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Sites where “dog” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “dog” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 7.5M times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $2.76 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $20.6M 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

7.5MGoogle monthly search volumeno change since Oct 2025

no changeLast 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

71/100Demand scorestrong

70/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$2.76Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.45–$3.50

804.4KThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is steady: Google searches for “dog” held steady at about 7.5M from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
The listed site takes about 540 visits a month from “dog”, 0% of its 804.4K searches (traffic estimates). The other 100% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $2.76 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 540 visits a month from “dog” would cost about $1,490 as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 9 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 7.5M searches, the traffic estimates 804.4K. 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 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)	7.5M	6.1M	7.5M	7.5M	7.5M	7.5M	7.5M	7.5M	6.1M	6.1M	7.5M	7.5M
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	804.4K

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 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
ourquadcities.com	100%	540	$1,490	69	9,185

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 States85%
United Kingdom3%
Germany2%
Canada2%
India1%
Other countries6%

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

Phones71%
Computers and tablets29%

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

27/100Ranking easehard

DR 77First page, median Ahrefs DR

642Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Knowledge panelProduct considerationsPeople also askPeople also searchVideosRelated searchesImagesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	thecoolist.com	Vets agree: a dog that goes wild when you come home isn't ...	61
2	youtube.com	A New Dog Breed??? \| Top 10 Dogs of the Week!	99
3	facebook.com	We compiled some of the silliest dogs reacting to Halloween ...	100
4	cdc.gov	CDC Dog Import Form and Instructions	94
5	globalanimalguide.org	Dog: Facts, Diet, Habitat & FAQs \| Global Animal Guide	2
6	thedodo.com	Dog Breed	77
7	petguide.com	Dogs \| PetGuide	70

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

Keyword difficulty is 70 of 100 for US results: hard on the vendor's scale.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 7 for “dog”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 77; the lowest-rated result, globalanimalguide.org at #5, has DR 2.1: a weak site already ranks on page one.
The top ten pages have about 642 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “dog”, 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

Dog price
CDC Dog
CDC Dog Import form online submission
CDC Dog Import Form pdf 2025 pdf download
CDC form for dogs
CBP dog form
CDC Dog Import Form high-risk
CDC Dog travel

Questions people ask

Are dogs very friendly?
What dog breed sheds the least?
How long are puppies puppies?
What is the 3-3-3 rule with dogs?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

weather today 1 of these sites · 3 sites in all
weather this week 1 of these sites · 2 sites in all
quad cities 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
the end of oak street 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

71/100 · Demand score, strong

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

Searches	100	7.5M a month · weight 40%
Year	50	+0% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	50	last 3 months +0% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	55	$2.76 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

27/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty	30	70 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	23	median Ahrefs DR 77 · weight 50%

What to do with it

Strong demand but a hard first page (ease 27): aim at its related searches first and build links before the head term.
Google answers part of it in an AI Overview: the pages it cites get a link above the results.
The listed sites take 0% 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 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
ourquadcities.com	Audited	540	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.