How to Build an SEO Topical Map (With Template)
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How to Build an SEO Topical Map (With Template)

An SEO topical map is the roadmap for your website’s content strategy. Its core function is to organize your website’s content in a clear hierarchy of topics and sub-topics.  It helps you: Make it easier for users to navigate your website Signal to search engines that your content comprehensively covers a topic Become an authority in a…

Google Says “Links Matter Less”—We Looked at 1,000,000 SERPs to See if It’s True
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Google Says “Links Matter Less”—We Looked at 1,000,000 SERPs to See if It’s True

Google has said links are less important than they used to be, and most SEOs have come to accept that as true. Our findings indicate that this is true overall, but for certain types of queries, links matter more. I still believe that links should be a part of your SEO strategy, but they shouldn’t…

How to Measure Brand Awareness in 2025 (AKA the Year of the Brand)
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How to Measure Brand Awareness in 2025 (AKA the Year of the Brand)

Brand awareness is one of the “fuzziest” growth channels. And when things get fuzzy, you need concrete ways to prove your time and investment is paying off. Below I’ve laid out 11 workflows you can follow to measure the success of your brand awareness—including some little-known Ahrefs use cases. Tim Soulo on LinkedIn There’s no right…

Bidding on Branded Terms Increases Clicks by 18.3%
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Bidding on Branded Terms Increases Clicks by 18.3%

Get the week’s best marketing content We ran this study to find out if running paid ads cannibalize organic traffic or not. Most SEOs are against bidding on branded terms because it is believed that buying paid ads cannibalizes organic traffic and it can also impact attribution for conversions and revenue. Paid advertisers believe there is…

I Reviewed the Best AI Image Generators for 2025
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I Reviewed the Best AI Image Generators for 2025

I tested the most popular AI image generators to discover their greatest strengths and weaknesses. At Ahrefs, we have a team of extremely skilled (and very human) designers, but not everyone has that luxury. I wanted to know: are AI image generators useful for spinning up quick social media posts, creating blog post graphics, or…

100 Most Expensive Keywords for Google Ads in 2025
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100 Most Expensive Keywords for Google Ads in 2025

These are the 100 most expensive keywords on Google Ads, along with their monthly search volume and cost per click (CPC). long-tail keywords (e.g., “affordable personal injury lawyer in New York”), rather than generic, broad keywords like “personal injury lawyer” Using negative keywords to prevent your ads from appearing on irrelevant searches. Improving your Quality…

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Drupal CMS Guide Update: The Challenge of Documenting a Fast-Moving Open Source Product

Monday, Jan. 13th – 2 days before the Drupal CMS product launch I sat down at my desk this morning with the intent of working on creating screenshots for the documentation related to finding and installing recipes using the Drupal CMS UI. These images will accompany text that was written about a month ago, and…

Event Promotion: 10 Tactics We Used to Sell Out a 500-Person Conference
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Event Promotion: 10 Tactics We Used to Sell Out a 500-Person Conference

Last year, we ran Ahrefs Evolve: a sold-out, 2-day, 500-person conference at Pan Pacific Orchard in Singapore. I interviewed Shermin Lim, our events marketer, to find out how we marketed the conference and sold out all our tickets. Here’s everything we did to promote the conference. You can use these same strategies (or be inspired…

What Is Domain Flipping? 8 Steps to Getting Started, and Tips to Profit from Domains in 2025
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What Is Domain Flipping? 8 Steps to Getting Started, and Tips to Profit from Domains in 2025

Have you ever heard of domain flipping? It’s an unusual way to make some extra cash online. Basically, you buy a domain name for a low price and then sell it for a higher price to make a profit.  Sound familiar? It’s kind of like buying and selling real estate (or Pokémon cards) but instead…