What Is Googlebot & How Does It Work?
Googlebot is the web crawler used by Google to gather the information needed and build a searchable index of the web. Googlebot has mobile and desktop crawlers, as well as…
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Googlebot is the web crawler used by Google to gather the information needed and build a searchable index of the web. Googlebot has mobile and desktop crawlers, as well as…
Want to give your small business a marketing boost? Try one of the ideas below. They’re inexpensive, and they work. Here’s the list: Set up your Google Business Profile Get featured on…
A well-crafted press release can help relationship-building, manage a brand’s image, and improve SEO. Here’s everything you need to know about press releases, including a step-by-step guide to writing a…
A marketing campaign is a series of organized, strategized efforts used to achieve a marketing goal. Planning a campaign instead of firing ad hoc messages at your audience helps you…
Here are some popular “types” of content marketing: Blogs Videos Podcasts Emails Infographics Webinars Case studies Presentations eBooks Whitepapers Testimonials Slide decks Quizzes Tools You’ll find these on pretty much…
Marketing goals can be defined as broad, long-term outcomes that a company wants to achieve via marketing efforts. Setting clear marketing goals is important, as this can effectively focus your…
According to a recent study, only 10% of marketers don’t use content marketing (spoiler alert). So for the remaining majority of marketers, and perhaps the unconvinced minority, we’ve curated, vetted,…
Startups experience a never-ending stream of problems and challenges. Survival in such a scenario is an art of choosing between what to focus on, put on hold, or simply ignore.…
Just can’t get your content marketing program to work? Fret not. Here’s a list of 17 tips that’ll improve your content marketing and help you get more visitors, leads, and sales: Know…
Marketing is changing faster than ever. Those of you who aim to become T‑shaped marketers or who manage entire marketing departments know it best. Chasing after the latest marketing fads…
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, don’t…
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…
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 remember…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 today:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Startups are always on the lookout for scalable growth tactics that can be done with little or no money. Search engine optimization, or simply SEO, is one of them. SEO doesn’t…
We asked Twitter users to recommend their favorite free digital marketing courses and received over a hundred replies: Is there a good FREE digital marketing course that you can recommend? —…
Link building has been my passion for nearly a decade. Before working for Ahrefs, I worked as a link-building consultant, helping dozens of clients build hundreds of links. What I learned…
The keywords you choose can make or break your SEO campaign. If you make smart keyword choices, you’ll produce content with the potential to attract valuable organic search traffic month…