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You won’t read anything good about the content marketing funnel in this article. Only bad things. Like, it’s too linear and simplistic to address the complexities of customer journeys. If you need a framework to build your content strategy on, it should probably be a no-funnel framework instead. And there are very good reasons for it.…

Google knows about 300T pages on the web. It’s doubtful they crawl all of those, and at least according to some documents from their antitrust trial we learned they only indexed 400B. That’s around .133% of the pages they know about, roughly 1 out of every 752 pages. For Ahrefs, we choose to store about 340B…

I was scrolling through X last year when I saw this tweet from the CEO of Shopify: It made me pause and think: Can you really replace Google with something else, like AI? I grew up with Google after all; it had never crossed my mind that one day I would stop using the search…

Affiliate marketing is where you promote another company’s product or service in exchange for a commission. When people click your link and buy the product or service, you make money. It is absolutely not a scam. It is legal, as long as you comply with relevant laws and regulations in your country. For example, here are FTC’s…

It’s easy to come up with blog post ideas, but writing about random topics won’t get you traffic to your blog. You need to write about topics with traffic potential. How to find blog post ideas with traffic potential The proverb goes, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a…

Get the week’s best marketing content Ahrefs Site Audit, also available as part of the free Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, allows you to search through the raw HTML code or the JS-rendered code across all crawled pages of the website. This feature is particularly useful when you need to verify analytics tags, identify pages that call…

We already do a great job with internal linking on the Ahrefs blog. But we wondered if adding a related posts section would help us and whether users would use it. Our marketing team was fairly split on whether we should have a section like this and whether it would help. I’ve had great results with…

In the lead-up to International Women’s Day, I started reflecting on all the amazing women and nonbinary folks in our industry who I have learned from and who continuously inspire me in my career. Here are the top 26 whose expertise, results, and insights I greatly admire and think you will, too. Make sure you check…

There are too many content marketing metrics out there. But we know which ones are actually used (we asked on LinkedIn and X). To organize things a bit, we’ve organized the metrics into eight categories. Just the names themselves will give you a good idea of what’s important in content marketing. Let’s get to it. This…

The formula for calculating ROI is so simple that I’ll share it right here, in the article introduction: ((Return from content − cost of content) / cost of content) * 100 If your content marketing generated $10,000 in sales and cost $2,000 to create, that’s an ROI of 400%: (($10,000 – $2,000) / $2,000) * 100…