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Question:

AdWords keyword tool gives an estimate of search traffic for a specific (or broad) keyword - How much (%) of this traffic do you believe are search marketers, SEOs, analysts and even business owners etc searching their own targeted keywords?

Google's Matt Cutts answers:

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