Category: SEO

We analyzed the branded search growth of 3,000 software companies to discover the fastest-growing AI companies around. When we published our list of 50 trending tech startups, surprise surprise—AI companies topped the list. In fact, AI is so hot right now that I decided to add hundreds of AI startups to our company list and…

Local newspapers will link to anything. Seriously. Did you run the numbers and find that people in their state pay more lifetime tax than anyone else? They’ll cover it: Did you find that their city has the worst train delays in the whole country? Yep, they’ll cover it: Even if your data point is quite unimpressive, like…

Ahrefs Evolve is a wrap. And my favorite memory? All the people I met at the event. In fact,  I really loved the diversity—being held in Singapore, I was finally able to meet SEOs and marketers from around the region: Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, China, South Korea, and Japan. These are rarely people you…

Last year, we published a children’s book about SEO. We didn’t hire any consultants for this project. We didn’t create fancy presentations to justify the book to stakeholders. And we didn’t crunch any numbers to verify the potential impact on our brand awareness. In fact, no one in SaaS, let alone our competitors, had done it…

LLM optimization (LLMO) is all about proactively improving your brand visibility in LLM-generated responses. In the words of Bernard Huang, speaking at Ahrefs Evolve, “LLMs are the first realistic search alternative to Google.” Market projections back this up: You might resent AI chatbots for reducing your traffic share or poaching your intellectual property, but pretty soon…

We analyzed the branded search growth of 2,700 software companies to discover the hottest trending startups in tech. Here’s how we built this list (and how you can do the same using Ahrefs): Used Keywords Explorer to find keyword data for every company’s brand name (e.g. “stealthgpt” for StealthGPT) Used the Trending filter to identify high-growth…

I analyzed 300K keywords to understand what triggers AI Overviews. The results were predictable in some ways and wholly surprising in others. For instance, one of my favorite stats (although not the favorite – you’ll have to read on for that ) is that 99.9% of AI Overview SERPs display at least one other SERP…

Get the week’s best marketing content Are you looking for some juicy affiliate marketing statistics? Don’t worry—I’ve done the hard work for you and trawled the internet to curate, vet, and categorize 58 affiliate marketing statistics for your delectation. Ok—let’s jump straight in. My top affiliate marketing statistics The average affiliate marketer earns $8,038 per…

Get the week’s best marketing content Are you looking for some juicy affiliate marketing statistics? Don’t worry—I’ve done the hard work for you and trawled the internet to curate, vet, and categorize 58 affiliate marketing statistics for your delectation. Ok—let’s jump straight in. My top affiliate marketing statistics The average affiliate marketer earns $8,038 per…

Hey all, I’m Rebekah and I am your Chosen One to “do a blog post for Ahrefs Evolve 2024”. What does that entail exactly? I don’t know. In fact, Sam Oh asked me yesterday what the title of this post would be. “Is it like…Ahrefs Evolve 2024: Recap of day 1 and day 2…?”  Even as…