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Has anyone actually looked at these? Most of them have typos (ie: ameratrade instead of ameritrade).

I don't think this is the top 50k search terms, maybe it's the top 50k when there was a google suggest or something?

I refuse to believe "visaa" ranks higher than "visa" and that "ameratrade" was #1.

It's not a list of search volume, it's a list of the top keywords ordered by cpc price in adsense. Some (most?) likely have little to no search volume at all.

Ah my mistake, thanks. Makes sense then that one offs are the most valuable (lowest competition, latches on to a real one)

Also it could be that people who misspell these terms are easier to monetize.

Now that would be a fascinating study indeed! The correlation of misspelling and impulse shopping :)

A lot of trademarked terms (e.g. "visa") might not be available as adsense words. So people bid on the misspellings.

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