As promised, here’s 5 cumulative percentage curves generated from real live keyword data.
The top 24.8% of “lyrics” based keywords account for 80% of the total traffic (337154).
The top 29.5% of “dog” based keywords account for 80% of the total traffic (418969).
The top 34.8% of “personals” based keywords account for 80% of the total traffic (30106).
The top 37.4% of “blog” based keywords account for 80% of the total traffic (48092).
The top 49.3% of “buy” based keywords account for 80% of the total traffic (119031).
One important thing to note is that this data is generated only by sampling the top 1000 keywords that contain the base keyword. If all the keywords were sampled the tail would be longer, but the curve’s shape would be about the same.
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