Sites where “mini crossword” is a top search keyword
One site on record lists “mini crossword” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 27.1K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $2.22 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $60.2K 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
27.1KGoogle monthly search volume−33% on Sept 2025
−6%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady
52/100Demand scoremoderate
55/100Keyword difficulty (US)difficult
InformationalSearch intentwants to learn
$2.22Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.35–$2.43
Demand is down on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “mini crossword” fell 18% (33.1K to 27.1K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
Across 3 years, searches peak in May (about 100.3K) and are lowest in September (about 59.5K), a 1.7× swing: time content to be indexed before May.
The listed site takes about 43.9K visits a month from “mini crossword”, 24% of its 185.5K searches (traffic estimates). The other 76% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $2.22 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 43.9K visits a month from “mini crossword” would cost about $97.3K 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 27.1K searches, the traffic estimates 185.5K. 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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185.5K
Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 9 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. Google Ads counts close spellings as one keyword: “mini crossword” has the same figures as “crossword mini”, so these are the group's searches.
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 States42%
Australia14%
India7%
Canada6%
United Kingdom3%
Other countries29%
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
Phones46%
Computers and tablets54%
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
55/100Keyword difficulty (US)difficult
45/100Ranking easecontested
393Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US
On Google's page:AI OverviewRelated searches
Keyword difficulty is 55 of 100 for US results: difficult on the vendor's scale.
The top ten pages have about 393 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
4Intent and related searches
Informational: wants to learn · also transactional 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
52/100 · Demand score, moderate
How much searching there is and what advertisers pay for it.
Searches
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27.1K a month · weight 40%
Year
36
−33% since Sept 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum
44
last 3 months −6% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial
44
$2.22 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%
45/100 · Ranking ease, contested
How open Google's first page is: 100 minus its difficulty and strength.
Keyword difficulty
45
55 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
What to do with it
A contested first page (ease 45) for moderate demand (52): compare your site's strength with the first page's median Ahrefs DR before committing.
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 9 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 9 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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