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12 Ways to Use Ahrefs for SEO (You Might Not Know)
This is probable the stoopidest use case of ahrefs, but actually find myself using it often. It’s pretty useful,
paste a list of items in KW explorer and it adds commas. That’s it. That’s the tip. Vastly under-utilizing the power of Ahrefs, but it is useful!
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1. Finding money keywords for affiliate/niche sites
Finding low comp affiliate keywords:
- Open up Site Explorer for (http://amzn.to)
- Apply filters:
- Link type: Content
- Platform: Blogs
- Language: English
- Traffic: From 100 (or whatever)
- Add a broad KW to filter (if looking for a specific niche)
This also works for other affiliate network domains:
- Clickbank: http://hop.clickbank.net
- Shareasale: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm
- Awin: http://awin1.com
- CJ: http://kqzyfj.com
- Rakuten: https://signup.linkshare.com/publishers/
2) Topic research in new niches:
How to add more topical relevance to an article
Go to the Top Pages report and pick a page. Pick a page that is performing well.
Copy the Top keyword and then paste that into Keywords Explorer + checkout the Keyword ideas by search volume section
Now you have a blueprint for topics (that get searched) to add + flesh out in your article…
Having same terms:
I use these as the headings to structure the content
Questions:
I use these to drop in a FAQ section at the end of the article
Also rank for:
I include these naturally throughout the content. Sometimes I spot new article ideas to write here (so make a note + internally link later)
This is a simple process to make a page more relevant.
But does this work?
Yes. Here’s an arbitrary graph from GA:
And here’s some rankings:
Oh and this isn’t one of those articles with an inflated word count full of fluff content.
Topically relevant > word count for word counts sake.
But it doesn’t always work.
Sometimes you spend too long with your head down SEOing that you let other things slip.
I lost out on a high volume keyword that had just creeped on to page 2.
3) Building out SEO content plans:
4) Reviewing sites for sale:
5) Creating data-backed content briefs:
6) Finding opportunities your competitors have missed:
7) Researching sites that are crushing it (for better or worse):
8) Planning keyword-focused site structures:
9) Combining with scraping to find SEO opportunities:
10) Reverse engineering what’s working in the SERPs:
11) Merging with other tools to find even more opportunities:
12) Planning out logical topic clusters:
This isn’t a paid ad or anything & I get no kickback from Ahrefs. I just love using the tool to do SEO stuff.
(did I say that right @timsoulo? 🤭 )