How to Persuade Your Boss to Send You to Ahrefs Evolve in San Diego
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How to Persuade Your Boss to Send You to Ahrefs Evolve in San Diego

Due to popular demand, Ahrefs Evolve is back. And this time, we’re in San Diego. After hosting 500 marketers and 18 top speakers in the heart of tropical Singapore, we’re bringing our flagship marketing conference stateside this October. Hello, San Diego! And there’s only one teeny-tiny little thing standing between you and two days of world-class talks…

15 Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2025
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15 Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2025

Conferences are a great excuse to meet other marketers, learn cutting-edge tactics, and just simply hang out and make friends! Even better if it’s on your company’s dime. Here are the marketing conferences we think are worth attending in 2025. Conference When Location Affiliate Summit East Aug. 4-5 New York, USA INBOUND Sep. 3-5 San Francisco, USA…

AI Overviews Cite AI-Generated Content More Than Human Writing
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AI Overviews Cite AI-Generated Content More Than Human Writing

AI Overviews are AI-generated content, which means they can contain hallucinations. Google uses “grounding” to improve their accuracy, but according to our research, AI Overviews are more likely to cite AI-generated content than human-written content. Here’s what we found: Keywords Explorer and extracted the top three cited links. 1.9 million URLs in total, of which we…

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Automatic Updates: Is It Right for Your Drupal Site? 🤔

Keeping a Drupal site secure means staying on top of security updates, which are a kind of patch-level update. You may have heard of Automatic Updates, a tool that helps you apply patch-level updates to your site without the need to manually use Composer on the command line. Perhaps you’ve installed Drupal CMS and encountered…

9 Digital Marketing Conferences We’re Attending in 2025
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9 Digital Marketing Conferences We’re Attending in 2025

It’s impossible for anyone to list all the best digital marketing conferences as nobody’s been to them all. But we’ve been to many and we’ll continue to go to many. These are the conferences we’re attending or thinking of attending this year. Conference When Location INBOUND Sep. 3-5 San Francisco, USA Brighton SEO, US Sep 23-24 San Diego,…

9 SEO Conferences to Attend in 2025
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9 SEO Conferences to Attend in 2025

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…

Does Being Mentioned on Highly Linked Pages Influence AI Mentions?
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Does Being Mentioned on Highly Linked Pages Influence AI Mentions?

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…

AI-Generated Content Does Not Hurt Your Google Rankings (600,000 Pages Analyzed)
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AI-Generated Content Does Not Hurt Your Google Rankings (600,000 Pages Analyzed)

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…

Google Seems More Biased Towards Big Brands Than ChatGPT and Perplexity
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Google Seems More Biased Towards Big Brands Than ChatGPT and Perplexity

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…

10x Traffic by going global with SEO: The Medicai + Ahrefs Success story
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10x Traffic by going global with SEO: The Medicai + Ahrefs Success story

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…

Does Being Mentioned on High Traffic Pages Influence AI Mentions?
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Does Being Mentioned on High Traffic Pages Influence AI Mentions?

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…