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title: "1 Site Where hawaii news Is a Top Search Keyword"
url: https://mxverify.uk/keywords/hawaii-news
description: "1 site on mxverify lists “hawaii news” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates: khon2.com."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-11-01T13:59:00.776Z
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# Sites where “hawaii news” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “hawaii news” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about **90.5K** times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $2.80 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about **$253.4K** 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

- **90.5K** Google monthly search volume +83% since Oct 2025
- **+28%** Last 3 months vs 3 before rising
- **73/100** Demand score strong
- **79/100** Keyword difficulty (US) hard
- **Informational** Search intent wants to learn
- **$2.80** Google Ads cost per click top-of-page bids $2.00–$2.00
- **14.8K** Third-party estimated keyword demand Sept 2026
- **1** Sites getting visits from it Sept 2026

### What the data says

- Demand is rising: Google searches for “hawaii news” rose 83% (49.5K to 90.5K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 83.3K, 28% above the three before.
- The listed site takes about 3,000 visits a month from “hawaii news”, 20% of its 14.8K searches (traffic estimates). The other 80% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
- At $2.80 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 3,000 visits a month from “hawaii news” would cost about $8,400 as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
- The two sources differ about 6 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 90.5K searches, the traffic estimates 14.8K. 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)

Search demand, month by month. Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide): Oct 2025 49.5K, Nov 2025 49.5K, Dec 2025 49.5K, Jan 2026 49.5K, Feb 2026 49.5K, Mar 2026 201K, Apr 2026 74K, May 2026 60.5K, Jun 2026 60.5K, Jul 2026 49.5K, Aug 2026 110K, Sept 2026 90.5K; Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis): Sept 2026 14.8K

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) | 49.5K | 49.5K | 49.5K | 49.5K | 49.5K | 201K | 74K | 60.5K | 60.5K | 49.5K | 110K | 90.5K |
| Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 14.8K |

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**

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 96%
- United Kingdom 2%
- Canada 0%
- India 0%
- Australia 0%
- Other countries 2%

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 63%
- Computers and tablets 37%

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

- **79/100** Keyword difficulty (US) hard
- **17/100** Ranking ease hard
- **DR 87** First page, median Ahrefs DR
- **1,086** Linking sites per top-ten page average, US

On Google's page: Knowledge panel Perspectives People also ask Carousel Related searches AI Overview

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

| # | Site | Page title | DR |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | abcnews.com | Hawaii | 91 |
| 2 | hawaiinewsnow.com | K5 | 80 |
| 3 | [khon2.com](https://mxverify.uk/publications/khon2.com) listed here | Community | 77 |
| 4 | spectrumlocalnews.com | Local News \| Hawaii | 83 |
| 5 | youtube.com | Guy Hagi's HNN Sunrise surf and weather report for October 30 ... | 99 |
| 6 | youtube.com | Alaska Air cuts Hawaii jobs amid rising fuel costs | 99 |
| 7 | kitv.com | Local \| kitv.com | 75 |
| 8 | x.com | Hawaii News Now | 97 |

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

- Keyword difficulty is 79 of 100 for US results: hard on the vendor's scale.
- youtube.com has 2 results in Google's top 8 for “hawaii news”.
- 1 of the sites listed here is in Google's US top 8: khon2.com (#3).
- The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 87; the lowest-rated result, kitv.com at #7, has DR 75.
- The top ten pages have about 1,086 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
- Google shows an AI Overview for “hawaii news”, citing 5 sites, khon2.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).

#### Questions people ask

- What has recently happened in Hawaii?
- Can you live on $3,000 a month in Hawaii?
- Who is the most famous person that lives in Hawaii?
- Which KGMB news anchors are leaving?

#### Keywords the same sites get visits from

- [hawaii hurricane](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/hawaii-hurricane) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
- [hurricane lowell](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/hurricane-lowell) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
- [khon](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/khon) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
- [khon2](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/khon2) 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

**73** /100 · Demand score, strong

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

|  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Searches | 79 | 90.5K a month · weight 40% |
| Year | 72 | +83% since Oct 2025 · weight 20% |
| Momentum | 78 | last 3 months +28% on the 3 before · weight 20% |
| Commercial | 56 | $2.80 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20% |

**17** /100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

|  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keyword difficulty | 21 | 79 of 100 (US) · weight 50% |
| First-page strength | 13 | median Ahrefs DR 87 · weight 50% |

### What to do with it

- Strong demand but a hard first page (ease 17): 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.

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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [khon2.com](https://mxverify.uk/publications/khon2.com) | Audited | 3,000 | 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 hawaii news Is a Top Search Keyword", https://mxverify.uk/keywords/hawaii-news (retrieved 2026-11-01). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology