The thing is, you need to be careful with mental models because they’re sneaky. We tend to develop them during our lives, inherit them from our colleagues and mentors, and rely on them almost instinctively while not fully aware of…Read more &#825...

Here are five of my favorite ways to use Ahrefs for content marketing: Let’s be honest: we all snoop on our competitors to see what’s working (and isn’t). But today, a lot of the most exciting content strategies live outside…Read more ›

SEO reporting mixes insights, actions, data, strategy, and communication all into one document. It sounds like a lot to take in—but once you know the basics, you’ll be able to report on SEO in your sleep. In this beginner’s article,…Read more &#8...

Now, classic SEO theory says that if you rank with more than one page for a keyword, it’s a cannibalization issue, and you should fix it. But when I spent a day carefully reviewing a sample of 80 keywords with…Read more ›

But doing that is akin to the underground inventor who has made something and is looking for someone to buy it: In essence, when you’re asking “How do I promote my content?”, you’re in fact asking “How and where can…Read more ›

In this article, I’ll share how to remove backlinks and consider the different approaches for cleaning up your link profile—depending on your circumstances. Google says if you have a manual action for unnatural links, you should first try to remove&#82...

We’ve already launched some AI-enhanced features like search intent, but we made it even better by adding the traffic share for each intent. Check out this write-up from Si Quan for some more things we might add. For the visualizations,…Read more...

But beyond the short-term dopamine hit of publishing a thousand articles at once, for most businesses, the negatives of AI content will very quickly outweigh the positives. First up—there is precedent for getting a Google manual action for publishing A...

You’ll create a lot of different SEO reports for a lot of different people in an enterprise environment. Let’s look at some of the reports you’ll want to create and the metrics to include in them for different people. Money…Read more ›

It’s a similar, yet simpler, process compared to merging or acquiring an existing business. But, just like with a business acquisition, not all website purchases come equal. In this post, we share tips on everything you need to know to…Read more ...

It functions differently from a traditional CMS, like WordPress, and therefore requires different considerations for SEO as well. While general SEO best practices and rules remain the same, how you go about implementing them will differ in a headless s...

Optimized product pages enhance the user experience and rank better for long-tail search terms, which typically have lower competition and high commercial intent. This is vital for ecommerce because users searching for specific products are usually fur...

The basics are the same as any other SEO audit. Yet, an audit like this is an entirely different beast because of all the complications that come from large sites and large companies such as: Many common SEO tools don’t…Read more ›

Follow this six-step guide to help improve your pitch, close more sales, and get your first clients (with tips from the pros.) To be taken seriously by prospects and get a foot in the door, you need to make them…Read more ›

So, I decided to reflect on my journey. I did two Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions to see what people wanted to know: one on Twitter X and another on LinkedIn. I was pleasantly surprised that so many people were…Read more ›

These questions are adapted from the legendary book Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. They’re designed to: Most companies have the same core problem: they need more customers, and they need more money from those customers. But every compan...

Long story short: They aren’t. The experiment Here’s what I did: A total of 15 people took the poll. Here are the results: The premium prompts only convincingly “beat” the simple prompt for two tasks. Considering that you’ll need to…Read more &#8...

We’ve pulled four lists from our database of 20.4 billion keywords: We removed all NSFW queries from this list. What you see above are the top 100 “clean” search queries. You can see the full list with NSFW keywords in…Read more ›

I thought it would be cool to put together a list of articles that stood out—the ones that resonate with our community and spark ideas and inspiration for what to do next. So, here’s a roundup of our newsletter’s highlights…Read more ›

Add these 36 free SEO tools to your SEO toolkit. Monitor your website’s SEO health, see who’s linking to you, and learn what your website is ranking for on Google. Ahrefs Webmaster Tools (AWT) scans your website for over 100…Read more ›

Check out our website audit checklist to discover the critical issues you need to fix. We’ve cut out the fluff and pinpointed important issues that are not only worth fixing but also move the needle for SEO and user experience.…Read more ›

Follow the international SEO best practices below to better target foreign markets. International SEO best practices It’s likely you already have an idea of which global markets you’d like to target based on non-SEO factors, like your ability to operat...

You may have heard that Google doesn’t like to rank such pages, which isn’t necessarily true. What Google doesn’t like is: So, let’s unpack the anatomy of a location page strategy that not only ranks and converts but also enhances…Read more &#825...

  On the one hand, marketing channels allow you to promote your business so that you can get more customers. On the other, they act as places where people can find you, learn more, and reach out to you. Marketing…Read more ›

B2B content marketing is a bit like selling toys to a kid. Your first job is to get the kid excited, using flashy adverts to show them all the fun they can have, and the different ways they can use…Read more ›

PageRank was created by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1997 when they were at Stanford University, and the name is a reference to both Larry Page and the term “webpage.”  In many ways, it’s similar to a…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 ›

Here’s how they started their agencies—and you can too. Choosing what your agency focuses on should be a mix of what people want, what you know how to do (and are good at), and what you enjoy. Here’s what this…Read more ›

In this article, I’ll show you three different methods that make it easier to find your perfect affiliate niche—and as a bonus—I’ll throw in some examples of tried and tested affiliate niches. A good affiliate niche has high-paying affiliates, high&#82...

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 ›

For example, here’s an outreach email we sent as part of a broken link building campaign: In this guide, you’ll learn how to get started with link outreach and how to get better results. How to do link outreach Link…Read more ›

In this guide, you’ll learn how to create search-optimized content your readers and Google will love. If no one is searching for the topic you’re writing about, you won’t get search traffic no matter how high you rank. So, the…Read more ›...

However, the problem is that “traditional” competitive analysis is overkill for most businesses — it requires impractical data and takes too long to complete (and it’s very expensive if you choose to outsource).  A solution to that is a lean&#8230...

Let’s get the criticism out of the way. There are bad actors in SEO, people who seek to extract money from the internet regardless of the cost to others. There are still scams and snake oil, posers and plagiarists. Many…Read more ›

Our Content Explorer tool discovers 10 million new pages every 24 hours while being very picky about the pages that qualify for inclusion. The “main” Ahrefs web crawler crawls that number of pages every two minutes.  But how much of…Read mor...

Learn how to create one in three simple steps. Anything can be an SEO campaign goal, but here are a few common ones: For example, we recently had a goal to improve the rankings of our list of “blogging tips”…Read more ›