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Sites where “quad cities” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “quad cities” 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 $0.98 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $26.6K 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−18% since Oct 2025

+3%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

51/100Demand scoremoderate

43/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$0.98Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.27–$2.27

5,760Third-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is down on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “quad cities” fell 18% (33.1K to 27.1K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
Searches peak in Jul 2026 (49.5K) and are lowest in Dec 2025 (27.1K), a 1.8× swing within the year: time content to be indexed before the peak.
The listed site takes about 650 visits a month from “quad cities”, 11% of its 5,760 searches (traffic estimates). The other 89% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $0.98 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 650 visits a month from “quad cities” would cost about $637 as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 5 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 27.1K searches, the traffic estimates 5,760. 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)	33.1K	33.1K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	33.1K	33.1K	33.1K	40.5K	49.5K	33.1K	27.1K
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5,760

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
ourquadcities.com	100%	650	$637	69	9,185

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 States85%
United Kingdom3%
Germany2%
Canada2%
India1%
Other countries6%

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

Phones71%
Computers and tablets29%

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

43/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

39/100Ranking easehard

DR 81First page, median Ahrefs DR

369Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Knowledge panelPeople also askAI OverviewImagesRelated searches

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	traveliowa.com	How to Spend 48 Hours in the Quad Cities	71
2	expedia.com	Best of Quad Cities Tourism \| Expedia Travel Guide	90
3	youtube.com	Visit Quad Cities	99
4	inyoregister.com	Meet The Quad Cities \| Community	48
5	en.wiktionary.org	Quad Cities	91
6	quadcitystorm.com	Quad City Storm: QC Storm Hockey Official Website	31
7	maps.apple.com	Quad Cities - Davenport, IA	97
8	mississippirivercountry.com	Visit Quad Cities	18

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

Keyword difficulty is 43 of 100 for US results: possible on the vendor's scale.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 8 for “quad cities”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 81; the lowest-rated result, mississippirivercountry.com at #8, has DR 18: a weak site already ranks on page one.
The top ten pages have about 369 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “quad cities”, citing 10 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).

Google's related searches

Quad Cities population
Quad Cities Airport
Things to do Quad Cities this weekend
Quad cities illinois
Top 10 things to do in Quad Cities
What to do in the Quad Cities
Things to do in the Quad Cities today
Fun things to do in the Quad Cities for adults

Questions people ask

Which cities make up the Quad Cities?
What are the best restaurants in the Quad Cities?
Does the Quad Cities have a hockey team?
Where are Quad city DJs from?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

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Keywords the listed sites also get visits from, the most shared first: linked by the same sites' traffic, not by meaning.

5Opportunity

51/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	69	27.1K a month · weight 40%
Year	43	−18% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	53	last 3 months +3% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	20	$0.98 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

39/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty	57	43 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	20	median Ahrefs DR 81 · weight 50%

What to do with it

A hard first page (ease 39) for moderate demand (51): 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.
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
ourquadcities.com	Audited	650	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.