Long tail SEO questions

[burgerman]

I have a few questions about long-tail seo. I've looked on line and there are some great articles about long tail (by Aaron Wall etc) but I still have some questions.

1) How many monthly 'exact searches' in Google would you consider to be in the "long tail category" ? 1000-9000 (rather than 27000-100,000)? or is it more like 50-480?

2) If an exact keyword gets 50 searches a month but the Google Keyword Tool says the Advertiser Competition is high, is it still worth targeting the keyword? Is there less of a chance I would rank well in SERP than if the Advertiser Competition was less competitive?

3) Can a 1-2 word keyword phrase be considered long tail if it doesn't get a lot of searches per month (eg 450 exact searches)?

[biggedon]

don't see how some or any of those articles can be great, if they don't answer those questions.

and it seems you didn't quite get the jist of what a long tail domain is

imo...

[David G]

3) Can a 1-2 word keyword phrase be considered long tail if it doesn't get a lot of searches per month (eg 450 exact searches)?

It sure would need to be an incredibly long word for just 1 keyword (or 2) to make it a long tail