What's the point of long-tail keywords

Discussion in 'Pay Per Click Advertising' started by machinecontroller, Dec 3, 2007.

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    Everyone always says focus on long-tail keywords for Pay Per Click advertising.
    How is this helpful?

    For example, say I place an ad with the long-tail keyword specific match on "payday loans in bumblefuck,ky". My competitor is bidding on a broad match of "payday loans", so his ads show for every search containing the text "payday loans" including for searches for my long-tail keyword.

    How to long-tail keywords result in less competition/lower CPC?
     
    machinecontroller, Dec 3, 2007 IP