As content marketers, we spend most of our time sitting in front of a screen, buried in a Google Doc. But sometimes, it’s a great idea to leave the desk and socialize with other human beings—ideally on your employer’s dime 😉 Conferences are a great excuse to hang out with other content marketers, talk shop, learn…
We’ve attended dozens of SEO conferences and found some standout events that consistently deliver value, insight, and real connections. Here are the ones we think are worth attending in 2025. Conference When Location BrightonSEO, US Sep. 23 & 24, 2025 San Diego, USA WTSFest Philadelphia Oct. 7, 2025 Philadelphia, USA Ahrefs Evolve ⭐️ Oct. 14 & 15, 2025 San…
Article Performance Data from Ahrefs Linking websites The number of websites linking to this post. Get the week’s best marketing content Does being mentioned on highly cited web pages lead to more mentions in AI assistants? I’m defining highly cited web pages as those with more Referring Domains (RD). These are prominent pages on the…
In 2023, Google published a blog post stating that they’re not against AI content: If you think about it, there is no clearer signal than the fact that Google has rapidly rolled out AI Overviews (and now AI mode), both of which are basically AI-generated content. Yet there are still many SEOs and digital marketers…
Article Performance Data from Ahrefs Linking websites The number of websites linking to this post. Get the week’s best marketing content Does being mentioned more on the web lead to more mentions in AI assistants? I’m defining mentions as the number of web pages that mention an entity at least once. I looked at the top…
Medicai used Ahrefs to accelerate their organic traffic against their competitors using a combination of programmatic and content-based strategies. Get an account for Ahrefs. Everyday once you wake up, open it and check it while you drink your morning coffee. Look into the keywords you rank for, and then what your competition ranks for. Then…
Get the week’s best marketing content Does being seen more on the web lead to more mentions in AI assistants? I’m defining “being seen” or web visibility as the estimated total monthly organic search traffic to all pages that mention the entity. These are prominent pages on the web, with a lot of visibility. Having…
We recently launched our new AI detector. For almost any webpage, you can analyze the likelihood that AI was used to create it, highlight AI-generated sections of text, and even identify the specific AI models used to create the text. There are tons of AI detectors available. And, while ours is the only one that can…
You don’t need to be tech-savvy to build a website. With AI, you can bypass coding, hiring a developer, or staring at a blank page for hours. You can automate everything from writing content to choosing a professional layout and images. This guide walks you through the entire process, step by step. Imagine having a fully…
Ever had a brilliant product idea but felt stuck, unsure if anyone would actually buy it? You’re not alone. Many aspiring entrepreneurs believe that product research is a complex and expensive process reserved for big companies with huge budgets. The good news is that’s no longer true. Today, anyone with an internet connection can uncover…
Though still <1% of total traffic, it’s now our highest converting channel at 10%+ CVR (going by our new custom event tracking in Web Analytics). I wanted to see if other sites were experiencing any AI traffic growth–especially now that zero-click search has taken hold. We decided to update the findings of our March AI traffic…
Going into this study, I suspected that domain-level link metrics would not be a good predictor for mentions. I was expecting Google AI Overviews to show more of a correlation since they may use some of the traditional search signals, whereas the other systems may not. For traditional search, usually the page-level metrics are more…
