It’s too easy to break your SEO during a website redesign. Here’s a foretaste of what can go wrong: Loss of rankings and traffic. Loses of link equity. Broken pages. Sluggish page loading. Bad mobile experience. Broken internal links. Duplicate content. For example, this site deleted about 15% of organic pages (yellow line) during the redesign,…
I often post my favorite new Ahrefs features on X. And last time I announced our newest addition to Keywords Explorer, someone replied with this: I mean it is good for seasonal keywords but to be honest it would be great if the search volume in general would be more accurate… — Kim von Däniken (@KimvonDaniken)…
It’s easy to come up with blog post ideas, but writing about random topics won’t get you traffic to your blog. You need to write about topics with traffic potential. How to find blog post ideas with traffic potential The proverb goes, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a…
Affiliate marketing is where you promote another company’s product or service in exchange for a commission. When people click your link and buy the product or service, you make money. It is absolutely not a scam. It is legal, as long as you comply with relevant laws and regulations in your country. For example, here are FTC’s…
Google knows about 300T pages on the web. It’s doubtful they crawl all of those, and at least according to some documents from their antitrust trial we learned they only indexed 400B. That’s around .133% of the pages they know about, roughly 1 out of every 752 pages. For Ahrefs, we choose to store about 340B…
I was scrolling through X last year when I saw this tweet from the CEO of Shopify: 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 one day I would stop using the search…
We already do a great job with internal linking on the Ahrefs blog. But we wondered if adding a related posts section would help us and whether users would use it. 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…
For many SEOs in agency, in-house, or enterprise roles, 20% of their job is actually doing SEO, the other 80% is about soft skills like getting buy-in. I always say that 20% of my job is actually doing the SEO, and 80% of communicating, getting buy-in, and moving the boulder so that [stakeholders] can succeed…
Learning SEO doesn’t have to break the bank. There are plenty of quality free SEO courses teaching everything from the basics to keyword research to link building. Here are ten that won’t cost a dime. 1. SEO Course for Beginners Course provider: Ahrefs Duration: 2 hours Instructor(s): Sam Oh Level: Beginner Link: SEO Course for Beginners What you’ll…
People use mental models to comprehend reality, solve problems, and make decisions in everyday life. SEO is not an exception here, yet it’s not a topic you often hear about in this industry. The thing is, you need to be careful with mental models because they’re sneaky. We tend to develop them during our lives,…
