When I finally made the decision the get Long Tail Pro way back in December of 2012 – I honestly had no idea how much this one piece of software would impact everything I do online. I knew that it would help me find more and better keywords right off the bat. But I didn’t know exactly how much it would positively affect my ability to actually make money online. I can say with confidence, that Long Tail Pro is the one tool that has made the biggest difference (by far), in my ability to get traffic to websites and actually earn money online.
Don’t get me wrong. There are lots of other tools that I love and use (and promote) that also make a big difference in everything I do online now. But Long Tail Pro is probably THE most important. Getting search engine traffic to websites 101 doesn’t get more basic than doing good and proper keyword research. And nothing makes keyword research faster and easier than Long Tail Pro. Allow me to explain…
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Actually – I’ll allow somebody else to explain! I could attempt to write 3,000 words and explain it in my own words. But this video does a much better job. Plus – you will be able to consume this content visually and much quicker than trying to read my ramblings (don’t worry – there is plenty of rambling below the video!). Check this out!
Note: This video was recorded with an earlier cloud version of Long Tail Pro – but still gives a great overview…
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3 Reasons You Won’t Get Long Tail Pro Today
#1 – The Cost
If you are somewhat new to this whole ‘make money online’ thing – then surely the cost of Long Tail Pro is a major factor for why you haven’t purchased it yet. Believe me – I know! When I first started out – I refused to pay for anything at all. I did everything the free way. I tried doing all of my keyword research with the free tool that Google provides – and my keyword research efforts were terrible! You know how I know? Because my sites weren’t getting any traffic and I wasn’t making any money.
Now that I’ve been using Long Tail Pro for several years to successfully find great keywords – I can confidently tell you that Long Tail Pro will more than pay for itself if you use it properly. Whether you are a blogger, a niche site creator, an affiliate marketer or even just an article writer – doing proper keyword research will help you be more profitable. Doing proper and effective keyword research with Long Tail Pro is super fast and easy. It’s so easy in fact – that it’s not hard at all to offset the cost of the software by putting it to work for you. And I’m going to show you how within this post.
I can tell you with confidence that Long Tail Pro will absolutely pay for itself - and then some!Click To Tweet#2 – Lack of Knowledge
Maybe you don’t know what Long Tail Pro is, how it works or how you can benefit from using it. Obviously – you wouldn’t purchase it if you didn’t know the answer to at least one of those 3 things. Let me help you out…
Long Tail Pro is a keyword research tool. Keyword research helps you find exact keywords that people are actually searching for. Some keywords are high competition (meaning it is harder to rank for on your site) and some have lower competition (easier for you to rank). How does Long Tail Pro work? First it finds the actual keywords for you based on the ‘seed keywords’ that you input. Then it helps you analyze the competition to see which keywords will be harder or easier for you to rank. How does this benefit you? You can take those ‘easier to rank’ keywords and use them in your content to increase search engine traffic to your site.
#3 – Stubbornness
This is another common reason people won’t get Long Tail Pro. Their stubbornness can stem from many reasons – including the two mentioned above. Too stubborn to pay for it (can be confused with too cheap to pay). Or too stubborn to learn about the benefits. But the main reason is that lots of people actually think that they are better off without Long Tail Pro. Either they do their keyword research the free (hard) way which takes a LOT of time and knowledge and usually isn’t very effective. Or they use a different keyword research tool which they think is better. Let me just tell you – there is no better or more effective keyword research tool than Long Tail Pro. More than 70,000 marketers can’t be wrong and over the past few years Long Tail Pro has become the standard when it comes to keyword research tools.
70,000+ marketers can't be wrong - Long Tail Pro is now the standard for keyword research tools.Click To TweetDuring my 3+ years of using the tool myself – I can’t recall ever seeing or hearing of anybody who has tried Long Tail Pro and thought that it wasn’t the best. Just about everybody in the SEO community seems to wholeheartedly agree that using Long Tail Pro for keyword research is far superior to any other method.
Update (Nov 2017)
Update: I’ve now been using Long Tail Pro for 5+ years. There are now many different keyword research tools and lots of people prefer some of the newer tools. Admittedly – Long Tail Pro had some hiccups and went through some rough times as they transitioned ownership and introduced the newer cloud version. But – all of the bugs and kinks have been worked out and Long Tail Pro is now better than ever! I’m happy and proud to be able to continue to use and promote Long Tail Pro as my keyword research tool of choice.
Long Tail Pro Cloud Tutorial (Video) (Updated Nov 2017)
This video is a fairly new and updated video that shows you exactly how fast and easy it is to find low competition keywords using Long Tail Pro and their original KC feature (more on that below). After watching this video – you’ll have a good feel for precisely how the software works and what to expect if you decide to purchase.
Definitely watch this video if you want a quick overview of exactly how Long Tail Pro works and how powerful it is…
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Video recorded and produced by me!
Long Tail Pro – Keyword Competitiveness (Important – Best Feature)
Mentioned in the above video is the Keyword Competitiveness (KC) feature within Long Tail Pro. With earlier versions of Long Tail Pro, you could only access this feature if you paid extra to upgrade to the Platinum version of Long Tail Pro. Pricing structures and the way the software is delivered has evolved over the years – and currently (as of the date I am writing this) all features of the software are included no matter which payment plan you choose. So right now – everybody who buys Long Tail Pro has access to this extremely powerful feature.
