Link: Should You Build Links for Competitive Terms or the Long Tail of Search?
Check your stats, see which terms convert, I suggest using hittail which has a built in feature that suggests new keywords based on your long tail traffic patterns (a simply brilliant program designed by Mike Levin). Then you will not waste any time going after the wrong terms which after months yield only marginal results.
Link: coolest guy on the planet » my 2 cents on the “long tail” strategy.
A particular tool which i find makes it much easier to implement the long tail method of seo is called hittail. All you have to do is place their code on your page and it tracks which keywords you are being found for and makes suggestions about which ones you should mention more on your site. This is much easier than going into your stats and trying to figure it out from there, in my opinion.
Link: HitTail - Yay or Nay? - Page 3 - Actinic Community.
[HitTail] does make access to the referrer information easier and then tracks it better than some other stat systems and because of that I do think it may assist in some ways. For some people it will be very useful indeed.
Link: Uncover Long Tail Search Phrases With HitTail.com - SEO, Pay Per Click, Search Marketing.
...if you already have a site, I highly recommend signing up for HitTail.com. [...] I’ve been using it for months and am extremely impressed with its data analysis.
SEOMoz, specifically Hamlet Batista, writes about discovering the opportunity of the long tail and all the hard work involved in mining it. An astute commenter comments...
Link: SEOmoz | Uncovering the Invisible Long Tail.
Or use hittail
StumbleUpon user SpanishFlea from Las Pinas, Philippines, stumbled upon HitTail and liked it so much that he reviewed it and left us this lovely little quote:
I've been doing this manually. Great to see a tool that automates it.
