mxverify / pay-to-rank

Sites where “pay-to-rank” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “pay-to-rank” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 90 times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $2.62 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $236 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

90Google monthly search volume×9 since Oct 2025

×6Last 3 months vs 3 beforerising

58/100Demand scoremoderate

$2.62Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $2.21–$21.63

30Third-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

LowPaid competition (Google Ads)14 of 100 advertisers' index

Sept 2026Peak month90 searches

What the data says

Demand is rising: Google searches for “pay-to-rank” multiplied about 9 times (10 to 90) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 57, about 6 times the three before.
The two sources differ about 3 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 90 searches, the traffic estimates 30. 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)	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	70	90
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	30

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.

3Ranking competition

37/100Ranking easehard

DR 63First page, median Ahrefs DR

On Google's page:AI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR	BV
1	reddit.comon mxverify	Want to rank higher on Google without time, money, or ...	95	$183
2	brandastic.com	What is Pay-For-Performance SEO?	59	—
3	llmrefs.comon mxverify	A Guide to SEO Pay For Performance Models	67	$178
4	rankpay.com	RankPay \| SEO, Advertising & Digital Marketing Agency ...	58	—
5	futuretheory.co	Why You Should Avoid Pay-For-Performance SEO Agencies	51	—
6	rankpay.com	RankPay Reviews & Testimonials	58	—
7	respona.com	Pay for Performance SEO: Top 30 Companies [2026]	76	—
8	jasper.ai	How To Rank Higher On Google in 7 Easy Steps	88	—

Google's results for “pay-to-rank” in the United States, in English, read 1 Nov 2026. DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; “—”: Ahrefs gives no rating. BV: what a new followed link from a site with a report on mxverify is worth (its report says what the figure rests on).

rankpay.com has 2 results in Google's top 8 for “pay-to-rank”.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 8 for “pay-to-rank”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 63; the lowest-rated result, futuretheory.co at #5, has DR 51.
Google shows an AI Overview for “pay-to-rank”, citing 6 sites: it sits above the results and takes clicks from them.

4Intent and related searches

Google's related searches

Pay to rank app
Pay to rank reddit
Pay to rank template

Keywords the same sites get visits from

outbid lol 1 of these sites · 4 sites in all
bidrank .co 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
jonathan wilke 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

58/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	19	90 a month · weight 40%
Year	100	×9 since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	100	last 3 months +467% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	52	$2.62 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

37/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

First-page strength

median Ahrefs DR 63 · weight 50%

What to do with it

A hard first page (ease 37) for moderate demand (58): compare your site's strength with the first page's median Ahrefs DR before committing.
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.
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.

Tiles, findings, scores and actions are worked out from the figures on this page by fixed rules.

Site	Report	Visits (est.)	Month
outbid.fyi	Valued	0	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.