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The top 500 insurance keywords in the USA, and what Google actually returns for them

Search volume and cost per click are available from any tool. What is not available anywhere else is whether each of these searches still returns a list of links, or an answer written above them.

What this edition adds
  • 70% of these keywords now return an AI Overview. Weighted by volume and cost per click, it is 80.9% of the money in the list.
  • The 2024 edition had 505 rows. 47% were duplicates. Twenty-nine variants of "car insurance quotes" alone. This one has 237.
  • Volumes had inverted since 2024. "Car insurance" was listed at 823,000 and is now 450,000. "Car insurance quotes" was 450,000 and is now 823,000.
  • Not one keyword in 237 returned a paid result above the fold. In a category where the median click costs $71.

This list has been published here since 2024 as volume and cost per click, which is what every keyword tool returns. That was useful when the question was where to rank. It is only half an answer now, because on a large share of these searches Google writes its own response above the results and a meaningful number of people never scroll past it.

So from July 2026 the dataset records what the results page actually contains. Same keywords, same URL, two more columns.

Keyword Intent Volume CPC KD AI Overview Local Pack Results
AI Overview present Local Pack present Absent KD = keyword difficulty · Results = organic results captured
237 KEYWORDS. The published 505 with near-duplicates collapsed and brand terms moved to a separate board; every merge is recorded in the cluster manifest. 18 rows returned no verified volume from the API and are shown with a dash rather than a guess. Captured US national, July 2026.

What the data shows

Of the 237 keywords, 166 returned an AI Overview and 76 returned a Local Pack. Only 11.4% returned both, and 9.3% returned neither. So on roughly nine in ten of the most valuable insurance searches in the country, something now sits between the query and the first organic link.

Google's intent classificationKeywordsAI OverviewLocal PackMedian CPC
Transactional2100.0%0.0%$156.55
Informational3083.3%3.3%$26.47
Commercial17967.6%37.4%$82.35
Navigational1040.0%50.0%$33.65

Intent labels are Google's own, from the DataForSEO Labs keyword_overview response, not ours.

By line, home insurance is the most intercepted and auto the least. Auto keywords returned an Overview 63.9% of the time against 80.0% for home and 76.5% for commercial. Auto is also the only line where the Local Pack is a serious presence, at 36.1%, which is what you would expect from a category people still buy locally.

AI Overview presence by line
Health100%
General81.2%
Home80.0%
Commercial76.5%
Auto63.9%

The expensive searches that now have an answer above them

The median click in this dataset costs $71.06. The most expensive costs $245.67. Every one of the twelve most expensive keywords carrying an Overview is a quote-intent search.

KeywordVolumeCPC
auto insurance quotes florida9,900$245.67
car insurance quotes massachusetts1,900$214.45
auto home insurance quotes12,100$211.64
find car insurance quotes14,800$189.31
auto insurance quotes texas8,100$180.10
car insurance florida22,200$174.68

Highest cost-per-click keywords that returned an AI Overview. US national, July 2026.

Weighted by volume times cost per click, 80.9% of the value in this list now sits behind an AI Overview. The unweighted figure is 70%, so the answer layer is concentrated on the expensive end rather than spread evenly.

One result we did not expect: not a single keyword in 237 returned a paid result above the fold in this capture. In the most expensive vertical in search. We are treating that as a capture artifact until a second run confirms or contradicts it, and we would rather flag it than quietly drop it.

Who Google cites across the whole set

In the July auto study, 65% of the sources cited in insurance AI answers were not written by an insurer. Comparison sites supplied 25.6%, publishers 17.0%, forums including Reddit and YouTube 12.0%, state regulators 3.9%, and personal injury law firms 1.7%.

Across 1,135 citations on these 237 keywords, carriers supplied 35.2%, comparison sites 20.7%, publishers 13.5% and forums 9.1%. The single most-cited domain in the entire dataset is youtube.com, with 84 citations, ahead of NerdWallet at 70 and Allstate at 66.

Organic is a different picture again. 327 distinct domains appeared in the top ten across the set, and carriers held 45.8% of those positions. Allstate leads on position-weighted visibility, with Liberty Mutual at 87.2 and GEICO at 83.8 against it.

The gap between those two lists is the point of measuring both. Liberty Mutual is second organically and second in citations. YouTube does not rank at all and is cited more than anyone.

Method

Selection — keywords are drawn from the DataForSEO category taxonomy for insurance, deduplicated by clustering near-identical variants, with brand and navigational terms reported separately. The full selection rules are published in the methodology.

Volume — 12-month mean of monthly searches rather than the headline figure. Verified July 2026: "auto insurance" ranged from 368,000 to 1,830,000 across twelve months against a headline of 673,000.

Cost per click — DataForSEO Labs average CPC, a national figure. The API also returns low and high top-of-page bids, which disagree with it; the field used is stated here so a reader can disagree on the record.

Features — captured from live SERP responses, not estimated. Google AI Overviews only. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude are separate surfaces and are not measured.

Questions

How many insurance keywords have an AI Overview?

It depends almost entirely on intent rather than on topic. In a 1,064-capture auto study, comparison searches returned an Overview 96.9% of the time and near-me searches 0.9%. A single figure across a mixed keyword set hides that.

Can I download this data?

Yes. The Download CSV button exports whatever is currently filtered, with volume, CPC and both feature flags. No signup.

How often is it updated?

Monthly, on the same URL. The capture window is stamped on the page. Previous editions are not deleted, so month-over-month changes stay traceable.

Why did the keyword count change from the old version?

Near-duplicates are now collapsed. The earlier list counted synonym variants as separate keywords, which inflated their apparent value. A cluster manifest records every merge.

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