If you are going to be in the SEO game, you have to pay attention to the latest and greatest Chrome extensions to keep up. In this video, I will review some needed, useful, and tactical extensions and plugins that will make your life easier.

We at SEMrush constantly monitor Google’s updates, as the search engine rarely stands still. While testing the updates that are most likely to impact advertisers, we have figured out the most important factors that will help increase the efficiency of your Google Ads campaigns in 2019. And we also explored some ways you can benefit from them.

Our last #SEMrushChat discussed “How to Hack Your Competitors’ Marketing Strategies“ with guest Joe Youngblood. The responses from our community showed that gathering data from your competitors is not as simple as most people believe. With experience comes knowledge, and our community offered their expertise. Keep reading to view their insights, which should help you when evaluating competitors.

Being the front runner of the digital marketing industry, we strive to provide our users with the best solutions. Today we are proud to share with you our latest breakthrough—a completely renovated backlink database!

How will artificial intelligence and machine-learning impact SEO in the future? Could GPT2 Destroy SEO and Transform Content Forever? Learn how it could scaling up content creation to the millions day, will exponentially accelerate problems currently enabled by human-generated content like social media troll initiatives & fake news proliferation. And, see what this means for the SEO community.

Our recent voice search study analyzed the results of over 50,000 queries split across three devices and included 10 key factors that have an influence on how a voice search answer is selected by Google Assistant. In this post, you will see our complete methodology, which describes the data gathering process in full.

With voice search so hotly discussed and debated this year, we decided to produce a study that will offer data you need. Discover which ranking factors are critical for success to do well on Android & other Google devices. Our findings will offer great insights to SEOs and marketers worldwide.

Google announced a major core update for June 2019, changed how search results look on mobile devices, added online food ordering directly from Google Search, Maps, and the Assistant, and much more! Keep reading to see all the changes over the last past weeks.

Need helpful and fast ways to gather a list of potential customers on Instagram? Andrea D‘Ottavio breaks down exactly how you can do that, shows you which tools to use and shows you how to use them in this Weekly Wisdom video.

Last week, the #SEMrushchat topic was “How to Write Explosive Content“. Our community contributed outstanding tactical strategies and insights that only come from a lot of experience. If you want to improve your content marketing strategies, read through these tips.

Industry-focused events provide you with things you cannot find elsewhere, such as career building opportunities or the sharing of best performing tactics. We are happy to present the most valuable insights we have gained lately from top content marketing conferences.

Strategies for using classic PR for SEO have been around for some time. But this post delves into a very specific tactic that almost any site owner can leverage for publicity via mentions and links, simply by using their own local data.

Last week, the #SEMrushchat topic was “Social Media to Grow Your Business“. I watched to see which tips our community contributed that I thought were unique and insightful, and I compiled the list for you. Check out the advice given and gain useful strategies you can put into place right now.

This post is for writers. Authors of fiction and non-fiction. Freelancers and copywriters. Bloggers and content creators. We all need information to help us hone our craft, we all crave inspiration when we’re feeling blocked, and we’re all short on time. It’s no wonder writing podcasts have exploded in popularity the last few years —(...)

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Instagram is continually making changes, have you kept up? If not, don‘t miss our Weekly Wisdom video with Mikhail Alfon. He breaks down the latest metrics you need to know about and provides insights all business Instagram users need to know. We have provided a transcript for you as well.

If you want to understand the principles of Amazon listing optimization and how to increase sales on Amazon this article will give you the strategies and best practices to help your listings be successful. Providing a high-level view of strategy to the specific element applications, you will come away with a breadth of knowledge that will be sure to take your Amazon sales to the next level.

Learn how quick and convenient access to website traffic data will help in strategic and tactical decision-making. The solutions provided by SEMrush Traffic Analytics API will be useful for marketing agencies and inbound marketers.

Take this funny quiz inspired by the Game of Thrones series and find out who you are in the Game of Digital Marketing!

John Warner outlines a personal conspiracy theory about machine learning‘s present and possible future impact on SERPs - from a talk given at the April 2019 BrightonSEO.

There will be 1.92 billion global digital buyers in 2019. Social media channels can become alternative marketplaces for eCommerce brands. In this article, we will explain how to use video content marketing to grow eCommerce brands on social media.

This week, Ross Tavendale is discussing content ideation, and ways to find ideas that will work for your target audience. Watch this week‘s video to find out how identity, social information, and utility play a huge part in creating content that will reach your audiences and results in sales.

Twitter recently announced the implementation of a new ad transparency feature amidst issues of being exploited for political purposes during the 2016 US Presidential Elections. This development does not only affect political parties, but also everyone else who runs social media advertisements. Find out how you can use to improve your campaigns!

Learn how Y Combinator March 2018 graduates made it (or not) after the investment. How did they hack the website traffic growth? Which startups revealed the highest potential? Research of 133 companies and top-performing marketing strategies.

This digest covers all the big announcements Google made during two of its biggest annual events: Google I/O and Google Marketing Live 2019. We have tried to review every notable update from these events, including the new AR feature in Google Search and Images, new capabilities in Lens (Google‘s image recognition technology), new tools for App promotion, new ad units, and much more.

Want to see examples of successfully implemented tone of voice illustrated by brands’ 404 pages? Dive in to learn how to find and implement a tone of voice for your brand in five steps. You will also discover why it is crucial for any business to have a consistent tone of voice and who has the expertise to define it.

“Create evergreen content that will always be relevant,” the experts say. And so you do. You think of an idea and spend days writing, tweaking, and perfecting every ageless, enduring syllable. You’re certain you have a winning post on your hands — the kind of evergreen content that can stand the test of time and(...)

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Transitional words and transitional phrases keep readers glued to the page by evoking curiosity or hinting something important is coming. They’re effective, and today you’re going to learn all about them.   Some writers seem to have a magic touch… One minute you’re reading their introduction, and before you know it you’ve reached the end(...)

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SEMrush has conducted the first display advertising study for ecommerce businesses on the market. Research is based on over 40 million impressions from the top Google Display Network (GDN) ecommerce advertisers, and 23 million impressions from the top GDN ecommerce publishers. We have uncovered insights you need, so keep reading.

This article will help you explore the benefits of our tracking and publishing solutions, which are available for 5 different networks: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.

In this video, Ross Tavendale has some great insights for you about Keyword Cannibalization. He explains the problems that could arise, how to determine if Keyword Cannibalization is a problem, which tools you can use, and how to evaluate issues.