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Sites where “daily crossword” is a top search keyword

2 sites on record list “daily crossword” among the searches that send them the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 165K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $0.42 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $69.3K 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

165KGoogle monthly search volumeno change on Sept 2025

−7%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

54/100Demand scoremoderate

70/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$0.42Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.23–$0.39

80.6KThird-party estimated keyword demandOct 2026

2Sites getting visits from itOct 2026

What the data says

Demand is down on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “daily crossword” fell 18% (201K to 165K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
The 2 listed sites take about 4,060 visits a month from “daily crossword”, 5% of its 80.6K searches (traffic estimates). The other 95% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
mindgames.com takes 89% of the listed sites' visits from “daily crossword”: one site holds most of this keyword's traffic.
At $0.42 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 4,060 visits a month from “daily crossword” would cost about $1,705 as search ads; mindgames.com's alone about $1,516. 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 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	Oct 2026
Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)	165K	165K	135K	165K	165K	165K	165K	165K	135K	135K	165K	165K	201K	165K	165K	165K	165K	201K	201K	165K	165K	165K	165K	165K	—
Third-party estimated keyword demand	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	80.6K

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 10 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, Oct 2026

Site	Share	Visits	As ads	DR	Linking sites
mindgames.com	89%	3,610	$1,516	58	2,367
games.mashable.com	11%	450	$189	91	—

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). The sites getting its visits range from DR 58 to 91.

Where these sites' visitors are

United States67%
Canada13%
India3%
United Kingdom2%
Philippines2%
Other countries14%

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

Phones44%
Computers and tablets56%

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

30/100Ranking easehard

503Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:AI OverviewRelated searches

Keyword difficulty is 70 of 100 for US results: hard on the vendor's scale.
The top ten pages have about 503 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).

4Intent and related searches

Informational: wants to learn
The searcher's goal, as a third-party keyword database classifies it (US).

Keywords the listed sites also get visits from, the most shared first: linked by the same sites' traffic, not by meaning.

5Opportunity

54/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	84	165K a month · weight 40%
Year	50	+0% since Sept 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	43	last 3 months −7% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	8	$0.42 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

30/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty

70 of 100 (US) · weight 50%

What to do with it

A hard first page (ease 30) for moderate demand (54): compare your site's strength with the first page's median Ahrefs DR before committing.
Study mindgames.com: it takes 89% of the listed sites' visits from “daily crossword”; its report shows which of its traffic comes from search.
The listed sites take 5% 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

Google monthly search volume, Google Ads cost per click, bids and paid competition: Google Ads, worldwide, read 10 Nov 2026.
Third-party estimated keyword demand, cost per click and each site's visits (est.): third-party traffic estimates, Oct 2026.
Keyword difficulty, intent, SERP features, top-ten links: a third-party keyword database, United States, read 10 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
games.mashable.com	Valued	450	Oct 2026
mindgames.com	Valued	3,610	Oct 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, Oct 2026. The traffic estimates' own searches figure for the keyword is in the section below; the two sources often differ several times over.