So what exactly is Keyword Competitiveness (KC)? It’s only the feature within Long Tail Pro that completely changed the game and made keyword research so ridiculously simple that even a dumb truck driver like me could become an expert! It basically works like this. As soon as you click the button in Long Tail Pro Cloud to retrieve keywords, it automatically calculates a number for each keyword (between 1 and 100) based on several different SEO factors. Lower numbers mean the keyword is easier to rank for and higher means it is harder to rank for. More on that below…
Note: In the old ‘software’ version of Long Tail Pro – you had to manually click a button to calculate the KC Score for each keyword. In the NEW Cloud version (which is what all new buyers get) – Long Tail Pro automatically calculates KC Scores for every keyword that it generates!
KC - The Long Tail Pro feature that turns even the newest newbie into a keyword research expert!Click To TweetHow do I know that the KC score measures competition accurately? When I first started using the KC feature – I didn’t know for sure. But I’ve been using it since December of 2012. I’ve published literally hundreds of different articles (in different niches) around keywords with low to medium KC scores and I have a pretty good feel for the accuracy. More than 5 years of successfully ranking for low competition keywords has convinced me to completely trust the KC scores that are calculated within Long Tail Pro.
I also hang out in SEO forums and groups and see KC scores tossed around and talked about and pretty much everybody is on the same page. Most agree that you can’t completely rely on the KC score (there are a few factors that can’t quantitatively be measured with a number) – but that the KC score is a VERY good indicator of the competition level for specific keywords. The following diagram realistically shows exactly what to expect from certain KC scores…
Dominating Google Search Results with Long Tail Keywords
Before you can put it to use and start making Long Tail Pro pay for itself, you first need to understand exactly what Long Tail Pro does and how it will benefit you. The number one benefit and feature of Long Tail Pro is that it helps you analyze the competition in Google much faster and more effectively than if you tried to do it only using free tools.
Analyzing Current Top 10 Google Results
Analyzing the current top 10 search results in Google is the most important part of keyword research. This is where you determine whether or not you can produce a webpage that can beat any or all of those results. The process is known as first page analysis – and it is by far the hardest process to understand and really figure out (especially when you first start out). Don’t worry though – Long Tail Pro has detailed and in-depth instructional videos available that show you exactly how to do this.
Plus – as mentioned above, the KC score calculation makes this part really easy! I personally rely almost exclusively on the KC score these days when I do keyword research. It is the easiest and fastest way to determine competition levels of keywords and I simply don’t have the time to manually look at current first page results all the time.
Video: How To Do Competition Analysis with Long Tail Pro Cloud
Note: This video was recorded using an earlier cloud version of Long Tail Pro. The latest version is very similar and this video is still relevant and does a great job at explaining…
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Targeting Long Tail Keywords
Am I worried that my keyword research might not be effective since I only look at the KC score? No. Not really. Because I tend to target only the longer tail keywords these days. I don’t go after the huge main keywords anymore. They’re too hard to rank for. But long tail keywords are really easy to find with Long Tail Pro and they are usually much easier to rank for.
What do I mean by ‘long tail keywords’? A typical long tail keyword usually contains more words (at least 4 – sometimes 6 or more) and has fewer monthly searches.
Why would I want to target keywords with fewer monthly searches? Doesn’t that mean I would get less traffic to my website? Actually, it works the opposite of the way it would seem. You actually get more traffic more easily by targeting longer tail keywords. Here is why…
- Long tail keywords are easier to rank. Getting a little bit of traffic for a keyword that is actually ranking is better than getting no traffic for a keyword that isn’t ranking.
- As traffic and engagement to your site increases – you tend to get found for even more keywords than you purposely targeted. People will actually search for phrases (keywords) that exist in your articles that you weren’t even targeting on purpose.
Tip: Instead of targeting large keywords (with lots of monthly searches) in one main article – try targeting lots of long tail keywords in lots of different articles. I’ve been having success with this strategy for a long time now – and more recently Spencer and his team at Niche Pursuits have been using this strategy and talking extensively about it.
4 Ways to Make Long Tail Pro Pay for Itself
Here is the part of this post that we’ve all been waiting for. How to make Long Tail Pro pay for itself! I can tell you with absolute certainty that all of this isn’t just fluff designed to try to get you to buy the product. I’ve actually done all 4 of these things – and I continue to do the top 3 to this day! This stuff really works and I make WAY more than enough money, as a result of using Long Tail Pro, to pay for itself.
How to make Long Tail Pro pay for itself! No fluff. Real strategies that work...Click To Tweet#1 – Target Long Tail Keywords on Any Website or Blog
This one is a no-brainer and is a strategy that everybody who has a blog should be using. Simply target long tail keywords for most or all of your posts and bring in traffic that maybe wouldn’t otherwise have landed on your site. There are 2 ways you can do this…
- Do keyword research with Long Tail Pro first to find a topic to write about based on general topic ideas using seed keywords.
- Write about a certain topic and then do keyword research and optimize that article for a specific long tail keyword.
