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It works like this: Let’s dive in. There are many reasons SaaS companies should focus on SEO. These include: Some common SEO challenges include: Here are a few examples of…

The objectives should be clearly defined. Some people prefer the SMART framework to make sure their goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Key results are how you track…

Hack The Box used Ahrefs to execute multiple SEO initiatives for their website, including a site-wide content refresh initiative in 2023. Their most prominent achievement is a 600% increase in…

For instance, AI Overviews and the commoditized answers Google serves directly in search results mean fewer top-of-funnel clicks reach websites. There are also fewer clicks for bottom-of-funnel keywords as Google…

If you’re worried this could impact your business, you’ll need to start online reputation management (ORM). But where should you start with ORM? And what the heck is it? In…

Content teams need to manage ideation, writing, editing, proofing, publishing, promotion, analytics, and reporting across a team of writers, reviewers, and dozens of articles each month. Smart content leads find…

But if you repurpose it, you can make it go the extra mile. Content repurposing is the practice of reusing all or parts of existing content. This usually involves changing…

To find out, I looked through 52 SEO specialist job listings on Indeed and SEOJobs. The most common responsibilities I found are: It seems like SEO specialists are expected to…

SEO is a well-known and widely used marketing tactic, but convincing your boss—or a room full of skeptics—can be tough. So, to make this easier for you, I reached out…

In this article, I’ll explain the framework and tools I’d use to approach quick SEO and the 8 methods I’d focus on first to get results quicker. To accelerate SEO…

Below, I’ll walk you through a 7-step process to do exactly that. Having clear goals keeps your team unified toward a specific direction. For example, if your boss allocates $5,000/month…

Between navigating Google’s never-ending algorithm updates, fighting off competitors, and getting buy-in for projects, there are many significant SEO challenges to consider. So, which ones should you focus on? Here…

But don’t worry—we’ve got your back. Here are 5 arguments (and an example message) you can use to persuade your boss to send you to Ahrefs Evolve. SEO is changing…

Generally speaking, low-competition keywords are search terms where you likely don’t need many backlinks to rank on the first page of Google (backlinks are one of the most important ranking…

For instance, here’s a popular SEO guarantee: And another possibly too-good-to-be-true guarantee: Not to mention this oh-so-safe and completely risk-free guarantee offering a “huge amount” of “naturel” backlinks 🙄 Sarcasm…

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…

SEOs shouldn’t assume these are ranking factors or that they’re even used in rankings. 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…

Before we dive in, let’s set the right expectations: no tool will give you your competitor’s exact traffic data. However, it’s still well enough to see what works for them,…

They can also improve operational efficiency and provide insights for executives to make better decisions, faster. Here are the top 8 use cases of our API and how you can…

In this article, I’ll use my 10 years of SEO agency experience to give you the inside scoop on the most trusted tools SEO agencies use to provide their clients…

With more locations come greater challenges requiring a more nuanced approach than a typical local SEO campaign. In this guide, I share successful strategies I’ve used to scale SEO for…

No matter how many listicles you browse, every tactic you see falls into one of these three categories. Imagine being able to share your content with hundreds or thousands of…

Here are 14 practical ways to get faster, more efficient SEO results with help from your robot overlords friends. To use AI in the best way (and avoid the mistakes…

Tracking the right metrics is crucial for SEO (search engine optimization) success. You need them to analyze your SEO performance, report to stakeholders, and take the right kind of action…

When you move to a new address in the US, you set up mail forwarding with the United States Postal Service (USPS). If someone sends mail to your old address,…

Each year we pick, vet, and categorize a list of up-to-date statistics to give you insights from trusted sources on Google search trends. Learn more Check out more resources on…

Look at their SEO reports. I’ve seen many SEO reports from consultants, in-house teams, and agencies. I discussed them with SEO experts from our Ahrefs Insider community. Using this knowledge,…

There’s really a lot you can do with just a single keyword, so at the end of the article, you’ll find a few advanced SEO tips. Once you know how…

HubSpot teaching you how to type the shrug emoji or buy bitcoin stock. Salesforce sharing inspiring business quotes. GoDaddy helping you use Bing AI, or Zendesk sharing catchy sales slogans….

Whatever the reason, in this article, I’ll share some alternatives to HARO and a few extra ways to get expert quotes and backlinks for your website. Disclaimer: I am not…

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…

Knowing your competitors’ keywords is the easiest form of keyword research. If your competitors rank for or target particular keywords, it might be worth it for you to target them,…

In this article, I’ll share ten tips to help you climb the next rung in the SEO career ladder. Helping new hires in the SEO team is important if you…

And while I enjoy deep work, a few times a year I get the urge to leave my desk and go socialize with other human beings—ideally on my employer’s dime…

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…

If you’re not one of our 280,000 subscribers, you’ve missed out on some great reads! Here’s a quick summary of my personal favorites from the last month: Best of March…

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…

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…

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…

In this article, I’ll share eight of my favorite SEO reporting tools to help you create a comprehensive SEO report for free. Price: Free Google Search Console, often called GSC,…

In this article, I’ll share how you can automate your SEO reporting easily using just two tools: Ahrefs and Google Looker Studio (GLS). In theory, automating SEO reporting should help:…

