Working on the Long Tail

Writing and Page Rank

When I started this website at the end of October last year, I knew a bit about page ranking and was quite surprised that two of my other blogs had been ranked, on with a PR2 and the other with PR1 - now they are both PR2 and this site, which has only been live for six months is also a PR2. I am trying to raise this and am hoping for a PR4 or above before the end of the year and so I am working hard at optimizing all three of these sites.

The Long Tail

 

Most people who spend any time on the internet will be aware of the importance of keywords, and of finding the right keywords for your content. Not so many will have heard of the long tail, the long tail is a keyword phrase that visitors may use as a search term, and which you should incorporate into your seo endeavors.

Anyone who visits this site from time to time may notice that I have changed the title, I have done this as a result of reading this post , which had some very useful information on how to research long tail keywords and use them on your website. The title has changed because it was this phrase that got the most hits - in excess of 2000 for search terms. I thought that I would do this to see whether it increased my traffic  - and hopefully my links and page rank.

I think that my trusty laptop must be getting fed up with all the chopping and changing to its files, but my feeling is that if you don't try something then you'll never know whether or not it is effective. I was quite stunned by the fact that writing and research got about nine or ten times the number of hits that freelance writing and research got. So I hope that you will bear with me while I await the results. Have you tried working on the long tail yet?