How to Scrape Long-tailed Keywords

gerry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:49:00 +0000

My keywords are such long tail keywords that there probably wont be too many feeds for those specific keywords.

for example, if i’m doing ‘computer repair’, the keywords I specifically want to target are ‘new york keyword’ ‘florida keyword’ ‘portland keyword’ etc.

So, how can i go about achieving this? There are probably lots of sources for ‘computer repair’ but hardly any targetted to particular cities.

ANSWER:

Content Scraping EzineArticles.com for Long Tail Keywords

First of all, you can’t really scrape ezinearticles for long-tailed keywords. Try your best to NOT rely solely on ezinearticles as your feed source and try to find niche feeds instead. You’ll generally have the best luck by doing that.

The Power of the Pipe

Another powerful, powerful approach is using Yahoo Pipes mashups to mesh a nice list of RSS feeds together and use WP Feeder. There are some pipes that account for meta searches by keyword that can create the feed that you can then pull from with wp feeder.

I’ll write an article on Yahoo Pipes in the coming days.

Keyword Stuffing with WP Spinner

Last, but not least, stuff keywords into your articles using spinner. An original ezinearticle.com artilce will loosely target the keyword niche and you can stuff more targeted content into the prefix/suffix, including long-tails.

Still, the approach of creating one page per keyword does not work very well with article scraping for the reason you mentioned above.

Instead, practice a looser approach that leans more on the article directories and the quality resources you scrape to do that for you. Its less stress on you and still gets results. The long tailed keywords can usually rank just by being placed in your articles footers as long as you drive a few backlinks.

Geo-Targeting with WordPress Categories

You might also try creating a new category for ‘Main keyword in City, State’ if its local relevant niche.

Keywords and Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)

gerry — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:51:55 +0000

“I’m confused about selecting my keywords. If I’m trying to sell ‘ringtones’, for example, then shouldn’t most (if not all) my keywords contain the term ‘ringtones’ in it?

Whether it be:

beyonce ringtones
download beyonce ringtones
get beyonce ringtones online
etc.

how would I NOT use the word ringtones here to avoid over-saturating that keyword?”

ANSWER:

Yes, if you are targeting ‘ringtones’, many of your longtail keywords (keyword phrases with 3 or more keywords in them, for those that don’t know) will also contain the word ringtones and that can oversaturate that base keyword and actually do more harm than good, SEO wise.

A couple things to remember

You’re not creating articles using spinning programs that spin in random keywords from a list of keywords. You are borrowing full articles and well written content from authors who have ALREADY thought about all this stuff FOR you.

That means, you don’t have to worry about putting keywords in the articles. Just make sure the title and descriptions are good.

You can use WP Spinner to randomly put keywords into the footer of each article to make sure your long tail keywords are getting placed throughout your sites. For longtail placement, this is usually enough when it comes to onsite SEO. Just be sure to do it in a creative way that does NOT look overly spammy.

SEO is not just about putting ‘ringtones’ as many times as possible or just about putting your longtail keywords either. Think Latent Symantec Indexing or LSI. The basic principle is that you can get ranked for ‘ringtones’ without ever even using the word ‘ringtones’ based solely on relational connectivity.

LSI Keywords can be found using google adwords keyword research tool.

LSI Keywords

To illustrate, here are the related terms I discovered for ‘ringtones’.

Additional keywords to consider

ring tones
free ring tones
true tones
truetones
ring tone
free ring tone
realtones
polyphonic
real tones
ringing tones
ringers
tones
realtone
mobile phone ring tone
cell phone ring tones
realtones for
free realtones
download ring tones
mobile ring tones
ring tones free
cell phone ring tone
mobile realtones
free tones
real ring tones
phone tones
free real tones
mobile ring tone
free ringotnes
phone ring tones
polyphonic ring tones
mobile phone ring tones
polyphonics
poliphonic
monophonic
polyfonic
mr tones
mobile
download realtones
wallpapers
picture messages
melodies
keypress
polyphonic tones
mobile wallpapers
cell phone wallpaper
logos
truetone
free downloadable
free cell phone wallpaper

They don’t use the term ‘ringtones’ but are still related and DO help your rankings for your base keyword without having to over use the main keyword.

Better SEO Results by Diving Deeper into LSI Research

You can then do deeper keyword research on some of those LSI terms to expand your LSI lists.

For example, now do a search for ‘truetone’ or ‘mobile wallpapers’ or ‘melodies’ or do a search on Google for a list of the top 100 ringtone artists or top 1000 hiphop musicians, etc etc. These are all LSI terms and will help you.

Just put your root keyword in the header title, description and keywords tab… make sure the word ‘ringtones’ does shoe up, sprinkle your longtails in the footer and target LSI terms also.

Keywords, Targeting Loosely, Hitting the Target

Another thing to remember is that when you are looking for RSS Feeds, targeting by longtail keywords is a futile effort at best.

You’re not going to find many articles written to target ‘amazing ringtones for under $1′ or something like that. You’d be lucky to find 1 article (reeeally lucky).

So, just find anything and everything on ‘ringtones’ then go after other related root terms where you’ll more likely find hundreds or thousands of articles and drop longtails into the footer of your posts.

Very Soon, Down the Road…

We have a new plugin coming out in the next few days that will rewrite your posts for you so you won’t have to bother much with worrying about duplicate content penalties anymore.

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