Let me show you an example. I just surfed over to a very popular blog called The Busy Budgeter (www.busybudgeter.com) to find an example topic. Rosemarie is the blogger over there and I’ve been following her journey recently. She’s absolutely killing it online! But, I happen to know that she gets most of her traffic from Pinterest and that working on SEO is one objective that she wishes to tackle. So, let’s see if we can help her out… A quick scan of her homepage tells me what type of content she produces and who her audience is. It appears her audience is largely female, lots of stay-at-home moms and a good portion of her content revolves around teaching others how to make money online.
Okay – let’s do some quick keyword research for Rosemarie! I opened up my Long Tail Pro app (it’s in the cloud now – no more desktop software) and created a new project. I entered the seed keyword – stay at home mom jobs. I set it to show me only 25 results then clicked the Retrieve Adwords Suggestions button.
Note: the old software version of Long Tail Pro would have spit out several hundred adwords suggestions (many being irrelevant to the seed keyword) for this one seed keyword and then you would have to filter to see only what you wanted to see. With the new cloud version of Long Tail Pro, you set it to show only a certain number of keywords and it displays the most relevant keywords so you have less noise and confusion to filter through.
Within a matter of seconds, Long Tail Pro showed me the top 25 Adwords suggestions for my seed keyword, with KC Scores already calculated! After scanning the list, I found a couple of keyword ideas that I wanted to drill further into. One of these was the keyword – legitimate work from home jobs. This keyword by itself would be very difficult to rank for (KC Score of 40) – but the new cloud version of Long Tail Pro allows me to easily grab up to 20 more suggestions based just on this keyword. I clicked the button to do that (as shown in the image below).
Within the results, Long Tail Pro inserted several more keywords based on that suggestion and automatically calculated all relevant stats (including KC Scores). It only took me a few seconds to scan those results and see a great long tail keyword – legitimate work from home jobs with no startup fee. This exact keyword gets 210 monthly searches and has a KC Score of only 25! Rosemarie could easily write an article for her Busy Budgeter site that is optimized for this exact keyword and she should be able to rank in Google somewhat easily.
How to Optimize an Article for a Specific Keyword or Keywords
Optimizing an article for specific keywords is actually quite easy. Simply place your exact keyword in the following places within the post (or page)…
- In the post title – Your Keyword Here
- In the URL – https://dumbpassiveincome.com/your-keyword-here/
- In the META description for the post
- In the first sentence of the first paragraph (bold or italics if it makes sense)
- In at least one sub heading with an H2 tag (Heading 2)
- In 1% or less of the content (if the post is 700 words, use keyword at least a few times, but no more than 7)
- In the last paragraph somewhere (bold or italics if it makes sense)
- In the ALT tag of an image within the post (I usually make the Title tag and the image file name the same)
- Add the exact keyword as a Tag in WordPress (unless it is already a Category) – Your Keyword Here
Tip: If using WordPress – use the free Yoast SEO plugin. It pretty much walks you through everything I listed above and lets you know if you missed anything.
I hope it’s easy enough for you to clearly see how pretty much any website page or blog post can be slightly modified in order to get optimized around a certain keyword. For the Busy Budgeter example – Rosemarie could easily write a brand new article – or change the title of an existing article that is already written on a similar topic, add some subheadings and a few paragraphs and have it optimized for this really low competition keyword. A keyword like this will likely bring in new visitors month after month – and Rosemarie could direct readers of that article to some of her ‘make money online’ tutorials that we already know are very profitable for her!
There really is NO reason that every single website or blog shouldn’t be using this technique – unless more traffic isn’t their goal. Long Tail Pro makes this process SO fast and easy that it really is a no-brainer!
#2 – Create a Small Niche Website
This is a really straight-forward strategy. Contrary to popular opinion – small niche websites can actually still work. Basically, you create a small website that is hyper-focused on one long tail keyword. You create the very best resource on that specific topic and publish the very best content on the internet based around that long tail keyword. Monetize with something simple like Adsense, Amazon or another affiliate product – then just sit back and watch the money roll in every month!
If only it were that easy – right? I’ll be the first to admit – it’s not always that easy. I’ve created lots and lots of these types of sites over the past few years – and only a handful of them worked out. It can be a very hit or miss thing. But I do have one site in particular that I would like to highlight for you. It happens to be the very first niche website that I ever created! Why highlight this specific site? Because my very first attempt at a niche site happens to still earn more than enough money each month to pay for the expenses associated with Long Tail Pro! Check out the screenshot below from my Adsense account which shows stats for just this one site for exactly one year previous from the day that I am writing this post.
A few things to note about this site…
- I started this site in May of 2012 – it is hyper-focused on one obscure long tail keyword
- The site topic is somewhat seasonal in nature – which is why you see increased income during summer months
- Note – Adsense income still averages more than $50/month in off-season (enough to pay for Long Tail Pro!)
- Only 12 articles posted on this site and a few general pages (Privacy Policy, About, etc.)
- Most articles published within the first month or two that the site was built – a few more about a year later
- Zero manual link building efforts – any links pointing to the site are 100% natural
- $1233.55 earned in the past year – not bad for a site that I haven’t touched in well over a year!
