How to find low competition long tail keywords using free tools

How to find low competition long tail keywords using free tools – This is the biggest question in the minds of young bloggers or those who have just started a blog.

The next question is, why should you target low competition long tail keywords. All these questions will be cleared from my mind after reading this post.

It’s so because here we have another helpful post that shows you how you can find low competition long tail keywords using only 2 free tools, and then how to use them in your content.

Table of Contents

• Why should you target low competition long tail keywords?


• How to find low competition long tail keywords using free tools


• Conclusion

So, first let’s see why should you target long tail keywords.

Why should you target low competition long tail keywords?

You already know what are
long tail keywords and short tail keywords and the advantages and disadvantages of both, and which one of them should target through the last post.

They have low competition

So, the main reason why you should target long tail keywords as a beginner is that they have low competition.

Yes, long tail keywords generally have a very low competition which means you can easily rank for them if you target and work upon them.

They are generally less competitive because many people don’t focus on these keywords. They focus on short tail keywords that have a high search volume.

One more reason why you should target keywords with more than 3 words is that they have higher conversion rates.

This means that if you have a affiliate blog or website and target these keywords, there are higher chances that people buy a product through your affiliate link. This is because these keywords are more specific than other keywords.

These were some of the advantages of these keywords. You can definitely go through our last post – long tail keywords and short tail keywords for more advantages and disadvantages.

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Now, let’s come to our main topic that is how will you find these low competition keywords using free tools.

How to find low competition long tail keywords using free tools

So, here comes our main topic of how to find low competition keywords to maximize your SEO. Here, we will be using 2 free tools to find low competition long tail keywords. The tools are as follows:-

Keyword.io

Spyfu Keyword research tools

So, here is our first step:

• Go to keyword.io and type something in the search box, select a country, and click on the search button as shown below.





• As you can see for yourself, it shows many keywords on its own as shown in the picture below.


• Now, we have some keywords for our blog or website.


• Now, pick out the keywords which have a length of more than 3 words and write them somewhere.


• Congrats! We have found some long tail keywords for our site.


• The next step is to choose the keywords that have low competition.


• We will check the competition with the help of Spyfu keyword research tools.


• Open Spyfu keyword research tools and enter any one keyword which you found from Soovle as in the pic shown below.





• As you can see, it gives you a complete analysis of the keyword you entered. It shows you the search volume of the keyword, the ranking difficulty, and some similar keywords as in the pic shown below.


• Now, pick up the keywords that have a low difficluty and write them somewhere.


• Congrats! You’re good to go now! Now, just use these keywords in your content and wait to see the good results.

Now, we’ve seen how you can find low competition ong tail keywords using free tools and in the next post we’ll see how you can use them in your content.

Conclusion

So, in this post we saw why should you target long tail keywords and how to find low competition long tail keywords using free tools.