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		<title>Almost Half of Google Searches Are Branded. Here’s Why That Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 12:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[But our latest study might surprise you: Nearly half of all Google searches (45.7%) are branded searches—meaning people are actively seeking out specific companies and products they already know. Yep, nearly half of what people type into Google includes a<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>74% of New Webpages Include AI Content (Study of 900k Pages)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 11:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At Ahrefs, our machine learning team has built an AI content detector (codenamed bot_or_not). We’re about to release the AI content detector for Ahrefs customers to use, so we decided to put it through its paces with a question we’ve<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Create Quality Content (Follow Our 5-Level Framework)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Soulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[But what does “quality” even mean? Some people think the Alchemist changed their lives, while others think it’s the worst thing ever written. What’s “quality” to one reader may be complete BS to another. So how do you measure whether<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Your PPC Strategy Sabotaging Your SEO? 2.3M Keyword Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the key statistics: 37.9% of advertised websites already rank in the top 10 organically for the same keyword. This indicates that a significant portion of businesses are paying for ads when they already have visibility for<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Get Search Traffic Without Ranking for Anything</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Soulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well… if you can’t win, change the rules. There’s a very simple trick for getting search traffic for the keywords that you want to rank for—without actually ranking for them. Enter… One of the most common pieces of marketing advice<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Don’t Start a Podcast: 10 Lessons From 10K Downloads of Ahrefs Podcast</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Soulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I mean, Ahrefs is a fairly mature brand in the SEO industry, and most of our channels are measured in millions: So when we reached that 10k milestone I felt both happy about it, and upset about the number being<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>There’s No Such Thing as “Accurate” Search Volume</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Soulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Which was not the first time I saw us being criticized for the accuracy of our search volume metric. But here’s the kicker… There’s NO SUCH THING as an accurate search volume: I already published a pretty detailed article about<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How To Get Backlinks: Add, Ask, Earn, Buy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Soulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First, we have someone offering us to pay for it: Then there’s someone else, framing their backlink request as a “guest post opportunity”: And finally, here’s the most professional one of the three. This email looks fairly well written, but<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We Published a Children’s Book. Here’s How to Get It.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Soulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 12:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="260" height="166" src="https://ahrefs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/OG_SEO_Kids-260x166.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" decoding="async" />This book tells the story of Jessy: a curious little girl, who touched her mother’s computer and got teleported to the magical world of her work. There she took on an exciting adventure—she had to deliver a very important book<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Best new Ahrefs features &#038; use cases (2023)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Soulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That’s quite a number, so we thought we’d pick out some of the best (and our favorite!) new features and show you what they can help you achieve. We’ll be covering: Site Explorer’s Overview 2.0 Comparison mode Site structure report<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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