Data Studies

When we published our list of 50 trending tech startups, surprise surprise—AI companies topped the list. In fact, AI is so hot right now that I decided to add hundreds of AI startups to our company list and run the… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/fastest-growing-ai-companies/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency […]

Here’s how we built this list (and how you can do the same using Ahrefs): Here are the 10 startups with the greatest growth in branded search volume in the past year. Screenshots show historical and predicted brand search growth… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/trending-tech-startups/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

To identify these trending products, we analyzed the growth in search volume of 28.7 billion keywords in Google searches within the United States over the past three months. Our final list reflects the products with the biggest increase in search… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/trending-products/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

In this article, we’re looking at bootstrapped SaaS companies that gained the greatest amount of referring domains in the past year. Bootstrapped businesses generally don’t have huge budgets to spend on marketing, so any strategy these small-but-mighty companies use to… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/bootstrapped-backlink-builders/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

These are the 100 most searched people, along with their monthly search volumes. In almost every industry, there are celebrities, professionals, or influencers that other people want to emulate. For example, an amateur tennis player might want to know which… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/most-searched-people/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

After disavowing, traffic (as reported by GSC) fell by 7.1%: Before disavowing, according to GSC, traffic to these posts was trending slightly upward: After disavowing? Slightly downward: However, Ahrefs’ organic traffic estimates tell a slightly different story. Visibility is trending… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/toxic-backlink-disavowal/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

For Ahrefs, we choose to store about 340B pages in our index as of December 2023. At a certain point, the quality of the web becomes bad. There are lots of spam and junk pages that just add noise to… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/link-index-comparison/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

Now, classic SEO theory says that if you rank with more than one page for a keyword, it’s a cannibalization issue, and you should fix it. But when I spent a day carefully reviewing a sample of 80 keywords with… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/multiple-rankings-study/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

Our Content Explorer tool discovers 10 million new pages every 24 hours while being very picky about the pages that qualify for inclusion. The “main” Ahrefs web crawler crawls that number of pages every two minutes.  But how much of… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/search-traffic-study/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

You can see the current content for these pages on the blog (top Bing searches, top YouTube searches). Both have 1-2K words and tons of data. Here’s how they looked during the test: If you’ve been reading our blog, you… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/impact-removing-content/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

  We looked at 1,002,165 domains to find the most common technical SEO issues. Keep reading to see what we found. These are the issues flagged the most across the 1 million+ domains. The number is the percentage of domains… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/site-audit-study/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

Let’s look at the most common issues you should actually care about. Setting an x-default is not required. But it is recommended if you need a fallback page for users whose language settings don’t match any of your localized versions.… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/hreflang-study/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

I was trying to see the impact on rankings and traffic that the removal of content would have. My theory was that if we blocked the pages from being crawled, Google would have to rely on the link signals alone… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/blocked-robots-test/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

This means that, in theory, signals to the original URL are permanently passed to the new one after a year. If the redirect is removed and the original page is restored, the original page has to build brand-new signals on… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/are-pemanent-redirects-permanent/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

That’s not all. Despite not using outreach, it acquired links from sites like The New York Times and Forbes—on autopilot.    How? I spoke with the co-founder, Sol Orwell, to find out.  He shared the site’s entire approach to SEO with… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/examine-seo-case-study/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency

  Healthline is owned by media giant company Red Ventures, which has a whole RVO Health subdivision comprising many domains in this YMYL niche. One of them is also Medical News Today that you can see among the biggest players… Read more › https://ahrefs.com/blog/healthline-seo-case-study/ #seotips #seo #digitalmarketing #searchengineoptimization #seoexpert #seoservices #seomarketing #digitalmarketingtips #marketing #seotools #seoagency