Professionals use specs to invite others to participate in the work. One kind of spec outlines the solution. In clear language, it defines the work to be done. A good solution spec defines an outcome with no room for error or variety. “It’s this. Not that, not that, but this. If it’s this, we’re done.”…

But here’s what matters more: in our case, the mentions that do include links appear on high-volume queries. This means your actual visibility—measured in impressions rather than raw citation counts—can be far higher than your link percentage suggests. In this… Read more ›

At Ahrefs, we read and share articles all the time for marketing and SEO inspiration. In fact, SQ puts a call-out for the best SEO blogs every week, to curate the Ahrefs’ Digest. Below you’ll find our favorites–the blogs that… Read more ›

This means you can ask: ‘Show me which blog posts lost traffic last month, what keywords they rank for in Ahrefs, and how many support tickets mentioned those topics in Intercom’—and get one consolidated answer instead of logging into three… Read more ›

Empathy is difficult. I’m not you, I can’t imagine the path you’ve traveled, the stories you tell yourself and the pressures you’re under. But real gratitude requires empathy. Everyone is under the circumstances. Everyone does the best they think they can with the options they think they have. All of us know what something is…

This pains me greatly to say, but: That typo in your last campaign may have made your audience more engaged. That’s because in a world where you don’t always know what’s real and what’s AI — and trust in general is in rapid decline — a little tyop indicates that a real human wrote it…

Every day, this blog is automatically echoed on my Linkedin channel. Over the last few years, the traffic to those posts on Linkedin is down more than 90%. Understandable. Platforms evolve, people shift their patterns and interests. I recently did a manual post on Linkedin, though, and was amazed to discover that within minutes, it…

We hit 500% of our Kickstarter goal, and they’re now available to the public. A lot of folks have answers for us about AI, but these decks are designed to help us with the questions. Not just questions about the systems at work, but about how we might use them. The Infinite Adventure deck puts…

Loop marketing represents a fundamental shift from traditional linear funnels to a continuous growth engine, where every customer interaction creates expansion opportunities. Companies practicing loop marketing — whether through growth marketing strategies, behavioral marketing triggers, or integrated offline marketing touchpoints — transform one-time buyers into active participants who fuel sustainable business growth. Loop Marketing is…

Gall’s Law is appropriately simple: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.” This is why sudden change rarely…