I have a blog that is 3 months old. I am trying to rank high for a longtail keyword for a gaming niche. How many articles do i need to write with longtail keywords included in them to rank high so i can get traffic to my blog? Or better yet, how many articles to do i need to write. the keyword and niche is very little competition.
Numbers are not important.
You can have a single article with a few long tail keywords that will rank extremely well but you can also have 100 articles with a few long tail keywords that might not rank at all.
It all depends on how you do your backlinks (i.e. blog commenting). Go for blogs that match your content and include some long tail keywords into your comment as well that are found in the article that you are commenting on. I suggest going for commentluv enabled blogs.
You can try searching for blogs matching your content and commentluv enabled by searching on google by this string :
yourkeyword “commentluv” + blog
You can also ask people to add your blog into their blogroll but you have to add them to your blogroll too. Don’t overdo it because Google might think you are doing backlink spam. A max of 10 links in your blogroll should be enough.
Hope this helps.
I wouldn’t use a long tail as a domain name – it just looks spammy. Pick a fairly short, easy to remember name and then rank the individual pages. I like to use 3 or 4 primary (closely related) keywords and then sprinkle in as many variations (long tails) as I can think of.
And be sure to track your keyword rankings, I like micrositemasters myself. http://micrositemasters.com/?ref=ih69