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Best Practices

Practical SEO tips and recommendations.

14 articles in this collection
Written by Helen and May Soon [Ahrefs]

General

What are the main differences between SEO and SEM?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

How do SEO spiders crawl the web?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

Do search engines use domain authority/domain rating as a ranking factor?

If search engines use Domain Rating as an important ranking factor, why doesn’t Ahrefs include it to the ranking difficulty score?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

Keyword Research

How can I check organic search traffic of sites I don't own?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

How do I find out what keywords a website is ranking for?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

What are the best practices for doing keyword research with the help of Ahrefs?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

Competitor Research

Is there a way to compare a few websites to see what referring domains my competitors have that I am missing?

Find out how to use Link Intersect to compare a few websites to see Referring Domains.

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

Link Building

What makes a high-quality backlink?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

What are broken backlinks?

Written by Helen
Updated over a week ago

What are broken links?

Written by Helen
Updated over a week ago

How can I check broken outbound links of my website?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

Can I build high-quality backlinks with the help of directories?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

Is there an accurate way to detect spammy backlinks?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago

Reporting

What is the best way to track my Google rankings for multiple keywords?

Written by May Soon [Ahrefs]
Updated over a week ago