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This number is slightly higher than our 2022 study on anonymized queries. However, that’s the average. Some websites in our research saw dramatically higher percentages of anonymized queries. Read on to see how it might impact you. The problem is…Read more ›View the full article

We’ve got 17 updates this month – from unlocking global keyword research to deeper link analysis and more actionable site monitoring. Let’s dive in. Cited pages and cited domains API endpoints You can now programmatically pull the pages and domains…Read more ›View the full article

While ChatGPT has nearly a fifth of Google’s query volume, people use the platforms in different ways. I wanted to see how ChatGPT compared to Google, not just on the total number of searches, but also searches where they compete…Read more ›View the full article

Search engines used to work one-to-one: one search query returned a unique set of results featuring pages that best matched the exact query searched. Then they evolved to many-to-one, recognizing that queries like “Sydney plumber” and “plumbing service in Sydney”…Read more ›View the full article

But we’ve been to many and we’ll continue to go to many. These are the conferences we think you should check out, ranked by a mix of industry reputation, speaker quality, and audience size. Date: April 28-30 Location: Anaheim, USA…Read more ›View the full article

These are the 100 most searched people, along with their monthly search volumes. In almost every industry, there are celebrities, professionals, or influencers that other people want to emulate. For example, an amateur tennis player might want to know which…Read more ›View the full article

Brand marketing is more important to SEO than ever before. Search engines now understand brands as entities, not just keywords. They connect your brand to your industry and offerings to surface you in relevant searches beyond exact matches. Google and…Read more ›View the full article

Secondary keywords are how you capture that extra traffic. They’re the supporting terms that help your page rank for more searches without creating separate content for each variation. In this guide, you’ll learn what secondary keywords are, how to find…Read more ›View the full article

The problem: ChatGPT doesn’t have “rankings”. At least not in any traditional sense. Its responses are probabilistic: different every time, with brands appearing and disappearing from one query to the next. According to research from SparkToro, there’s a <1 in…Read more ›View the full article

Much like anyone facing a sudden loss, SEOs and marketers are currently cycling through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Our goal here is to help you process the change. We want to help you…Read more ›View the full article

The truth is far less dramatic. Keywords aren’t dead, but optimising for them one at a time is like trying to light up a galaxy one star at a time. The real shift is a change in scale and mindset:…Read more ›View the full article

It’s a big change in how Google interprets intent and presents information. Think of it as a dynamically-generated, “magazine” SERP, that curates AI summaries and organic results. What’s different about Web Guide is that—unlike AI Overviews or AI Mode—it actually…Read more ›View the full article

And, naturally, we wanted to remind you of some of our best blogs 😉 Below, we’ve used Ahrefs Web Analytics to find our most-viewed articles published in 2025. We were inspired by Amanda Natividad’s SparkToro post. Great stuff from Amanda…Read more ›View the full article

We analyzed 1.9M citations last year in an attempt to answer that question. But, as with everything AI-related, a lot has changed since then. For instance, as of January 2026, AI Overviews are now powered by Gemini 3 to better answer…Read more ›View the full article

Even better if it’s on your company’s dime. I asked Daria Samokish, our Head of PR and Conference Partnerships, for the list of conferences we’ve shortlisted that are worth attending. Without further ado, here are the best marketing conferences happening…Read more ›View the full article

That may sound defeatist, but unfortunately that’s just how the web works. Rankings slip, competitors improve, search intent shifts, and what was your best-performing article two years ago might be leaking traffic right now without you even noticing. This is…Read more ›View the full article

(In fact, search Google for “reddit keyword research” and you’ll notice that 6 of the top 10 results are actual Reddit threads.) That makes Reddit unique and important. It’s a place where your brand’s reputation is shaped by real user…Read more ›View the full article

But there’s a practical distinction worth drawing, and it changes how you apply the idea. Search intent is about optimizing content to match what the search results reward. Keyword intent is the same concept applied one step earlier. Think of…Read more ›View the full article

But here’s the thing: if you’re new to SEO, you might not actually understand what a focus keyword is, or why it matters beyond making that indicator turn green. A focus keyword isn’t just a box to fill in. It’s…Read more ›View the full article

Companies that scale AI-generated content do so with the knowledge that they are making a trade-off, we believe, choosing speed and scale at the expense of quality. We agree that AI is faster than any human, and it makes a…Read more ›View the full article

Is Grokipedia a serious competitor to Wikipedia, or just a doomed exercise in billionaire hubris? Does Grok bring new value to the table, or just rehash the same old content? Does Grokipedia influence AI search in a similar way to…Read more ›View the full article

The hard part in content marketing is the information—ideas, verified facts, and reference material. And that’s exactly where these tools fall short. I learned this after generating 40 articles through Claude. I’d tried the writing tools first, but they…Read more ›View the full article

But, although ChatGPT crawls dozens of pages to answer a single query, according to our research, it only ends up citing ~50% of them. Why does one page get the credit while another, which the AI clearly retrieved, gets nothing?…Read more ›View the full article

The real issue was never AI or “automatically generated content” itself. Google penalizes the same thing it always has: content that is thin, unhelpful, and spammy. AI just makes it much easier to create that kind of content at scale.…Read more ›View the full article

Chatbots typically don’t have access to real SEO data, so they often make things up and present them as facts. But once you connect AI to real SEO data, it becomes a keyword research tool you’ll wonder how you ever…Read more ›View the full article