There are always questions about whether or not long tail or short tail keywords are the best. I believe they both have their benefits depending on an individual’s skill in targeting traffic or the niche they are in.
An example of short tail keywords would be “social networking” while long tail keywords would be “social networking for businesses.” As you can see from the examples the short tail keywords probably have many more searches than the long tail keyword. However, that being said, with more searches comes more competition.
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