Long Tail Pro, and having this guide means I will be able to get started ASAP. Here’s to a Bank Holiday weekend of KWA!
No problem Michael, hope it helps you out 🙂