If you already create niche websites, you can clearly see how everything I’ve discussed above will benefit you. In fact, you probably already understood all of it. But maybe you are a blogger who has never thought of creating a niche website. Is this you? Let me tell you – if you can create a blog, you can create a niche website. It is not hard at all to create a small site, laser focused on a very specific topic, that will earn at least enough to make Long Tail Pro pay for itself.
#3 – Become an Affiliate for Long Tail Pro
This might be the easiest way to make Long Tail Pro pay for itself. I’m pretty sure that the affiliate program is open to anybody (even if you don’t currently own the product). Simply get signed up and then promote it any way you see fit (within the Terms of Service, of course). If you couldn’t tell, I’ve been doing this for quite awhile via this blog and I’ve earned a healthy sum of money over the years as a result.
Currently, the affiliate commission for Long Tail Pro is a generous 30%! The affiliate commissions I’ve earned from promoting Long Tail Pro since I’ve owned it have WAY more than made up for what I paid for the tool and for what I continue to pay. It’s kind of a no-brainer to promote Long Tail Pro as an affiliate if you have the platform to do so.
I was going to post screenshots here showing my numbers for the past year – but the dashboards in the old affiliate platforms (Clickbank and JVZoo) don’t provide the best visuals – so I’ll just show you my total affiliate income for the past year. In one year (March 13, 2015 to March 13, 2016) I earned $3867.60 in commissions for promoting Long Tail Pro. Not bad for having just a mildly popular ‘passive income blog’ and only a small email list!
Understandably – not everybody who buys Long Tail Pro will have the audience or platform to be able to promote as an affiliate. For example – a food blogger’s audience won’t care about a keyword research tool. So even if affiliate promotion won’t work for you – I hope I’ve shown how the tool will more than pay for itself if used for what it is intended for.
#4 – Sell Keyword Research as a Service
Remember how I mentioned above that even a dumb truck driver like me could become a keyword research expert? Well – you can become an expert too if you get Long Tail Pro. The KC score is so widely accepted as a legitimate indicator of competition levels for keywords that you just need to provide that and others will be willing to pay you for it.
How do I know this? Because I’ve done it! In late 2013 I was still struggling to earn a respectable income online. I started up a keyword research service and marketed it to just this blog audience. It turned out to be quite popular. Basically – I would find niches using Long Tail Pro then create Keyword Research Packages. Each package contained usually several hundred keywords with KC scores calculated. I was selling these packages for anywhere between $97 to $147. I even sold one single package for $597! That one had very high search volumes and very low competition.
I ended up discontinuing that keyword research service in August of 2014. The non-passive nature of the whole service oriented business model was driving me crazy. But check this out – in 2014 alone I netted $4,616 selling keyword research packages!
What if I don’t have an SEO blog or an audience to sell to? No problem. Although I’ve never done it myself – I know you could easily find people willing to pay for keyword research on popular platforms like Fiverr or UpWork. Like I stated above – Long Tail Pro will make you an expert and people will be willing to pay you for your expertise!
Long Tail Pro will make you an expert and people will be willing to pay you for your expertise!Click To TweetLong Tail Pro Review
This entire post so far has been kind of a long review for Long Tail Pro. So let’s just re-cap real quick. Long Tail Pro is widely accepted as the best keyword research tool available and has become the industry standard. Unfortunately – you won’t buy it for one of these reasons…
- The Cost
- Lack of Knowledge
- Stubbornness
But maybe you didn’t watch the tutorial video yet. Or maybe you didn’t know about the extremely powerful KC feature. Maybe you didn’t know how quickly, easily and effectively you could analyze Google top 10 search results with Long Tail Pro. And maybe you didn’t even know how profitable it can be to simply target just the really long tail keywords.
Fortunately for you – I have 4 proven strategies that I’ve successfully used that will make Long Tail Pro pay for itself…
- Target Long Tail Keywords on Any Website or Blog
- Create a Small Niche Website
- Become an Affiliate for Long Tail Pro
- Sell Keyword Research as a Service
I’ve done all of these and they work! I continue to do the top 3 things today. I have never had any regrets when it comes to how much I’ve had to pay to keep using Long Tail Pro. It is absolutely worth every single penny – and then some!
Get Long Tail Pro Today!
What are you waiting for? Today is the first day of the rest of your internet marketing life. Yesterday would have been a better day to get Long Tail Pro. Tomorrow might be okay too. But today is even better. I’m telling you – when I first got my copy of Long Tail Pro – I was like a kid at Christmas time. It was SO much fun opening up new possibilities that I didn’t have without Long Tail Pro.
If you want traffic flooding to your site or sites from search engines (and who doesn’t?), then good keyword research is a must. Long Tail Pro not only provides that – it makes keyword research extremely fast and really fun.
Long Tail Pro Download
How do I access my download for Long Tail Pro after I purchase? There actually IS NOT a download available for Long Tail Pro anymore – now that they switched over to a cloud-based platform! No more software download means that you can use your Long Tail Pro subscription from any web browser anywhere! Just watch your email inbox for the email address you used when you made the purchase. All instructions will be sent there. Make sure you put those initial emails in a Save folder so you can access them later if you need to.
