Personal branding lets you take charge of your digital footprint, ensuring that what people find when they search for you online is accurate, positive, and aligned with your professional goals. Examples Of Personal Branding That Work Now that you understand the advantages of developing a personal brand, let’s look at a couple of real-life examples … Read more
The customer data platform (CDP) is one of the fastest-growing categories of business technology today. To understand why, you have to look at some of the underlying challenges across many industries related to data, AI and personalization. Customers want an experience that’s more tailored to them. They gravitate to companies that understand who they are and what they … Read more
Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) has come a long way since its experimental launch in May 2023. Starting out by simply generating paraphrased snippets for search engine queries, SGE now offers more comprehensive summaries and source links. Essentially, Google’s SGE is an interactive generative AI-powered feature that uses existing results to answer search queries. Think … Read more
Google knows about 300T pages on the web. It’s doubtful they crawl all of those, and at least according to some documents from their antitrust trial we learned they only indexed 400B. That’s around .133% of the pages they know about, roughly 1 out of every 752 pages. For Ahrefs, we choose to store about 340B … Read more
I was scrolling through X last year when I saw this tweet from the CEO of Shopify: It made me pause and think: Can you really replace Google with something else, like AI? I grew up with Google after all; it had never crossed my mind that one day I would stop using the search … Read more
Link building is arguably one of the most crucial steps to building a company’s SEO and dominating search results. After all, a strong correlation exists between a site’s search engine positioning and the total number of backlinks. Backlinks are the website version of social proof. The more backlinks your site has, the more credible it … Read more
For most small businesses, Google Business Profile (GBP) is their marketing lifeblood. Because it’s free, many local businesses rely solely on their Google Business Profile to generate traffic and calls, as well as to bring customers to their business. Marketers know it’s risky to put all your marketing eggs in one basket. But for a local business that has … Read more
One of the great tragedies of the digital marketing world is that “PPC” folks and “paid social” folks don’t see themselves at the same marketing table – even as ad networks push them closer and closer. Advertisers who are “Google-first” or “Meta-first” tend to struggle to make the leap to the alternate platform. Yet, as … Read more
The SEO industry is over 20 years old at this point. And it comes as no surprise that many of us are parents to little kids. I myself am a father of two. So we figured it would be cool to create a children’s book that both kids and their SEO parents could enjoy together. … Read more
I’ve finally hit the milestone: 100 blog posts for the Ahrefs blog. So, I decided to reflect on my journey. I did two Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions to see what people wanted to know: one on Twitter X and another on LinkedIn. I was pleasantly surprised that so many people were interested, so thank … Read more
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