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Sites where “terence tao” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “terence tao” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 301K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $1.17 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $352.2K 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

301KGoogle monthly search volumeno change since Oct 2025
+20%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady
65/100Demand scoremoderate
42/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible
InformationalSearch intentwants to learn
$1.17Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.24–$1.55
233.3KThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026
1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

  • Demand is steady: Google searches for “terence tao” held steady at about 301K from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 200.3K, 20% above the three before.
  • Searches peak in Oct 2025 (301K) and are lowest in Dec 2025 (135K), a 2.2× swing within the year: time content to be indexed before the peak.
  • The listed site takes about 23.6K visits a month from “terence tao”, 10% of its 233.3K searches (traffic estimates). The other 90% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
  • At $1.17 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 23.6K visits a month from “terence tao” would cost about $27.6K as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.

1Demand

Search demand, month by month

Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)Third-party estimated keyword demand

0250K500KOct 2025Jan 2026Apr 2026Jul 2026Sept 2026Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Oct 2025: 301KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Nov 2025: 201KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Dec 2025: 135KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Jan 2026: 165KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Feb 2026: 165KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Mar 2026: 201KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Apr 2026: 201KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), May 2026: 165KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Jun 2026: 135KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Jul 2026: 135KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Aug 2026: 165KGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Sept 2026: 301KThird-party estimated keyword demand, Sept 2026: 233.3KOct 2025Google monthly search volume301KNov 2025Google monthly search volume201KDec 2025Google monthly search volume135KJan 2026Google monthly search volume165KFeb 2026Google monthly search volume165KMar 2026Google monthly search volume201KApr 2026Google monthly search volume201KMay 2026Google monthly search volume165KJun 2026Google monthly search volume135KJul 2026Google monthly search volume135KAug 2026Google monthly search volume165KSept 2026Google monthly search volume301KThird-party estimated keyword demand233.3K
Every month's figures
Oct 2025Nov 2025Dec 2025Jan 2026Feb 2026Mar 2026Apr 2026May 2026Jun 2026Jul 2026Aug 2026Sept 2026
Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)301K201K135K165K165K201K201K165K135K135K165K301K
Third-party estimated keyword demand———————————233.3K

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, on the same axis: the two can differ.

2Who gets the traffic

Share of the visits, Sept 2026
SiteShareVisitsAs adsDRLinking sites
wordpress.com100%23.6K$27.6K954M

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 States27%
  • India5%
  • United Kingdom5%
  • Brazil4%
  • Spain4%
  • Other countries55%

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
  • Phones28%
  • Computers and tablets72%

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

42/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible
31/100Ranking easehard
DR 97First page, median Ahrefs DR
253Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Knowledge panelPeople also askCarouselPerspectivesShort videosRelated searchesImages

Google's first page, United States
#SitePage titleDR
1scholar.google.comTerence Tao100
2terrytao.wordpress.comlisted hereTerence Tao - WordPress.com95
3youtube.comNo More Heroes - Terence Tao Talks to Numberphile About AI99
4teorth.github.ioTerence Tao on AI in mathematics (and beyond)94
5linkedin.comTerence Tao - Professor at UCLA99
6nytimes.comWhy One of the World's Greatest Mathematicians Is on a ' ...94

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

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

  • Terence Tao books
  • Terence Tao IQ
  • Terence Tao net worth
  • Terence Tao X
  • Terence Tao AI
  • Terence Tao blog
  • Terence Tao wife
  • Terence tao mathstodon

Questions people ask

  • What was the IQ of Terence Tao?
  • Why is Terence Tao so famous?
  • Has anyone solved 3x-1?
  • What does Terence Tao believe in?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

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

5Opportunity

65/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches90301K a month · weight 40%
Year50+0% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum70last 3 months +20% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial23$1.17 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

31/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty5842 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength3median Ahrefs DR 97 · weight 50%

What to do with it

  • Strong demand but a hard first page (ease 31): aim at its related searches first and build links before the head term.

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

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

SiteReportVisits (est.)Month
wordpress.comValued23.6KSept 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.