Long-tail keywords and rewriting articles

[eStew]

Hi all,

I'm in the middle of the 90DC and am still trying to get my head wrapped around some of this stuff. I'm having a serious problem getting some perspective about long-tail keywords and rewriting the articles provided by PLRPro, and I'd really appreciate any insights or advice more experienced folks can offer.

The “How to Use and Rewrite PLR Articles Properly” guide in the 90DC step-by-step and the corresponding section of the VRE Handbook basically say, for your own blog, you should take a PLRPro article and rewrite the title, first and last paragraph and there are a few other options for quick changes; the rewriting for an article for posting on an article site should be similar but substantially more thorough. This seems logical and straightforward enough.

However, as I understand it from the video tutorials (on both 90DC and PLRPro sites), what we're supposed to do is quite different -- find a “long-tail” keyword from the keyword list provided, ie, one that has a reasonable number of searches, but not too much competition, then, insert that long-tail keyword into a PLRPro article that was written for a similar or related (but apparently not long-tail) keyword. This seems to me to be a much more difficult task because more often than not, an article written for one keyword obviously will not make sense, or at least will read very oddly (both No-No's), if you simply substitute a more specific (longer tail) keyword for the one the article was written for. And I don't see how the type of rewriting described in the manuals could be sufficient to compensate for this.

For example, one of the July packs I think was “clocks”. One of the silos was “wall clocks”. In that group is an article about “kitchen wall clocks”. Now, my problem is that I don't see way to change “kitchen wall clocks” in that article to any of the “longer” tail keywords without totally rewriting the article essentially from scratch. The article would simply be nonsensical or very lame if you simply substitute ANY of the longer tail keywords on the list without doing a major rewrite of the article – which, it seems to me, negates much of the value of having the articles provided in the first place. In this scenario, I would be very nearly as far ahead with only the keyword research and no pre-written articles at all.

I feel like I must be over-complicating the issue (I hope so, since it appears that manipulating the articles accounts for a lot of the work in this program), but I really need a little guidance from a successful veteran PLR user on this issue. The instructions provided in the videos focus on using long-tail keywords without any real detail as to how they should be merged into existing articles, and the pdf guides focus on rewriting existing articles (in 5-10 minutes) without mentioning long-tail keywords at all.

I apologize for the length of this post, but I really needed to explain my problem clearly and hopefully get some clear guidance.

Thanks very much in advance for any insight, comments, etc.

Brad

[golfer57]

Hello,
Yes, this can be tough at first. What you want to do is to find a longer tailed phrase that makes some sense to the article you have. Now just going in and substituting, I agree the article is not going to work. Just add a few sentences with the longer tailed phrase. Thats all. Not a direct substitute, but add some sentences using the longer tailed phrase. The important issue is the title, h1, first 100 words of the 1st paragraph, couple times in the middle and mention it in the last paragraph.

Thats it,
Hope that helps,
Steve
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[eStew]

Hey Steve,

Thanks for your reply. That helps a lot just to know it's not supposed to be direct 100% substitution but more of a blending. I suppose that may seem obvious to anybody who's done this for a while, but when you're still trying to get a grasp on the whole picture, the details can sometimes be pretty obscure.

That leads me to a couple of related questions about keyword density. First, in general, what in your opinion is a good target keyword density (I've seen recommendations everywhere from 1 to 6%). My understanding is that too high a density is bad bad bad for SEO. How much is too much (and conversely how little is too little)? Second, do we only care about the keyword density for the complete long-tail word we are targeting? If so, how can we not have a problem with overstuffing the higher level keywords. For example, a 603 word PLRPro article targeting “kitchen wall clock” breaks down as follows:

clock - 19 times – 3.15%
clocks - 5 times – 0.83%
wall clock - 16 times – 2.66 %
wall clocks - 4 times – 0.6%
kitchen wall clock - 6 times – 1.02%
kitchen wall clocks - 0 times – 0%

If I want to target the long-tail “battery-powered kitchen wall clock” and I work that into the text say 4 or 5 or 6 times, all those percentages go up, so if I have an article that has my long-tail keyword at a density of say, 1.5 or 2%, “clock” could be up to say, 4 or 4.5%. Isn't that going to get my article in trouble for overstuffing on “clock” even though that's not really my target keyword?

Thanks again for your last reply, Steve. Any input that you (or anybody else!) can provide to help me get a better handle on understanding this keyword density issue will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Brad

[golfer57]

hello,
I dont worry to much about the keyword density. I focus more on my article being themed correctly (lsi latent Symantic indexing) not sure if it spelt correctly. You can find the LSI words using the google tool, just put the "~" tilda infront of your keword phrase, like ~kitchen wall clock. What will happen is there will be bolded words in the listings that come up. Those are your LSI words or phrases. You want to make sure that you use as many of them as possible in your article. That way you are going to be picked up for more phrases in the SERPS.
That is the manual way and free. I use a tool that does this for me, but it is not free. I am not going to list the aff link here, but if you want to check it out, just shoot me a private message and I will get you the link. The name of the tools is Keyword Results Analyzer PRo. It is nothing short of awesome. Does more than just LSI. I can build a whole site for you with lsi, keyword phrases, etc. Just incredable. If you want to buy it please let me know so I can send you my link, that only seems fair.
Hope that help,
Steve

[eStew]

Hey Steve,

Thanks for that reply. I will be spending some time tomorrow digesting it.

I'm familiar with Andy Williams -- his ezseo blog is great. What little I know about KRA, though, I've always thougt of it as more of a Word Tracker tool (ie, my impression - probably wrong - has been that if you don't use WT, it's not much use). I will take another look, at the pro version, and if I decide to buy it, I will hit you up for your aff link. I agree, it is only fair.

Thanks again for your input -- your advice has been super helpful. I'm sure I'll be back for more!

Cheers,
Brad