Long Tail Pro Price
Pricing plans and pricing structures for Long Tail Pro have changed several times over the years since I first purchased it. I’m not going to make the mistake of publishing any pricing information here. I’ve done that in the past on this blog and I still have several old posts that are live with incorrect pricing information. There is a good chance that people will still be reading this very post several years from now – and surely the pricing that is available today will be different in the future. Just like it was way different in the past. Please click on any of my links within this post or anywhere else on my site to see the latest prices for Long Tail Pro.
Long Tail Pro Discount
From time-to-time – there are discounts or promotions available for Long Tail Pro. Whenever these become available – all links on my site that lead to the Long Tail Pro sales page will reflect the discounted price. If there is a huge sale or a massive deal – I always let my email subscribers know about it as soon as possible. If you’re not on my email list yet – feel free to sign up by clicking the button below. I’ll even send you one of my FREE guides!
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If you are reading this – then today is YOUR lucky day! The affiliate manager for Long Tail Pro reached out to me and asked me if I would be interested in promoting an exclusive deal for my readers and subscribers. In fact – if you happened to click on any of the links above that lead to LongTailPro.com – then you may have already seen the deals.
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27 to 30% savings if you choose an Annual plan
- Annual Pro – you get an entire year for ONLY $377 <<< Best Value
- Regular price for the Annual Pro plan is $537
- Breaks down to just over $31/month
- Other discounts you might find online offer lesser savings at $45/month ($540/year)
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- Regular price for the Annual Starter plan is $297
- Breaks down to just over $18/month
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- Annual Pro – you get an entire year for ONLY $377 <<< Best Value
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30% savings if you choose a Monthly plan
- Monthly Pro – you pay ONLY $47/month
- Regular price for Monthly Pro is $67/month
- Other special offers you might find online don’t typically offer a monthly discount
- Monthly Starter – you pay ONLY $27/month
- Regular price for Monthly Starter is $37/month
- Other special offers you might find online don’t typically offer a monthly discount
- Monthly Pro – you pay ONLY $47/month
Jump on one of these deals while you can! They won’t last forever and will end at any time…
Seriously! Compare this pricing to ANY other popular keyword research tool. I think you’ll find that these prices can’t be beat for competing/similar keyword research tools!
Affiliate Disclosure
All links in this post (and anywhere else on this site) that lead to the Long Tail Pro sales page are indeed affiliate links. I will receive a commission if you choose to purchase after clicking through via one of my links. I truly appreciate your support and Thank You in advance if you choose to do so.
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Matthew Allen
Matthew…Finally someone who speaks to me. I have been trying to find someone or some article that speaks directly to my situation. You are it! Thank you for making the decision to buy Longtail Pro a simple choice. I will gladly use your affiliate link so you will get the commission. Great Job.
Carl – I’m thrilled that my article(s) spoke to you! That’s awesome. And I really appreciate you buying via one of my links. Feel free to contact me anytime with questions. Is there anything else you need further explanation on concerning Long Tail Pro? I’m always looking for reader questions to answer in the form of a blog post that will benefit others.
Hi Matt,
Thanks for showing a way of using the best keyword research tool available.
I also watched the video where you showed your first niche site. In that video, you said you wouldnt go after that keyword, knowing what you know now. Is that due to the high KC value or the low number of searches?
Cheers!
http://myrujukan.com/
Hi Matt,
Thanks for your explanation, I really don’t know how to use this long tail pro, but your post makes me understand on how I should choose my keyword base on my targeting, nice post there
If I didn’t already own MS and LTP didn’t require a paid monthly fee for its most important functionality, I’d be all over it. That said, you are right that it can easily pay for itself. Plus, I really dig LTP’s speed and usability. Looking forward to your next post, Matt!
Both Ollie – higher KC combined with low number of searches, but also because the niche just isn’t very profitable. There aren’t a high number of advertisers bidding on that keyword in Adwords. I knew about the low number of searches going in – but it was my very first niche site and I just wanted to get one built in what I felt was a low competition niche.
Yeah Mike – LTP will certainly pay for itself, but ONLY if the effort is put in by the user. I know it has paid for itself in my case, and then some!
I see you are now number one for ‘get long tail pro’ now. Well done! Has it seen an increase in traffic and sales of this project? I already own it I’m afraid.
Hey Joe – I rank for several terms that have to do with Long Tail Pro. A good amount of my search traffic finds my site for these related searches. I do get some affiliate sales from time to time, but definitely not as many as I was hoping for. I’m still working on it though.
The terms with ‘Get’ in them aren’t from people looking to buy are they. Could explain why conversions are low.
Nice Post Matthew, I guess Offering a Keyword research service is another way to Make Long tail Pro Pay for itself,
Thank you,
Ashwin
I suppose it is Ashwin! Although I wouldn’t recommend it for somebody just starting out with keyword research! 😉 When I wrote this post, I had not yet started my keyword research service offering.
Thanks for this info Matthew. I bought MS quite awhile ago but it always feels so cumbersome. This looks like it will save me a ton of time and effort. Happy to buy through your link.
Awesome – thanks Linda! I very much appreciate you buying through my link. If you ever have any questions, feel free to contact me via email and I’ll help if I can.
Hi Matthew.. thanks for this post.. it has got me seriously into keyword research which I previously wasn’t that concerned about. .Just one question from a newbie – if I get the basic edition of LTP (because the earnings does not justify a monthly subscription yet) – do you have any advice on what are the key metrics we should look for in order to tell that a keyword is easy to rank for? thanks again.
