What they tell me…
HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of my natural search results. These are suggestions that when used can boost the natural search results of my site.
Hittail can help me focus and optimize my future posts since I’m already getting traffic for those keywords.
This is called the “Long Tail” strategy. The concept: Instead of competing with the big dawgs on the most wanted and searched for keywords, or trying to search for good keywords that have high number of searches, yet not very much competition (also known as having a high “KEI” factor), I can quickly discover the little hidden keywords that if used, will already list my blog in the first page of the search results.
Now, before I go investing a great deal of time into yet another program that I’ll be disappointed in, I’m calling on some of you to tell me, is this really worth my time? And what exactly has it done for you and your blogs?
Thoughts?
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I used it a while ago now for a little while and it does work pretty well. I just ended up finding myself realizing three things:
1) I didn’t feel like writing about many of the long tail things it found.
2) They only can find long tail suggestions based on searches that already lead to your site…which means you already probably have something written about that subject.
3) I use statcounter and it gives me enough keyword info to keep me happy when I decide to bother thinking about that sort of thing.
If you decide to look into it, you should look into 103bees.com, too. They do somewhat similar things.
1) It often generated wacky writing suggestions that paired two incompatible keywords.
2a) In tracking keyword search traffic, it didn’t lump together different uses of the same word or same idea. For example, “travel bed” and “inflatable bed” show up as separate entries, instead of showing me that the word “bed” is a common keyword.
2b) Simply writing more articles on topics that already give you traffic doesn’t mean your latest articles will generate similar traffic.
3) I didn’t like being told what to write. Writing for search engines is different than writing for people. Decide who it is you are really trying to serve.
Don’t miss the point here. HitTail helps you capture traffic which is VERY easy to capture, which you are otherwise losing, probably to a competitor. Actually try using one of the more logical suggestions in a new post ( worked verbatim into a headline ) and watch what happens to traffic.
Yeah, it’s pretty hot.
For the record, Mike Levin works for or created or is in charge of marketing for Hit Tail. I can’t remember exactly. He writes their blog at least:
http://www.hittail.com/blog/
He should have left a URL since this is a Do Follow blog.
I haven’t used Hit Tail but I do use 103bees.com which seems to be similar. I’ve tried writing posts using the exact terms people are searching for and while it is easy to get on the first page of the serps for those terms, you have to write a lot of posts to generate a lot of traffic.
The good thing is that the traffic is very targeted so if you are promoting a related affiliate product or have adsense on the page then you can do quite well with it.
I really like 103bees but I’m going to give Hit Tail a go to compare.
I avoid link-dropping when I can just to be above reproach. Usually, I also sign it Mike Levin of HitTail just to clear up any confusion as to who I am. Forgot to do that this time–sorry. But yes, I’m the creator of HitTail, and do a bit of the online promotion–usually just answering peoples’ questions.
The essential difference between HitTail and other systems that let you pull enormously long keyword lists, are several-fold.
First, HitTail only records each keyword from each source only once. So, the longer you use it, the better it is at identifying truly unique events on your website–the telltale sign of new competitive intelligence. Most systems don’t record keywords forever (Google on that).
Second, HitTail really only issues terms as writing suggestions where it thinks you have a significant amount of traffic to win, based on existing conditions. Acting on any one suggestion could provide a little traffic pop, but acting upon many of them over time could lead to complete search presence dominance of a particular market niche.
We’re evolving our product with these factors in mind, steering away from features folks traditionally think of as analytics, and which they can get from like 10 other sources for free anyway.
HitTail is increasingly tailored for the time-challenged publishers of the world who have small web-teams, and want all the Internet traffic that is their due.
Mike – both of you — thanks for the tips. I feel as though my time will be well invested in exploring what HitTail has to offer. I’ll be sure to provide complete feedback of my experience here as well.
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