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Sites where “dothan news” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “dothan news” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 2,900 times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $4.43 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $12.8K 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

2,900Google monthly search volume−46% since Oct 2025

no changeLast 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

53/100Demand scoremoderate

54/100Keyword difficulty (US)difficult

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$4.43Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.73–$2.79

430Third-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is down on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “dothan news” fell 46% (5,400 to 2,900) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
The listed site takes about 210 visits a month from “dothan news”, 49% of its 430 searches (traffic estimates). The other 51% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $4.43 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 210 visits a month from “dothan news” would cost about $930 as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 7 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 2,900 searches, the traffic estimates 430. 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)	5,400	3,600	3,600	5,400	3,600	3,600	2,900	3,600	3,600	3,600	3,600	2,900
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	430

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
wdhn.com	100%	210	$930	59	4,624

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 States93%
India2%
United Kingdom2%
Canada2%
Netherlands1%

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

Phones81%
Computers and tablets19%

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

54/100Keyword difficulty (US)difficult

39/100Ranking easehard

DR 69First page, median Ahrefs DR

416Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Top storiesVideosRelated searchesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	wdhn.comlisted here	Hurricane damage in the Wiregrass	59
2	instagram.com	WDHN News \| ABC Affiliate (@wdhn_news) · Dothan, AL	100
3	rickeystokesnews.com	Breaking News - Dothan	27
4	x.com	WDHN	97
5	dothaneagle.com	Business News \| Dothan, AL \| \| dothaneagle.com	69
6	abc3340.com	Birmingham Topic Dothan, Alabama Metropolitan Area	75
7	facebook.com	Nexstar's WDHN in Dothan, Alabama, was hit by a tornado ...	100
8	wdhn.comlisted here	VIDEO: Tornado hits Dothan, damaging school and ...	59
9	wdhn.comlisted here	WDHN Marketplace	59

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

Keyword difficulty is 54 of 100 for US results: difficult on the vendor's scale.
wdhn.com holds 3 of Google's top 9 results for “dothan news”: Google treats it as a search for that site.
1 of the sites listed here is in Google's US top 9: wdhn.com (#1, #8, #9).
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 69; the lowest-rated result, rickeystokesnews.com at #3, has DR 27: a weak site already ranks on page one.
The top ten pages have about 416 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “dothan news”, citing 6 sites, wdhn.com among them: 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

Dothan news today
Dothan news obituaries
Dothan news shooting
Dothan news live
Dothan news car accident
Wtvy dothan news
Rickey Stokes news Dothan, AL breaking news Today
Rickey stokes news Dothan, AL breaking news obituaries

Keywords the same sites get visits from

christa pike 1 of these sites · 4 sites in all
elena rybakina 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
sylvester georgia balloon peanut drop new year 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
wdhn news 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

53/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	49	2,900 a month · weight 40%
Year	28	−46% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	50	last 3 months +0% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	89	$4.43 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

39/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty	46	54 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	31	median Ahrefs DR 69 · weight 50%
One site's results	67	wdhn.com holds 3 of 9; ease capped at 40 · weight 0%

What to do with it

Treat it as a brand search: Google answers “dothan news” 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: “Dothan news today”, “Dothan news obituaries”, “Dothan news shooting”.
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 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
wdhn.com	Audited	210	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.