governing.com

DR 81by AhrefsMedium Opportunity · 56/100

About

This coverage will look at how public leaders establish new policies in a range of crucial areas of government – health, education, public safety, for example – and how these policies impact people’s lives through better services, effective regulations and new programs. This will include stories…

Categorynews_and_media

Top 274,170

Global Rank

United States 71%

Top Market

-44%

Monthly Trend

54% Bounce

Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

198,872

↓43.8% vs last month

Bounce Rate

54.3%

Pages / Visit

1.3

Avg. Session

20s

Domain Age

30.3 years

Traffic

#274,170Global Rank

#83,096Country Rank (840)

#2,755Category Rank · News_and_Media

Traffic Trend

↓43.8%

Traffic Sources

Organic Search

61.3%

Direct

23.5%

Social

3.4%

Referral

7.1%

Paid

3.3%

1.4%

SEO-dependent: 61.3% from organic search

Geographic Distribution

DomainShare

🇺🇸United StatesUS

71.2%

🇻🇳VietnamVN

2.2%

🇮🇳IndiaIN

1.6%

🇬🇧United KingdomGB

1.6%

🇧🇷BrazilBR

1.5%

Top 3 countries account for 75.0% of traffic — high geographic concentration

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords

Keyword
createporn	20.3K	$0.21	$5.8K
ca governor candidates	7.3K	$2.68	$1.3K
who is leading the california governor race	6.5K	$3.75	$1.4K
candidates for california governor	3.0K	$1.07	$1.4K
brandon johnson approval rating	1.7K	$1.54	$960

SERP Rankings

Keyword			Ranking URL
createporn	#2	📄	www.governing.com/policy/ai-being-used-to-create-porn-featuring-images-of-minors	26,800	$1.40

Growth Readout

Traffic concentrated in United States (71%) — high geographic dependency

How does governing.com actually grow?

This page shows the surface. A Growth Teardown reverse-engineers the full playbook — which keywords drive signups, where backlinks come from, which channels convert, and what you can replicate in your own product.