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Sites where “categories game” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “categories game” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 27.1K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $1.89 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $51.2K 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

27.1KGoogle monthly search volumeno change on Sept 2025

no changeLast 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

55/100Demand scoremoderate

46/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$1.89Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.67–$5.17

4,260Third-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is steady: Google searches for “categories game” held steady at about 27.1K from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
Across 3 years, searches peak in May (about 66.8K) and are lowest in April (about 26.7K), a 2.5× swing: time content to be indexed before May.
The listed site takes about 2,390 visits a month from “categories game”, 56% of its 4,260 searches (traffic estimates). The other 44% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $1.89 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 2,390 visits a month from “categories game” would cost about $4,517 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 27.1K searches, the traffic estimates 4,260. 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 2024	Nov 2024	Dec 2024	Jan 2025	Feb 2025	Mar 2025	Apr 2025	May 2025	Jun 2025	Jul 2025	Aug 2025	Sept 2025	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)	33.1K	33.1K	40.5K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	33.1K	40.5K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4,260

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 9 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
clevergoat.com	100%	2,390	$4,517	42	606

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 States35%
United Kingdom16%
Australia9%
New Zealand5%
Canada5%
Other countries30%

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

Phones67%
Computers and tablets33%

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

46/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

44/100Ranking easecontested

DR 67First page, median Ahrefs DR

88Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:AI OverviewPeople also askImagesProduct considerationsRelated searches

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR	BV
1	categories.clevergoat.comlisted here	Categories \| Daily Word Guessing Game - CleverGoat	42	—
2	youtube.com	How To Play Categories \| Brand New Word Game By CleverGoat	99	—
3	empoweredparents.co	The Best List of Categories for Kids' Games: 100 Ideas	57	—
4	scribd.com	Categories Game: Vocabulary Review Fun \| PDF	91	—
5	closeword.org	CloseWord — Daily Word Game	29	—
6	teambuilding.com	116 Best Scattergories Lists & Categories	75	—
7	pinterest.com	Different Categories for Games	97	—
8	swellgarfo.com	Scattergories List Generator	58	—

Google's results for “categories game” in the United States, in English, read 9 Nov 2026. DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; “—”: Ahrefs gives no rating. BV: what a new followed link from a site with a report on mxverify is worth (its report says what the figure rests on).

Keyword difficulty is 46 of 100 for US results: possible on the vendor's scale.
1 of the sites listed here is in Google's US top 8: clevergoat.com (#1).
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 67; the lowest-rated result, closeword.org at #5, has DR 29: a weak site already ranks on page one.
The top ten pages have about 88 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “categories game”, citing 8 sites: 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

Categories game app
Categories game words
Categories game kids
Categories game NYT
Categories game topics generator
Categories game for kids online
Categories game how to play
Categories game drinking

Questions people ask

What are the game categories?
What are the basic rules of Scattergories?
What is the game show with categories?
What is an alphabet game with categories?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

categories 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
star battle 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
word grid 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
wordgrid 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

55/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	69	27.1K a month · weight 40%
Year	50	+0% since Sept 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	50	last 3 months +0% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	38	$1.89 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

44/100 · Ranking ease, contested

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

Keyword difficulty	54	46 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	34	median Ahrefs DR 67 · weight 50%

What to do with it

A contested first page (ease 44) for moderate demand (55): 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 9 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 9 Nov 2026.
Google's first page, AI Overview, related searches: Google search, United States, read 9 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
clevergoat.com	Valued	2,390	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.