Mind Nest

Ok even I will admit that the title of this post was kind of forced to get the keyword in. That’s what this post is about though so I think it’s excusable. Chances are if you found this post it’s because you googled one of the long tail keywords that I am optimizing this post for. Seeing as this blog has no other traffic to account for this test could be interesting. Long tail keywords as you probably already know are keywords that consist of a few words and are very specific. The benefits of this can be that you can deliver to a user exactly what they are looking for. It should also be very easy to rank for the term as it should have little to no competition for the exact phrase match. The dissadvantage is of course that not that many people search for long tail keywords. So you usually want to combine a number of long tail keywords to get some decent traffic. This post is part of a case study on whether this is a good practice. Cough Cough keyword stuffing long tail keywords niche traffic what?

How do I find long tail keywords? I start out using a tool called gtrends by wordtracker, it’s free… google it. Start by typing a general term, this generates some good keywords that have traffic. Take one of those and put it in as the keyword and it will give you more specific keywords, the ones you are looking for. Go through these looking for the ones with any traffic above 10 visitors a day and 0 - 20 pages in competiton. Optimize a page for these keywords. You don’t need to stick the phrase all over the place. Just a few times as you have no other competition your page is the only one for the phrase. You probably want to blend the keyword in as you normally would but for my study I am just going to come out and state that one of my keywords is keywords in your niche long tail traffic. I really didn’t know how to blend that into a a sentence. Anyways I suggest that you take advantage of this type of traffic and I hope my case study goes well. If your reading this then it probably has gone well.

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So how cool is this guys, I entered a domain name contest for best domain starting with 16 domains with 1 vs. 1 elimination rounds and eventually won. You can view the winning post at the following site.

http://www.bloggernoob.com/domain-tournament-winner/28/

I also had to link to it so that I can get paid the winning prize. I recommend checking out the rest of the site seeing as it’s very interesting.

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Ok before I start out with this post I need to admit that yes this is slightly (ok quite) hypocritical of me seeing as I am writing this on a blog. Starting a blog was such a unique idea of mine wasn’t it! However the main idea I would like to get across is that you will never be extremely successful if you just copy others ideas. You have to be unique and creative. I’m still working on it to so don’t worry. Read the rest of this entry »

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As a new blogger it can be tempting to want to plaster your blog with all kinds of ads in an effort to “get rich quick”. To experience the success in the long run that your looking for you have to ignore this impulse. As a new blogger your focus should be on building up a reader base not making money. That’s why Mind Nest isn’t going to have any of those 125 * 125 ads on it for a long time. Read the rest of this entry »

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I decided to write this post just to fill up the page some more as I continue to customize it and set it up for some real content. Hopefully this will let it have a better blog feel. If in the unlikely chance someone is reading this… I suggest you subscribe :). This blog is going to be big and you will want to get in on the game early. Anyways that’s all I got for now and I need to get back to work. Bye.

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