Sites where “free for dev” is a top search keyword
One site on record lists “free for dev” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 14.8K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $2.51 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $37.1K 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
14.8KGoogle monthly search volume×6 on Sept 2025
+60%Last 3 months vs 3 beforerising
75/100Demand scorestrong
20/100Keyword difficulty (US)easy
InformationalSearch intentwants to learn
$2.51Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.25–$2.94
Demand is rising: Google searches for “free for dev” multiplied about 6 times (2,400 to 14.8K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 18.4K, 60% above the three before.
The listed sites' estimated visits from “free for dev” (9,840 a month) exceed its 8,380 searches: the estimates count visits from close searches too, so the listed sites take most of its traffic, not more than all of it.
At $2.51 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 9,840 visits a month from “free for dev” would cost about $24.7K 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
Every month's figures
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Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)
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8,100
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22.2K
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18.1K
14.8K
Third-party estimated keyword demand
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8,380
Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 5 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, on the same axis: the two can differ.
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 States15%
India12%
China10%
France8%
Czech Republic7%
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
20/100Keyword difficulty (US)easy
80/100Ranking easeopen
195Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US
On Google's page:AI OverviewRelated searches
Keyword difficulty is 20 of 100 for US results: easy on the vendor's scale.
The top ten pages have about 195 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
75/100 · Demand score, strong
How much searching there is and what advertisers pay for it.
Searches
63
14.8K a month · weight 40%
Year
100
×6 since Sept 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum
100
last 3 months +60% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial
50
$2.51 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%
80/100 · Ranking ease, open
How open Google's first page is: 100 minus its difficulty and strength.
Keyword difficulty
80
20 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
What to do with it
Worth a page of its own: demand is strong (75) and the first page is open (80).
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 5 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 5 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.
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.
What a link is worth