Thanks to their low popularity, they’re often less competitive and easier to rank for than short-tail keywords. This makes them an excellent target for new websites.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to find long-tail keywords using five main tools.

Keywords Explorer is a keyword research tool that runs on a database of billions of keywords.

To check, search for the keyword in Google and plug the top-ranking page into Ahrefs’ free traffic checker tool.

Here’s how to use Google autocomplete to find keywords that are long-tails: 

If it gets a few hundred visits or fewer, it’s what we’re looking for. If it gets thousands of visits, it’ll probably be hard to rank for.

Just because a keyword is a long-tail one doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easy to rank for. There are plenty of examples of high-competition, long-tail keywords.