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Mobile SEO: 10 Optimization Tips to Build a Mobile-Friendly Site

With most site visits worldwide being attributed to mobile devices, optimizing a site for mobile is now more important than ever. Here's how. March 30

9 SaaS Marketing Strategies for Sustainable Growth

Seeking to generate long-term value? Here are nine marketing strategies that will help you maintain sustainable growth. March 29

How to Write Website Content That Ranks (And People Want to Read)

To get traffic for your website, you'll need content that ranks on Google and engages your audience. We'll show you how to do both. March 28

SEO for a New Website: 8 Important Steps

The best time to ensure your site is SEO-friendly is when you're building it. We've distilled the process into eight key steps. March 27

Spy on Your Competitors (How Do You Do It?)

To beat your competitors, you'll need to know their marketing activities. We'll show you how to view and track this valuable information. March 24

What’s new at Ahrefs? (Feb 2023)

Introducing Organic search view in Overview 2.0, a new treemap chart in Keywords Explorer reports, and more. March 8
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Actionable digital marketing tutorials on SEO and YouTube marketing.

SEO

If you want to rank higher in search engines like Google, you need SEO. Check out the resources below to learn how to get more organic traffic to your website.

SEO Basics: Beginner's Guide to SEO Success

Get your website set up for SEO success and learn the fundamentals of SEO.

What is SEO? Search Engine Optimization Explained

Learn what SEO is and how to start optimizing your pages for search traffic.

The Only SEO Checklist You Need

Give your website and pages the best chance of ranking with our SEO checklist.

12 SEO Best Practices That Everyone Should Follow

Improve your SEO with best practices for every type of business.

What Are Keywords? How to Use Them for SEO

Learn what keywords are and how you should and shouldn't use them.

Long-tail Keywords: What They Are and How to Get Search Traffic From Them

Drive more search traffic to your website with long-tail keywords.

How to Use Google Trends for Keyword Research: 7 Effective Ways

Find winning keywords with this underutilized free tool.

On-Page SEO: The Beginner's Guide

Learn how to optimize web pages to rank higher in search engines.

How to Craft the Perfect SEO Title Tag (Our 4-Step Process)

Improve clickthrough rates with enticing title tags.

How to Optimize for Google’s Featured Snippets

Shortcut your way to the top of Google by winning featured snippets.

Image SEO: 12 Actionable Tips (for More Organic Traffic)

Improve accessibility and get more traffic from Google Images.

Meta Tags for SEO: A Simple Guide for Beginners

Tell search engines important information about your web pages with meta tags.

How to Write the Perfect Meta Description

Improve clickthrough rates with enticing meta descriptions.

How to Create SEO-Friendly URLs (Step-by-Step)

Craft your URLs for more clicks and higher rankings.

The Beginner’s Guide to Technical SEO

Improve search engines' ability to find, crawl, understand, and index your pages.

Internal Links for SEO: An Actionable Guide

Improve SEO by internally linking to and from relevant pages on your site.

301 Redirects for SEO: Everything You Need to Know

Learn what 301 redirects are and how to use them to boost organic traffic.

Duplicate Content: Why It Happens and How to Fix It

Understand why duplicate content can be bad for SEO and how to fix it.

Canonical Tags: A Simple Guide for Beginners

Learn how to combat duplicate content issues with cannonicalization.

Hreflang: The Easy Guide for Beginners

Improve Google's understanding of multilingual content with hreflang.

Robots.txt and SEO: Everything You Need to Know

Make sure search engines can access important content with robots.txt.

How to Build Local Citations (Complete Guide)

Help more people to discover your local business online with citations.

How to Optimize Your Google My Business Listing in 30 Minutes

Improve rankings and visibility for your Google Business profile.

How to Do Local Keyword Research

Find keywords that people search for when looking for local products and services.
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Marketing

Marketing is the process of generating awareness, interest, and desire for a product or service. Check out the resources below to improve your marketing knowledge and create effective marketing campaigns.

What is Inbound Marketing? A Beginner's Guide

Create relevant and useful content to attract, engage, and delight more customers.

16 Marketing Tactics That Work

Use these tactics to help achieve your marketing objectives.

How to Conduct a Competitive Analysis (Template Included)

Gain a competitive advantage by identifying and researching competitors.

Quora Marketing: ~1 Million Views Generated. Here's How to Replicate Our Success

Follow in our footsteps to get more traffic from Quora.

13 Free Ways to Promote Your Business

Get the tactics we used to grow Ahrefs by +65% year-on-year.

7 Digital Marketing Strategies That Actually Work

Ignore the noise and latest fads; focus on what works.

Content Marketing: A Comprehensive Guide

Get more traffic and customers by creating and promoting content.

Why is Content Marketing Important? 5 Reasons

Learn how content can positively impact your business.

How to Build a Winning Content Marketing Strategy in 9 Steps

Get more traffic, leads and sales with a smart content marketing strategy.

7 Inspiring Content Marketing Examples (And How to Replicate Them)

Learn how to replicate content marketing campaigns that worked.

Affiliate Marketing For Beginners: What It Is + How to Succeed

Earn commissions online by promoting others' products and services, step by step.

How to Do Keyword Research for Affiliate Sites

Find the keywords people are searching for where you can naturally plug products.

How to Build a Successful Amazon Affiliate Site (Step by Step)

Earn some extra dough by promoting Amazon products on your website.

7 Successful Amazon Affiliate Websites (That You Can Learn From)

Replicate the successes of popular Amazon affiliate websites.

Podcast Advertising: $51,975 Spent. Here's What We Learned

Learn how to market your business on podcasts.

YouTube SEO: How to Rank Your Videos From Start to Finish

Follow our tried and tested strategy to increase YouTube rankings and search views.

Video SEO: How to Rank YouTube Videos on Google

Drive more views to your YouTube videos by ranking them on Google.

How to Do YouTube Keyword Research in 3 Easy Steps

Get more views by targeting the topics people are searching for.

9 Ways to Get More YouTube Subscribers

Grow your subscriber base with our tried and tested tactics.

14 Proven Ways to Get More Views on YouTube

Get more video views with the tactics that worked for us.

8 Best YouTube Keyword Tools (Free and Paid)

Use the best tools to find keywords that drive video views.

What are YouTube Tags and Which Ones Should You Add?

Follow our quick process for adding tags to YouTube videos.

Data & Studies

Studies and data-driven insights are crucial for understanding the ever-changing search landscape. Check out the resources below to improve your SEO knowledge with unique data and insights.

How Ahrefs Counts Links and Domains

Every backlink tool stores different links. Learn what we do and don't store.

How long does it take to rank in Google? (A study by Ahrefs)

Make better SEO decisions by aligning your ranking expectations with reality.

How many keywords can you rank for with one page? (Ahrefs’ study of 3M searches)

Learn how many keywords the average page ranks for.

Anchor Text: A Data‐Driven Guide (384,614 Web Pages Studied)

Understand the correlation between anchors and rankings.

90.63% of Content Gets No Traffic From Google. And How to Be in the Other 9.37% [New Research for 2020]

Learn why your pages might not be getting traffic from Google.

Top 100 Most Visited Websites (US and Worldwide)

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