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✨15 updates + new features from Ahrefs in the past 12 months✨ We’ve been busy bees working on making our toolset better for you. Check out these highlights. Remember to upvote your favorites!

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Backlinks are one of Google's top three ranking factors. �?� Check out these ten link-related stats—based on multiple in-house studies conducted at Ahrefs over the years. (H/T:

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NEW: HTML code comparison in Site Audit 🔥 You can now compare a page's HTML code and text between crawls + the raw vs. rendered HTML against each other. Here's how 👇

That rounds up our fave link building strategies. If you try any of these, let us know how things go in the comments 🤩

4. Guest posting: Make an irresistible offer (cont'd) Find a poorly-ranking article on their blog, then offer to do an overhaul of it to improve its Google rankings. To locate such pages: - Open Ahrefs' Site Explorer - Go to the Top pages report - Use the "Traffic" filter.🚦

4. Guest posting: Make an irresistible offer Every blog owner wants to grow traffic to their blog—so you need to prove your guest article will rank well in Google + bring them consistent search traffic. This means building up your portfolio (see previous tip). You can also:

4. Guest posting: Start small and work your way up (cont'd) For e.g. before pitching to a DR80+ blog, make sure you've a DR70+ piece to show them—and so on. To find relevant blogs within your DR range, open Ahrefs' Content Explorer and follow these steps:

4. Guest posting: Start small and work your way up Have a solid portfolio of published content on slightly smaller blogs. This way, you'll have a higher chance of pitching successfully to the top blogs in your niche.

4. Guest posting Guest posting is the third-most used link building strategy in 2022 (H/T:

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). It involves writing content for another website—in exchange for an opportunity to link to your website from it. Two ways to get published in top blogs in your industry:

3. Content promotion: Growing an audience Every time your content is promoted, you'll reach people who find value in it—so hold on to that by growing your audience! The larger your audience, the less time you'll spend manually promoting your content. Try these ideas 👇

3. Content promotion: Advertising Google, Facebook + Twitter are some options for running ads. Alternatively, partner with influencers + content creators in your space and pay them to promote your content to their audience.

3. Content promotion: Influencers + communities Before reaching out, ask yourself: "Who will amplify this, and why?" Who = Influential people/relevant communities that might help to amplify your content. Why = The merit of your content that makes it worthy of being promoted.

3. Content promotion Even the most linkable assets have to be discoverable—and that means promoting them in these three ways: i) Influencers + communities ii) Advertising iii) Growing an audience

2. Creating linkable assets (cont'd) You can get inspiration by studying your competitors' websites: - Plug their domain name in Ahrefs' Site Explorer - Go to the Best by links report - In this example, 3 of the 5 most-linked pages on the Ahrefs Blog are data-based studies.

2. Creating linkable assets Linkable assets = content that's crafted to attract links. Some examples:

1. Pursuing competitors’ links (cont'd) To do this: - Plug your target keyword in Ahrefs' Keywords Explorer - Go to SERP overview - View backlinks + linking sites of top-ranking pages - Click on any number to view a report listing all of the links. Some actions you can take:

1. Pursuing competitors’ links There's a reason why a top-ranking page is dominating the SERPs for your target search query: it has all the right links, among other things. Studying its links can help you decide on the tactics to acquire similar links—and outrank that page. 👇

Our 4 favorite link building strategies 🔮 1. Pursuing competitors’ links 2. Creating linkable assets 3. Content promotion 4. Guest posting Let's dive into each one.

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SEO Glossary: 190+ Terms and Definitions You Should Know

Here is a list of the most important SEO terms, jargon, and abbreviations you need to know.

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What are some of your all-time fave SEO newsletters? 🌟

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NEW: Improved HREFLANGS report in Site Audit 🌎 We heard your feedback! Our updated hreflangs report is more actionable and straightforward than ever. Take a peek at what's changed 👇

That's a wrap! For convenience, we've linked out all our free SEO tools under a hub: ahrefs.com/free-seo-tools Enjoyed this thread? Bookmark it, and be sure to vote for your favorite tools�?��?

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14. Website Checker 🚦 Run a free site audit and check for >130 technical issues—no hefty SEO consultant fees needed! Sign up for Ahrefs Webmaster Tools (AWT) with your website's Google Search Console credentials, and you're good to go 😉

13. Website Traffic Checker �?� See your competitors': 📌 Organic traffic estimates 📌 Traffic share by top 5 countries 📌 Top performing content 📌 Top performing keywords This way, you can reverse-engineer their strategy and potentially outrank them.

12. Ahrefs SEO Toolbar ⚒�? Our free extension for Chrome and Firefox has a ton of features for everyone. Use it to: ✅ See important on-page SEO data ✅ Trace redirect paths + read HTTP headers easily ✅ Check search rankings in other countries (No VPN required) ..and more!

11. Ahrefs SEO WP Plugin ⚙�? Looking to optimize your content on auto-pilot? Run scheduled content audits and get performance recommendations, all within WordPress.

10. Website Authority Checker ⚖�? Use our proprietary Domain Rating (DR) metric to check a website's authority in terms of its no. of backlinks and their quality. The higher it is, the more authoritative a website is.

9. Broken Link Checker ⛓�? View every broken outbound and inbound link on your website. ➡�? For broken outbound links: Reinstate or redirect them to suitable alternatives to reclaim link equity. ⬅�? For broken inbound links: Remove the links for better navigation.

8. Backlink Checker 🔗 Analyze the backlink profile of any website, including its backlink strength and other useful SEO metrics. We've got the world's largest index of live backlinks, with over 14 trillion backlinks and counting!

7. Keyword Rank Checker 📊 Understand how well your website ranks for a given keyword and how you're faring against the competition—in 243 countries.

6. SERP checker 🔎 View the top 10 search results for any keyword across 243 countries—without having to use a VPN! Get detailed SEO stats for the top-ranking pages and make informed content decisions.

5. Bing Keyword Tool 🇧 Discover what people are searching for on Bing. These topics might be completely different than those on Google.

4. Amazon Keyword Tool 🛒 Not sure how people are searching on Amazon for the products you sell? Enter a broad term. Then add any relevant keywords to your product listings to increase their visibility.

3. YouTube Keyword Tool 📺 See search volumes for any keyword on YouTube (in over 170 countries!) and get more views. The tool also suggests top-ranking questions based on your seed keyword.

2. Keyword Difficulty (KD) Checker 🌡�? KD estimates how hard will it be to rank in the top 10 search results for a keyword. The lower it is, the easier it is to rank for. Our checker also shows the estimated no. of backlinks you'll need to rank in the top 10 for a keyword.

1. Free Keyword Generator 💡 Generate keyword ideas from our database of > 8 billion queries. Choose from different keyword ideas reports to fill your content calendar based on search intent.

14 free SEO tools (by Ahrefs) to help you rank higher + get more organic traffic 🚦 Let’s check them out 🧵👇

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NEW: Video SERP features 📺 You can now filter your list of organic keywords by those that contain "Videos" and/or "Video preview" SERP features in their SERP results. Learn how👇