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Sites where “ap top 25” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “ap top 25” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 1M times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $10.42 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $10.4M 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

1MGoogle monthly search volume−33% since Oct 2025

×186Last 3 months vs 3 beforerising

87/100Demand scorestrong

70/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$10.42Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $4.10–$15.72

192.2KThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is down on the year but recovering: Google searches for “ap top 25” fell 33% (1.5M to 1M) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 359K, about 186 times the three before.
The listed sites' estimated visits from “ap top 25” (393.1K a month) exceed its 192.2K 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 $10.42 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 393.1K visits a month from “ap top 25” would cost about $4.1M as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 5 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 1M searches, the traffic estimates 192.2K. 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)	1.5M	1.2M	201K	90.5K	110K	60.5K	2,900	1,600	1,300	2,900	74K	1M
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	192.2K

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
apnews.com	100%	393.1K	$4.1M	92	289.4K

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 States86%
Canada3%
United Kingdom1%
India1%
Germany1%
Other countries8%

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

Phones72%
Computers and tablets28%

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

70/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard

17/100Ranking easehard

DR 97First page, median Ahrefs DR

645Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Product considerationsPeople also askPerspectivesRelated searchesImagesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	espn.com	AP college football Week 7 poll What's next for Top 25	91
2	en.wikipedia.org	AP poll	97
3	sports.yahoo.com	2026 College Football Rankings	94
4	youtube.com	AP Top 25 Rankings for Week 6 \| College Football Show	99
5	ncaa.com	FBS Football Rankings - USA Today Coaches' Poll	84
6	youtube.com	AP Top 25 preseason poll released: Alabama is No. 1	99
7	x.com	AP Top 25	97

Google's results for “ap top 25” in the United States, in English, read 1 Nov 2026. DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; “—”: Ahrefs gives no rating.

Keyword difficulty is 70 of 100 for US results: hard on the vendor's scale.
youtube.com has 2 results in Google's top 7 for “ap top 25”.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 7 for “ap top 25”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 97; the lowest-rated result, ncaa.com at #5, has DR 84.
The top ten pages have about 645 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “ap top 25”, citing 3 sites, apnews.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

College football top 25 rankings
AP Top 25 football
AP Top 25 release date
AP top 25 2026
Week 6 AP Top 25
AP Top 25 2025
AP top 25 Week 2
AP and Coaches Poll

Questions people ask

What time does the AP top 25 poll release?
How many teams are in the college football playoffs in 2026?
Who is number one in college football?
Did Penn State drop out of the top 25?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

lindsay clancy 1 of these sites · 5 sites in all
news 1 of these sites · 4 sites in all
ap news 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
ap poll 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

87/100 · Demand score, strong

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

Searches	100	1M a month · weight 40%
Year	35	−33% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	100	last 3 months +18467% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	100	$10.42 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

17/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty	30	70 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	3	median Ahrefs DR 97 · weight 50%

What to do with it

Strong demand but a hard first page (ease 17): 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
apnews.com	Audited	393.1K	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.