How To Find Long-Tail Keywords?

How To Rank High On SERPs Rapidly? Long-Tail Keywords!

In this article, I'll explain how you can find long-tail keywords with the free tool Ahrefs Keyword Generator:

1. What Is Ahrefs Keyword Generator?
2. What Are Long-Tail keywords?
3. How To Find Long-Tail Keywords?

1. What Is Ahrefs Keyword Generator?

Ahrefs is an all-in-one SEO tool to perform keyword research, backlink analysis, competitor research, and website auditing. While Ahrefs is a paid tool, they provide multiple free tools such as Ahrefs Keyword Generator.

Of course, and you know how the software industry works, Ahrefs offer you a limited tool for free, and they want you to pay for the full service. Nonetheless, if you start your SEO journey, you can start your long-tail keyword research with the free version of Ahrefs.

Ahrefs Free Keyword Generator helps you to discover new and relevant keyword ideas as well as their associate data:

Keyword Suggestions: You can enter a seed keyword and receive a list of related keywords and keyword phrases.
Keyword Difficulty: It assesses the keyword difficulty to indicate how challenging it may be to rank for those terms.
Search Volume Data: Ahrefs provides the average monthly search volume for each keyword.
Language and Location Options: It supports multiple languages and allows you to specify your target location for more precise keyword suggestions.

Note: You can complete your list of keywords by using Google Keyword Planner, but that will be the topic of another newsletter ;).

2. What are Long-Tail Keywords?

Long-tail keywords are specific and highly targeted keyword phrases that typically consist of three or more words.

They often focus on a niche or particular topic. Long-tail keywords are valuable for SEO and content marketing because they attract a more specific and qualified audience, and are often less competitive than broader keywords. Long-tail keywords make it easier to rank in search results and capture users with a particular interest or intent.

Note that by definition, the search volume of a long-tail keyword is significantly lower than that of a short-tail keyword. You trade the quantity of traffic with the quality of traffic.

3. How To Find Long-Tail Keywords?

1. Access Ahrefs Free Keyword Generator.
2. Select the relevant search engine. By default, Google is selected. You can start with Google.
3. Select the country. By default, United States is selected.
4. Write a keyword. E.g. “graphic design” 👇

5. Review the “Phrase match” results. E.g. “graphic design” 👇

6. Review the “Questions” results. E.g. “graphic design” 👇

7. Select the keywords that are:

a. Relevant to your content strategy, business, or industry.

b. With a low keyword difficulty (KD), i.e. in green.

c. With a satisfying average monthly search volume (every business is different, assess if the organic traffic is enough for you).

8. I recommend you to keep a spreadsheet with all the keyword data you gather from your searches. You can easily set up one in Google Sheet.
9. As mentioned above, you can use Google Keyword Planner to complete your set of data.
10. Reproduce this entire process for other seed keywords to collect relevant long-tail keywords and their associated data in your spreadsheet.
11. Prioritize your keywords. Define which ones you'll leverage first.

Now that you found several relevant long-tail keywords, and if the organic traffic they generate is enough for you, write one article per keyword on your blog.