Ryan Law
@thinking_slow
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Director of Content Marketing @Ahrefs • I tweet about writing, SEO & marketing • Solving the hard parts of content marketing: https://t.co/VCUFhtFJaP
Aylesbury, UK
Joined September 2014
i soft-launched my course last week. 154 people are currently working through it 😱 it's $99. it contains everything i know about thought leadership content: ~ ideation frameworks ~ writing techniques ~ distribution tactics ~ examples and teardowns https://t.co/RROAagZXuK
courses.ryanlaw.me
Learn how to write thought leadership content in this self-paced video course. Discover frameworks for ideation, writing techniques to improve credibility, persuasiveness and memorability, and...
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our recent research has been cited by the BBC, CNN, Wired, The Atlantic, etc. i'm still learning, but here are some of the crucial traits that define good research: - it provides data to validate an implicit hunch (e.g. our study that "proved" that AI Overviews reduced website
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Imagine if everything in life was as good as gold. It’s easy to invest in, could help grow your wealth, and protect it too. A timeless asset that stands strong when others may not.
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if you want to spend 30 minutes on 𝗉̶𝗋̶𝗈̶𝖼̶𝗋̶𝖺̶𝗌̶𝗍̶𝗂̶𝗇̶𝖺̶𝗍̶𝗂̶𝗈̶𝗇̶ personal development this Friday, my whole .@ahrefsevolve talk is available to watch on the website! raving fans have described it as "definitely a talk", "better than filing my tax return", and
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i'd like to speak at a couple UK SEO conferences next year (so much research to share), anyone got any recommendations i should check out? :)
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Stoked to share some of the details behind a project I've been working on for a long time, in partnership with @ahrefs — and built on top of @laravelphp Spent YEARS wanting this to exist, so I finally just built it.
Google search is broken. Social algorithms suppress links. Finding good independent writing online has never been harder. We built something to fix that: 🌍 https://t.co/nwkLqVi5NE
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phew, fixed it. changed the sameAs schema from https://t.co/7skNsi5Vbj to my author page "sameAs": [" https://t.co/ANh3uzOf9E] } (still seems intensely dumb that schema on a third-party website could have such an impact on another brand's knowledge panel)
NEVER doubt the unholy power of properly implemented schema markup: i added schema markup to my personal website. i wanted to see if it would become more visible in AI search. all the usual stuff: person, website, organisation. and now Google thinks Ahrefs is my personal
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New SEO data study: Ahrefs discovered that AI Overviews are MUCH more likely to trigger on informational, non-brand + longer search queries:
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new research! we analyzed 146 million SERPs and 86 keyword categories to discover what triggers AI Overviews to appear: - 44.1% of all Medical YMYL queries trigger an AIO! 🏥 (in fact, AI Overviews are MORE common for YMYL queries than non-YMYL queries) - AIOs appear on 9.5% of
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We analyzed 146 million SERPs to see how often AI Overviews appeared for 86 different keyword traits, from YMYL to CPC to query length.
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Here are the top 5 guests of Ahrefs Podcast "Season 4" (by organic views): ⭐ 1. Amos Bar-Joseph - He’s been getting a ton of attention on LinkedIn for automating his business with swarms of AI agents, and pursuing a goal of $10M ARR per employee. We hopped on a call and I
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i find the idea of "Pareto prompting" very helpful: what is the 20% of any given prompt that's responsible for 80% of the output? it's very easy for prompts to become bloated things, if you get a decent output you might be reluctant to trim the prompt for fear of destroying
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6 key takeaways from my "AI Search" episode of @ahrefs Podcast with Ryan Law (@thinking_slow): (...where we discussed insights from over a dozen data studies our team ran this year...) ▫️1. Off-page SEO is back (but not backlinks). The strongest correlation we found for
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NEVER doubt the unholy power of properly implemented schema markup: i added schema markup to my personal website. i wanted to see if it would become more visible in AI search. all the usual stuff: person, website, organisation. and now Google thinks Ahrefs is my personal
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5 reasons content can "rank" in ChatGPT... but not Google: --- my awesome colleague @Lou_Linehan just analyzed the top 1000 most-cited pages in ChatGPT and found something kinda crazy: 28.3% of pages had ZERO organic traffic or keyword rankings, according to @ahrefs data. we
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we just published our definitive guide to AI search: How to Win in AI Search (Real Data, No Hype) 46 minutes, 0 BS, 100% practical, data-backed recommendations to make your company more visible in ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and more. we covered: (01:06) The Current
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28% of ChatGPT’s most-cited pages have ZERO organic visibility in Google 🤯 my awesome colleague @Lou_Linehan analyzed the 1,000 most-cited pages in ChatGPT, via our ChatGPT index in Ahrefs Brand Radar. my favorite finding: nearly ONE IN THREE of ChatGPT’s most cited pages
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what's the real value of a ranking OUTSIDE the top 10 results? we analysed billions upon billions of clicks and impressions to find out. here's a very quick video recap of our latest research (including some conjecture about Google's num=100 change):
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Much of the blog traffic Ahrefs lost in the last year was lost to Google, Reddit, Seer Interactive, and Wikipedia. I can see who gained when we lost for every single page. Want to know how you can find the same for your website? I'll show you. 🧵
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