Steal Our SEO Report Template (Inspired by SEO Experts)
How do you instantly tell the difference between a good SEO and a bad one? Look at their SEO reports. Bad SEO reports – Clients get lost in pointless data,…
What Is Content Writing? 13 Tips for Creating Amazing Content
At Ahrefs, we write a lot of content. We have over 320 blog posts and more than 200 videos published on our YouTube channel—most of which are scripted. Needless to…
20 Tips and Best Practices
Most people choose WordPress as their website’s CMS because it’s easy to use and SEO friendly out of the box. Both of these things are true, but it’s important to…
Do Links Still Matter for Rankings? A Study by Ahrefs
In the past few years, I’ve seen more people saying that links are dead, they don’t matter for rankings, or they’ve lost their importance. Links are a confirmed major ranking…
A Simple (But Complete) Guide
Most website owners have to deal with redirects at one point or another. Redirects help keep things accessible for users and search engines when you rebrand, merge multiple websites, delete…
What It (Really) Is & How to Fix It
Many people believe that having multiple pages about the same thing confuses search engines and leads them to rank the “wrong” page. In the words of Patrick Stox, this whole…
8 Tips to Boost Local Rankings
Local SEO is the process of increasing your business’s presence in local search to attract more customers or clients. Plenty of guides show you how to do local SEO from…
SEO Analytics: The Simple Step-By-Step Guide
It’s impossible to prioritize and get approval for your SEO efforts without knowing what is and isn’t working for your website. That’s because you can’t make rational decisions without knowing…
5 Things You Need to Know to Avoid SEO Mistakes
Search volume is probably the most frequently used metric in SEO. It helps us gauge the popularity of various keywords and predict the search traffic we may get from ranking…
Product reviews update and your site | Google Search Central Blog
Monday, December 1, 2021 Back in April 2021, we shared a product reviews update that was designed to promote high quality product reviews. We are now rolling out a new…
What is Growth Marketing? A Beginner’s Guide
DropBox famously supercharged its growth by leveraging its product—it gave away storage space for each new referral to its business. This integration of product and marketing was new at the…
A 2021 update on mobile-indexing | Google Search Central Blog
Friday, November 26, 2021 We first started working on mobile-first indexing a number of years ago. Since then, we’ve switched to indexing the majority of web pages with Googlebot-Smartphone. Our…
What They Are and How to Get Search Traffic From Them
People often say that long-tail keywords are easier to rank for and convert better. But is this actually true? It depends. There are two different types of long-tail keywords, and…
11 Powerful Content Marketing Ideas for 2021 (With Examples)
There’s only so much time in a day, and you want to be sure you’re spending your content efforts wisely. Here are 11 powerful content marketing ideas you can start…
8 Effective Marketing Channels in 2021 (And How We Use Them)
Marketing channels are tools and platforms that you use to communicate with a target audience. In today’s world of digital media dominance and consumers turning prosumers, marketing needs to employ…
11 Actionable Use Cases for Beginners
There are many tools and features in Ahrefs that can help boost your SEO/marketing efforts. But to a complete newbie, our SEO platform can seem overwhelming. So if you lack…
Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2 | Google Search Central Blog
Thursday, September 17, 2020 Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. Ever since mainstream browsers started supporting the next major revision of HTTP, HTTP/2 or h2…
One year of Google Search Central | Google Search Central Blog
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 A year ago, we launched our new site and announced that we were leaving our beloved name, Google Webmasters, behind for a new moniker: Google Search…
18 Main Types of Marketing (Examples Included)
In the world of business, there are many, many types of marketing. To simplify matters, here are 18 types that have been developed, tried, and tested by generations of marketers…
New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Starting today, we support shippingDetails schema.org markup as an alternative way for retailers to be eligible for shipping details in Google Search results. Since June 2020,…
The Search Console Training lives on | Google Search Central Blog
Friday, October 02, 2020 In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly. The goal of the series was to create updated video…
Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts
Thursday, November 05, 2020 More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids, and stay in touch with loved ones. Our Google Product…
6 Important Insights About Title Tags (953,276 Pages Studied)
Google’s recent switch to relying less on title tags to generate SERP titles caused a stir in the SEO industry in August and September. The feedback from SEOs has been…
New and improved crawl stats for your site
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 To help website owners better understand how Googlebot crawls their sites, we’re launching a brand new version of the Crawl stats report in Search Console. The…
Updates to Search Console’s API | Google Search Central Blog
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 A few months ago we announced an API infrastructure upgrade to improve the performance of the Search Console API as demand grows. Today we’re happy to…
Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data
Tuesday, February 02, 2021 Discover is a popular way for users to stay up-to-date on all their favorite topics, even when they’re not searching for something specific. Publishers and site…
Join us at Search Central Live | Google Search Central Blog
Thursday, February 18, 2021 On February 24 JST, we will host our first installment of our new event series called Search Central Live. This will be the first of a…
New Association functionality added to Search Console
Monday, February 22, 2021 We’re happy to announce that Search Console has an enhanced Association page within the settings menu. Association is a connection between a Search Console property, and…
Providing better product information for shoppers
Friday, February 26, 2021 Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and organizing product information for shoppers and retailers is an essential part of this mission. In the last…
Expanding support for APAC Search Central Help Communities
Friday, April 9, 2021 Earlier in 2020, we opened Google Search Central Help Communities in multiple markets like the Polish, Turkish, and Arabic communities. As we’ve been continuously working to…