How to Create Content Briefs (with 6 Templates)
If you want to publish more blog content, you need to create solid content briefs. Content briefs are simple documents that tell a writer… what to write about. They provide…
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If you want to publish more blog content, you need to create solid content briefs. Content briefs are simple documents that tell a writer… what to write about. They provide…
Every year, the SEO agency Aira conducts a State of Link Building survey. In the most recent edition, 270 SEOs voted for the link-building techniques they still use today. Let’s…
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Mobile First Indexing is now complete. Google Search…
Looking for a list of the most popular websites in the US and Worldwide in 2023? We’ve pulled the top 100 most visited sites by organic traffic from our database.…
Programmatic SEO refers to the creation of keyword-targeted pages in an automatic (or near automatic) way. It provides a way for companies to create thousands of website pages targeted at…
Get the week’s best marketing content Looking to improve your website’s SEO but don’t know where to start? Use our free SEO audit template to find SEO issues that need…
I removed content from two of our pages to try to measure the impact that content has on rankings. We lost a few positions for many terms, and it hurt,…
Search optimization is generally a good thing. When you create something useful—an article, a product page, even a free tool—it helps to ensure people can find it through search. But…
Here’s an example of how the code looks: And here’s how it looks on social media: … in the browser tab: … and (sometimes) in Google’s search results: For SEO,…
Singapore’s SEO community is a humble-sized, diverse mix of marketers of all experience levels. Having lived in this city-state for a good three decades, I’ve gathered that SEO remains a…
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live Singapore is coming back this year again on November 22. As usual, the event is hosted by the…
Monday, October 16, 2023 Vehicle listings on Google allows car dealerships to show their for-sale inventory on Google Search and other Google surfaces. It is currently available in the US…
There are lots of SEO newsletters. Maybe too many. I sacrificed my email inbox to bring you a carefully chosen selection of favorites. Every newsletter included here does four things:…
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 We’re releasing an update to our spam detections systems today that will improve our coverage in many languages and spam types. This spam update aims to…
Inbound marketing is a marketing strategy that aims to pull customers in with relevant and useful content. Coined by HubSpot’s founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, the goal of inbound…
Friday, September 29, 2023 We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Zurich on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023! After our last Search Central Live event…
Have you been Googling your keyword to see where you’re ranking? Never do that. It won’t be accurate because Google personalizes search results by things like your location, language, and…
I’ve attended BrightonSEO for 10 years, but this year’s conference was one of my all-time favorites. (And it looks like the rest of the team also enjoyed it!) Here’s my…
Did you know that while the Ahrefs Blog is powered by WordPress, much of the rest of the site is powered by JavaScript like React? The reality of the current…
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 Leer en español We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to Ciudad de México on November 7! Following successful events throughout the…
A lead generation website captures information from potential customers (i.e., leads). This often includes their name, email address, and phone number—but it can also include things like how much money…
Rich snippets (also known as rich results) are search results pulled from code called schema markup. They provide extra information beyond the standard “blue link,” which helps get more clicks…
Monday, September 11, 2023 Search Console is launching a few enhancements to the Shopping tab Listings report to help merchants better manage their product offering. Last November, Search Console created…
SEO monitoring is about regularly checking your SEO performance and making sure your website is free from major technical issues. Monitoring key aspects of SEO is important because it allows…
Friday, September 8, 2023 In many countries and regions around the world, people commonly speak and search in more than one language. To best serve them, Google uses a variety…
What sets B2B SaaS marketing apart from its B2C counterpart is the length of the buyer’s journey. A buyer’s journey consists of the steps that a customer takes in order…
If you want to increase the SEO performance of your website, the best place to start is by implementing SEO best practices. Here are 12 essential SEO best practices to…
Thursday, September 7, 2023 Last October, site names were introduced on mobile results for select languages, which expanded to desktop in March. Today, we’re happy to announce that site names…
Monitoring your website traffic is one of the best ways to make data-driven decisions on how effectively your marketing campaigns and messaging work. Moreover, checking out your competitors’ website traffic…
For content to be evergreen, it needs to match two criteria: It needs to target an evergreen topic Evergreen topics are topics with consistent interest over time. For example,…