There are two ways to add YouTube tags to your videos. Add tags that you think make sense and hope for the best; Use a logical process to add tags that make sense. In this guide, we’ll explain the process…

While there’s nothing wrong with looking at those things once in a while, they provide little value as standalone metrics. Translation: staring at them isn’t going to improve SEO anytime soon. In this guide, you’ll learn: What Google Search Console is…

Since July 2018, I’ve been active on Quora, answering at least five questions a week on topics related to Ahrefs, SEO, and digital marketing. In that time, I’ve accumulated hundreds of thousands of views. Before I began my journey on…

Duplicate content is a source of constant anxiety for many site owners. Read almost anything about it, and you’ll come away believing that your site is a ticking time bomb of duplicate content issues. A Google penalty is merely days…

When it comes to search engine optimization for Squarespace sites, SEOs are divided. Some think it’s the worst thing in the world: While others think it’s good enough: What is the truth? To answer this question, we decided to run…

To find the marketing strategies that are working in ecommerce today, I decided to do something different. I polled marketing experts in three Facebook groups, including our customers-only group, Ahrefs Insider. I jumped on a call with my friend, Babak…

In 2015, my friends and I started a breakdancing blog (now defunct). Despite knowing nothing about blogging or SEO, we managed to hit 3,000 organic visitors per month at our peak. Today, I work at Ahrefs, where our blog has grown to…

This is why robots.txt misconfigurations are extremely common—even amongst experienced SEO professionals. In this guide, you’ll learn: What a robots.txt file is What robots.txt looks like Robots.txt user-agents and directives Whether you need a robots.txt file How to find your…

For example, these words link to YouTube, so they now have a backlink from us. In this guide, you’ll learn: Why backlinks are important; What makes a good backlink; How to check backlinks (to any website); How to get more backlinks…

That’s what robots meta tags and the x‑robots-tag HTTP header are for. Let’s get one thing straight from the beginning. You can’t control indexation with robots.txt. That’s a common misconception. The noindex rule in robots.txt was never officially supported by…