I have been touting longtail keywords for quite some time lately. However, within the past couple of days, I was talking to a business owner who has just engaged a new web designer/SEO team and they told him that the longtail keyword is going away in Google's algorithm because of some recent changes that they made. I find this a bit hard to believe as longtail keywords match how people search these days and I cannot understand what Google would replace them with. I would appreciate some expert opinions on this. Thanks.
Hi Rishit Shah. I think that you agreeing with my reaction which is why would Google abandon longtail keywords when that is how searchers search these days and, just as important, what would take their place?
Yeah, I don´t think they are going away because people type long tail keywords to find the most specific or exactly information that we want to find.
Certainly, there seems to be a focus on search query strings in the content these days. To me, they are just loooong tail keywords, though I am open to thoughts on this. I am wondering how metakeywords should be written these days? I do not understand what other approach could/should be used in their place?
Hello I don't think google abandon longtail keyword many people research using keywords and it's important for result pertinence. But google introduce new options in is algorithm same as image mismatch. see : https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/3394137?hl=fr Regards Christophe