Ahrefs - Ahrefs' Weekly Digest #68

Hey there,

Looking for great marketing practitioners to follow on Twitter? Tim, our chief marketing officer, asked for recommendations recently, and he received a ton of suggestions.

Speaking of which, who are some of your own recommendations? Hit “reply” and let me know.

Now, onto the content for this week…

✍️ New on our blog

How to Write a Press Release (+ Free Template) by Rebecca Liew

Press releases are old school. But they can still work if done well. Unfortunately, most people make plenty of mistakes when it comes to crafting a good press release. In turn, these press releases get ignored by their intended recipients: journalists.

Don’t worry, though—Rebecca’s got your back. Read the post to learn how to craft a good press release in 14 steps:

Understand the AP Style guidelines
Choose your format
Pick a newsworthy angle
Add your release date
Leave filler text for your headline and summary
Write a strong opening paragraph
Body paragraphs
Add relevant quotes
Add images
Craft a compelling headline and summary
Boilerplate
Close your press release
Press contact details
Review your copy

Or if you just want to get straight to the template, click here to make a copy.

13 Inexpensive Small-Business Marketing Ideas That Actually Work by Si Quan Ong

Marketing campaigns don’t have to be expensive. In fact, some of the best marketing tactics you can implement right now involve getting more out of what you already have.

For example, you have thank-you pages, cart pages, checkout pages, email confirmation pages, and more. You can potentially optimize them by including upsells and cross-sells, collecting emails, asking for reviews, and so on.

Or if your product is bought regularly, then why not offer a subscription or entice your customers to place a larger order with bundles? These are all simple ideas that take advantage of your existing (but underutilized) real estate.

What Is Googlebot & How Does It Work? by Patrick Stox

You probably know Google crawls the web using Googlebot. But do you know everything about it?

For example, how do you verify if the bot crawling your website is really Googlebot? Well, in recent years, Google has made it easier and provided a list of public IPs you can use to verify the requests are from Google. You can compare this to the data in your server logs.

Alternatively, you can also access the “Crawl stats” report in Google Search Console. You can see which Googlebot is crawling what files and when it accessed them.

5 Competitor Analysis Tools You Should Be Using by Michal Pecánek

A few of the right competitor analysis tools will cover most of your competitor analysis needs. And they don’t have to be expensive either. Here are the best ones Michal has identified:

Ahrefs – SEO, PPC, and content marketing
Brand24 – Brand monitoring
SparkToro – Audience insight
BuiltWith – Tech stack checker
Visualping – Webpage monitoring

📹 New on YouTube

Low Competition Niches With High Earnings Potential by Sam Oh

Sam decided to look for niches with high earning potential and low competition. To choose these niches, he set four criteria they must meet:

A decent market size
A clear-cut way to monetize the site
Low-competition keywords to target
Existing low-authority websites getting a significant amount of search traffic

Here are the niches he discovered:

Test preparation for graduate schools
Snowboarding equipment
Golf equipment
Baby products
Daily fantasy sports

📚 What we’re reading

SEO Case Study (On a Budget): From 0 to 75,000 Visits a Year [Article]

SEO is not a dark art. There are no secrets. It eventually comes down to three things: content, links, and tech.

Ryan Darani transparently shares everything he did (down to the budget) to grow a property site from 0 clicks per day to 300-400 clicks per day on average. Executed by him and two other writers, he published 60 pieces of content, built 100 links, and fixed a whole lot of technical SEO issues on the site.

Till next time. ;)

Cheers,
Si Quan
Content Marketing @ Ahrefs

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