Article subjects for longtails

[pokerextras]

I'm going to invest in buying a few articles to try to get long tail traffic, but i've no idea what to ask for. Do i just do some keyword research, find some easy to rank for terms that get around fifty searches per month and ask for an article to be written on the subject?

[Turtleknife]

Most writers-for-hire can't write decent poker articles from my experience anyway, so if you can get any type of decent writing done for about $10-25 per article, be happy with that and then just inject keywords and manipulate titles as you need.

But I wonder more, since you didn't mention HOW you are going to use them. If you are using them for content on your blogs or site, then yes, I think quality writing, keyword and titling strategy is important. If however you are going to submit them to a article directory, there is an argument for keeping your articles more generic in nature. The reason for this is because you want your article picked up by the many programs that scan for new ezine content automatically, and post your article on their blog. These programs often scan general categories, like the ones you see on the main page of ezinearticles.com

You can even take this a step further by writing, let's say a travel article about Las Vegas, and then having your author links much more keyword targeted to "poker keywords". You will get a LOT more back-links that way.

[pokerextras]

There are a couple of good poker writers who are pal members, so i'll almost definately buy from one of them. The articles will be for my sites, to attract long tail search term traffic. I guess what i'm asking is, do people just write articles in general, and let random long tail traffic be generated by them by chance, or do you target specific long tail search terms and write articles around them?

[Turtleknife]

Well if you can get a quality poker strategy article written for a price then yes, for your purposes tell them the keywords and titles you are after.