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Sites where “iran” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “iran” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 13.6M times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $1.26 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $17.1M 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

13.6MGoogle monthly search volume×6 since Oct 2025

−50%Last 3 months vs 3 beforefalling

65/100Demand scoremoderate

78/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$1.26Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.03–$2.73

3MThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is up on the year but cooling: Google searches for “iran” multiplied about 6 times (2.2M to 13.6M) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 18.4M, 50% below the three before.
The listed site takes about 3,750 visits a month from “iran”, 0% of its 3M searches (traffic estimates). The other 100% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $1.26 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 3,750 visits a month from “iran” would cost about $4,725 as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 4 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 13.6M searches, the traffic estimates 3M. 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)	2.2M	1.8M	2.7M	24.9M	37.2M	124M	55.6M	30.4M	24.9M	24.9M	16.6M	13.6M
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3M

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
wane.com	100%	3,750	$4,725	73	18.5K

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%
Canada1%
Germany0%
Brazil0%
United Kingdom0%
Other countries5%

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

Phones79%
Computers and tablets21%

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

78/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard

12/100Ranking easehard

DR 99First page, median Ahrefs DR

839Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Knowledge panelTop storiesPeople also askVideosShort videosProduct considerationsRelated searchesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	abcnews.com	Video Iran threatens US officials as risk of renewed war grows	91
2	facebook.com	Kuwait International Airport Drone Strike Report Amid Iran-US ...	100
3	foxnews.com	Trump hasn't made a decision yet on whether to resume ...	91
4	youtube.com	Iran Hardliners Threaten Pre‑Emptive Attacks & Say Missiles ...	99
5	youtube.com	Iran Attacks Sweep Gulf, US OK's Russia-India Oil, Dubai ...	99
6	aljazeera.com	Senators briefed on Trump's 'insane' plan to restart war on Iran	91
7	youtube.com	What's happening inside Iran? Blackout limits information as ...	99
8	youtube.com	Drops NUCLEAR Bombshell On Iran, Russia, China	99

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

Keyword difficulty is 78 of 100 for US results: hard on the vendor's scale.
youtube.com holds 4 of Google's top 8 results for “iran”: Google treats it as a search for that site.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 8 for “iran”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 99; the lowest-rated result, abcnews.com at #1, has DR 91.
The top ten pages have about 839 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “iran”, citing 4 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).

Questions people ask

What is happening in Iran right now?
Is the US preparing for war?
What are some famous landmarks in Iran?
Has Iran and the US made a deal?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

fort wayne news 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
wane 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
wane 15 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
wane.com 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

65/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	100	13.6M a month · weight 40%
Year	100	×6 since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	0	last 3 months −50% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	25	$1.26 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

12/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty	22	78 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	1	median Ahrefs DR 99 · weight 50%
One site's results	50	youtube.com holds 4 of 8; ease capped at 40 · weight 0%

What to do with it

Treat it as a brand search: Google answers “iran” with the brand's own pages, so a third-party page competes for what is left.
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
wane.com	Audited	3,750	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.