Yeah, sure Leann. A few things I glance at right away and are easy to spot in the basic version of LTP. Is the exact keyword being used in the Title? If there are several sites in the current top 10 that don’t have the exact keyword in the Title, this is a good sign. Page Authority column – look for several results with PA 30 or less. Juice Page Links – I like to see very few (20 or less) Juice Page Links in at least 8 of the top 10 results.
Those are the main things I look at. Sometimes I will glance at the Domain Authority column too if my results from the above are still questionable. If all sites in the current top 10 have really high DA (50 or more), I would probably stay away.
The other thing to look for… look at the types of sites that are ranking in the top 10. If other niche sites are there (you can usually tell by the domain name), this is a good sign. If somebody else can get a niche site to rank, so can you! Look for other weak results like forums or Q&A type results (i.e. Yahoo answers). If a few of those show up, this is a good sign.
These tips should get you started and help guide you on the right path. Keyword research is definitely a skill and takes practice, especially if doing it without the advanced tools. Even just getting the basic version of LTP will help you immensely and speed up the process for you. Good luck with it all Leann and let me know if you have any more questions.
That was awesome, Matthew.. many thanks! Let me go try it out and I will head over here to make a purchase. Good day!
Hey Matthew.
Great post indeed. I too have purchased it – but am at the basic version.
I have had my issues with another aspect in this business – the backlinks – so I decided to create a tool that compliments LTP. Would you like to see a demo? I can’t figure out if I want to sell it to other people – but when I showed it to a friend – she got super excited.
Would you like to give me your 2 cents on my demo video?
Thanks
Chris
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Do you recommend it for Infobarrel users? Is it necessary for success on that site? Also, another question about Infobarrel and CPC. I saw one of the Lending Club keywords on your video had a $16 CPC. On Infobarrel, where the site puts the ads on there for you, are those numbers still relevant? All the ads on my articles seem to pay no more than a penny, which may be one of the reasons why I have only made $0.71 in the two months I’ve been a member.
Joey – I have no experience with Infobarrel and am unfamiliar with their payment structure. But I actually started out my internet marketing journey 3 years ago by writing articles for a similar site (no longer in service). I’m guessing Infobarrel pays you a certain amount per number of impressions or article views?
Long Tail Pro could help you find really low competition keywords to write about – but I would say NO. I would not purchase it with that as your only monetization method. If you plan to move towards starting your own blog or website, then yes – it surely can be a great help.
They give you 75% of the ad revenue.
Hi Matthew,
I’m a newbie and just purchased LTP… I am curious… Is there any way of competing with 90% High ranking Authority Pages when no one is using the exact title in their descriptions and low juice page links or should I simply pass these keywords up because of their rank and site age. I think I may have picked a very hard niche to rank for : S
Hey Daisy – sounds like you may be in a hard niche to rank. Hard to say though. If nobody is going after your exact term, it is possible. But Google also ranks similar articles based on synonyms and if they are ranking all high authority pages for your keywords – you might be right that you picked a hard niche to rank for. Suggestion: look at your related keywords that get less searches per month and write articles based around those.
You got me interested in creating niche websites using long tail pro. What holds me back is the creation of legal pages like privacy policy page. How did you overcome this problem? Did you have to see a lawyer who created them for you?
Mark – creation of legal pages is one of the smallest (easiest) hurdles to overcome! I definitely have never talked to a lawyer about these and I’ve never had any issues whatsoever regarding any of the ‘legal’ pages on any of my sites.
There are a few ways to create these types of pages. Every single site should have at a very minimum – some sort of privacy page. Three easy ways to create one of these: 1) copy & paste somebody else’s privacy page and change pertinent information 2) Google ‘privacy page generator’ and use one of many free or paid services to create the content for your page 3) find and use a WordPress plugin to generate and/or post your privacy page for you.
Other legal pages could include (depending on your type of site) – a Disclaimer, Disclosure, Copyright page… among others. For example – one of my sites has a lot of content about certain remedies for specific ailments. On that site – I included a ‘Medical Disclaimer’ that I pretty much copy & pasted from another similar site but changed up the wording just a little bit and replaced all of the pertinent information (site name, url, contact info, etc).
I hope this helps you get over that hurdle Mark!
btw… if you look at the privacy policy for THIS site – https://dumbpassiveincome.com/policies/privacy-policy/ – it’s a hybrid that I came up with over time. Most of it was copy & paste from other sites with my own changes – along with info I found on one of those free privacy policy generator tools that I found on Google.
Mark – great article. I am interested in learning Keyword research and LSI for my company website. I am in the mortgage industry and have the ability to build landing pages, but I do not know much about keyword content. What suggestions do you have for a newbie. I was thinking about buying into LTP and getting the LTP University, but I am a bit hesitant. Your article highlights some of my trepidation. Thanks in advance.
I am Matt (not Mark) by the way… Suggestions for newbie? Use the on-page SEO suggestions as mentioned in the article above under this section – How to Optimize an Article for a Specific Keyword…
Write the article naturally and make it readable – not JUST focused on a keyword. Make it at least 700 words long. Using Long Tail Pro – find keywords with less monthly searches (100 or less) and that have KC Score in the low 20’s or lower. Those are usually really easy to rank for and you would be surprised how much traffic will actually find those articles despite the low monthly search volume.
