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Make your article and content good and relevant... that is the key, and has been the key since the beginning of media.

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I'm sure you've heard of the Long tail. It's actually been around for quiet awhile in different industries, and under different names, even before the Internet. We're going to do a series on using the Long Tail to rock your Social Network Google stats, but right now I want you to get a head start, because as the name suggests: it's a Long process.  So, if you start now, then you might start getting the results in time for my series, which will be helpful in understanding what I'm doing.

Long Tail Research
There are many ways to research your Long tail, and I'm not even going to explain them all here. Instead, I'm going to send you to the best Long Tail tool I have found on the net, and it really works. Like Alcoholics Anonymous says, "it works if you work it"... but what's cool is you don't even have to be sober to do this :) 

I haven't done this yet for my networks, but I use this web site almost every day in my business, and it will work on anything with a blog, or forum (something with updatable and lasting content). Go to Hittail.com and sign up for the free 30day account.  They have some videos teaching you about Long Tail Traffic, but you don't have to watch them to make it work. Just do this. Enter your web site in your account. Wait about a week, sometimes two (or longer) if your traffic is real slow, and check in occasionally on the SUGGESTIONS tab. Until you start getting suggestions, it's fun just to watch the real time traffic widget, which shows (REAL TIME) hits to your site and what they searched for. When you start getting suggestions in, click the check mark to put them in your "to-do" list. Now, all you do is each day (or each time you have a new suggestion) Write a blog, forum, or Article, with the keyword they suggested, cleverly embedded in your Title. It's also a good practice to use it again in the body, and maybe (once we learn this) search for similar niche keywords in Market Samurai and using those in a subtitle, bolded text, linked text, italic text... but don't go crazy. I would use only two niche keywords in one article, and use the HITTAIL keywords in your title. 

What you will see if you are diligent in doing this is a snow-ball effect. It will start leaking in for the first months, but soon your Niche Keywords from HITTAIL, will compound the interest, and will began to bring in significant traffic targeted just for your content. When I'm doing HITTAIL on a site, I try to write a article from their suggestions every day. Sometimes I'll do it on our blog, or, even better, submit a summarized article to other sites with a link back to a more complete article on ours (works in forums too). Either way, you will get the Search credit for the keyword. 

I hope you know by now that there are no magic buttons for traffic, it takes dedication and work , and anyone who tells you different is probably making allot of money (for the moment), but I promise you, they don't have any magic for you. And if they do have something that works like magic, it's spam, or manipulating google in some way and will be gone before you even get started. (and you might get your tail slapped)

Make your article and content good and relevant... that is the key and has been the key since the beginning of media. More Later...