Keyword Research Tool
Free Quebec Keyword Research: Volume, Difficulty, CPC
Estimated monthly search volume, keyword difficulty and cost per click data for businesses, researchers, journalists, and curious Quebecers looking to understand how the province searches in French and English.
A heads-up before you dig in: Quebec's keyword data is in a different league from every other Canadian province. Hydro-Québec alone gets 347,000 searches/mo, the single biggest Crown corp keyword in Canada, dwarfing BC Hydro, MPI, SaskTel, and Nova Scotia Power combined. Layer in the Journal de Montréal (671k), Radio-Canada (514k), and the Montreal Canadiens (500k), and Quebec's top three keywords each generate more search volume than entire industry categories in most other provinces. The province also has the most distinctive search culture in Canada: most queries are in French, and Quebec has unique public institutions (SAAQ, RAMQ, RQAP, CNESST, SEPAQ, Registraire des entreprises) with no real equivalents elsewhere.
That makes this the most useful Quebec dataset you'll find for content marketers, journalists, policy writers, and SEOs targeting decision-stage research traffic in either French or English. We follow the same province-wide approach used for Ontario and British Columbia.
Use cases
How to use the keyword dataset/table below?
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Content ideas
If you write any French-language Quebec content, the long-tail of Crown corp and government service searches is wide open. "Hydro quebec espace client" is 9,400/mo at KD 1. "Info panne hydro quebec" is 11,000 at KD 3. "Saaq rendez vous" is 8,600 at KD 15. "GAMF inscription" (family doctor registry signup) is 1,100/mo at KD 1. "Cnesst mon dossier" is 1,600 at KD 22. Quebec's public-service ecosystem is vast, complex, and poorly explained on most third-party sites, and well-written explainer content in French ranks fast.
Business expansion
Quebec real estate volumes are some of the highest-per-capita in Canada, and the difficulty is uniquely low because the French-language SERPs are far less saturated than English. "Maison a vendre quebec" gets 6,700 searches/mo at KD 0. "Chalet a vendre" is 6,400 at KD 1. "Condo a vendre" is 4,600 at KD 0. "Duplex a vendre" is 2,800 at KD 0. "Plex" is a uniquely Quebec real estate term: "duplex a vendre montreal" (1,700/mo) and "duplex a vendre quebec" (1,500) reflect the province's distinct multi-unit housing stock. The city-by-city condo data is unusually deep: Brossard, Longueuil, Sherbrooke, Boucherville, Gatineau, Trois-Rivières, Repentigny, Beauport, Mascouche all have standalone condo search volume in the 1,300-1,700 range. "Chalet a vendre laurentides" (1,900), "chalet a vendre estrie" (1,400), and "chalet a vendre lanaudiere" (1,400) round out the seasonal-second-home market.
For Quebec bloggers
Quebec tourism is one of the strongest content opportunities in Canada. "Mont tremblant" alone gets 83,000 searches/mo at KD 48, the biggest single tourism keyword in our entire library after a few of the BC giants. "SEPAQ" (Société des établissements de plein air du Québec, the provincial parks system) is 46,000 at KD 4. "Chateau frontenac" is 23,000 at KD 37. "Vieux quebec" (Old Quebec) is 2,700 at KD 29. The Mont Tremblant cluster alone, weather (7,100), ski (6,000), hotels (4,500), village (3,100), restaurants (2,800), luge (2,400), gives any travel content site a clear runway. Plus you've got iconic seasonal news intent like the SEPAQ strike ("greve sepaq" + "sepaq greve" = 5,300 combined).
For startups & entrepreneurs
Quebec's business registration ecosystem has unusually rich search volume because of the distinct provincial Registraire des entreprises system. "Registraire des entreprises" is 38,000/mo at KD 9. The English-equivalent searches barely exist: this is overwhelmingly a French-language process. "Mon bureau au registraire des entreprises" (900/mo) and "registraire des entreprises mon dossier" (2,000) reflect business owners managing their REQ accounts. The volumes are massive but the SERPs are dominated by government pages, leaving a real opportunity for any business formation service to build content around the long-tail of REQ how-to queries.
For researchers & journalists
This is where Quebec goes from interesting to extraordinary. The civic search market is the largest in Canada by a significant margin. Hydro-Québec alone generates over half a million combined monthly searches when you add up the main keyword (347k), outage queries (155k panne + 44k panne hydro quebec + 14k outage + 11k outage map + 10k power outage + 6.3k outages + 6.1k pannes + 5.9k pannes hydro quebec + 5k panne hydro québec + 11k info panne hydro quebec). SAAQ is 171,000/mo with a branch-specific tail (Repentigny, Laval, Langelier, Brossard). CNESST (workplace safety) is 58,000. RQAP (parental leave insurance, a uniquely Quebec program) is 38,000. RAMQ (provincial health insurance) is 29,000. Salaire minimum quebec is 34,000. Rendez-vous santé québec is 25,000 (the provincial health appointment portal). Every one of these is a deep, specialized civic-research keyword cluster that no other province has at this scale.
For service professionals
Quebec's commercial search market is heavily French-dominated, which is great news if you write in French: the SERPs are significantly less saturated than English Canada. "Restaurant montreal" is 10,000/mo at KD 7, exceptional volume-to-difficulty. "Brunch montreal" is 5,300 at KD 17. "Meilleur restaurant montreal" is 2,100 at KD 2, a near-empty SERP for one of the top commercial queries. "Restaurant gatineau" is 3,300 at KD 0. "Restaurant vieux québec" is 2,600 at KD 7. "Poutine montreal" is 1,100 at KD 13, quintessentially Quebec. Mexican, Greek, Italian, Indian, Japanese restaurant searches in Montreal all have 1,000+ monthly volumes with manageable difficulty.
Table legend:
- Industry: clustered keyword under inherent topic.
- Keyword: the terms typed in Google's search box.
- Volume: estimated monthly search volume (usually higher).
- KD: 10-30 easier to rank, 30-60 medium competition, 60-100 high competition.
- CPC: Ahrefs' estimated cost-per-click to bid on this keyword in Google Ads. CPC values were excluded across this dataset because of heavy contamination from US Google Ads accounts targeting French-language Canadian keywords at inflated bids.
| Industry | Keyword | Volume | KD | CPC ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No keywords match this filter. | ||||
Table credits: Keyword data powered by Ahrefs.com. Compiled and organized by Visibility Drip, an SEO company serving Quebec.
How the data is compiled
Methodology & refresh cadence
Every keyword in this dataset is pulled from Ahrefs' live search database, filtered for Quebec geographic intent, then manually organized by industry.
Some cells are intentionally left blank. When Ahrefs does not surface a reliable estimate for a specific keyword (usually low-volume or brand-new terms), we preserve the empty cell rather than substitute a value. Blanks represent "unknown", not "zero".
Last updated: 2026-04-29. We refresh these datasets periodically. If you need up-to-the-day data for a specific market or industry, reach out and we'll pull a custom export.