Author: saqibkhan

  • How to build links

    Conceptually, most popular link building strategies fall into one of the following four buckets: You can also hire an experienced link builder (or a link building agency) to do it all for you. And that’s what a lot of digital marketers and business owners eventually end up doing because no matter which tactics you choose,…

  • The basics of link building

    You can think of links as votes. When other websites are linking to your page, it tells Google that your page is somehow important. Which is essentially Google’s PageRank algorithm in a nutshell. So the more high-quality backlinks a page has, the higher it tends to rank in Google. And if you want to outrank it with…

  • Make the page fast and mobile-friendly

    To rank your pages, Google will also take into account a set of “page experience signals.” These include (but are not limited to): These are problems that can be spotted on individual pages but usually need to be solved at the site level. Check out our guides to learn more:

  • Get rich results with schema markup

    Rich results are search results that give searchers extra information about a page, like product ratings or recipe details. Not every type of search is eligible to show rich results, but for those that are, rich results help drive extra clicks to your page. To be eligible for rich snippets, you need to apply a simple…

  • Optimize for featured snippets

    Featured snippets are special search results that sit above the main organic results in a place known as “position zero”: In searches where Google thinks visitors will benefit from a short, direct answer, they’ll often choose an excerpt from a high-ranking page to show. Plenty of queries have a featured snippet, so it’s worth trying…

  • Show off your experience and expertise

    Google’s quality rater guidelines encourage authors to demonstrate “EEAT” in their content: expertise, experience, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness. These guidelines are used by Google’s quality raters, and although they’re not a direct ranking factor, they give a clear indication of the type of content Google aims to reward in its search results. You can emphasize your EEAT in a few different…

  • Fill your content gaps

    You can often improve your ranking by filling any “content gaps” in your article: important information that other articles cover, but you don’t. Adding new sections to include this missing information can help you rank for extra long-tail keyword variations and improve your ranking for your primary keyword. In the image below, we can see an article…

  • Optimize your images

    Images from your pages can rank in Google image search and send more traffic your way. You need to do three things to optimize them: You can use the Images report in Ahrefs’ Site Audit to check your site for images with missing alt text (and flag a host of other possible optimization opportunities, like oversized images):

  • Add external links

    Google says linking to other websites is a great way to provide value to your users External linking is also a good idea whenever you want to cite information from elsewhere on the web, or send the reader to an authoritative third-party source of information. We do this all the time on the Ahrefs blog: Over time,…

  • Add internal links in useful places

    If you have them, link to relevant pages on your website. Internal links help visitors navigate your website and increase the odds that they’ll find the information they need—but there are benefits for SEO too. Internal linking helps search engines find all the pages on your website, understand what each page is about (and how they relate to…