I must confess that I feel a certain attachment to reciprocal links (otherwise known as link exchanges). They were the first “SEO hack” that I ever applied in my career. Let me share that story real quick: Ten years ago,…
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The above is true even if you’re a teeny tiny business. Every month, 600 potential customers search for “plumber san jose”: But even for this super specific query, there’s actually a lot of competition. Look how many search results Google returns…
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PewDiePie. Logan Paul. Cassey Ho. Casey Neistat. These people aren’t traditional celebrities. Yet, you’ve heard of them. You know who they are. You’ve seen them everywhere. They are known as influencers. And it’s not just them. There are influencers in…
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I’ve been blogging since 2010 and, believe me when I say that I’ve tried more than my fair share of content promotion strategies. A few of them worked like a charm, but most of them failed miserably. In this article,…
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If you want to level up your marketing game, your best bet is to read the blogs the pros are learning from. So, instead of compiling a list of my favorite blogs, I decided to do something different: I listed…
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So did traffic fall by 31.7%? Not at all. Two months after we deleted 48 blog posts, estimated organic traffic to the remaining posts rose from 65,834 to 70,816 visits per month. That’s 7.57% more traffic, in 60 days, with ~⅓ less…
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At Ahrefs, we’ve grown our 8-figure ARR by +65% three years in a row. We’re a B2B company that makes SEO tools. Yet, we’ve achieved this with no sales staff. No cold calls. And no growth hacks. Many of our customers…
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There’s more to image SEO than writing a few alt tags—a lot more. Some may even argue that with Google’s recent advances in machine learning, alt tags no longer matter. For example, here’s what happens when you upload a photo…
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Marketing ideas span a broad spectrum, from handing out flyers at the nearest Starbucks to engineering record-breaking jumps from the stratosphere. As you probably know, not all of these ideas work within the holy trinity of real-world constraints: budget, resources…
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In this post, I’m going to share the following new pieces of data with you: Top100 Amazon searches (US)—a list of the most popular Amazon searches in the US as of 2018. Top100 Amazon searches (Worldwide)—the same data but with…
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Every item on this checklist works. How do we know? Look at the INSANE level of traffic growth for the Ahrefs blog over the past 12 months: That’s a direct result of us applying the principles covered in this checklist. Even better,…
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Today, I’m excited to share with you some brand new data: Top100 YouTube searches (US)—a list of the most popular YouTube searches in the US. Top100 YouTube searches (Worldwide)—the same data but filtered to show searches outside of the United…
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This article doesn’t list every marketing tool under the sun. It lists the tools that we use at Ahrefs. The tools that helped us—a bootstrapped company—reach $40M ARR in seven years… Ahrefs never got funding. ~40M ARR and 60% YoY.…
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Here’s the data we’ll be sharing in this post: Top100 most searched queries on Bing (US)—the most popular searches (by volume) for the US as of November 2018. Top100 most searched queries on Bing (Worldwide)—the same data as above, but…
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Looking to advertise your business on podcasts? Don’t spend a penny until you’ve read this. I remember the day Ahrefs’ CMO Tim told me I was “now in charge of podcast sponsorships.” I said: “Awesome!!!” I had never listened to…
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Do you want to know how to optimize your web pages perfectly? You’re in the right place. You’ve got a keyword in mind for which you want to rank. You may even already have a GREAT piece of content. Now…
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I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that WordPress alone isn’t going to help you rank in Google. It’s just a tool. The good news is that WordPress makes it dead simple to use SEO best…
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The siren call of SEO is well known. It goes something like this: Rank your website #1 on Google! Get massive search traffic and passive exposure! Profit! But for many beginners, their SEO journey ends before it even begins. White-hat versus…
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I’ve got two and a half words that will help you solve this problem: Long-tail keywords. Why should you care about long-tail keywords? Because they can drive a TON of high-converting traffic to your website and dramatically increase revenue for…
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We asked the /r/bigSEO community to name their favorites. The response was INSANE. We got more than 50 suggestions. And our thread is now 3rd most popular on that subreddit. But we didn’t stop there. We tried and tested all the suggestions,…
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