#QuickSEOtip 💡 Search volume alone can be misleading, as pages rarely rank for one keyword. Look instead at the Traffic Potential metric—which shows how much search traffic you'd get if you were to rank #1 for your keyword.

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Filter out low-quality backlinks. Here's how: 🔹 Enter Site Explorer 🔹 Open the "Backlinks" report 🔹 Set a DR of min. 30 🔹 Sort OR filter links by Domain traffic Link building just got better!

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Find keyword cannibalisation issues (or wins) in 10 seconds: 1. Open the "Organic keywords" report in SE 2. Activate "Multiple URLs only" 3. Open the SERP overview 4. Click "Target only" to see cannibalized keywords Did you find any? 😊

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Discover high-volume, low-competition keywords 🔥 Perform an empty search in Keywords Explorer and get access to our database of 4 billion (!) U.S. keywords. Then use the "Search volume", "KD", & "Word count" filters to narrow in on lucrative keywords.

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Curious which subfolder drives the most organic traffic? Use the "Site structure" report to visualize any site structure in a 🌳-like format. For example, 3 of our translated blogs (IT, DE, ES) generate almost as much traffic as our top EN blog article.

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Find missed keyword opportunities that you can potentially cover as subtopics 🔎 Enter a keyword in Keywords Explorer and check the Top 10 search results under the "SERP overview". Select all URLs, then open them in the Content Gap tool. That simple!

#QuickSEOtip💡 Want to check if you can target similar keywords with one page? Here are 2 easy ways to see how much their SERPs overlap: 1. Put them in Keywords Explorer and go to the "Traffic Share > By Pages" report:

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Find low-competition topics with high-traffic potential 🎯 Search a broad topic in Content Explorer and apply these filters: 👉 Referring domains: Up to 5 👉 Organic traffic > 1,000 You'll get relevant pages with lots of organic traffic and few backlinks.

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Discover local citation opportunities 📍 Use the "Link Intersect" tool to find directories where your competitors' business profiles are mentioned, but yours isn't. Next, reach out to get featured on them to improve your local SEO.

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Want to check out your competitor's SEO strategy? 👀 1. Plug any URL into Site Explorer 2. Open the "Overview 2.0" report 3. View organic pages by traffic! For example, 6 pages are responsible for almost 25% of the traffic coming to Ahrefs blog 🤯

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Build links by guest-starring on podcasts 📻 1️⃣ Plug a guest's Twitter profile in SE 2️⃣ Open the "Backlinks" report 3️⃣ Filter "episode" or "podcast" in the referring page title This is a great link-building opportunity (provided the guest was on many podcasts)!

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Target featured snippet opportunities: ✅ Go to Site Explorer ✅ Open the "Organic keywords" report ✅ Filter for keywords in position 2-8 where target doesn't rank for featured snippets This will help you shortcut your way to the top position 🪜

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Find broken link building opportunities for large websites: 👉 Open the "Best by links" report 👉 Filter by 404 pages 👉 Sort by Referring Domains This will surface URLs with high authority from which you can get referrals.

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Find low-competition keywords in competitive niches 🥇 1. Enter a popular website with subfolders as category pages 2. Go to SE > Open the "Top subfolder"/"Top pages" report 3. Set a "KD" filter of max. 20 Then study those keywords!

#QuickSEOtip💡 Check if a website has linked to you: 👉 Go to Site Explorer 👉 Open the "Referring domains" report 👉 Enter a word in the search bar to look after websites that have linked to you This works for competitor websites too 😉

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Monitor the pace at which your competitors release content. Open the "Top pages" report under Site Explorer and filter for new pages. Then compare them with previous dates.

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Find resource pages that your competitor has links to, but you don't: 👉 Plug URL in Site Explorer 👉 Open the "Backlinks" report 👉 Filter after "resources" in the referring page title Then reach out and ask to be featured too 😉

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Want to see which affiliate programs your competitors are part of? Just open the "Outgoing links" report in Site Explorer. And filter after " https://t.co/OZ26wovKUv" or " https://t.co/UGFCmx13Mr" (or their affiliate UTM code) in the target URL.

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Optimize internal links for conversion pages 💰 Set up @Kevin_Indig's TIPR lite model within the "Page explorer" report in Site Audit. To check deltas between inlinks and outlinks, export the report to a spreadsheet and create an extra delta column.

#QuickSEOtip 💡 Want to search video topics you can rank for in Google? Open Content Explorer and type in: site: https://t.co/DrQZs9Cv1a inurl:watch title:[your topic] Then sort by "page traffic" & skim through videos with high traffic potential worth creating. Cha-ching! 🌟