Wordtracker have worked pretty well. You just need to make more sentences/phrases out of the words as well. You see the world is hugely over populated, and people types in to the search box their own ways..
You may also want to try hittail. Of course the whole concept is different from wordtracker. You are trying to dig the keywords within your own website when you are using hittail
I Don't think any software can be helpful for suggesting long tail keywords. Its so simple. Eg. if some one needs to buy a residential property in US. US is so much big country, and if your business is limited to Texas only, than you should choose keyword like, Home in Texas, home for sale in texas, buy a home in texas. like wise you can choose, when you are using long tail keyword you need to be specific about your business region and concentrate the main products you are selling. Thanks and Regards, John Peterson. Free SEO Services.
The number of long tail keywords to potentially target is enormous. The trick is organizing your work for maximum effectiveness. There are always a set of keywords teetering on the edge of performing well for you. If someone had already found you coincidentally on a long tail keyword, but found you say 5 pages in, they're telling you 2 things: 1. You CAN be found on this term. 2. There are at least 4 pages of crap above you that hadn't satisfied the user. 3. Because it was coincidental, if you DELIBERATELY targeted that phrase with new content, you're likely to seize the first page of Google. Search on Get Web Hits. You'll see some content I just wrote on January 25 that got the first page within a day of posting it. Pretty much everything I write these days has that effect.
people are searching for one word then if they are not satisifed they add another one and so on .. so why do you think that we shouldnt use long keywords
Check your website logs or analytics. That will give you an idea of the words people are hitting your site for. Start there then expand with different variations. You might find some niche areas that are worth dedicating a portion of your site to.
Yes and also a good idea is to sit there and think of what you might type into google or ask family and friends then you will find some long tail keyword phrases. this is 1st hand information that no tool can provide and therefore works best imo. So you could ask somebody how would you search for ticket prices to so and so's concert and they give you the sentance.
I will think of about 5-10 base keywords then I use keyword elite to find a lot of the long-tail stuff, (however, I get a lot of junk too). Once I have my list of about 2,000 keywords per base keyword, I go through and remove the junk, (easy to do in KWE). I usually end up with about 1,500 long tail per. Next I geo-target each keyword and get my list up to about 100,000 per base keyword...then I drink a lot because I don't know what to do next. Oh yeah, I take the un-geo-targeted clean results and run them through KWE to see how many searches are performed every month. Then I spy on my competition to see who is having success with certain keywords. Then I drink some more. After that, I'm pretty much ready for my PPC campaign...of course I drink constantly during that process. I've used Wordtracker before and it was helpful but I never really used it enough. I had the thing for a year and I guess it was just comforting to know I had it. There are a lot of free keyword tools out there too. Perhaps somebody else can post them because they slip my mind at the moment. Hope it helps, David PS - PM me for my Keyword Elite affiliate link; I'll send you $25 if you buy and hold past the return deadline, (I think it's 3 months or something).