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Sites where “abq news” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “abq news” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 14.8K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $12.74 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $188.6K as search ads. Each site checked on the backlink value checker adds its top five search keywords, so this list grows as sites are checked.

Keyword intelligence

14.8KGoogle monthly search volume−18% since Oct 2025

no changeLast 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

64/100Demand scoremoderate

72/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$12.74Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.64–$20.00

2,300Third-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is down on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “abq news” fell 18% (18.1K to 14.8K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
The listed sites' estimated visits from “abq news” (4,230 a month) exceed its 2,300 searches: the estimates count visits from close searches too, so the listed sites take most of its traffic, not more than all of it.
At $12.74 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 4,230 visits a month from “abq news” would cost about $53.9K as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 6 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 14.8K searches, the traffic estimates 2,300. Read each for its trend, not as an exact count.

1Demand

Search demand, month by month

Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)

Every month's figures

	Oct 2025	Nov 2025	Dec 2025	Jan 2026	Feb 2026	Mar 2026	Apr 2026	May 2026	Jun 2026	Jul 2026	Aug 2026	Sept 2026
Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)	18.1K	18.1K	14.8K	18.1K	18.1K	18.1K	14.8K	14.8K	14.8K	14.8K	14.8K	14.8K
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2,300

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, many times apart in size, so it has its own axis at the right: read the two lines for their trends.

2Who gets the traffic

Share of the visits, Sept 2026

Site	Share	Visits	As ads	DR	Linking sites
krqe.com	100%	4,230	$53.9K	78	24.1K

Each site's latest estimate of its visits from this keyword; “As ads”: those visits at its cost per click, what they would cost to buy; DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; linking sites: sites linking to it (third-party link index).

Where these sites' visitors are

United States92%
Canada1%
India0%
United Kingdom0%
South Africa0%
Other countries7%

The listed sites' own visitors by country (all their traffic), weighted by each site's visits from this keyword: their audience, not where the keyword is searched.

Phones and computers

Phones76%
Computers and tablets24%

Page loads of the listed sites by Chrome users (Chrome UX Report), weighted by each site's visits from this keyword: a site's device mix, not the keyword's. No source gives a keyword's device split.

3Ranking competition

72/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard

25/100Ranking easehard

DR 78First page, median Ahrefs DR

903Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Top storiesPerspectivesPeople also askVideosRelated searchesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	kob.com	Top News Archives	75
2	kunm.org	Local News	68
3	krqe.comlisted here	Albuquerque leaders weigh in on community criticism of ...	78
4	x.com	KRQE News 13	97
5	abqjournal.com	News - abqjournal	80
6	krqe.comlisted here	Community News	78

Google's results for “abq news” in the United States, in English, read 1 Nov 2026. DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; “—”: Ahrefs gives no rating.

Keyword difficulty is 72 of 100 for US results: hard on the vendor's scale.
krqe.com has 2 results in Google's top 6 for “abq news”.
1 of the sites listed here is in Google's US top 6: krqe.com (#3, #6).
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 78; the lowest-rated result, kunm.org at #2, has DR 68.
The top ten pages have about 903 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “abq news”, citing 6 sites, krqe.com among them: it sits above the results and takes clicks from them.

4Intent and related searches

Informational: wants to learn
The searcher's goal, as a third-party keyword database classifies it (US).

Google's related searches

Abq news live today
Breaking news, Albuquerque today live shooting
KOAT breaking news today
KOAT News
KRQE news
Breaking news Albuquerque today live youtube
KOAT breaking news today live
Channel 13 news, Albuquerque

Questions people ask

What are some popular news channels in New Mexico?
Is Albuquerque majority hispanic?
Who is the most famous person from Albuquerque?
Is there a homeless problem in Albuquerque?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

facebook 1 of these sites · 5 sites in all
albuquerque weather 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
football 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
krqe 1 of these sites · 1 site in all

Keywords the listed sites also get visits from, the most shared first: linked by the same sites' traffic, not by meaning.

5Opportunity

64/100 · Demand score, moderate

How much searching there is and what advertisers pay for it.

Searches	63	14.8K a month · weight 40%
Year	43	−18% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	50	last 3 months +0% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	100	$12.74 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

25/100 · Ranking ease, hard

How open Google's first page is: 100 minus its difficulty and strength.

Keyword difficulty	28	72 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	22	median Ahrefs DR 78 · weight 50%

What to do with it

Strong demand but a hard first page (ease 25): aim at its related searches first and build links before the head term.
Google answers part of it in an AI Overview: the pages it cites get a link above the results.

A business score needs your own figures (conversion, deal value) and is not made here. Scores are fixed formulas over the figures shown; they are not Google's.

6Sources

Google monthly search volume, Google Ads cost per click, bids and paid competition: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026.
Third-party estimated keyword demand, cost per click and each site's visits (est.): third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026.
Keyword difficulty, intent, SERP features, top-ten links: a third-party keyword database, United States, read 1 Nov 2026.
Google's first page, AI Overview, related searches: Google search, United States, read 1 Nov 2026.
DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating. Linking sites: a third-party link index.
Phones and computers: Chrome UX Report.

Tiles, findings, scores and actions are worked out from the figures on this page by fixed rules.

Site	Report	Visits (est.)	Month
krqe.com	Audited	4,230	Sept 2026

Listed A–Z. A top search keyword is one of the searches that bring a site the most visitors, by estimate. It is not a position in Google, and the order here is not a ranking. Visits (est.): the traffic estimate's own figure for the keyword on that site, which behaves like visits a month, not an amount of money (2026-09-29: it had been shown in dollars). Ad value is what advertisers pay for the keyword — its searches × cost per click — not how hard it is to rank for. This page is kept out of search results until 15 sites share the keyword.

Searches, cost per click and ad value above: Google Ads, worldwide. Sites and their visits: third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026. The traffic estimates' own searches figure for the keyword is in the section below; the two sources often differ several times over.