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Sites where “target” is a top search keyword

2 sites on record list “target” among the searches that send them the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 45.5M times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $0.10 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $4.6M 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

45.5MGoogle monthly search volumeno change on Sept 2025

+7%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

62/100Demand scoremoderate

32/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$0.10Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.07–$0.08

4.6MThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

2Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is steady: Google searches for “target” held steady at about 45.5M from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
Across 3 years, searches peak in December (about 59.3M) and are lowest in February (about 35.5M), a 1.7× swing: time content to be indexed before December.
The 2 listed sites take about 343.7K visits a month from “target”, 7% of its 4.6M searches (traffic estimates). The other 93% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
yelp.com takes 75% of the listed sites' visits from “target”: one site holds most of this keyword's traffic.
At $0.10 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 343.7K visits a month from “target” would cost about $34.4K as search ads; yelp.com's alone about $25.7K. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 10 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 45.5M searches, the traffic estimates 4.6M. 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 2024	Nov 2024	Dec 2024	Jan 2025	Feb 2025	Mar 2025	Apr 2025	May 2025	Jun 2025	Jul 2025	Aug 2025	Sept 2025	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)	45.5M	55.6M	68M	45.5M	37.2M	45.5M	45.5M	45.5M	45.5M	45.5M	55.6M	45.5M	45.5M	55.6M	68M	45.5M	37.2M	45.5M	45.5M	45.5M	45.5M	45.5M	55.6M	45.5M
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.6M

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 5 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
yelp.com	75%	256.8K	$25.7K	94	655.8K
tripadvisor.com	25%	86.9K	$8,692	93	508K

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). The sites getting its visits range from DR 93 to 94.

Where these sites' visitors are

United States83%
United Kingdom1%
Germany1%
Australia1%
France1%
Other countries14%

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

Phones22%
Computers and tablets78%

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

32/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

68/100Ranking easecontested

2,822Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Local packPerspectivesRelated searchesKnowledge panelImages

Keyword difficulty is 32 of 100 for US results: possible on the vendor's scale.
The top ten pages have about 2,822 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).

4Intent and related searches

Informational: wants to learn
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

62/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	100	45.5M a month · weight 40%
Year	50	+0% since Sept 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	57	last 3 months +7% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	2	$0.10 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

68/100 · Ranking ease, contested

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

Keyword difficulty

32 of 100 (US) · weight 50%

What to do with it

Worth a page of its own: demand is moderate (62) and the first page is contested (68).
Study yelp.com: it takes 75% of the listed sites' visits from “target”; its report shows which of its traffic comes from search.
The listed sites take 7% 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 5 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 5 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
tripadvisor.com	Valued	86.9K	Sept 2026
yelp.com	Valued	256.8K	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.