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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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Social media

YouTube

Growing a YouTube channel with a four-step subscriber framework

Ahrefs November 18, 2020


Social media 9
SEO 7
Content marketing 6
  • Views are a prerequisite to subscribers — not subscribe buttons
  • A narrow channel theme compounds engagement and YouTube promotion
  • Keyword research tools reveal rankable topics before you film

SEO

YouTube

Common SEO myths that waste time and money

Ahrefs November 4, 2020


SEO 9
Niche selection 5
  • No duplicate content penalty exists, but duplicates still hurt rankings
  • The top-ranking page gets the most traffic only 49% of the time
  • Social shares don't directly rank pages — backlinks from exposure do

SEO

YouTube

Five free Ahrefs SEO tools and how to use them together

Ahrefs October 21, 2020


SEO 10
  • A five-tool workflow covering technical SEO to link building — all free.
  • Find featured snippet gaps using position filters inside Ahrefs Webmaster Tools.
  • Turn a competitor's stale resource page into your own link-building opportunity.

Automation & tools

YouTube

How to speed up a WordPress website in three steps

Ahrefs October 7, 2020


Automation & tools 9
SEO 6
  • Three changes took a mobile PageSpeed score from 45 to 95.
  • Defer JS loading fixes most render-blocking issues without touching code.
  • Image compression and WebP conversion cut page size by nearly half.

SEO

YouTube

Keyword research for affiliate marketing: four types that drive revenue

Ahrefs August 26, 2020


SEO 9
Content marketing 6
  • Search intent determines which keywords can actually generate affiliate clicks.
  • Specific-intent keywords like 'best car seat for small car' beat generic high-authority pages.
  • Informational content earns backlinks that lift your money pages in rankings.

SEO

YouTube

Using Google Ads to build backlinks: a $1,245 PPC experiment

Ahrefs August 12, 2020


SEO 9
Paid ads 7
  • Paying for ad visibility on link-intent queries generates real, quality backlinks
  • Being the original data source drives 2x+ better link conversion than aggregating others' stats
  • Backlinks from ads arrive weeks to months after the campaign ends

SEO

YouTube

Link building outreach: results and process from 515 emails

Ahrefs August 5, 2020


SEO 9
Prospecting & outreach 7
  • 17.55% reply rate — double the industry average for cold outreach
  • Most link exchanges and payment requests came from both small and high-authority sites
  • Not sending follow-up emails was the single biggest missed conversion lever

SEO

YouTube

How to write a link-attracting stats page for SEO

Ahrefs July 29, 2020


SEO 9
Content marketing 7
  • Stats pages attract links because journalists cite facts, not opinions
  • 10% of stats on a page drive 90% of its backlinks
  • Outdated competitor stats with broken redirects create outreach opportunities

SEO

YouTube

Link building for beginners: principles, tactics, and outreach

Ahrefs July 15, 2020


SEO 9
Content marketing 6
  • Backlinks are essential for ranking competitive, high-traffic phrases.
  • Linkable content is non-commercial, helpful, and data-rich — not sales pages.
  • Outreach converts on personalised pitches with a genuine value exchange.

SEO

YouTube

How domain rating works and what to focus on instead

Ahrefs July 1, 2020


SEO 9
  • DR is a link-popularity score, not a ranking predictor.
  • Build links to target pages — Google ranks pages, not sites.
  • A high-DR site linking to thousands of domains passes almost no equity.

SEO

YouTube

How to republish old blog posts to recover and grow organic traffic

Ahrefs June 17, 2020


SEO 9
Content marketing 8
  • Wrong search intent angle caps rankings no matter how good the content is.
  • Weaker pages outranking you is a content problem, not a links problem.
  • Re-indexing after republishing can produce ranking gains within days.

SEO

YouTube

How keyword difficulty scores work and when to trust them

Ahrefs June 3, 2020


SEO 9
Product-market fit 5
  • Ahrefs KD measures link quantity only — not brand, intent, or quality
  • The same KD score means different things depending on your site's authority
  • High-KD keywords reveal link prospects, not just hard-to-rank queries

Content marketing

YouTube

Content promotion checklist: seven tactics to get more eyes on your posts

Ahrefs May 20, 2020


Content marketing 10
SEO 7
  • Email your list first — subscribers want updates and can amplify your reach.
  • Re-share on social media with varied copy; soundbites extend content lifespan.
  • Quora answers targeting high-traffic questions can drive tens of thousands of visits.

SEO

YouTube

How to optimise your content for a target keyword

Ahrefs April 1, 2020


SEO 9
Content marketing 6
  • 75% of top-ranking pages don't mention their target keyword once
  • Matching searcher intent alone handles 80% of on-page optimisation
  • Strong content beats keyword engineering every time

SEO

YouTube

Finding high-quality link building outreach prospects at scale

Ahrefs April 1, 2020


SEO 9
Prospecting & outreach 6
  • Target people who already linked to similar content — they'll link again.
  • Content Explorer finds thousands who mentioned your topic but never linked.
  • Daily alerts on fresh mentions beat chasing old tweets every time.

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