Last updated: September 2026
City Lights is an independent bookstore and book publisher in San Francisco. It serves readers, writers, and literary/cultural audiences with curated books and a publishing list focused on poetry, fiction, memoir, translations, and social/political titles.
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-09
#135,965
AI visibility: Not scored
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SEO health: Not audited
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Visits
174.4K
per month, estimated
Keywords
18.7K
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
174.4K organic visits
LLMS.txt
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citylights.com Company Profile
The business behind the domain — what it does, where it is, and who runs it.
City Lights is an independent bookstore and book publisher in San Francisco. It serves readers, writers, and literary/cultural audiences with curated books and a publishing list focused on poetry, fiction, memoir, translations, and social/political titles.
- Industry
- Book retail and publishing
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 1953
- Employees
- 11-50
- Products
- Independent bookstore retail, Book publishing, Poetry titles, Fiction titles, Memoirs
- Competitors
- Green Apple Books, Powell's Books, Seminary Co-op Bookstores, McNally Jackson Books, Verso Books
- Audience
- Readers, writers, and literary customers interested in independent books and progressive cultural work.
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citylights.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Search engines send citylights.com an estimated 174,400 visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 174,400 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 18,700 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 9.3 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
174.4K
Latest estimate
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Organic visits
174.4K
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
0
No paid search detected
Organic vs paid
100%
0%
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citylights.com Traffic by Country
A live-web estimate — not a measurement — puts City Lights Booksellers & Publishers's largest markets as United States (85%), Canada (5%), United Kingdom (4%) and Australia (3%).
Top customer markets
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- United States85%
- Canada5%
- United Kingdom4%
- Australia3%
- Other3%
Who buys: Readers, writers, and literary customers interested in independent books and progressive cultural work.
Sources: citylights.com · citylights.com · citylightsvr.com
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citylights.com Organic Keywords
Google lists citylights.com for about 18,700 keywords, which together bring an estimated 174,400 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
18.7K
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
174.4K
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
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What it ranks for
Topics this brand is known for
live webcitylights.com Competitors and Alternatives
A live-web read points to Green Apple Books, Powell's Books, Seminary Co-op Bookstores and McNally Jackson Books. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are everythinglubbock.com, avenga.com, yourlocalguardian.co.uk and mymagenta.at.
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citylights.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- City Lights Booksellers & Publishers (Book retail and publishing) is ranked #135,965 worldwide in our September 2026 domain ranking, down 4 places from #135,961 in August 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 174,400 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 18,700 ranking keywords.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #135,965 | ▼ 4 |
| August 2026 | #135,961 | ▲ 2,244 |
| July 2026 | #138,205 | ▼ 441 |
| June 2026 | #137,764 | — |
| May 2026 | #137,764 | ▼ 3,668 |
| April 2026 | #134,096 | ▲ 1,044 |
| March 2026 | #135,140 | ▲ 5,996 |
| February 2026 | #141,136 | — |
citylights.com AI Visibility
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citylights.com LLMS.txt
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citylights.com Backlink Analytics
Who vouches for this domain. Strong, varied links are still the clearest signal of authority — to search engines and to AI engines that cite sources.
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