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Sites where “build in public” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “build in public” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 2,400 times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $57.23 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $137.4K 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

2,400Google monthly search volumeno change since Oct 2025

−11%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

57/100Demand scoremoderate

26/100Keyword difficulty (US)easy

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$57.23Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $2.39–$23.76

2,250Third-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is steady: Google searches for “build in public” held steady at about 2,400 from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 2,567, 11% below the three before.
The listed site takes about 690 visits a month from “build in public”, 31% of its 2,250 searches (traffic estimates). The other 69% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $57.23 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 690 visits a month from “build in public” would cost about $39.5K as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.

1Demand

Search demand, month by month

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

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)	2,400	3,600	2,400	2,900	2,400	2,900	2,900	2,900	2,900	2,900	2,400	2,400
Third-party estimated keyword demand	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2,250

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, on the same axis: the two can differ.

2Who gets the traffic

Share of the visits, Sept 2026

Site	Share	Visits	As ads	DR	Linking sites
buildinpublic.com	100%	690	$39.5K	33	2,847

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 States51%
India23%
Spain10%
Canada5%
Brazil3%
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

Phones23%
Computers and tablets77%

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

26/100Keyword difficulty (US)easy

42/100Ranking easecontested

DR 91First page, median Ahrefs DR

29Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:AI OverviewPeople also askImagesRelated searches

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	edwardsturm.com	Build in Public	56
2	reddit.com	What's the point of building in public? : r/ycombinator	95
3	dev.to	How to Build in Public as a Tech Professional	91
4	youtube.com	Build In Public with KP	99
5	dev.to	The Truth About 'Building in Public': What No One Tells You	91
6	medium.com	Don't Build in Public	94
7	wisp.blog	How to Get Started with Build in Public on X: A Complete ...	70
8	bolderagency.com	How to Successfully Build in Public: A Guide for Entrepreneurs	39

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

Keyword difficulty is 26 of 100 for US results: easy on the vendor's scale.
dev.to has 2 results in Google's top 8 for “build in public”.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 8 for “build in public”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 91; the lowest-rated result, bolderagency.com at #8, has DR 39.
The top ten pages have about 29 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “build in public”, citing 7 sites, buildinpublic.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

Build in public reddit
Build in public Twitter
Build in public medium

Questions people ask

What does it mean to build in public?
Is being built or build?
What is the meaning of build in?
What does it mean to build with somebody?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

a home for people who build in public 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
buildinpublic 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
davey design atom creator who is the person behind it 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
rnbw smetanka 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

57/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	48	2,400 a month · weight 40%
Year	50	+0% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	39	last 3 months −11% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	100	$57.23 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

42/100 · Ranking ease, contested

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

Keyword difficulty	74	26 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	9	median Ahrefs DR 91 · weight 50%

What to do with it

A contested first page (ease 42) for moderate demand (57): compare your site's strength with the first page's median Ahrefs DR before committing.
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
buildinpublic.com	Valued	690	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.