Lastly – the trial for LTP is currently only $1. What have you got to lose? And yes – Long Tail University will teach you quite a bit and would be perfect for a beginner!
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Hi Matthew. This article is so much useful for me to do research long tail keywords. You created this article in most interesting way and the step by step process are more helpful for me.
And the review video also good to learn this long tail pro software. Thank you.
Thank You very much for letting me know how helpful this article was for you! I’m really glad it was useful for you. I worked hard on this article and put a LOT of time into it. I wanted to create the very best resource available on the internet for people considering getting Long Tail Pro. I think I succeeded! I’m glad it helped you.
A word of caution to anyone considering Long Tail Pro Platinum.
I recently signed up for the annual plan which came with a generous ten day trial period.
However, one of the key features of the software is Keyword Competitiveness, and at time of writing, this is not working.
LTPro Support explained that it’s due to a reliance on an external API and they are working hard on a fix.
As a new customer trying to evaluate the software, I asked if my trial period could be extended once this fundamental issue was fixed, on the basis I couldn’t actually evaluate its requirements against my criteria. I was told this was not possible, which frankly, is very poor customer service. What’s the point of offering a trial period when customers are unable to fully test the software?
I did not think it was unreasonable to request an extended trial period and I found the inflexibility of their support very disappointing.
I did also try to reach out to one of its business owners (Spencer Haws @nichepursuits) to point this out in the hope he may have stepped in to offer a common sense perspective. I have urged the business owners of LTPro to review their policies with regards trial periods of software that is not fully functioning.
So whilst Long Tail Pro comes highly recommended, you may want to check if all the important features are fully functioning before signing up. Especially the KC feature (keyword competitiveness) as it is so fundamental to keyword research and making an informed choice on whether or not to go into a particular niche.
If the team at LTPro don’t look after their current and potential customers, their growth and success will eventually stagnate with less than favourable reviews.
All in all, a very deflating experience when I had such high hopes…
Steven – sorry you had such a negative experience and got a terrible first impression with your initial trial of Long Tail Pro. I was trying to do keyword research myself the other day with LTP and experienced the same issues with KC scores not calculating.
KC scores are calculated based on several different variables that all rely on API’s from several different sources. In my experience throughout the years, minor issues like this happen from time to time. I always just give it a day or two and usually the issue is resolved the next time I try. For example – I just calculated a KC score just a minute ago and it worked just fine!
As far as the bad customer service – I can’t speak to that. I have nothing to do with that, but I understand your frustration completely. If you are so concerned about getting that extra day or two during your trial period, couldn’t you just cancel and start a new trial with a different email address and/or payment method? I’m actually not sure if that is possible or even allowed – but it seems like that might work.
I hope your bad first impression doesn’t taint your overall experience with Long Tail Pro. Minor bugs in software are just the nature of the beast and something we have to put up with. I can assure you that these don’t happen very often. Unfortunately and coincidentally, it happened to happen when you first got your copy of the software. I still use Long Tail Pro quite regularly and it remains one of the most important tools I use for my internet marketing efforts and definitely one that I could not live without!
Hey Matthew
I appreciate the reply and although it may seem contradictory of me, I do actually agree with you on most of your points. Like you, I’ve been testing and using software for close to two decades now (man I feel old just typing that…) and have also been involved in the build of a few over the years, both as a designer, developer and project manager. Reliance on third party components and services certainly do come under the old “you cannot control the uncontrollable” adage. So that wasn’t really the issue for me at all.
I would say my main gripe with LTPro was the inflexibility of them being unwilling to extend the trial due to such a key feature not working. As a business owner myself I fail to see what logical reason there would have been for my seemingly simple request to have been instantly refused. It’s a very short term view to take of your (potential) customers. They had nothing to lose and a customer to gain. It is common sense in my opinion. If you can’t fully trial a product or service within a set time period through no fault of one’s own, you can’t be expected to then pay for full access when you have questions unanswered.
I did consider signing up via a family member or a alias account to try again, but first impressions do count and are lasting, and unfortunately it has tainted my overall view. Compounded by the fact I’ve not had the courtesy of a reply from two of the software’s owners, nor to comments on relevant posts of their blog or indeed direct emails.
What they could/should have responded to my request was something along the lines of “sorry, we’re having issues with third party services and are working on a fix, we have cancelled/paused your trial and will email you as soon as the issue is resolved for you to resume evaluating the software”.
It’s so simple I’m at a loss as to understand why the reply I got was instead “it will charge you once Trial expired”. That was it. A brusque “sorry, nothing we can do about it” tone, despite politely explaining the problem. I should have said in my original comment that I do completely understand you’re not in anyway accountable for poor customer service of a recommended product or service. That would be preposterous of course 🙂
For anyone else reading this I can confirm that other than the KC feature not working (in Platinum version anyway which is what I attempted to trial), all of the features and benefits Matthew so articulately outlines in his review post are impressive and regardless of whether Matthew was promoting LTPro via an affiliate link, I would still encourage you to consider LTPro, with the caveat being that you may want to check first that the KC feature is definitely working at the time, otherwise your trial period won’t be as effective an evaluation as hoped.
