To find long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty, use Google’s free tool: the keyword planner. There’s other tools you can use, but Google’s free tool is a good place to start. You can also use tools like SEMRush but they require a subscription to access them.
This site is built on finding long tail keywords which offer less competition than most. The domain name too “autopilot money making software” was found using the long tail keyword strategy I’ve going to describe here. Low competition long tail keywords offer an opportunity to get free traffic by ranking on Google for them. But it’s not easy, you need to put some effort in first before you’re even in with a chance of getting any free traffic.
Find Long Tail Keywords With Low SEO Difficulty
To find long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty, open up Google’s keyword planner and type in your “Seed keyword”. This should be a keyword which relates to your business or niche. Click on the monthly searches tab and look for those keywords which get fewer searches every month. The reason for this is that the most competitive terms will have a lot of searches. But they will also have a high SEO difficulty.
To go for the “low hanging fruit” you’ll need to look at the terms which also get fewer searches.
Browse through the search terms and look for something which stands out as slightly unusual. Here’s one I found while searching for a title to this article. I was looking under “long tail keywords”. This one gets 90 searches a month. The competition tab doesn’t represent the SEO difficulty, but the paid marketing competition so don’t use it as a guide to your ability to rank content.
Next take your search term and type it into Google’s search bar. You should see a number comes up if you’re using a laptop or desk top computer.
This number represents the amount of competing websites which use this term. As you can see with this term, the number is 1,470,000. Anything less than 10 million (10,000,000) means you’re in with a chance! Obviously the lower this number is the better it is for you. less than 2 million means I might have a chance of ranking this article on Google for free! I’m not holding my breath though, but there’s a chance.
Find Long Tail Keywords With Low SEO Difficulty – Next Step
So now you’ve done a “sniff” test you can look closer at the competition for this keyword more closely by doing a “phrase” match. This means typing the term into Google again as before only this time using quotes around the phrase. This tells Google to show the number of websites which specifically have this term in their content. See the results below.
As you can see in the image, the number below the search box is 11,100. Again, the lower this number is, the more chance you have of getting a place on the first page of Google, where you’ll get some free traffic. Anything less than 20,000 is pretty good. If you can find something less than 10,000 that’s even better. Remember though that this isn’t an exact science and whether you get a ranking or not will also depend on your content and back link profile. But if you get this part right, it will save you a lot of work later.
Build Your Content And/Or Site
As you can see, this site has been built on the strategy of long tail keywords phrases. So you can use this strategy to build a complete website. You can read about how this site was built in my article create free website and earn money.
Once you’ve found your keyword phrase which you’d like to use, start as that for your article title. Make sure you use an SEO plugin to help you write. I use Yoast SEO which helps you get the keywords in the titles, subtitles and within the copy. It also reminds you to use pictures and put your keywords in the image alt tags.
The longer your article is, the more easily you can optimise it for your keywords. So it’s a good idea to write at least 1000 words for your article. You can also look at the top Google result for some inspiration and to see what your competition is like. Try to do a better article which is longer and more valuable that the top ranking result when you begin.
Google Ranking Factors
There’s thousands of ranking factors Google (and other search engines) use to rank or not rank your content. These are just a few to keep in mind while writing your content:
- Domain authority – how Google sees your site
- Back links to your content
- Where the back links are from (are they from similar content sites and what is their domain authority?)
- Time of visitors on your content
- The click away rate – do visitors respond well or badly to your content?
- Social media presence
- Your site speed
- The user experience
- Your website set up – does it comply with GDPR for example (privacy policy, about page, contact page, cookie notice, disclaimers etc)
These are things to consider but most of all you want to create quality content which will stand the test of time. Provide value and give your visitors a good user experience. If you content is good, visitors will naturally share your content (use a social share plugin). If not, they won’t! Google will look at your natural link profile over time too. This means you want people to naturally share and link to your content and this will only happen if it’s good!
Share Your Content
Sharing your content can give it the traffic it needs for Google to see more about how people interact with it. You’ll also get people to it which is of course the goal anyway. Once people are on your content, they can sign up to your offers and you can make more sales. To help you share content use an automated syndication tool. I use a plugin by Nextscripts: social network auto-poster. This plugin takes some setting up but will help you get more traction on your content. Once you’ve set it up it’ll share all the content you publish from then on.
You can also use postplanner to share old content which you’ve already published. Using these tools and a social share plugin on your site can all help you gain the traction you need from your content. Although when you find long tail keywords with low SEO difficulty it can get you free traffic from Google, you shouldn’t sit back and rely completely on that for your business!