Are you curious about the state of SEO in 2020? Then look no further.We’ve curated, vetted, and categorized a list of up-to-date stats below.Click to jump to a category, or [...]

A local citation is any mention of your business’s name, address, and phone number online. They’re a key ranking factor for local SEO.Citations appear in lots of different places: business [...]

Content writing is the process of researching, planning, writing, editing, and publishing content for the web. It might be a blog post, video script, sales page—anything that gets published online.At [...]

If writer’s block has gotten the better of you and you’re sick of staring at a blank page, blog post templates might be the solution.Every blog post is different, but [...]

Most SEOs don’t care how many backlinks they get from each website. They only care about the number of unique websites (referring domains) linking to them.Do you ever reach out [...]

Have you ever noticed that Google can handle almost any question you throw at it these days?Just look at the result for this query:Despite not mentioning Yoda by name, Google [...]

Do you want to make some extra dough promoting products on Amazon?Lots of people make money with Amazon affiliate sites. But for every success story, there are plenty who never [...]

Did you know that while Ahrefs blog is powered by WordPress, much of the rest of the site is powered by JavaScript like React?Most websites use some kind of JavaScript [...]

Since joining YouTube in 2015, we’ve racked up over 6.1 million views.Don’t believe us? Check the stats on our channel:In this post, I’ll share 14 proven tactics that helped us [...]

Google talks about the importance of using simple, friendly URLs in their SEO starter guide, but how do you do that?Let’s start with the good news: creating URLs for SEO [...]

Keyword research is a crucial factor in the success of most websites. But the conventional process can leave a lot of good keywords on the table.Just look at this keyword:It [...]

Do you want to jump to the first position in Google without acquiring backlinks or significantly updating your content? Featured snippets can help you with that.Featured snippets are pieces of [...]

HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an encrypted version of HTTP, which is the main protocol used for transferring data over the World Wide Web.HTTPS protects the communication between your browser and [...]

In 2019, after 15 years, Google changed how nofollow works. It’s now a hint for both crawling and ranking. They also added two brand new attributes, rel=“ugc“and rel=“sponsored”.According to the announcement, [...]

In the past four years, we’ve grown the Ahrefs blog from ~12,000 to ~468,000 monthly search visits.How did we do it?Essentially, we found a way to create content that ranks in [...]

There are many ways to remove URLs from Google, but there’s no one size fits all approach. It all depends on your circumstances.That’s an important point to understand. Not only [...]

Looking for a list of free SEO-related Chrome extensions that will help you work faster and smarter? Then look no further.This is not a random list of extensions. We’ve tested [...]

Looking for a list of free, useful SEO tools? Then look no further.We asked over 10,000 SEO professionals in our Facebook group—and our 53,000 Twitter followers—to vote for their favorites.We [...]

Do you know the basics of link building, but struggle to get a campaign off the ground? This advanced guide will show you how to do that—fast.Link building outreach can [...]

The purpose of rel=prev/next is to indicate paginated pages in a series. Google originally used the markup to share signals with the group of paginated pages while still swapping to show [...]

Do you want your website to look like this in the search results?Instead of this?In this guide, you’ll learn:Rich snippets are visually more appealing search results with additional valuable information [...]

Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) are the pages that Google and other search engines show in response to a user’s search query.They’re made up of organic and paid search results.In this [...]

Most content hubs look like normal pages at first glance.Here’s one from Zapier about remote work:It might look like nothing special, but it’s been strategically built to take advantage of [...]

There are lots of tools to test page speed, and lots of different metrics to target. But do you understand how those optimizations work, or whether they’re actually going to [...]