Technical SEO

A keyword with 50,000 searches/month sounds like a goldmine, until you realize it’s already in decline. Investing in a fading trend is like buying MySpace stock today. Every keyword follows a lifecycle moving through these distinct phases: Intro stage –…Read more ›View the full article

But its value goes beyond just awareness—AI citations can also drive engaged traffic to your site. Like any new referral channel, AI traffic is still finding its footing. Our research shows LLMs account for about 0.1% of traffic, though this…Read more ›View the full article

How do you do that? How do you actually rank for a keyword? Follow this guide to find out how. Just because a keyword exists doesn’t mean it’s the right one to target. Sometimes a keyword is merely a subtopic…Read more ›View the full article

The tactics are broadly applicable, but how you apply them will depend on your business model. A local firm might focus on community-driven content and local SEO, while a digital-first platform might lean into educational resources and national visibility. To…Read more ›View the full article

Search engine advertising involves paying platforms like Google, Bing, or Yahoo to display your ads when people search for keywords you pay for. Unlike organic search results (SEO), which take time to build, search ads appear almost instantly at the…Read more ›View the full article

We analyzed 300,000 keywords and found that the presence of an AI Overview in the search results correlated with a 34.5% lower average clickthrough rate (CTR) for the top-ranking page, compared to similar informational keywords without an AI Overview. Thanks…Read more ›View the full article

You might even have seen it for yourself. You’re trying to make a simple pasta dish (like aglio e olio) but you have to scroll through a piece that’s thousands of words long, answering questions you didn’t need: Even when…Read more ›View the full article

But what does “quality” even mean? Some people think the Alchemist changed their lives, while others think it’s the worst thing ever written. What’s “quality” to one reader may be complete BS to another. So how do you measure whether…Read more ›View the full article

When big-name sponsors put their logo on your event materials, they’re essentially saying: “This event matters.” We know this firsthand because event sponsorships have been a big part of our marketing strategy. We’ve spent an estimated $500,000 on them, sponsoring…Read more ›View the full article

I was looking at our LLM filter in Ahrefs Web Analytics and noticed some common generative engines missing from the list. They’re in our filters, but we aren’t seeing any data from them for sites. This invisible traffic problem comes…Read more ›View the full article

Across LinkedIn threads and AI‑SEO guides, the promise is the same: format your content into perfect “chunks” and you’ll get chosen for Google’s AI Overviews or cited in AI search results. The problem? Chunk optimization isn’t actually an SEO tactic.…Read more ›View the full article

Here are a few examples from a finished project I’ve already created using this method. The first example is an executive summary, providing a brief overview of the analysis. And here, ChatGPT performs keyword overlap and keyword gap analyses. You…Read more ›View the full article

It gives me a “second brain” and superhuman speed, and takes care of all the tedious tasks I dislike about my job. Sure, maybe one day AI will replace my job. But right now? The real risk is not using…Read more ›View the full article

From AI tutors to classroom management platforms, both new startups and established players are racing to capture attention and market share. Using Ahrefs’ website data, we’ve found the top 50 fastest-growing EdTech companies of 2025, ranked by estimated year-over-year organic…Read more ›View the full article

That’s where we are with optimizing for visibility in LLMs (LLMO), and we need more experts to call out this behavior in our industry, like Lily Ray has done in this post: If you’re tricking, sculpting, or manipulating a large…Read more ›View the full article

After writing an article on 11 ways to measure brand awareness, I figured now’s also the perfect time for us to get a clearer picture of where we stand today, so we have something solid to measure against when those…Read more ›View the full article

But what exactly is llms.txt, who’s using it, and—more importantly—should you care? llms.txt is a proposed standard for helping LLMs access and interpret structured content from websites. You can read the full proposal on llmstext.org. In a nutshell, it’s a…Read more ›View the full article

For example, let’s say your brand gets 20,000 searches in a month, and your three main competitors get 15,000, 10,000, and 5,000 searches, respectively. The total branded search volume in your category is 50,000. To calculate your share of search:…Read more ›View the full article

At Ahrefs, our machine learning team has built an AI content detector (codenamed bot_or_not). We’re about to release the AI content detector for Ahrefs customers to use, so we decided to put it through its paces with a question we’ve…Read more ›View the full article

When I asked experts for their #1 PPC tip for beginners (see my introduction to search ads), many said it’s smart to focus on keywords that are less popular, more specific, and cheaper. This guide will help you find those…Read more ›View the full article

There’s a cost to bots crawling your websites and there’s a social contract between search engines and website owners, where search engines add value by sending referral traffic to websites. This is what keeps most websites from blocking search engines…Read more ›View the full article

Blocking these bots will mostly impact the link index of the tools. They won’t be able to crawl the pages, so they can’t check where those pages are linking. It doesn’t matter for traffic estimates, keyword rankings, top pages, etc.…Read more ›View the full article

Google just rolled out AI Mode to US users. I was testing if the clicks would show in Google Search Console, without any success. A post by Tom Critchlow on LinkedIn made me wonder how a click on a link…Read more ›View the full article

This chimes with what we’re seeing in Ahrefs Brand Radar, our new marketing intelligence tool which lets you track your brand presence in AI search. We analyzed 25M AI overview keywords in the two-month window of our analysis. Here’s what…Read more ›View the full article

To help you with that, I looked at some of the best PPC tools and picked nine that stand out for their focus, features, and value, especially for teams looking to level up without blowing the budget. This stack is…Read more ›View the full article