20 Lesser-Known (Yet Powerful) Ahrefs Hacks

Even if you’re familiar with Ahrefs, you probably use one or two tools on a daily basis. But there are more you’re missing outon.

To help you get the most out of Ahrefs, we’ve put together 20 lesser-known use cases that can immediately enhance your SEO efforts.

Are you wondering what people around the world are searching for themost?

Run an empty search in Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer and gain access to 19.2 billion keywords across 200+ countries and regions. The U.S. keyword database alone counts ~4.5 billion keywords (the largest one in the whole industry).

From here, you can use a couple of filters to find high-volume, low-competition keywords in a matter of seconds.

For example, let’s search for topics withthese:

• Keyword Difficulty: up to20
• Search volume: between 5,000 and 10,000 visits/month
• Word count: max. 3words

Once we’ve done so, our list is narrowed down to ~198,000 lucrative keywords.

Rinse and repeat for your target country.

Let’s say you have the following keywords:

They seem to be the same topic. But how do you know whether you should target them with a single page or create separate pages?

We can find out by checking whether Google ranks similar search results forthem.

There are two easy ways to see how their SERPs overlap:

A. Put the keywords in Keywords Explorer and go to the Traffic share by pages report.

B. Use the SERP...