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Sites where “russia” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “russia” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 3.4M times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $1.15 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $3.9M 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

3.4MGoogle monthly search volume−18% since Oct 2025

+14%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

66/100Demand scoremoderate

86/100Keyword difficulty (US)very hard

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$1.15Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.08–$2.00

904KThird-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 “russia” fell 18% (4.1M to 3.4M) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 3.4M, 14% above the three before.
The listed site takes about 2,090 visits a month from “russia”, 0% of its 904K searches (traffic estimates). The other 100% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $1.15 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 2,090 visits a month from “russia” would cost about $2,404 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 3.4M searches, the traffic estimates 904K. 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)	4.1M	3.4M	4.1M	4.1M	3.4M	4.1M	2.7M	2.7M	3.4M	3.4M	3.4M	3.4M
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	904K

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
cbs17.com	100%	2,090	$2,404	76	17.7K

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 States90%
Vietnam1%
United Kingdom1%
India1%
Canada0%
Other countries8%

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

86/100Keyword difficulty (US)very hard

11/100Ranking easehard

DR 92First page, median Ahrefs DR

1,301Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Knowledge panelTop storiesProduct considerationsPeople also askVideosX postsRelated searchesImagesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	en.wikipedia.org	Russia	97
2	yahoo.com	Russia says responding to US report of planned attack on ...	94
3	britannica.com	Russia \| History, Flag, Population, Map, President, & Facts	92
4	state.gov	Russia - United States Department of State	92
5	dw.com	Russia	90
6	theguardian.com	Russia	93
7	csis.org	Russia: Analysis, Research, & Events	86
8	abc.net.au	Russia responds to US warning of Moscow attack plan	91
9	kids.nationalgeographic.com	Russia	91

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

Keyword difficulty is 86 of 100 for US results: very hard on the vendor's scale.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 9 for “russia”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 92; the lowest-rated result, csis.org at #7, has DR 86.
The top ten pages have about 1,301 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “russia”, 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

Russia uk
Russia map
Russia country
Russia flag
Russia girl
Russia oil
Russia President
Russia war

Questions people ask

Is Russian quality of life good?
What happened to Putin's wife?
What does +++ mean in Russian?
Is Russia still a superpower?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

nc lottery 1 of these sites · 2 sites in all
cbs17 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
sabalenka 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
wncn 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

66/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	100	3.4M a month · weight 40%
Year	43	−18% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	64	last 3 months +14% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	23	$1.15 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

11/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty	14	86 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	8	median Ahrefs DR 92 · weight 50%

What to do with it

Strong demand but a hard first page (ease 11): aim at its related searches first and build links before the head term.
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
cbs17.com	Audited	2,090	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.