If you are doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your website, or you rely heavily on SEO to deliver traffic to your site, you must read this article. SEO is a long term strategy, and it takes time to build up your traffic… However, there are something everybody missing, which will deliver massive result in the shortest time!

We call it the long tail keyword SEO strategy.

When you do keyword research, you will identify the major keywords in your market, but normally these keywords are highly competitive, and many SEO experts will start to optimize your whole site for the main keywords, hoping to get massive search engine traffic and always failed to do so, which is a stupid strategy!

The correct way to do is try to identify all long tail keywords for your website with all modifiers from the keyword research. Long tail keywords tend to rank well with less competition and convert better, Here’s why:

Reason #1 - Search Engine prefer long tail keywords over general keywords when ranking the result for the searchers. However, your long tail article page should have basic authority before the search engine starts to show them. Just get some back links from the web 2.0 authority site and your page will appear in the first page!

Reason #2 - Faster ranking with long tail keyword. Web 2.0 provides the greatest back links of all, with few authority sites pointing to your page, you can easily out rank most of your competitor for those long tail keywords!

Reason #3 - You can see result faster! If you targeted the correct sets of long tail keywords, you can easily tap into the search engine traffic within the least time.

You need to find “realistic” keywords to rank, the best way is through forum and community sites where actual people ask the actual question. Take note of all long tail keywords and the problems and solutions to build your landing pages. Many SEO expert ignored them, this is the low hanging fruit…