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Sites where “clues by sam” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “clues by sam” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. Third-party traffic estimates put its searches at about 42.1K a month, at about $3.32 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $139.7K 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

42.1KThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

7%Searches the listed sites take3,110 visits a month

$3.32Cost per click (traffic estimates)Sept 2026

$139.7KAd value a monthestimated searches × cost per click

What the data says

The listed site takes about 3,110 visits a month from “clues by sam”, 7% of its 42.1K searches (traffic estimates). The other 93% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $3.32 a click, the listed sites' 3,110 visits a month from “clues by sam” would cost about $10.3K as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.

2Who gets the traffic

Share of the visits, Sept 2026

Site	Share	Visits	As ads	DR	Linking sites
thinkygames.com	100%	3,110	$10.3K	59	—

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 States31%
United Kingdom6%
Korea, Republic of6%
France4%
Australia4%
Other countries49%

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

Phones51%
Computers and tablets49%

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

40/100Ranking easecontested

DR 53First page, median Ahrefs DR

On Google's page:AI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	reddit.com	How did you find out about Clues by Sam?	95
2	games-by-sam.com	Clues By Sam	34
3	youtube.com	We've been loving this daily detective logic puzzle! (Clues by ...	99
4	cluesbysam.com	Your goal is to figure out who is criminal and who is innocent.	53
5	tvtropes.org	Clues by Sam (Video Game)	82
6	cluesbysam.com	Puzzle Pack #1	53
7	youtube.com	Clues by Sam \| 1st Sep 2026	99
8	cluesbysam.com	Your goal is to figure out who is criminal and who is innocent.	53
9	games-by-sam.com	Clues By Sam	34

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

cluesbysam.com holds 3 of Google's top 9 results for “clues by sam”: Google treats it as a search for that site.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 9 for “clues by sam”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 53; the lowest-rated result, games-by-sam.com at #2, has DR 34.
Google shows an AI Overview for “clues by sam”, citing 5 sites, thinkygames.com among them: it sits above the results and takes clicks from them.

4Intent and related searches

Google's related searches

Clues by Sam error today
Clues by Sam answers today
Clues by sam Tricky
Clues by Sam Archive
Clues by Sam who is Sam
Clues by Sam unlimited
How to play Clues by Sam
Clues by Sam previous puzzles

Keywords the same sites get visits from

minute cryptic 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
the archives of trevosa 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
thinky games 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
type help 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

40/100 · Ranking ease, contested

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

First-page strength	47	median Ahrefs DR 53 · weight 50%
One site's results	67	cluesbysam.com holds 3 of 9; ease capped at 40 · weight 0%

What to do with it

Treat it as a brand search: Google answers “clues by sam” with the brand's own pages, so a third-party page competes for what is left; Google's related searches show the angles people take: “Clues by Sam error today”, “Clues by Sam answers today”, “Clues by sam Tricky”.
Google answers part of it in an AI Overview: the pages it cites get a link above the results.
The listed sites take 7% of its searches: most of the traffic goes to sites not on record here.

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

Third-party estimated keyword demand, cost per click and each site's visits (est.): third-party traffic estimates, Sept 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.

Only Sept 2026 is on record for “clues by sam” so far. A trend appears once a second month is on record: when a site listing it is checked again in a later month.

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

Site	Report	Visits (est.)	Month
thinkygames.com	Valued	3,110	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.

Sites and their visits: third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026.