Category: SEO
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Enterprise SEO Platform Buying Guide
Onboarding an enterprise SEO platform can be a long and difficult process. Getting rid of a bad solution once it’s integrated into your systems can be even harder. Make sure you do your homework and select the right platform for you. Choosing an enterprise SEO platform can be complicated. Let’s look at what is involved in…
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Google Says “Links Matter Less”—We Looked at 1,000,000 SERPs and Our Data Both Agrees and Disagrees
Google has said links are less important than they used to be, and most SEOs have come to accept that as true. Our findings indicate that this is true overall, but for certain types of queries, links matter more. I still believe that links should be a part of your SEO strategy, but they shouldn’t…
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How to Measure Brand Awareness in 2025 (AKA the Year of the Brand)
Brand awareness is one of the “fuzziest” growth channels. And when things get fuzzy, you need concrete ways to prove your time and investment is paying off. Below I’ve laid out 11 workflows you can follow to measure the success of your brand awareness—including some little-known Ahrefs use cases. Brand awareness refers to a series of…
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Bidding on Branded Terms Increases Clicks by 18.3%
Get the week’s best marketing content We ran this study to find out if running paid ads cannibalize organic traffic or not. Most SEOs are against bidding on branded terms because it is believed that buying paid ads cannibalizes organic traffic and it can also impact attribution for conversions and revenue. Paid advertisers believe there is…
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I Reviewed the Best AI Image Generators for 2025
I tested the most popular AI image generators to discover their greatest strengths and weaknesses. At Ahrefs, we have a team of extremely skilled (and very human) designers, but not everyone has that luxury. I wanted to know: are AI image generators useful for spinning up quick social media posts, creating blog post graphics, or…
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Our 9 Best ChatGPT Alternatives for 2025 (So Far)
During my flat-sharing days, I had a housemate that would follow me room to room, chattering away for hours—even when I hid in the bathroom for some peace, he’d monologue at me through the door. ChatGPT reminds me of him—nice enough, spits out some interesting facts, but boy can that AI go on. And, unfortunately,…
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100 Most Expensive Keywords for Google Ads in 2025
Get the week’s best marketing content These are the 100 most expensive keywords on Google Ads, along with their monthly search volume and cost per click (CPC). 100 most expensive keywords on Google Ads in the U.S. Keywords Cost per click car accident lawyer edinburg $1,490 car accident attorney edinburg $1,490 software development romania $1,380 head…
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10 Tactics We Used to Sell Out a 500-Person Conference
Last year, we ran Ahrefs Evolve: a sold-out, 2-day, 500-person conference at Pan Pacific Orchard in Singapore. I interviewed Shermin Lim, our events marketer, to find out how we marketed the conference and sold out all our tickets. Here’s everything we did to promote the conference. You can use these same strategies (or be inspired…
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The 50 Fastest-Growing Companies in 2025
We’ve analyzed 2,500 startups to identify the fastest-growing companies in search over the last year. 2024 was an especially challenging year for startups. Investors exerted extra caution in the face of inflation and rising interest rates, leading to a 26% decline in funding compared to 2023. But it wasn’t all doom and gloom. Sectors like AI and…
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6 Takeaways From the Success of CarMats.co.uk
In May 2020, during the height of the COVID pandemic, Ash Young started an ecommerce store selling car mats in the UK. His goal was to hit £1M in sales in a year. He hit that target in just 9 months. Today his store has turned over ~£9M. Given that the site’s monthly traffic peaked…