Comments on: Repeat after me: It is all about the niche and the long tail https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:24:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hans bloggar https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail.html/comment-page-1#comment-27176 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:24:32 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/08/23/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail/#comment-27176 Interresting post.

I have “long tailed site” although I hadnt noticed that term used before. Since our site (Nyfiken vital (swedish)) is a small non-profit newspaper it grows natural with a lot of long tailed titles and stuff.

It also grows over time and get quite a lot of natural links to the articles, which are good and needed, and of course visitors. A normal day about 75% of the readers come from Google.

A large present of the readers that came from Google come in “long tailed search words” (do I still say “long tailed” here?).

Could you or anyone else maybe recommend some other information about long-tailed sites and long-tailed searches?

Best Regards
Hans

]]> By: DazzlinDonna https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail.html/comment-page-1#comment-27175 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:56:58 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/08/23/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail/#comment-27175 I was talking about organic SEO rather than Adwords. In any case, I don’t understand why you say it has little application. If you have 1000 visitors coming to your site via long tail keywords, that’s 1000 opportunities to convert. I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on it.

]]> By: andreas https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail.html/comment-page-1#comment-27174 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:32:29 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/08/23/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail/#comment-27174 Anderson’s book “The Long Tail” is a mix of good observations and poor use of facts. Netflix, one of his main examples, is used incorrectly and it actually disproves his main idea. I wrote a review of Long Tail at http://www.insider-seo.com/book-review-longtail.asp The general idea is good (“long tail”, or the logrithmic distribution of data) but there is very little that can be done with this.

Tony asks how can one use long tail distribution. Well… start an Amazon.com. Asides from that, not much. If you try this in Google Adwords, you’ll be punished severely. Go ahead and drop two million keywords into your Adwords acct and watch your Quality Score collapse. Google Adwords will also raise your minimum bids to $10.

As I said, Long Tail theory is interesting, but it has little application.

]]> By: DazzlinDonna https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail.html/comment-page-1#comment-27173 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:56:48 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/08/23/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail/#comment-27173 Yes, I create new content targeting long tail phrases on an already existing niche. And yes, I sometimes create a new site for a niche keyword. That’s usually more rare however. Whenever I do create a new site, though, I specifically aim for the long tail phrases right off the bat, rather than the money phrases. Doing so gets me quick rankings, immediate visitors, and helps me to forget all about a dirty sandbox. Getting external links is no different than for any other page. Most of the time, however, you don’t need to even worry about getting links for these phrases. Onpage most often will carry you into the rankings for them.

]]> By: tonyhill https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail.html/comment-page-1#comment-27172 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:09:01 +0000 http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/08/23/repeat-after-me-it-is-all-about-the-niche-and-the-long-tail/#comment-27172 Hi Donna, have a few questions for ya if you don’t mind…

What do you do with your long tail information? Do you create new pages targeting these keywords on your already exsisting niche? How do you go about getting external links to these long tail page? Or do you simply create new sites surrounding long tail keywords?

It would be great to see some examples of how you’ve used this information (if you haven’t already)

Thanks!
Tony

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