Why no long tail-related features?

[MarkWill]

I recently joined a community related to Internet Marketing and I am finding it very useful. One of the topics that comes up a great deal is what tools folks use to investigate content gaps. I've been a Moz subscriber for quite some time and understand that, compared to many of its competitors, it's a high end solution. So, feel pretty well positioned there.

However, one thing that appears to be lacking is what might be called a long tail discovery tool. I am well aware of Google's Keyword Planner and other free stuff (the problem there being... so are my competitors :)). But there are a number of tools out there - SEMRush, Long Tail Premium, Authority Metrics and so on - that focus very directly on that, with "scores" for keyword competitiveness that at least help narrow down to a possible set, using filtering.

While I accept that one might argue the merits - or otherwise - of each of these specific tools, it causes me to wonder why Moz doesn't have such a capability. I see some very successful web site owners describing their processes in the aforementioned community and long tail analysis is a key part of that.

It seems that Moz has a richness of features, including around keyword ranking. But it's not clear to me why it doesn't support long tail keyword discovery "directly" (as a specific feature). I really don't want to pay for another subscription

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Mark

[MarkWill]

Any thoughts on my question about availability, Russ? I understand you may not be able to offer a precise date but I have no idea whether we're looking at a month, 6 months, a year, etc. Just some sort of guideline would be helpful. For the particular research workflow I have in mind this is really important to me. I have signed for a trial account for AHrefs this morning and they seem to have very good coverage here. But, having been with Moz for a long time, my very strong preference would be to stay with Moz - but something as little more than "one day..." would be helpful

Thanks.

Mark

[MarkWill]

I see this is being endorsed as an answer to my question but until I know WHEN then I really don't have an answer.

Yeah, I'm kidding. But, seriously, "it's coming" is great and I am excited to hear that, but there's a ton of stuff that is on it's way and, until then, it's just vaporware.

I am in the slightly tricky situation that I need to look at long tail keywords pretty soon, so having at least some ballpark for when we might see this start appearing in Moz, at whatever level, would be cool.

Thanks again.

Mark

[MarkWill]

Wow - it seems my timing is indeed pretty good. Last week I posted a question on a fitness product site about a missing feature, blissfully unaware that it was about to ship. Six hours later. Beat that... Waiting...

Seriously, this is excellent. I am actively researching the solutions in this area so I guess my next question is reasonably obvious - when will this be available in some form through Moz (and is there a beta)?

Thanks again.

Mark

[rjonesx. 0]

Ask and ye shall receive, Moz announces plan for Keyword Explorer. It is coming and it is going to be awesome.