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Picture Amazon. They have books that sale only 1 copy a week or less. Not a great source of income right? Well not quite so. Amazon has thousands of these books. As you can imagine, put together they account for thousands of sales per day. That is long tail - Jorge Blanco

The original: http://www.thelongtail.com/ - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

Okay, so is this likened to the principal that google will send traffic to you if your keyword is plural when someone uses the singular term? And if so then we want long tail keywords in content yes? how about tags? or in labels? Where is the best place to find long tail keywords? I understand that Market Samurai is broad term search. Thanks for any guidance - so much appreciated. - Elizabeth

long tail refers to keywords with low search values that are related to you main key phrase. They are long tail because on their own they dont bring a lot of traffic, but if you cultivate a handful of this, they can make a difference. - Jorge Blanco

You can use Market Samurai for long tail as well. Just need to come up with some basic related keywords and MS will help you find which ones you can use for the long tail approach (Criteria: Very few searches, minimal SEO competition) - Jorge Blanco

Thanks so very much - okay off to digest :-) Thanks for article Ed. - Elizabeth

Maybe this will help more, now that Chris has moved on to refined meanings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

I have a different understanding of long tails. These are KWs that have 3+ words in them. For example, "golf club" is too wide. A long tail would be "Callaway Women's Big Bertha golf club". This will have fewer searches and competition but very targeted. If you have a blog on golf clubs, this would be a good long tail to use in a post. There's a very good free course about long tails here http://www.longtailtreasure.com/. - Amy (9yards)

For deciphering Market Samurai jargon: http://short.to/8gd Also there's a useful article in the Noble Samurai knowledgebase: http://short.to/8pa Noble Samurai's forum's a great place to get a grip on most of these phrases. Eg, if you click on the "broad match" tag to the left of the list of threads, you get some interesting threads. A tip for finding more long-tails: use the SEO Digger option at the Keyword Research stage. You can export the list you get and paste up to 200 at a time back into MS. - Isha (Marysia)

Doctor Jorge picture the long tail of a dinosaur doesn't even fit your scenario it fits Amy (9yards) (which is also my understanding of long tail) and she's obviously researched it. - Russ

“How do I kick the ball at such an angle to hit the goal net.”--- This is a long tail key word, not many hits but very targeted. - Karen

There is no such thing as a paid or fee contest... once you begin to charge a fee for a contest with an uncertain outcome it is no longer considered a contest, but gambling. And as you might know gambling is illegal in most US states and the gambling laws online are becoming even tighter. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Ben VanScoter

How does it work for creative writing competitions where you have to send your entry with a fee? Would that be considered gambling too? It's something I'd thought about... Thanks - Yvonne Hands

There is an easy way to accomplish what you are going for. I mean look at duck races, they happen all the time. You pay for a duck that you don't get to keep and there is an undetermined winner. I think what you are doing is more of a raffle? I agree with Amy, contact a lawyer. Should only cost $100. Should pay it's self off in 1 or 2 raffles. Good Luck - Michael Roberts

Raffles are still considered gambling in most states, but some exceptions are made for registered non-profits and with special permits. I would question the legality of what you're interested in doing. The closest thing you might be able to get is doing something like entry with a $5 donation is recommended with a disclaimer that a donation won't increase anyone's chances of winning (you might want to verify that with an attorney on the exact execution). - Ben VanScoter

Thanks, Dominic! It feels better to know that I'm not the only one imitating Veruca Salt. ("I want it NOW!!") 8-) - LJF Wolffe from twhirl

I don't have mine yet - and I ordered on day 1. However, UPS hasn't run for me yet today. So perhaps today is the day! I received the email last night with my bonus download links. - Traci Knoppe

You're lucky. I can't even get Stomper to accept my payment. Guess I'll have to do without! - Frans

ah, no I am a little frustrated too - Karen Riedl

I am in Aus and anything like this typically takes two to three weeks to turn up ... - gerry

