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  People often ask us, "How do I increase mywebsite's domain-level authority?" And I often avoid this question becausethe score itself shouldn't be your focus. What you should focus on is what causesthat score to rise. And that's high-quality backlinks fromauthoritative websites. So today, we're going to talk about the threecore factors that'll improve your website's link authority in a meaningful way. Stay tuned. [music]  So if you're new to the concept of websiteauthority, it's actually a made-up metric from SEO tool companies. Now, whether you call it Domain Rating, DomainAuthority, website authority, or whatever, they all serve the same general purpose. They try to measure the relative "strength"of a website's backlink profile compared to other sites in their index.  https://forums.factorio.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=137955 Now, while some tools claim that their websiteauthority metric can predict a website'...

  Did you know Ahrefs has free SEO tools? Well, in this tutorial I'm going to show youfive of our best free SEO tools and how you can use them together to actuallyimprove SEO for your site. Stay tuned. [music] So over the past year we've released around14 free SEO tools, most of which can be found in the footer of our website. Now, because I know you love workflows andprocesses, this tutorial is going to show you how to use them together and hopefullygain some traction from organic search. So let's kick this off with our first freeSEO tool that'll help you keep your site in good health.  And that's Ahrefs' Webmaster Tools or AWT. AWT includes two of our core tools andwill work for any websites you own. The first tool is Site audit, which will scan yourwebsite for over 100 technical and on-page SEO issues and organize them into digestible reports. Now, I've already verified our site andran an audit for ahrefs.com. So let's head over to the Overview report...

Google uses hundreds of ranking signals andtweaks their algorithm around 500-600 times per year. And many of these ranking factorscan't even be looked at independently. It's not to say that they're unimportant, butan average person doing SEO for their site doesn't need to worry about 200+ranking factors.  So today, I'm going to walk you throughthe most important Google ranking factors so you stay focused on the thingsthat matter most. Stay tuned. [music] The first and arguably most importantranking factor are quality backlinks. Backlinks form the basis of PageRank, whichis the foundation of Google's ranking algorithm. http://flgclassifieds.cce.cornell.edu/author/tricksbeam112 /  They mention it on their "how search works"page, they've tweeted about it, and independent studies confirm the relationship betweenbacklinks and organic traffic. But not all links are created equal. There are a lot of factors that contributeto a backlinks ability to push a ...

 Internal linking is arguably the mostunderrated SEO strategy. You don't have to ask anyone to link to you,it's completely free with a 100% success rate, and internal links can actuallyhelp you rank higher in Google.  So today, I'm going to show you how to useinternal links to rank higher in Google. Stay tuned. [music] If you're new to SEO, internal links aresimply links from one page to another on the same website. And they're important for three main reasons. First, they help search engines like Googlediscover new pages so they can be added to their index.  Second, internal links help pass PageRankaround your site, effectively "powering"  other pages. And if you're unfamiliar with PageRank,it's a mathematical formula that tries to determine the "value of a page." And Google themselves have said that after18 years, they still use PageRank to rank pages. And third, internal links help search enginesto better understand what a page is abou...

 How to do Backlink Analysis in Ahrefs tool [Basic to Advance] If you’re an experienced SEO, what I’mabout to share with you in the next few minutes may seem somewhat basic, but there will betwo follow-up videos with advanced techniques that you’re going to love and I promiseyou this. By the end of this series, there are two thingsyou’ll be able to do. The first is to be able to analyze any websiteand uncover potentially thousands of link prospects. And the second thing is that we're going tospeed up your link building efficiency using some really, really cool hacks that you maynot be using yet. So, let’s jump right in.  First, we’ll go to Site Explorer and enterin a domain or URL that you want to analyze. So, I’ll use the domain, contentmarketinginstitute.comfor our example. Here, you’ll see a top level view of thewebsite you’re analyzing. https://www.steinberg.net/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=293783 And since we’re just focusing on backlinkanalysis and link b...

Is it Ahrefs or A hrefs? Call it what you will, but we still have thesame great SEO tools. Now, you might have heard about us from afriend or maybe you learned a cool hack from your favorite blogger.    But how do you actually use Ahrefs to getmore traffic to your website and improve SEO? You're about to find out in this video. Stay tuned. [music] What's up marketers? Sam Oh here with Ahrefs, the SEO tool thathelps you grow your search traffic, research your competitors and dominate your niche.    Now while there are virtually an endless numberof ways you can use our toolset, today, I'm going to share with you 11 ways to use Ahrefsthat can actually help you get more traffic and hopefully, more business. Let's get to it.     https://www.theverge.com/users/Tofik109   The first feature Ahrefs is by far my favorite,and that's to find content opportunities based on your competitor's pages that get the mostsearch traffic. Think about this. If you could ...