Category: SEO
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How to Analyze a Sudden Drop in Website Traffic [With Template]
A sudden drop in organic traffic can feel like an SEO nightmare. Rankings dip, visibility declines, and conversions take a hit—leaving you scrambling for answers. But instead of panicking, you need a structured approach to diagnose the issue, take corrective action, and restore your site’s performance. Here’s exactly how to analyze a sudden drop in…
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Your Cheat Code for More Rankings, Less Guesswork
SEO isn’t magic—it’s a system. And without clear, repeatable SOPs (standard operating procedures), even the best strategies fall apart faster than a bad backlink profile. That’s why I’ve put together 7 SEO SOPs that will make your work faster, smarter, and more effective, from using AI to create quality content to investigating why your traffic…
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Top 40 Trending EV Companies (Q1 2025)
We analyzed the organic traffic growth of over 8000 websites to discover the hottest trending EV companies. At the top, you’ll find Green V, Vayve, Zeekr, En Plus, and EV Joints. To find the top trending EV companies in 2025 we calculated the percentage growth of organic traffic to their websites between January 1, 2024…
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Top 50 Trending SaaS Startups (Q1 2025)
We analyzed the organic traffic growth of over 10000 websites to discover the hottest trending saas startups. At the top of our list, you’ll find Oneshot AI, Litespace, Complyt, Mastt, and The Liven. To find the top trending startups in 2025 we calculated the percentage growth of their organic traffic to their websites between January 1,…
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How I Boosted Traffic by 72% With Ahrefs’ AI Content Helper
Any content writer with skin in the game knows the sinking feeling that comes with the traffic “flatline of nope” after that initial “spike of hope”. Content dates, traffic dips. It’s a tale as old as… web 1.0. But recently I’ve cottoned on to a new strategy that’s helping me claw back some of those lost…
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63% of Websites Receive AI Traffic (New Study of 3,000 Sites)
We studied the traffic of 3,000 websites to better understand the size and make-up of AI traffic—including how much of it is being sent, the most common referral sources, and how that differs depending on the size of the site. We analyzed the traffic differences between sites driving greater than 10,000 visitors, between 1,000 and 9,999…
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The Best AI Content Optimization Tools for 2025
Content optimization tools make writing and ranking top-quality content a whole lot easier. That goes double for the latest generation of AI-powered tools. Great optimization tools can identify missing topics and keywords, suggest and refine headers and titles, generate meta-data, and show tons of useful information about your competitors’ articles. If you aren’t using an…
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How Do AI Content Detectors Work? Answers From a Data Scientist
There are tons of tools promising that they can tell AI content from human content, but until recently, I thought they didn’t work. AI-generated content isn’t as simple to spot as old-fashioned “spun” or plagiarised content. Most AI-generated text could be considered original, in some sense—it isn’t copy-pasted from somewhere else on the internet. But…
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35 Post-Event Survey Questions From Our Sold-Out Conference
In October 2024, we organized a sold-out, 500-person conference called Ahrefs Evolve in Singapore. We’ve already covered how we planned the event from start to finish and how we promoted the event. This time round, it’s about how our events can be better next time. Like any good event organizer, we sent out post-event surveys to…
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My Process for High-Quality, SEO-Friendly Articles
AI can write, but let’s be honest; it can also sound (dare I say) robotic. Without a clear process, AI-generated content can feel generic, miss SEO opportunities, or just not sound like you. The trick? Use AI as a tool, not a shortcut. This AI content creation process helps you: Get AI to generate usable content…