I feel for ya, Gerry. That sucketh. But the emails come from Georgia, and I'm in Oregon, which is still Amurika, last I checked. Maybe they haven't been mailed out yet? All I know is, no joy today. Maybe tomorrow . . . - LJF Wolffe

I have not received mine yet, either. It seems as though these orders take 2 to 3 weeks for delivery. - Mary Tenhulzen

mine hasn't arrived yet and I'm near Chicago - Bob Perry

They said they would email us when they were going to ship, I haven't even gotten that email yet. - Susan Kaul from twhirl

I am living Canada and it takes less than a week to get a package from Japan... I guess they didn't ship it yet else it would've been here a long time ago - Julien Hardy from twhirl

Mine hasn't arrived either. - Peter Johnson

I live in Charlotte, NC USA and I got mine 2 days ago. Good stuff! - Bob Diamond

I Ordered mine on 4 of Sept, received my package today after sending stompernet an email that I didn't receive mine yet, I got replied the next day and here I got mine, I guess you sort of have to remind them by sending an email on this address try it out stse2support@stompernet.com because on one of emails said THANKS FOR CONTACTING US ABOUT YOU ORDER - Shakeel786 from twhirl

I got it on Tuesday in PA. Maybe they mail it state-by-state and started from the east? - Rita

Hmmm, interestingly enough I haven't yet received my package nor a reply to my inquiry regarding the shipping. I ordered, and was debited, on September 9th. Even it being an international order I would have expected the package by now. I agree, it is a bit frustrating to get the emails without any way to take action. Contact the company. In the meantime, create a label or folder, for those emails so you can easily refer back to them when your package does arrive. By labels, I'm referring to gmail. - Esti Allina-Turnauer

Still no joy in Oregon. Thanks for the email: I just sent them a note. - LJF Wolffe

It's Friday and I'm still waiting...and caring a little less each day. - liz

It's here! Just came through the door from ups. - Mitchell Giangobbe from twhirl

It's here for me too!! Squee!!! However, it's sadly lacking in females on the cover. ;) Stay tuned for female IM world domination soon... we need some estrogen enhanced Net Effects covers, wouldn't you say? ;) - Traci Knoppe

Absolutely Traci! SWBN is coming soon..... - Lisa

I got mine earlier this week. There was also an email yesterday saying they are a bit overwhelmed and shipping as fast as they can. - Amy (9yards)

Can confirm ; I'm in UK and hasn't arrived for me yet either. - Alex Melkonian

I just received it Wednesday. I was getting frustrated too - hard to follow along without the tools. - Corinne Mitchell

I'm in Colorado and I just received mine today. Nice looking marketing journal. I haven't had a chance to look at the DVDs yet. - Mary Tenhulzen

Not yet, but i am a long way away. - Frann Leach

Great stuff! EzineArticles ROCKS! - Melanie from twhirl

I think EZA is behind since we bombarded them. They usually approve my articles in a day or two. This article took 4 days. - Amy (9yards)

Sometimes it gets more submission, so it may take longer time to approve, even as a premium member. But Amy, I can tell you that is not the case right now, as my article is still approved in less than 24 hours. And yes, I'm a premium EZA member. - Hendry Lee from twhirl

Hi Hendry. I have a few more articles to hit premium status! My articles are usually turned around in a day so not sure what happened this time. Just assumed it was the 30DC influx of articles to review! - Amy (9yards)

Make those articles really good. You will be upgraded to premium instead of basic plus directly. :) - Hendry Lee from twhirl

Amy, I have what might be a silly question. How did you learned about the article being published somewhere else? Did they tell you ab. it? - Rita

Hi Rita. When you log into EZA, go to the Author Tools tab. From there, go to View My Reports. You'll find a ton of information about how many times articles have been published, number of visitors and number of click throughs on your link. Hope that helps! - Amy (9yards)

Sound's great! Is it possible to setup aweber 4 WPD blog? Sorry, maybe it's already explained in lessons. I'm 2 days behind :) - Rita

