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title: "1 Site Where crossword mini Is a Top Search Keyword"
url: https://mxverify.uk/keywords/crossword-mini
description: "1 site on mxverify lists “crossword mini” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates: minicrossword.com."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-11-09T04:51:16.757Z
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# Sites where “crossword mini” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “crossword mini” 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 $2.22 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about **$60.2K** as search ads. Each site checked on the [backlink value checker](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value) adds its top five search keywords, so this list grows as sites are checked.

## Keyword intelligence

- **27.1K** Google monthly search volume −33% on Sept 2025
- **−6%** Last 3 months vs 3 before steady
- **52/100** Demand score moderate
- **55/100** Keyword difficulty (US) difficult
- **Transactional** Search intent ready to act
- **$2.22** Google Ads cost per click top-of-page bids $0.35–$2.43
- **19.3K** Third-party estimated keyword demand Sept 2026
- **1** Sites getting visits from it Sept 2026

### What the data says

- Demand is down on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “crossword mini” fell 18% (33.1K to 27.1K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
- Across 3 years, searches peak in May (about 100.3K) and are lowest in September (about 59.5K), a 1.7× swing: time content to be indexed before May.
- The listed site takes about 7,390 visits a month from “crossword mini”, 38% of its 19.3K searches (traffic estimates). The other 62% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
- At $2.22 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 7,390 visits a month from “crossword mini” would cost about $16.4K 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

Search demand, month by month. Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide): Oct 2024 110K, Nov 2024 110K, Dec 2024 110K, Jan 2025 110K, Feb 2025 110K, Mar 2025 135K, Apr 2025 135K, May 2025 135K, Jun 2025 110K, Jul 2025 110K, Aug 2025 110K, Sept 2025 40.5K, Oct 2025 33.1K, Nov 2025 27.1K, Dec 2025 27.1K, Jan 2026 27.1K, Feb 2026 22.2K, Mar 2026 27.1K, Apr 2026 27.1K, May 2026 27.1K, Jun 2026 22.2K, Jul 2026 22.2K, Aug 2026 22.2K, Sept 2026 27.1K; Third-party estimated keyword demand: Sept 2026 19.3K

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) | 110K | 110K | 110K | 110K | 110K | 135K | 135K | 135K | 110K | 110K | 110K | 40.5K | 33.1K | 27.1K | 27.1K | 27.1K | 22.2K | 27.1K | 27.1K | 27.1K | 22.2K | 22.2K | 22.2K | 27.1K |
| Third-party estimated keyword demand | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 19.3K |

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 9 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, on the same axis: the two can differ. Google Ads counts close spellings as one keyword: “crossword mini” has the same figures as “mini crossword”, so these are the group's searches.

### 2Who gets the traffic

**Share of the visits, Sept 2026**

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 States 42%
- Australia 14%
- India 7%
- Canada 6%
- United Kingdom 3%
- Other countries 29%

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**

- Phones 46%
- Computers and tablets 54%

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

- **55/100** Keyword difficulty (US) difficult
- **32/100** Ranking ease hard
- **DR 81** First page, median Ahrefs DR
- **308** Linking sites per top-ten page average, US

On Google's page: Related searches Images AI Overview

**Google's first page, United States**

| # | Site | Page title | DR | BV |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | play.usatoday.com | Quick Cross: Mini Crossword Puzzle from USA TODAY | 92 | — |
| 2 | blackcrossword.com | Black Crossword \| A free daily mini puzzle \| Play online now | 34 | — |
| 3 | games.readersdigest.ca | Mini Crossword - Free Online Game \| Reader's Digest Canada | 74 | — |
| 4 | crossword.dailyprincetonian.com | the latest mini | 72 | — |
| 5 | games.ajc.com | Mini Crossword - Free Online Game | 86 | — |
| 6 | [arkadium.com](https://mxverify.uk/publications/arkadium.com) on mxverify | Mini Crossword - Play Online for Free | 76 | $186 |
| 7 | [nytimes.com](https://mxverify.uk/publications/nytimes.com) on mxverify | NYT Mini Crossword | 94 | $739 |
| 8 | morningbrew.com | Brew Mini | 81 | — |
| 9 | games.mashable.com | Mini Crossword - Free Online Game | 91 | — |

Google's results for “crossword mini” 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 55 of 100 for US results: difficult on the vendor's scale.
- None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 9 for “crossword mini”.
- The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 81; the lowest-rated result, blackcrossword.com at #2, has DR 34.
- The top ten pages have about 308 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
- Google shows an AI Overview for “crossword mini”, citing 4 sites: it sits above the results and takes clicks from them.

### 4Intent and related searches

**Transactional: ready to act** · also informational  
The searcher's goal, as a third-party keyword database classifies it (US).

#### Google's related searches

- Nypost Crossword mini
- Portland mini crossword
- Atlantic mini crossword
- Miami mini crossword
- Chicago mini crossword
- Crossword mini archive
- The Sun Mini Crossword
- Dallas mini crossword

#### Keywords the same sites get visits from

- [free mini crossword](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/free-mini-crossword) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
- [mini crossword](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/mini-crossword) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
- [mini crossword free](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/mini-crossword-free) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
- [the mini](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/the-mini) 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

**52** /100 · Demand score, moderate

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

|  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Searches | 69 | 27.1K a month · weight 40% |
| Year | 36 | −33% since Sept 2025 · weight 20% |
| Momentum | 44 | last 3 months −6% on the 3 before · weight 20% |
| Commercial | 44 | $2.22 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20% |

**32** /100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

|  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keyword difficulty | 45 | 55 of 100 (US) · weight 50% |
| First-page strength | 19 | median Ahrefs DR 81 · weight 50% |

### What to do with it

- A hard first page (ease 32) for moderate demand (52): 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [minicrossword.com](https://mxverify.uk/publications/minicrossword.com) | Valued | 7,390 | 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.

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Source: mxverify, "1 Site Where crossword mini Is a Top Search Keyword", https://mxverify.uk/keywords/crossword-mini (retrieved 2026-11-09). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology