Last Updated on March 10, 2023 by Rick Darlinton
When it comes to content optimization, researching the keywords is a kind of routine work that SEO experts do. Keywords research is very important as it will affect on-page SEO. Many people may just select some high monthly volume keywords and instead ignore the importance of using some longtail keywords. In general, the highly competitive keywords are very hard to rank because so many other sites also target these keywords. If your website is new without a high domain authority, properly selecting relevant longtail keywords can become an efficient solution to drive organic traffic to your website. In this article, we are going to show how to find longtail keywords using 5 simple tricks.
How to check keyword difficulty of longtail keywords
Usually, longtail keywords are less competitive. You should use some online tools to check whether the longtail keywords you are choosing are easy to rank with a low keyword difficulty score. In general, longtail keywords with keyword difficulty scores within 0-30 are easy to rank in the top positions if the page content quality is good. To check the keyword difficulty, you can use Ahrefs free keyword difficulty tool or Semrush tool.
5 ways to find longtail keywords
These are some solutions you can try to find longtail keywords.
Keyword.io free longtail keyword tool
Keyword.io is a free online keyword tool that allows users to check some longtail keywords in google, Amazon, Bing, Yandex and more. This is the best free longtail keyword online tool i find up now. It is completely free and Keyword.io lists detailed longtail keywords. You just need to register an account for use this online longtail keyword tool.
Quora questions
I have been using Quora to find longtail keywords for a long time. There are so many relevant questions in Quora after you enter a topic such as windows video editor. It is quite simple: just find a relevant question like windows video editor and then check the related questions on the right side or at the bottom of the question. You can make a list of all of the relevant longtail keywords. You can do this again and again by entering different topics and find more longtail keywords
Check keywords and keyword difficulty from competitors
One of the most efficient and convenient solutions to find longtail keywords is to check the ranking keywords from your competitors. First of all, you could make a list of your competitors and then check their ranking keywords using some online marketing tools like Semrush. Although Semrush is a paid online marketing tool, it offers powerful features that can help you check the ranking keywords of your competitors according to keyword difficulty. The keyword’s difficulty ranges from 0-to 100. The higher the number is, the more difficult it is to rank for the keywords. In general, you can check some keywords of difficulty score within 0-30. The keywords with keyword difficulty within 0-30 are comparably much easier to rank in the top positions with good quality content. Instead, if the keyword difficulty is more than 50, it is much harder to rank and you have to get lots of quality backlinks for those competitive keywords. You can follow the steps below to check how to use SEMrush to find longtail keywords with low difficulty scores.
- Go to Semrush and register an account.
- Next, tap on organic search on the left bar and then enter the site URL of your competitors
- Now, it will show all of the organic ranking keywords of the site you enter
- Here, you can continue to click on KD (keyword difficulty) as shown below to check the keyword difficulty of the keywords
- To find some longtail keywords that are less competitive, you can select keywords with KD (keyword difficulty) within 0-30 and then tap on Apply button to show all the keywords. After that, just click on Export to export the file to excel.
Note: you need to select a subscription plan to check detailed keywords or export all of the keywords.
Alternatively, you could use the Filter by keyword feature just by entering the specific keywords in the filter by keyword box. For example, you can enter some keywords like how to, windows, mac, and more to find relevant longtail keywords
After you export the keywords to excel files, what you need to do next is analyze those keywords with lower keyword difficulty and then write some articles covering these longtail keywords.
Google Adwords
If you are using Google adwords to drive traffic, you can also check the keywords used by the users in Google AdWords dashboard. It will let you know some longtail keywords used by your customers.
Soovle
Soolve is also useful to find some longtail keywords, though i do not use it often. When you enter a keyword in Soovle, it will show some relevant keywords. It is free to use and you can find lots of longtail keywords
These are some simple solutions you can use to find longtail keywords. No matter which tool you use to find longtail keywords, just make sure you check the keyword difficulty tool to know how hard it is to rank for the keywords you use.
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