One site on record lists “insta” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 506M times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $0.46 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $232.8M 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
506MGoogle monthly search volumeno change on Sept 2025
no changeLast 3 months vs 3 beforesteady
62/100Demand scoremoderate
100/100Keyword difficulty (US)very hard
NavigationalSearch intentlooking for a site
$0.46Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.01–$0.84
2.6MThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026
1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026
What the data says
Demand is steady: Google searches for “insta” held steady at about 506M from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
The listed site takes about 8,240 visits a month from “insta”, 0% of its 2.6M searches (traffic estimates). The other 100% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $0.46 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 8,240 visits a month from “insta” would cost about $3,790 as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 197 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 506M searches, the traffic estimates 2.6M. Read each for its trend, not as an exact count.
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Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)
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2.6M
Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 6 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.
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
India88%
United States3%
United Arab Emirates2%
Taiwan2%
Germany1%
Other countries3%
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
100/100Keyword difficulty (US)very hard
0/100Ranking easehard
27.7KLinking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US
On Google's page:X postsRelated searchesPeople also search
Keyword difficulty is 100 of 100 for US results: very hard on the vendor's scale.
The top ten pages have about 27.7K linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
4Intent and related searches
Navigational: looking for a site 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
62/100 · Demand score, moderate
How much searching there is and what advertisers pay for it.
Searches
100
506M a month · weight 40%
Year
50
+0% since Sept 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum
50
last 3 months +0% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial
9
$0.46 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%
0/100 · Ranking ease, hard
How open Google's first page is: 100 minus its difficulty and strength.
Keyword difficulty
0
100 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
What to do with it
Treat it as a brand search: Google answers “insta” with the brand's own pages, so a third-party page competes for what is left.
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 6 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 6 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.
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