What Are Best Practices for Exploring Long-Tail Keyword Searches?
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Pat Flynn
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🗓️ 21 December 2016
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today's question comes from Jason, who is looking to start a new niche site, but needs some advice on long-tail keyword searches. How can he find an under-used market? Jason's site is http://www.canonblogger.com/. For advice on market research, check out my book, Will It Fly?, at http://willitflybook.com. For advice on starting an email list, try my email challenge at http://100emails.com. The content search tool I discuss is BuzzSumo (http://buzzsumo.com/). Do you have a question about niche site selection? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | AskPath. |
| 0:07.0 | Dot com. |
| 0:09.0 | Askpads. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, what's up everybody? |
| 0:12.0 | Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 762 of Ask Pat. |
| 0:15.0 | Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:17.0 | As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. |
| 0:23.5 | All right. And now here's today's question from Jason. |
| 0:30.5 | Hey, Pat. My name is Jason Anderson. I have been running a photography blog over at canonblogger.com for a number of years. |
| 0:36.1 | And traffic on that seems to have fizzled out. I tried launching a new podcast called Camera Question, |
| 0:37.7 | and that doesn't seem to have gained much traffic, which is telling me that the photography space has pretty much been |
| 0:41.7 | super saturated, and it's going to be tough to start something new in that particular |
| 0:45.6 | space, no matter how niched down it is. In that vein, I'm interested in putting a new |
| 0:51.4 | kind of website together that can provide some kind of service or |
| 0:54.4 | some kind of content that can benefit people. And I've got a lot of experience in technology |
| 1:01.9 | spaces, whether it's website development, WordPress, photography. I'm currently working in the |
| 1:09.2 | telephony sector. And I've got about 10 years experience in the IT sector as well. |
| 1:13.8 | So I'm trying to define or find a space that is underutilized, and I'm having trouble with your long-tail searches. |
| 1:22.2 | I was wondering if you could delve into that in a little more detail as far as finding out a niche in that particular space |
| 1:29.4 | that might be underserved or might be better served by introducing myself into the mixture there. |
| 1:35.9 | It's kind of tough, though, because it does seem like a lot of the areas that I have worked |
| 1:39.4 | in both personally and professionally are super saturated with people that have tons of knowledge |
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