Anyone heard of lont tail keywords

I have been reading over the past year about long tail keywords but it is hard to understand because the information is usually either too detailed and cluttered or just too vague.
Please explain it in a nutshell including possible use of this idea if possible or tell me were I can find out about it.

 

long tail searches are the more obscure phrases which are less competitive

 

long tail keywords refers to more than 3 key phrases which have searches but very less or no competition at all. suck keywords are easy to rank and can get quite a good amt of visitors too.

 

Can anyone recommend ways to find these keywords?

 

hittail.com is a free tool that will extract the long tails that people are using to find your site

 

IMHO the keyword lookup tool here in DP on the front page does a wonderful job of pulling up a whole slew of keywords including some pretty long tail ones.

Might try that one and see what you get as well.

Hope it helps.

 

yeah just posted an article that shows you how to find and validate long tail terms. check my post on here.