📰 Ahrefs Blog

Using Ahrefs Web Analytics and Bot Analytics, we analyzed the server logs and live traffic of 137K domains, plus the user agents hitting all of them. Here’s wha

AI disrupting search has handed SEOs the seat at the table they’ve spent years trying to earn, and for the first time, the C-suite is genuinely paying attention

Writing formulaic SEO content, updating old articles, reporting on blog performance, even running complicated performance analyses… these are all things Agent A

It’s a big change in how Google interprets intent and presents information. Think of it as a dynamically-generated, “magazine” SERP, that curates AI summaries a

The hard part in content marketing is the information—ideas, verified facts, and reference material. And that’s exactly where these tools fall short. I learned

The real issue was never AI or “automatically generated content” itself. Google penalizes the same thing it always has: content that is thin, unhelpful, and spa

But there’s a practical distinction worth drawing, and it changes how you apply the idea. Search intent is about optimizing content to match what the search res

That may sound defeatist, but unfortunately that’s just how the web works. Rankings slip, competitors improve, search intent shifts, and what was your best-perf

The problem: ChatGPT doesn’t have “rankings”. At least not in any traditional sense. Its responses are probabilistic: different every time, with brands appearin