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4/18/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #179: HARO’s demise, sea of sameness in SEO, and more
Our meme of the week: Major ouch! 📰 News & updates Google unplugs “Notes on search”: It's ending May 2024. Google updates Merchant Center product data specifications: A whole bunch of changes,
4/13/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #178: Ranch-style SEO, and more
I don't see any difference. They're the same picture. 📰 News & updates Google considers charging for AI-powered search: It would be the first time Google has put any of its core products
4/4/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #177: Building an SEO moat in an AI world, and more
Oops. 🔝 SEO “Deep content” will protect your SEO in the AI era: To build an SEO moat in an AI world, prioritize deep topics that AI will struggle to answer and create interesting and engaging content
3/21/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #175: Our new Ahrefs’ podcast, the myth of ‘accurate’ search volumes, and more
Great news everybody! We're launching a new podcast, creatively titled “Ahrefs Podcast”. Check out Season 1 with six amazing guests: Laura Roeder (Paperbell) Adam Singer (AdQuick) Rand Fishkin (
3/15/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #174: Content marketing ROI, adding a related posts section, and more
What a Google update does to a man. From SEO to rapper: 📰 News & updates Google unleashes manual actions galore: Following the release of new search spam policy updates last week, Google has now
3/7/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #173: Toxic backlinks, getting SEO buy-in, and more
The real vicious cycle of SEO: 📰 News & updates March 2024 core update: There is a new Google core update, which may take up to a month to roll out. There is also a spam update and three new spam
2/29/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #172: SEO reporting, mental models for SEOs, and more
What do you mean this is not helpful content? 📰 News & updates Google launches Gemini Business & Enterprise: More Google renaming and more money for Google. How many news websites block AI
2/19/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #171: How to remove backlinks, keyword diversification, and more
I'm starting to suspect I'm a robot, considering how many times I've failed to recognize a fire hydrant… 📰 News & updates Google Bard is now Gemini: Google launched Gemini Advanced — a
2/8/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #170: Product page SEO, why AI content is only short-term arbitrage, and more
Wait… What do you mean the 37 hours I just spent carefully constructing my ultimate Notion productivity system is useless? 📰 News & updates Cached webpages are dead: Google Search will no longer
2/1/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #169: How to get backlinks, you’re using ChatGPT wrong, and more
This is just me all day. 🔝 SEO How to get backlinks, an honest answer: Building legitimate backlinks is not easy. But that's the whole point. Getting links is not a technical process that can be
1/25/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #168: Headless SEO, enterprise SEO metrics, and more
Can't wait to see what the future is like: 📰 News & updates We published a children's book: Join our giveaway to get one of our awesome books! Google is changing how search results appear
1/18/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #167: Testing premium AI prompts, writing 100 blog posts for Ahrefs, and more
How to never lose your job: Even better: Don't just ask what's the AI strategy; chant it as if it was a spell in Harry Potter. “Artificio intelligencio!” 📰 News & updates Googlebot crawl
1/12/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #166: Free SEO tools, SEO conferences, and more
I'm in this picture and I do not like it: 📰 News & updates 94% of Google SGE links are different from organic search results: A new study found that AI-generated answers in Google's Search
1/4/2024
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Ahrefs’ Digest #165: SERP competitor analysis with ML, non-obvious creator lessons, and more
What do you mean I now have to think!? 🔝 SEO Boost your SERP competitor analysis with machine learning: Lazarina Stoy shares step-by-step how you can use machine learning in your SERP analysis,
12/28/2023
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Ahrefs’ Digest #164: Location landing pages, competitor research, and more
New year, new you? 🔝 SEO Location landing pages: It's not that Google dislikes location landing pages; they just dislike mass-produced ones that prioritize quantity over quality. Make sure you
12/21/2023
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Ahrefs’ Digest #163: B2B content marketing, Google crawling experiment, and more
Data is whatever you make of it, right? Right…? 🔝 SEO Google crawling experiment: Kristina ran an experiment where she disabled the crawling of her website for >50 days. Interesting result: She didn
12/15/2023
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Ahrefs’ Digest #162: How to start a digital marketing agency, secrets Google hides, and more
We've just published a beautiful children's book titled “White Haired SEO” and we're giving away 100 copies! Follow the instructions here to stand a chance to win one of them for yourself.
12/8/2023
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Ahrefs’ Digest #161: Why SEOs make the web better, 96.55% of pages get no search traffic, and more
Food for thought: 📰 News & updates Google's sunsetting these tools: Search Console's Mobile Usability report, Mobile-Friendly Test tool and Mobile-Friendly Test API. Introducing Gemini:
11/30/2023
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Ahrefs’ Digest #160: SEO salaries, content gap analysis, and more
Which one are you? 📰 News & updates Discussion forum and profile page markup: Google announced support for profile page and discussion forum structured data for use in Google Search, including new
11/23/2023
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Ahrefs’ Digest #159: Algorithmic evaluation systems, Google Notes, and more
Is that the end of my ChatGPT-written articles? (Or maybe not, now that Sam Altman is back again.) 📰 News & updates Google Notes: A new experiment on Google. It will let people share their