How to Avoid Ruining SEO During a Website Redesign
For example, this site deleted about 15% of organic pages (yellow line) during the redesign, which resulted in an almost 50% organic traffic loss (orange line). Interestingly, even the growth of referring domains (blue line) afterward didn’t help it recover… Read more ›
You Can’t Compare Backlink Counts in SEO Tools: Here’s Why
For Ahrefs, we choose to store about 340B pages in our index as of December 2023. At a certain point, the quality of the web becomes bad. There are lots of spam and junk pages that just add noise to… Read more ›
26 Women and Nonbinary SEO Pros Who Inspire Me
Here are the top 26 whose expertise, results, and insights I greatly admire and think you will, too. Make sure you check them all out. Anyone who has seen me eat a delicious meal knows I save the best til… Read more ›
How to Get SEO Buy-In: 7 Actionable Tips
At Ahrefs, multiple team members have worked in these roles, so we’ve compiled a list of our top tips to help you get more buy-in for SEO projects. Start by identifying all the key influencers and decision-makers within the organization.… Read more ›
Toxic Backlinks: SEO Woe or a Load of Baloney?
But there’s some disagreement and confusion among SEOs as to whether “toxic” links are actually a thing and what, if anything, you should do about them. If you believe Google’s John Mueller, they’re not: Yet, according to my poll, the… Read more ›
10 Completely Free SEO Training Courses
Here are ten that won’t cost a dime. Course provider: Ahrefs Duration: 2 hours Instructor(s): Sam Oh Level: Beginner Link: SEO Course for Beginners What you’ll learn This comprehensive course is ours and covers the fundamentals of SEO, including keyword… Read more ›
SEOs, Are You Using These 6 Mental Models?
The thing is, you need to be careful with mental models because they’re sneaky. We tend to develop them during our lives, inherit them from our colleagues and mentors, and rely on them almost instinctively while not fully aware of… Read more ›
A Beginner’s Guide to SEO Reporting
SEO reporting mixes insights, actions, data, strategy, and communication all into one document. It sounds like a lot to take in—but once you know the basics, you’ll be able to report on SEO in your sleep. In this beginner’s article,… Read more ›
Keyword Diversification: Cannibalization’s Good Twin (SEO Study)
Now, classic SEO theory says that if you rank with more than one page for a keyword, it’s a cannibalization issue, and you should fix it. But when I spent a day carefully reviewing a sample of 80 keywords with… Read more ›
Marketing KPIs: 30 Metrics for Every Marketing Role
To choose the right KPIs: There are an almost infinite number of KPIs, often varying in small details (like how they’re measured, or subtle differences in definition). Many KPIs also have overlapping audiences (SEOs and content marketers may track very… Read more ›