And again, thanks for taking the time out to reply Matthew. I did appreciate it and it was good to vent/discuss 🙂
I have mixed feelings about this software after using it for nearly a year now. Honestly, I find it quicker and more reliable to just pull an initial report directly from Google’s Keyword Planner then dump those words into LTP to get their corresponding KC scores. Too often LTP just seems to get “stuck” when trying to pull keyword suggestions from Google’s Keyword Planner. The 10 seed keyword limitation is also cumbersome since you have to create multiple campaigns in LTP if you have more than 10 seed terms. Something else I recently noticed was that the “negative keywords” option when adding seed keywords doesn’t seem to be working properly. Instead, it’s listing them (the negative keywords) as suggested keywords once it finishes running. Also, LTP no longer de-dupes your keywords like it used to, so I have to manually export them into Excel, de-dupe them in it, then create a new campaign in LTP – otherwise I’m wasting time pulling KC scores for multiple instances of the same keywords.
How can I know that how to use the parameters of long tail pro efficiently to research the keywords best?
Where can I know that how to use the parameters of long tail pro efficiently to research the keywords best?
Hi Matthew. Finally a long tail keyword article, explained in laymans terms! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and have taken many notes! I am new to long tail key wording and have one basic question, if we take a blog post about a hotel review for example, is it good practice for the seed keywords to contain only the hotel name or should they be based on the benefits / location, or both? Thank you. Rob…
Hi Rob – if doing keyword research for a specific hotel review – I would definitely add the name of the hotel and the location. LTP (via Google) will then show you exactly what keywords people are searching for. Ex. if you entered Holiday Inn San Diego as a seed keyword, you might get results that show something like ‘best hotel in San Diego that allows dogs’ or ‘hotel room in San Diego with Jacuzzi’
These are just made up examples. I did not do the research – but people tend to search for obscure terms like that and if you have articles targeting specific keywords like that – they are much more likely to rank higher in the search engines than a vague term like ‘best hotel in San Diego’
If you have Long Tail Pro already – just insert a few seed keywords and see what comes up!
Many thanks Matthew!
Using SERPstat after I switched from LTP. There’s no way I’m buying a keyword research tool without access to its API.
Hi Matthew,
You have shared a detailed guide about Long Tail Pro, well as we all know that keywords plays a very vital role in search engine optimization. So, for this purpose LTP is a quality tool which help out bloggers to find out lucrative keywords which help out to boost the rankings of their websites.
Many thanks for excellent share 🙂
Regards
Mairaj
Matthew you share a complete guide on how to use long tail pro, thanks matthew for sharing
You’re welcome Gaurav. My pleasure to share this ‘guide’
Thanks for making this content
Nice sales page bro, at least try to be more subtle next time
Hey – whatever works man! Refer to way #3 – Promote Long Tail Pro as an affiliate. I’ve done this for several years on this blog and this is by far my best page to do so. I’ve literally made thousands of dollars just from this page!
Wow great. Keep up going. It`s really inspiring me a lot.
So here’s the thing. I liked LongTail Pro. I liked it so much I paid for a lifetime subscription. So I’m pretty PEEVED that it doesn’t work properly any more (in my version) but that they now have a slightly renamed version with essentially the same features that DOES work. I feel ripped off. I won’t buy from them again because they didn’t keep their agreement with me. The fact that the ownership has changed excuses nothing. A LIFETIME subscription isn’t until “Hey, we decided to change the name to get rid of you.”
Not sure what you mean exactly Karilee. Long Tail Pro didn’t change their name. They just switched the tool over to a cloud-based version and discontinued updates on the old desktop software version. This was a much-needed and requested feature that had to be done to keep up with the times. Not to mention, virtually every other keyword research tool available out there. Almost all of them are cloud-based now.
You shouldn’t feel ripped off. Do you not have lifetime access to the cloud version as part of your lifetime subscription? In my opinion (and experience) the cloud version is much better than the old desktop version! It was a little buggy at the beginning – but they seemed to have worked everything out and I’ve been using and loving the cloud version for several months now.
Lastly – I thought it was a little fishy back when they were offering those lifetime subscriptions. Nobody ever said why (at the time) they were offering that deal. To me, it didn’t make sense to offer it at all. In retrospect, it makes sense now. It appears as if Spencer was cashing in one last time before officially selling the company.
Hi Karilee. You don’t say which version you purchased. I bought the desktop professional version back in July 2015. I used it for a while then used it less as it was a bit slow and didn’t automatically include the KC score. I joined a group recently that raved about Jaaxy but I still believed LTP was a better product so I contacted them. It seems my desktop purchase afforded me a great deal on the cloud version – better than the discount offered here – sorry Matthew!! I would suggest you email LTP and give them your purchase details. You may end up getting the cloud version – which looks awesome – at an incremental price you might be happy to pay to get the tool. Best wishes, Carl
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Thank you for your opinion. I disagree. I still use and love Long Tail Pro. Lots of other keyword research tools available… but I still stick with Long Tail Pro.
Definitely, it works, if we use long tail pro. I also used this technique for my projects and seriously it works very well. Thanks for sharing!
Same problem I have. I also paid for the lifetime subscription. Now the app won’t update and I can’t even log in to the website.