Rita, up to Day 22, there's no mention of Aweber in TDC. And to answer your question, yes it is possible. - Hendry Lee from twhirl

Have you logged in to your ftp program to check if your blog has been installed to your directories? Are you using hostgator both as your domain and host? - Darren Spruyt

Yes I did exactly as was said in the 30 day challenge I bought a domain and a hostgator baby package from hostgator. - Claudia

I must confess what's suppooosed to be easy has become a major difficult issue for me! - Claudia

Okay it#s working - Duh - I cleared my cache! - Claudia

But I still should get like 1000 a day even if it's its phrase match...whats going on - ZoekmachineGuru from twhirl

good post, thanks...so, why again is seot based on broad match?? - EcoAussie from twhirl

good post (left a comment with my idea about the thing) Umit: if Google writes 1000 under July, that means a 1000 for that month. if you divide that by 30 it's not as good.. you should see 6000 or higher - Thomas Chisler from twhirl

@ EcoAussie Ah true, forgot about that. - ZoekmachineGuru from twhirl

Excellent information. Thanks for the detail. I'm going to start using this to cross check KWs before diving in feet first. - Amy (9yards)

Thanks to everyone for their supportive comments, I've found a new niche AND confirmed it - let's see how fast I can get this baby running! - Paul King from twhirl

Paul - Thanks for posting this. When I do searches for what I'm looking for, I always do phrase matches. Go figure. - David Lemberg

This has been mentioned in the 30DC forum (by me, among others) but never made clear in the videos etc. Who knows why, as it makes a huge difference in which phrase you pick to work on. - Kevin Wilson

umm actually we have covered this alot - in particular the daily shows and Q and A's - Ed Dale

rob talks about the speed of ranking - and this is where you see the impact - Ed Dale

FWIW, I've managed to get through the first ten days on a new niche in about 6 hours (most of the that time spent creating content) New domain live and socialmarked, the lot! Go 30dc! - Paul King from twhirl

Does anyone remember what daily show covered this or could someone summarize? - Amy (9yards)

Its taken me a year to figure this out! :-) I've really struggled getting my site up for this 30DC but I have learned SOOOOO much by just sticking with it. Lesson learned! Now fingers crossed I make a little $$$! - Amy (9yards)

I'm still guilty for the 5th mistake :-) - Hendry Lee from twhirl

I would change the title to say "All Entreprenuers Must Know". Applies to all businesses. - Craig Eubanks

Perhaps more appropriately is that some themes don't support theme at all.. not only sale offer widget.. but there is an effort to compile a list of working themes here from TDC-ers in FriendFeed and forum... Let's hope to see them soon... - Hendry Lee from twhirl

Here's a list from the WPD help desk http://www.wordpressdirect.com/tag... - Roy Gould

Greg, did you get yours to work? I switched between a number of themes that were supposed ly optimized yesterday and could not get them to work. - Rebecca Briggs

I've tried several of these themes that are in the list as "widget ready." I've also been through quite a few listed in the forum that have worked for others. I've also cut down my text in the ad. Still bupkiss. Marty from WPD posted on Friday that they were trying to fix this. Looks like no luck so far. - Amy (9yards)

Bless you!!!! I was also getting confused. Paul Rocks - easy cheat sheet!! Thanx! - Sheryl Loch

Thank you to everyone who posts and provides extra help like this. It's very beneficial to people. - Wendy J. Roan

T - traffic. C - competition - Garth Bradley

It took me 2 days to really understand the tricky of samurai - Jeremy

It's not hard once you clear out the mental block - Raymond

Note: watch this video AFTER Dan's day 04 video on writing copy. - Craig Eubanks

This will be a good one to check out with Day 4. - Ron Rink

Jay is my hero - Hendry Lee from twhirl

Thanks give more information how to research for a copy. - Govindji Patel

Totally brilliant! Sounds like Dan and Travis Sago have seen this too! - Amy (9yards)

Thanks so much. I really enjoyed the video and leaned something valuable - Susan Bonfiglio