The SEO, SEM, PPC and Content Marketing Blog - Semrush

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A Guide to The Biggest SEO Myths on The Web

In this guide, respected researcher and SEO, Bill Slawski, reviews some of the biggest SEO myths and misconceptions, while giving recommendations and resources for finding the truth. He discusses LSI, Rankbrain, TrustRank, & TF-IDF while providing info for understanding Google better.

Bill SlawskiSep 23, 2019

How To Find Duplicate and Low Value Archives with XPath & Custom Extraction

General Marketing

10 min read

Less Is More: How To Find Duplicate and Low Value Archives with XPath & Custom Extraction

Low-value pages can negatively influence your business. With this post, you will learn a method which will help you find blog archive and product listing pages with little or no content, and so you can implement the required actions.

Francesco BaldiniSep 20, 2019

General Marketing

8 min read

Researching New Markets: A 3-Step Guide

A comprehensive guide by Semrush helps to analyze a new market in three big steps. Based on best practices and functionalities of the brand new Market Explorer tool.

Elena KozlovaSep 18, 2019

General SEO

10 min read

Google NLP API Tool: Optimize Your Content to the Next Level

Do you want to optimize your content to the “next level“ using Google NLP Tool? By using the powerful tool, you will be more confident about your content that is optimized for the same niche you want to rank to the top of Google‘s organic search.

M Aamir MursleenSep 13, 2019

What Google Trends Teaches Us About When To Trust Data

General SEO

7 min read

What Google Trends Teaches Us About When To Trust Data

Numbers (and people) can definitely misrepresent the truth. In the content marketing world, we see a lot of misleading statistics attempting to build trust with audiences. Even scarier, a lot of content producers don’t even realize they’re doing it. In this post, I use Google Trends to illustrate why critical thinking should be applied before you “trust“ data.

Chris LewisAug 30, 2019

How To Deal with a Negative Review Attack

General SEO

3 min read

How To Deal with a Negative Review Attack

Google My Business Product Expert provides step by step instructions on how to deal with and properly document and report fake negative reviews. Learn how to go past flagging and properly report and remove fake reviews.

Jason BrownAug 21, 2019

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Semrush Copilot: Your AI Assistant for Faster SEO Insights

General SEO

7 min read

Semrush Copilot: Your AI Assistant for Faster SEO Insights

Semrush Copilot helps you save time in common SEO analysis and planning. It does this by automatically analyzing several key Semrush tools and reports to offer actionable recommendations and present a prioritized list of SEO activities.

Brenna KellyMar 19, 2024

Keyword Research

18 min read

Keyword Research for SEO: What It Is & How to Do It

You can do keyword research by looking at search suggestions in Google or using a keyword research tool.

Rachel HandleyFeb 28, 2024

Link Building

12 min read

What Is Off-Page SEO? A Guide to Off-Page SEO Strategy

Off-page SEO is a set of strategies, such as link building, used outside of a website to improve its rankings.

Carlos SilvaFeb 16, 2024

How to Check Website Accessibility in 2024

Technical SEO

7 min read

How to Check Website Accessibility in 2024

Is it time to check your website accessibility? Remember that accessibility is about improving the user experience for everyone – including people with disabilities.

Luke HarselFeb 14, 2024

Technical SEO

14 min read

What Is Technical SEO? Basics and Best Practices

Technical SEO is the process of optimizing a website for search engines. Read this guide to get started.

Tushar PolFeb 08, 2024

On-page SEO

14 min read

On-Page SEO: What It Is and How to Do It

This is a guide to on-page SEO. Learn exactly how to optimize your titles, descriptions, and content in 2024.

Kelly LyonsDec 15, 2023

Content

9 min read

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Content Marketing Strategy

This step-by-step guide teaches you how to build a content marketing strategy for your business.

Tushar PolMar 19, 2024

Paid Advertising

8 min read

Banner Ad Sizes: How to Choose the Right Size

Knowing your options is important so you can visualize how your ad will look, and how easily people will be able to see the ad.

Grace BrennanMar 18, 2024

Paid Advertising

9 min read

How to Make an Ad, Step by Step

A great ad doesn’t bombard audiences’ in their newsfeed, it conveys a clear brand message, offers value, and earns users’ attention.

Grace BrennanMar 14, 2024

Competitor Intelligence & Research

20 min read

What Is a Competitive Analysis & How to Do It (With Template)

Grab our competitor analysis template to learn more about your competitors. And how you can stay ahead.

Kelly LyonsDec 14, 2023

Ecommerce

12 min read

What Is Ecommerce? A Beginner’s Guide to Online Business

Ecommerce, short for electronic commerce, involves buying and selling goods and services online.

Marilyn WilkinsonDec 13, 2023

General Marketing

16 min read

What Is Marketing? Types, Channels, and Strategies

Learn what marketing is and how brands should use it to stand out from competitors and grow revenue.

Semrush TeamDec 08, 2023

Original Research & Studies

7 min read

10 Small Business Trends for 2024

Learn the top small business trends for 2024 to stay ahead of the competition and keep employees happy.

Ankit VoraFeb 19, 2024

Major 2023 Semrush Updates: Get Results with the Help of New Features

News & Research

16 min read

Major 2023 Semrush Updates: Get Results with the Help of New Features

We made seismic product updates in 2023. Check out our best and brightest changes at Semrush.

Anastasiia YashchenkoDec 13, 2023

Which Companies Spend the Most on Digital Advertising? [Study]

News & Research

7 min read

Which Companies Spend the Most on Digital Advertising? [Study]

Learn what companies spend the most on advertising across 12 separate industries—and how you can gather competitive ad intel for your own niche.

Shannon O‘SheaNov 14, 2023

Advertising Trends: CPM Benchmarks by Industry [Study]

Original Research & Studies

4 min read

Advertising Trends: CPM Benchmarks by Industry [Study]

If you‘re looking for CPM benchmarks for digital ads in your industry, this study is for you.

Luke HarselOct 23, 2023

Advertising Trends: The Most Popular Types of Digital Ads [Study]

Original Research & Studies

6 min read

Advertising Trends: The Most Popular Types of Digital Ads [Study]

By partnering with AdClarity, we’ve investigated ad types, ad channels and ad spend so you can plan and strategize with the kind of competitive edge that other players don’t have in your industry.

Luke HarselOct 10, 2023

Original Research & Studies

2 min read