Any SEOMoz users try HitTail?
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I just discovered the Pro Perks on SEOMoz and noticed HitTail:
HitTail tells you, in real-time, the most promising search terms you should target based on your existing traffic. We do this using a sophisticated algorithm tuned by analyzing over 1.2 billion keywords.
I think this could be a pretty useful tool for me since I have a decent existing traffic flow.
Are any SEOMoz users using it? If so, what's your take?
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Isn't it essentially the same thing as using the "find keywords" aspect of SEOMOZ?
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Thanks, just shot you an email.
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Thanks for posting, aacook. I'm the owner of HitTail and a long-time seoMOZ member.
Obviously I won't weigh in on the effectiveness of my own service (I know it works!), but did want to let you know that I'm around and you should feel free to contact me if you have questions or run into any issues installing or using the service.
What is the cost of the average post?
Posts are 400 words and cost $19.
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Yeah, most of my traffic was already longtail as well so I was interested to see how that would work out. If you already get a lot of longtail traffic you'll probably see what I'm seeing: a ton of keyword suggestions that look similar what you already rank for but is actually different. It's totally worth going after those terms.
Re writing service: I haven't used the blog writing service since I already had a couple of writers that I was working with so I just had them focus on HitTail terms.
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Ah, okay, so you write articles/posts targeting those keywords. I saw they had a blog writing service. Have you been happy with it? What is the cost of the average post? I assume the writing is similar to https://scripted.com
Most of my traffic is already long tail so I'm curious if it would do anything. I'm going to give it the 30 day trial and I'll be sure to report back here w/ a review.
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I decided to sign up for it again. Feel free to message me in a week or two if you want to hear how it's going for me!
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Interesting, thanks for the feedback.
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Interesting, thanks for the feedback.
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Yep, I'm a HitTail user. It's worked great for identifying easy to rank for longtail keywords that I can go after. I'm currently getting about 1,700 monthly uniques based off around 30 articles that were written to target HitTail suggestions. Not a huge amount of traffic but I'm very happy with the results considering what it cost me to have the articles written and that the traffic converts around the same as other organic traffic I'm getting.
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I used it years ago. I think it's effectiveness may depend on the niche you're in. I may try it again for one of my sites.
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