Author: Logan

What are the best AI writing tools? To find out, I went meta and asked 39 AI writing tools to recommend their top 10 AI writing tools. I then tallied the votes. Here are the 10 most voted for: AI writing tool Number of votes Grammarly 26 Writesonic 24 Quillbot 22 Jasper 21 OpenAI GPT-3 19 Wordtune 18…

Everyone says content marketing is great, but what are some really good examples that actually delivered? To answer this question, we’ve put our Content Explorer to work. These seven examples came from filtering over 6.2B live pages in English by organic traffic and referring domains.  We will also share our short analysis of why these…

There are countless marketing channels out there. Why should you focus on content marketing over the rest? We go through seven reasons why. 1. Content marketing helps nurture and convert leads If Billy wants to drive more traffic to his site, he doesn’t search for “Ahrefs” and buy our toolset right away. That’s because he doesn’t…

Remembering every SEO task you need to do for your website is a nightmare. This is why you need an SEO checklist. But the usual one-size-fits-all checklists aren’t much use. They don’t take into account what your site is like or your SEO priorities. This is why we built a fully customizable one in Google…

Since university degrees in SEO are rare, certifications are a popular way to prove your knowledge or expertise in SEO. However, the problem is that such certifications can be provided by anyone. So if you want to take an SEO certification, you want to make sure you’re completing those where: The course material is comprehensive, accurate,…

Search engine marketing (SEM) is a type of digital marketing that utilizes search engines like Google to get more traffic to a website. There are two ways to do SEM. You can pay for ads to show up in the search engine’s paid results or optimize your pages to show up in organic results. And…

I started blogging in 2015. From a blog about breakdancing to being a professional content marketer, I’ve learned a lot along the way. In this post, I’ll share the blogging tips I learned. 1. Focus on a profitable niche you’re passionate about Blogging is hard work. You won’t last if you: Hate the topics you write about. Don’t…

Internal links are to backlinks what Robin is to Batman—they’re crucial to SEO success yet receive little to none of the credit. In this guide, I’ll explain what internal links are, how to set up an internal linking structure, and how to strategically use them in SEO.  Internal links take visitors from one page to another…

Missed out on some SEO conferences in the first half of 2023? We handpicked a few more upcoming ones, sorted in chronological order of conference date. Conference When Location Benchmark Studios Sept. 7, 2023 Chester, U.K. BrightonSEO Sept. 14 & 15, 2023 Brighton, U.K. Chiang Mai SEO Conference Nov. 6-10, 2023 Chiang Mai, Thailand BrightonSEO (U.S. edition) Nov.…

An SEO consultant assists businesses in improving their websites’ visibility in search engines like Google. In this post, I’ll walk you through what SEO consultants do, whether your business needs one, and the most important questions to ask before hiring them. What does an SEO consultant do? An SEO consultant provides several SEO services to…