Technical SEO

In this article, I’ll share some examples of calculators that caught my attention and show you how I found them. (And how you can make one, too.) Key stats The highest traffic calculator in my research was an Indian systematic…Read more ›View the full article

Content dates, traffic dips. It’s a tale as old as… web 1.0. But recently I’ve cottoned on to a new strategy that’s helping me claw back some of those lost visits. It’s simple: fill topic gaps in your content. Here’s…Read more ›View the full article

The other day, Lily Ray (Vice President of SEO Strategy & Research at Amsive) noticed Google had begun surfacing its own storefront for some competitive “Your Money or Your Life” searches. By Google’s own admission, these kinds of “E-E-A-T” sensitive queries…Read more ›View the full article

Not everyone has the luxury of developers, designers, or analysts who can help turn big ideas into reality. Even if you do, you still need to compete for time and help with the rest of your organisation. But times have…Read more ›View the full article

SEO really has changed: SERPs are drowning in AI-generated content. Google’s algorithms seem biased towards big brands like Reddit. AI Overviews are siphoning clicks away from creators. Google is losing its monopoly on knowledge management as more people turn to…Read more ›View the full article

Below, you’ll find some we love and use every day, and others we’re keeping a keen eye on in 2025. Marketers use AI for search engine optimization, brainstorming content ideas, and automating repetitive processes like ad targeting, according to research…Read more ›View the full article

As it stands AI traffic isn’t making much of a dent, so is it worth pursuing? Here’s what we know so far… We studied the traffic makeup of thousands of websites, and found that AI sends just 0.1% of total…Read more ›View the full article

All of this work is done by our tireless Partnerships Manager, Igor Gorbenko. I spoke to him to extract everything he learned about partnerships. The first time we sponsored podcasts, we spent $14,000 on five podcast campaigns. Like any good…Read more ›View the full article

These are the 100 most asked questions on Google, along with their monthly search volumes. Top Google questions by growth Many popular questions don’t change from year to year. For example, people have been asking measurement-related questions since forever (e.g.,…Read more ›View the full article

These are the 100 most expensive keywords on Google Ads, along with their monthly search volume and cost per click (CPC). The main reason is due to Google’s ads mechanism: Companies have to outbid each other in order to secure…Read more ›View the full article

Most SEOs are against bidding on branded terms because it is believed that buying paid ads cannibalizes organic traffic and it can also impact attribution for conversions and revenue. Paid advertisers believe there is an uplift in overall traffic. Who…Read more ›View the full article

Ever since then, the idea of starting another affiliate site and getting serious about it has always been in the back of my mind. I’ve just never had the time due to my day to day work at Ahrefs. But…Read more ›View the full article

When we see organic traffic growing, it’s a good sign that customer interest is building and brand strategy is hitting the mark. If you’re looking for a source of alternative data to inform your investing decisions, our list of the…Read more ›View the full article

Choosing an enterprise SEO platform can be complicated. Let’s look at what is involved in the decision-making process. Some popular enterprise SEO platforms include: With so many different platforms and so many different needs at your organization, how do you…Read more ›View the full article

I interviewed Shermin Lim, our events marketer, to find out how we marketed the conference and sold out all our tickets. Here’s everything we did to promote the conference. You can use these same strategies (or be inspired by them)…Read more ›View the full article

2024 was an especially challenging year for startups. Investors exerted extra caution in the face of inflation and rising interest rates, leading to a 26% decline in funding compared to 2023. But it wasn’t all doom and gloom. Sectors like…Read more ›View the full article

Great optimization tools can identify missing topics and keywords, suggest and refine headers and titles, generate meta-data, and show tons of useful information about your competitors’ articles. If you aren’t using an optimization tool, you probably should. I work at…Read more ›View the full article

Below are lists of the top 100 most popular searches and questions in the US and worldwide, pulled from our database of 28.7 billion keywords: We removed all NSFW queries from this list. What you see above are the top…Read more ›View the full article

Given that the site’s monthly traffic peaked at just ~23K (according to Ahrefs), that’s impressive! Curious how he did it (and how the rest of us mere mortals might be able to replicate his success), I sat down with Ash…Read more ›View the full article

At Ahrefs, we have a team of extremely skilled (and very human) designers, but not everyone has that luxury. I wanted to know: are AI image generators useful for spinning up quick social media posts, creating blog post graphics, or…Read more ›View the full article

But search for “how to get customers,” and you’ll find yourself flooded with advice, tips, and tactics. It’s hard to know which one to choose, considering that you have limited resources. Fortunately, most strategies on how to get customers boil…Read more ›View the full article

And, unfortunately, the problems don’t end there—ChatGPT also serves up middle-of-the-road content, and charges you a fair whack for the privilege. Can you get the same (or better) functionality from a different AI tool? I think so. I am currently…Read more ›View the full article

AI-generated content isn’t as simple to spot as old-fashioned “spun” or plagiarised content. Most AI-generated text could be considered original, in some sense—it isn’t copy-pasted from somewhere else on the internet. But as it turns out, we’re building an AI…Read more ›View the full article

We analyzed the traffic differences between sites driving greater than 10,000 visitors, between 1,000 and 9,999 visitors, and below 999 visitors per month, across the following seven AI chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, Jasper, and Mistral. Thanks to our…Read more ›View the full article

It helps you: Make it easier for users to navigate your website Signal to search engines that your content comprehensively covers a topic Become an authority in a given industry or niche In this guide, you’ll learn how to make…Read more ›View the full article