After disavowing, traffic (as reported by GSC) fell by 7.1%: Before disavowing, according to GSC, traffic to these posts was trending slightly upward: After disavowing? Slightly downward: However, Ahrefs’ organic traffic estimates tell a slightly diffe...

Getting diners through the door, then, is a game of ranking well for these types of queries. Here are a few ways to do this, backed by concrete research and the real experiences of food bloggers and serial diners. Google…Read more ›

For most small businesses and those just starting out, this is hardly affordable… Luckily, there are a few ways to bring this cost down without hiring amateurs. I’ll explain how later. First, let’s look at a few SEO services that…Read more &#8250...

To find out, I looked through 52 SEO manager job listings on LinkedIn and asked a few actual SEO managers. The most common responsibilities I found were: It seems that an SEO manager’s job largely revolves around management (who knew!?).…Read mor...

Sadly, this happens all the time. Here’s a screenshot of a link to Ahrefs’ Content Explorer in an article by Copy.ai: This is a nice link from a page on a site with a Domain Rating (DR) of 93. But…Read more ›

But do these benefits come at the risk of a Google penalty? It depends… Parasite SEO is where you leverage the authority of an established website to rank for competitive keywords. You do this by publishing content on the high-authority…Read more...

This suggests (correlation does not necessarily imply causation!) that obsessing over your content score is unlikely to lead to significantly higher Google rankings. Does that mean content optimization scores are pointless? No. You just need to know ho...

Being the introvert I am, my idea of fun isn’t hanging around our booth all day explaining we’ve run out of t-shirts (seriously, you need to be fast if you want swag!). So I decided to do something useful and…Read more ›

I know nothing about the new tool. I haven’t tried it. But after trying to use HARO recently, I can’t say I’m surprised or saddened by its death. It’s been a walking corpse for a while. I used HARO way…Read more ›

Yes, AI has changed SEO forever (and will continue to do so), but it’s not going to kill it. We just need to adapt. How? By prioritizing “deep content” about topics that can’t be answered quickly or easily. Here are…Read more ›

Even better, many on-page improvements are super quick and easy to do. Follow this checklist for perfect on-page SEO every time: If you’re looking for a reusable interactive checklist to use time and time again, here are a few other…Read more &#8...

SEO is how you do that, and the basics are quick and easy. Follow these tips to rank your small business higher in no time. If you only do one thing as a small business owner, make it to claim…Read more ›

But there’s some disagreement and confusion among SEOs as to whether “toxic” links are actually a thing and what, if anything, you should do about them. If you believe Google’s John Mueller, they’re not: Yet, according to my poll, the…Read more &...

Let’s take a look at each pricing model in more detail. 34.8% of respondents price some or all of their work by the hour. We found that $75–$100 per hour is the most popular hourly rate for SEOs, with 24%…Read more ›

In this article, I’ll use Ahrefs’ data to find some of the most searched-for SEO trends and share my opinion on whether they’re worth acting on. SEO trends typically follow a familiar cycle that looks a bit like the Gartner…Read more ›

The benefit of having a keyword map is that it tells you: Let’s look at how to create one. Download the keyword mapping template to follow along. If you have a list of keywords for mapping, skip this step. Otherwise,…Read more ›

There are many ways to do this; some take longer than others. In this post, I’ll share how I’d go from zero to SEO pro if I had to do it all over again.  Understanding what search engine optimization really…Read more ›

Here’s an example of what a cluster might look like: These keywords all have the same or similar meaning—so they form a cluster. Let’s explore how to do it. Keyword clustering is typically done by grouping keywords with the same…Read more ›...

Use our free SEO audit template to find SEO issues that need fixing. Our SEO audit template focuses on finding SEO issues that move the needle—not everything that can go wrong with a website. This is because sweating the small…Read more ›

We’ve pulled the top 100 most visited sites by organic traffic from our database. YouTube is the most visited website, with an estimated ~4.5 billion monthly organic visits. Most other sites on the list are recognizable brands to us English…Read ...

Here’s an example of how the code looks: And here’s how it looks on social media: … in the browser tab: … and (sometimes) in Google’s search results: For SEO, title tags are important for two reasons: In this guide,…Read more ›