Best Practices

Practical SEO tips and recommendations.

15 articles in this collection
Written by Helen, May, and Erik

General

What are the main differences between SEO and SEM?

Written by May
Updated over a week ago

How do SEO spiders crawl the web?

Written by May
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
Updated over a week ago

Noreferrer / noopener / nofollow attributes

Find out what noreferrer, noopener, nofollow attributes are and if they affect your SEO performance

Written by Erik
Updated over a week ago

Keyword Research

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

Written by May
Updated over a week ago

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

Written by May
Updated over a week ago

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

Written by May
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
Updated over a week ago

Link Building

What makes a high-quality backlink?

Written by May
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
Updated over a week ago

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

Written by May
Updated over a week ago

Is there an accurate way to detect spammy backlinks?

Written by May
Updated over a week ago

Reporting

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

Written by May
Updated over a week ago