In this article, I’ll share my favorite Ahrefs’ SEO experiments we’ve run over the years and what they show us about how Google really works. Google recently downplayed the importance…

Content pruning sounds pretty appealing: delete a ton of content and see your organic traffic improve. But pruning has risks (like deleting useful pages and useful backlinks), and benefits are…

This article lists a complete tool stack that will allow you to track all the metrics that matter in content marketing, such as traffic, keywords, and audience growth. There are…

When enterprise content marketing is done well, it can drive tons of leads, conversions, and, ultimately, revenue. In addition, it can help with things like brand perception and awareness. There’s…

Very few blog posts create new information. Most serve to remix, curate, and copycat existing content, transferring the same core information from one website to another. If all your content…

In this guide, you’ll learn the three best practices of reporting and eight types of information that make a solid content report, including the actual KPIs used by content marketers….

Acquisitions can have a dramatic impact on your search visibility. Long ago, one of the main competitors of an engineering company I was working with shut down. I asked about…

Unfortunately, most keyword clustering tools aren’t exactly quick… For example, I asked a popular keyword clustering tool to group 4,703 keywords. It took 51 minutes! That’s a long time to…

And it’s not just me who thinks so: There are loads of friendly folks in SEO I’m grateful to have met through this conference. Those of us who live down…

Let’s be real. Most of the time, it’s likely that it is your fault in some way. You may have site or content quality issues you were unaware of or…

So, I asked our team for recommendations for a well-balanced SEO API stack that covers everything you’ll likely ever need. I’m excited to share this list with you, so let’s…

Which was not the first time I saw us being criticized for the accuracy of our search volume metric. But here’s the kicker… There’s NO SUCH THING as an accurate…

For example, this site deleted about 15% of organic pages (yellow line) during the redesign, which resulted in an almost 50% organic traffic loss (orange line). Interestingly, even the growth…

If you need a framework to build your content strategy on, it should probably be a no-funnel framework instead. And there are very good reasons for it. A funnel in…

For Ahrefs, we choose to store about 340B pages in our index as of December 2023. At a certain point, the quality of the web becomes bad. There are lots…

It made me pause and think: Can you really replace Google with something else, like AI? I grew up with Google after all; it had never crossed my mind that…

It is absolutely not a scam. Many websites earn money this way, including major ones like the New York Times, The Verge, NerdWallet, and more. The real question is… is…

You need to write about topics with traffic potential. The proverb goes, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and…

Ahrefs Site Audit, also available as part of the free Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, allows you to search through the raw HTML code or the JS-rendered code across all crawled pages…

Our marketing team was fairly split on whether we should have a section like this and whether it would help. I’ve had great results with this personally on sites with…

Here are the top 26 whose expertise, results, and insights I greatly admire and think you will, too. Make sure you check them all out. Anyone who has seen me…

To organize things a bit, we’ve organized the metrics into eight categories. Just the names themselves will give you a good idea of what’s important in content marketing. Let’s get…

If your content marketing generated $10,000 in sales and cost $2,000 to create, that’s an ROI of 400%: Although the math is simple, actually doing this exercise in real life…

At Ahrefs, multiple team members have worked in these roles, so we’ve compiled a list of our top tips to help you get more buy-in for SEO projects. Start by…

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…

Here are ten that won’t cost a dime. Course provider: Ahrefs Duration: 2 hours Instructor(s): Sam Oh Level: Beginner Link: SEO Course for Beginners What you’ll learn This comprehensive course…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

To choose the right KPIs: There are an almost infinite number of KPIs, often varying in small details (like how they’re measured, or subtle differences in definition). Many KPIs also…

Here are some of the best use cases. If a page is outranking you, it could be because it covers important subtopics searchers want to see (while you don’t). Here’s…

So… we created one for you. Looking for a different format? Request it here. It gives you a proven SEO plan based on how we do things here at Ahrefs….

In this beginner’s guide, I’ll share 16 elements that collectively make up the anatomy of a well-optimized product page. I’ll also explain how to audit your product pages for issues….

Truth is, they’re doing it wrong. In this no-nonsense guide, we’ll go beyond the MBA-hyped-up textbook jargon and dive into the tactics that will actually make a difference. But first,…

Here’s a 5-minute, beginner-friendly introduction to each of them. Organic traffic data refers to how often people visit your website through unpaid search results. Key data How to get it…

Let’s explore three common mistakes and how you can fix them. Believing everything ChatGPT says is never a good idea, but believing answers to questions it doesn’t have data to…

First, we have someone offering us to pay for it: Then there’s someone else, framing their backlink request as a “guest post opportunity”: And finally, here’s the most professional one…

Introducing: “White Haired SEO (Super Exciting Odyssey)” This book tells the story of Jessy: a curious little girl, who touched her mother’s computer and got teleported to the magical world…

But no worries, we’ve organized them neatly to save you a headache. Click the links to explore a deep dive into each SEO type. Final thoughts  Let’s be real —…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

To put it simply, this marketing tactic works like this:  From a strategic point of view, the main benefit of investing in SEO for SaaS companies is reducing the customer…

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…