This week’s ask an SEO question comes from Jubi in Kerala: “We changed our on-page content recently as keyword positions were nil. After updating the content, the keywords started appearing, but after four weeks the keywords went back to nil. Why is this so, any suggestions? [Page provided]” Great to meet you, Jubi, and thank you…
For businesses of all sizes, good blog/competitive-intelligence/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=en-competitive-intel-tools-07012022″>competitive intelligence is crucial for success. Business owners and marketers need to understand the competition, stay ahead of industry trends, and adapt quickly as markets shift. Conducting custom market research or purchacing quality market intelligence software can be prohibitively expensive. And cheaper options, like “state of the industry” reports,…
Create multi-format content Most teams stop at blog posts, and that’s a big mistake. The brands that own the SERPs, like HubSpot, Monday.com, and Salesforce, build topic clusters beyond the blog. They include webinars, videos, social content, and more. Diversifying formats helps them show up across every stage of the buyer journey. To do the…
We analyzed 900,000 newly created web pages in April 2025 and found that 74.2% of them contained AI-generated content. At Ahrefs, our machine learning team has built an AI content detector (codenamed bot_or_not). We’re about to release the AI content detector for Ahrefs customers to use, so we decided to put it through its paces…
Google’s John Mueller has clarified that all links within AI Overviews (AIOs) share a single position in Google Search Console. SEO consultant Gianluca Fiorelli asked Mueller how Search Console tracks position data for URLs in Google’s AI-generated answer boxes. Mueller referenced Google’s official help docs, explaining: “Basically an AIO counts as a block, so it’s…
Great content is the bedrock of SEO. Without it: You’ll fail to grow traffic on your site You’ll be susceptible to penalties like the Google Helpful content update You’ll struggle to increase the number and type of keywords you rank for You’ll struggle to get backlinks and build your domain’s authority In this actionable case…
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blog/”>Blog / SEO-strategy/”>SEO Strategy / Programmatic SEO: What it is and how to make it work for you Written by Oleksii Khoroshun SEO Specialist at SE Ranking, Oleksii has extensive expertise in technical and on-page SEO as well as in content marketing and off-page optimization. Programmatic SEO is a smart strategy for building high-impact pages…
Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry is also the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable and the News Editor of Search Engine Land. He is well known & respected for his…
A WordPress plugin that automatically posts content scraped from other websites has been discovered to contain a critical vulnerability that allows anyone to upload malicious files to affected websites. The severity of the vulnerability is rated at 9.8 on a scale of 1-10. Crawlomatic Multisite Scraper Post Generator Plugin for WordPress The Crawlomatic WordPress plugin…
Whether you’re new to SEO or just want to make sure your site is primed for search engine visibility, having a guide going over the most important elements can help. Create a copy of our free SEO audit template and follow the step-by-step instructions to keep your site in shape. Why Do You Need to…