7 Easy SEO Hacks using Ahrefs’ New Traffic Filter

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what's up marketers Sam oh here with HS the SEO tool that helps you grow your search traffic research your competitors and dominate your niche we just added a new traffic filter to our site Explorer tool that you're gonna love and today I'm gonna show you six tactical ways to use this to get seriously actionable data for your SEO and marketing efforts let's dive right in so I have one of our blog posts loaded up here with insight Explorer this filter here traffic is brand spanking new and it works in the same way as our other numeric filters you can set a max and a min number so for example by setting a minimum value of a hundred you'll only see referring pages that get at least a hundred organic search visitors per month by adding a traffic filter of even just ten you can significantly clean up your prospecting lists into manageable and targeted link prospects and this leads us straight into the first tip use the traffic filter to find the best link prospects well we have no real evidence that backlinks from pages with traffic are worth more from a search engine optimization standpoint I think it's a given that backlinks from pages with a lot of traffic are gonna be more valuable to you for one simple reason they can actually send you consistent and relevant referral traffic you can click on the traffic column name and you'll see the linking pages that get the most search traffic in descending order from here all you need to do is analyze the context of the link and formulate your outreach strategy to get them to link to your site the next step is to find the best lost backlinks to pursue the lost backlinks report is something that you may have tried but then quickly realize that a lot of the results are often from scraper sites and not worth your attention but with the traffic sorting options you can try to prevent losing links that are worth fighting for so I'll change the search to our entire blog to get a bigger pool of backlinks then I'll go to the lost backlinks report finally I'll set the filter it's the last 30 days because it'll broaden our pool and it's still a reasonable amount of time to reclaim the link now all you need to do is click on the traffic column to sort it in descending order and you can see right away whether you lost any links that are worth pursuing so this keyword research guide gets hundreds of search visitors and it looks like they room moved our link so I'll click over to it and verify that the link was indeed removed by doing a fine for our domain in their source code and you can see that it was removed these are the kinds of linking opportunities that you don't want to miss out on they've already linked to you before so they know who you are and perhaps it could have been a technical issue which unintentionally caused their page to return a 404 response code or another similar activity the next tip is to reclaim lost referral traffic from broken backlinks this one is super easy and it doesn't require any outreach at all if I click over to the broken backlinks support you'll see all of the broken backlinks pointing to pages on our blog again I'll sort the pages by traffic in descending order to see the referring pages that get the most search traffic and you'll see a couple here one links to an old author vial that was removed which we could redirect back to our blog and another one down here that looks like there was an extra character added to the URL by mistake now for the one with a typo we could create a redirect that goes directly to the blog post with a correct URL using this report you can easily prioritize which broken links need to be fixed and reclaim lost link equity and referral traffic the next technique is to find topic ideas with high search traffic potential and you can do this quite nicely in keywords Explorer tool but the thing is you'd have to choose the right seed keywords which can be somewhat of a guessing game the way that you do this in site Explorer is to enter in the domain of one of your organic search competitors since the links that they'll be attaining will likely be relevant to the topics you write about so let's look at health lens backlink profile next I'll start the traffic column in descending order and right here I can see some solid blog topic ideas with high traffic potential so if I had a health related website I could create a post about the benefits of apple cider vinegar or even some natural ways to lower your blood pressure because both of these topics clearly have a huge traffic potential the next tip is to find low competition keywords by analyzing a competitor's backlink profile we'll use health line again just enter in a minimum traffic number so let's say a thousand and then we'll sort there referring domains in ascending order this one here looks interesting which is called what is the price of test without insurance it has zero referring domains a domain rating of eight and the post gets over a thousand search visitors each month you can then click on the caret beside the URL and click through to the organic keywords report and you'll see all the keywords that they rank for and it seems like they're ranking for quite a few features snippets to which I'm sure contributes to their overall search traffic if you've been following my videos then you may remember a similar hack from within content explorer but the thing with this tactic is that site explorer and content explorer run on different databases so what you'll find here in site explorer may not be available in content explorer and vice versa the next step is for global SEO even though the use of the HR flank tag has been around for years translating websites and or blog posts is still extremely underutilized so you can analyze the backing profile of one of your organic search competitors click on the language drop down and see which languages are getting the most links so I'll select Spanish from the drop-down next I'll sort by traffic in descending order and you'll see some solid link prospects to build up your international presence or maybe national if that's your native language the final hack is a great one for e-commerce stores or people who sell a product entering the domain of a competitor who sells similar products as yours so let's say that we sell cooking tools so I'll research OCH SOCOM then I'll go to their backlink profile next I'll look for pages that get a good amount of traffic so let's say 500 search visitors per month finally I'll type in the word review in the include box now these posts from the wirecutter could be perfect outreach prospects where we can reach out send some products and hope they include us in their review there are a ton of things you can do with this traffic filter and sorting options try some the ones mentioned in this video get creative with your own combinations and let the rest of us here in the 8 chef's community know about them so keep grinding away get results subscribe and I'll see you in the next tutorial