Paid results show up when companies pay Google for clicks.  Organic results are the ones that Google deems most relevant for the query. Business owners can increase website traffic by appearing in organic and paid results using SEO and PPC.…

According to Statista, business spending on affiliate marketing will hit $8.2 billion in the U.S by 2022. Start today, and you’ll be in a prime position to take advantage of that. In this guide, you’ll learn how to get started…

Open Graph meta tags are the solution. Here’s how one of our posts looks when shared on Facebook with Open Graph meta tags: And here’s how it looks without: In this guide, you’ll learn: What Open Graph meta tags are Why Open Graph…

But criticism against Google has mounted over recent years. They’ve been fined for antitrust issues, creating a filter bubble and violating user privacy (amongst other things). Consequently, many users are turning away from the search behemoth in favor of alternatives. Even our own…

Amazon affiliate websites make money via commissions from their affiliate program: Amazon Associates. Here’s how this works: A person visits an Amazon affiliate site. They click on an affiliate link to buy a recommended product on Amazon. Amazon pays the site owner a commission.…

Google has sent over 160,000 views to our YouTube videos in the last ~12 months. That’s more views than the countless video embeds on our blog have sent us, which currently gets over 250,000 organic visits per month. In this…

It’s a fair question, but a tough one to answer because there are just so many things to compare. So instead of filling out one of those classic “us VS. them” comparison tables, we decided to go a different route…

With demand for SEO professionals higher than ever and average hourly rates sitting between $75-$150, there’s a clear financial incentive to get good at SEO. But with no colleges offering degrees in SEO, it’s up to you to carve your own…

A few years ago, the Ahrefs blog was far from popular. Despite publishing three new articles per week and following “blogging best practices,” traffic was plateauing. That’s when we decided to switch up our strategy. For the past couple of years,…

Popular search engines like Google have even started to answer some queries directly in the search results—which saves both time and clicks. But how do search engines like Google work, and why should you care? In this guide, you’ll learn:…