Longtail Keywords – Is Google Killing The Long Tail?

Historically, 10% of all searches were misspelled. I remember the good old days when I earned $600 a day proving insurance leads to Geico because people could not spell. I purposely optimized for the misspelling of Geico  to “GEIKO” Insurance. Many SEO Companies created pages specifically to target misspelled words. How-ever Google now auto-replaces misspelled queries with what they though the searcher intended.

Below is the most detailed and simplified infogragh that would suggest that Google is killing the long tail.

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