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Hey, thanks for the explanation, but when you say kupo at the beginning of each sentence, what does that mean?
It means I'm all out of kupo nuts, kupo.
@ W3althy: I'd like to add that both Google's Keyword Tool and Wordtracker can be erroneous at times, however. Just a little caveat emptor, kupo.
I once spent a few thousand gil building backlinks to a keyword that showed HUGE amounts of traffic and non-existent competition on Google's Keyword Tool, but showed EXTREMELY LOW traffic on Wordtracker. Kupo, when I finally got to rank #1 on the first page, Wordtracker was right and GWT was wrong.
Vice versa, I once spent hundreds of gil building backlinks to a keyword that showed very high amounts of traffic on Wordtracker, but PITIFUL amounts of traffic on GWT. Turned out this time GWT was right and Wordtracker was wrong.
I now use both GWT as well as Wordtracker when researching my keywords, and I always make sure the keyword ranks high on both tools before building backlinks to them.
Oops, I mean GKT (Google's Keyword Tool) instead of GWT (Google Webmaster Tools). Too late to edit.
I'd like to expand on this too: last night I found a keyword that had 25,000 global monthly searches in GKT, but returned absolutely zero results in Wordtracker.
To confirm Wordtracker was right, I typed the 3-word keyword phrase into Firefox's search bar (upper-right hand corner of the browser). Then I typed " a" after the keyword, then pressed backspace, then typed " b", then pressed backspace, then typed " c", then pressed backspace, etc like this:
your keyword phrase a
your keyword phrase b
your keyword phrase c
your keyword phrase d
your keyword phrase e
your keyword phrase f
your keyword phrase g
your keyword phrase h
your keyword phrase i
your keyword phrase j
your keyword phrase k
your keyword phrase l
your keyword phrase m
your keyword phrase n
your keyword phrase o
your keyword phrase p
your keyword phrase q
your keyword phrase r
your keyword phrase s
your keyword phrase t
your keyword phrase u
your keyword phrase v
your keyword phrase w
your keyword phrase x
your keyword phrase y
your keyword phrase z
And Wordtracker found absolutely zero long tail keywords for the keyword phrase. So this just confirmed that Wordtracker was a lot more accurate in this case than Google's Keyword Tool.
Anyway, performing this simple technique will show all the long tail versions of your keyword that people are searching for (in the automatically generated drop-down list).
Here's an example:
your keyword phrase f
your keyword phrase for men
your keyword phrase for women
your keyword phrase for children
your keyword phrase for pets
your keyword phrase p
your keyword phrase products
your keyword phrase pictures
your keyword phrase profitable
your keyword phrase pork
If you're getting a lot of long tail keywords, you know your keyword is highly searched for. If you're getting little to no long tail keywords at all, then this means your keyword has very little traffic and the GKT result for this keyword is defective/erroneous.
Neither Google's Keyword Tool nor Market Samurai has a function similar to the above technique to check for the numerous long tail variations that people are searching for.
I remember trying the long tail keyword research method (SEOT min. 10) with Market Samurai using a 15,000 monthly global searches keyword (from GKT), and Market Samurai returned only 3 long tail results. I checked "Only show ideas closely related to my search terms" in GKT, and GKT only returned 5 long tail results. I used Firefox's search bar method above and Firefox returned 110-120 total long tail results.
