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Ahrefs publishes practical SEO and content-marketing education focused on keyword strategy, search visibility, and repeatable organic growth.

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Content marketing

YouTube

How to create content that gets cited by AI search engines

Ahrefs May 13, 2026


Content marketing 9
SEO 7
AI strategy & adoption 6
  • Word count is irrelevant — freshness and format drive AI citations
  • Every section must stand alone; AI chunks content unpredictably
  • Brand your original ideas or LLMs will absorb them without credit

SEO

YouTube

Technical SEO for AI: robots.txt, crawlers, and llms.txt

Ahrefs May 13, 2026


SEO 9
AI strategy & adoption 6
  • 5.9% of sites silently block AI crawlers via robots.txt
  • ChatGPT cannot render JavaScript — your content may be invisible
  • AI sends visitors to 404 pages 2.87x more than Google does

SEO

YouTube

YouTube SEO for AI search: a three-step ranking process

Ahrefs May 13, 2026


SEO 9
Content marketing 5
  • YouTube is the strongest predictor of ChatGPT visibility of any factor studied
  • Target search hits, not viral hits, for consistent AI and Google traffic
  • Your videos are AI training data — structure and specificity compound over time

SEO

YouTube

Brand mentions for AI visibility: a three-tier framework

Ahrefs May 13, 2026


SEO 8
Branding 6
  • Brand mentions outperform backlinks for Google AI overview visibility
  • 43.8% of ChatGPT citations come from listicles — get on them
  • Unmonitored mentions can teach AI wrong things about your brand

SEO

YouTube

Keyword and prompt research for AI SEO and AEO

Ahrefs May 6, 2026


SEO 9
AI strategy & adoption 6
Content marketing 5
  • High-traffic keywords can be traps if AI overviews kill the click
  • Tool-based queries have no AI overviews — organic clicks still available
  • Brand mentions in AI responses require a different targeting strategy

SEO

YouTube

How to run a brand gap analysis for AI search visibility

Ahrefs May 5, 2026


SEO 9
AI strategy & adoption 6
  • Six gap dimensions reveal exactly where AI ignores your brand
  • Filter Brand Radar to find citations competitors earn that you don't
  • Audit competitors too — their gaps are often your quick wins

SEO

YouTube

How Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity rank content differently

Ahrefs April 29, 2026


SEO 9
AI strategy & adoption 7
  • Only 14% of top cited domains overlap across all three platforms
  • Google rankings predict Perplexity citations far more than ChatGPT
  • ChatGPT favours high-authority publishers over well-ranked pages

SEO

YouTube

Answer Engine Optimization: what it is and why it matters now

Ahrefs April 29, 2026


SEO 9
AI strategy & adoption 7
  • AI Overviews cut top-ranking page click-through rates by 58%
  • AI traffic converts at 23x the rate of organic search
  • AEO builds on SEO — compete for citations, not positions

SEO

YouTube

What AI visibility really means: three types every marketer should know

Ahrefs April 29, 2026


SEO 9
AI strategy & adoption 6
  • Only 28% of AI brand mentions include a clickable link.
  • Unlinked mentions outperform backlinks as a predictor of AI visibility.
  • The visibility type that matters most depends on your business model.

SEO

YouTube

How AI search engines find, evaluate, and cite content

Ahrefs April 29, 2026


SEO 9
AI strategy & adoption 6
  • One prompt silently expands into up to 28 simultaneous sub-queries
  • 76% of AI citations come from pages already in Google's top 10
  • AI citations are probabilistic — there is no fixed ranking position

SEO

YouTube

YouTube SEO: how to get consistent search views from Google and AI

Ahrefs April 15, 2026


SEO 10
Growth hacking 7
AI strategy & adoption 5
  • Boring titles beat clickbait when you optimise for Google search
  • Say your keyword aloud — Google listens and ranks accordingly
  • YouTube is the most cited domain in Google AI Overviews

Retention & loyalty

YouTube

How Chewy beat Amazon in Google search with three replicable moves

Ahrefs April 1, 2026


Retention & loyalty 9
SEO 8
Content marketing 7
  • 99.7% retention rate built on $50 gestures with $15k lifetime payback
  • Product-led content turns safety questions into instant add-to-cart moments
  • Viral customer care stories generate high-authority backlinks without outreach

SEO

YouTube

SEO in 2026: ranking in Google during the AI era

Ahrefs March 18, 2026


SEO 9
AI strategy & adoption 7
  • AI overviews now strip 58% of clicks from the top organic result.
  • Brand mentions on cited pages beat backlinks as an AI visibility signal.
  • Action-oriented queries (tools, calculators) remain safe ground for traditional SEO.

SEO

YouTube

How to pick a niche for SEO when starting from scratch

Ahrefs March 4, 2026


SEO 9
Niche selection 7
  • High search volume signals competition a new site can't beat
  • Four filters — competition, value, breadth, interest — eliminate bad niches fast
  • Local sub-niches lower keyword difficulty without sacrificing commercial intent

SEO

YouTube

Keyword research for Google and AI search in 2026

Ahrefs February 18, 2026


SEO 9
AI strategy & adoption 7
  • AI overviews steal 35% of clicks even from the top ranking result
  • Tools and calculators are currently immune to AI overview displacement
  • Brand mentions in online conversations now directly influence AI recommendations

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