The Long Tail is Dead; Introducing the Wide Tail

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The Long Tail is Dead. Meet the Wide Tail Search: New Frontiers in Paid and Organic Search David Rodnitzky, CEO, PPC Associates

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The Long Tail is Dead. Meet the Wide Tail

Search: New Frontiers in Paid and Organic SearchDavid Rodnitzky, CEO, PPC Associates

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What is the Long Tail?

• Low volume, high intent keywords– “San Francisco bad credit mortgage rates”– “V4600 42 inch LED Flatscreen TV”

• Historically, an arbitrage opportunity• Common long tail examples

– Geo-modifiers– SKUs– Misspellings– Adjectives

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Why the Long Tail is Dead

• Google instant search

• Location intent

• Misspellings irrelevant

• Expansion of broad match

• Tons of keyword tools

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What This Means for SEMs

• Stop wasting your time on finding “secret” keywords

• Start focusing on your “head terms”

• We call this “keyword sculpting”– Put your team keywords in their own ad

groups– Create and test highly customized ad text– Create and test highly customized landing

pages– “Alpha Beta” approach

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So Life is Easy for SEMs, Right?

• The long tail is dead . . . Introducing the wide tail!

• The wide tail is management of multiple PPC opportunities across multiple networks at multiple stages of intent

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Wide Tail Examples

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How to Handle the Wide Tail

• An expert at everything is an expert at nothing

• Prioritize opportunity

• Understand demand fulfillment and intent

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Summary

• Sculpting head terms is the key to success on traditional SEM

• SEMs must expand beyond search to cover all PPC opportunities

• The future is complicated, but bright for SEMs!

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Thank You

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