How important are longtail keywords?

[roycpo]

Long tail keywords has been providing with great results in SEO. Since the latest Updates of panda and penguin long term keywords provides great results in SEO.

[benzamin]

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[vishwanath]

Another important aspect of using long tail keywords is that it helps you in connecting with your audience. Writing a high quality, useful content will definitely gain traction in search engines. SEO program is as good as what you deliver. Long tail keywords give a better clue as to the type of content you offer.

[tony_S]

Long-tail keywords are very much effective for your Google ranking, they are good to target. Competitive is very low for long tail keyword. As an example you write an article on “how to improve my AdSense earning”. If a visitor searches in Google by ‘AdSense’, ‘AdSense earning’ or ‘improve my AdSense earning’, he will reach in your content. Now you can see some benefits of longtail keyword:
Better quality traffic and higher conversion rates.

• Long tail keywords are less competitive.
• Long tail keywords help you stay agile.
• Long tail search helps you rank for difficult terms.
• Long tail search is the most popular type of search.