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Feb 28, 2022 20 tweets 8 min read Read on X
Five days of Russian full-scale military invasion in Ukraine.

Five days of death, pain & suffering.

And it's not over.

It's only getting worse.

I will continue writing these daily threads with updates about the war in Ukraine and pleading for your help to stop this nightmare.
We really REALLY need your help to stop this:

- retweet messages about the Russian invasion
- write to your polititians and demand real action
- donate to Ukrainian army & charities

If Russia conquers Ukraine, it won't stop there. It will continue attacking other countries.
Tonignt Russia was bombing Kyiv with something big.

Some sources say it could be "Iskander" shell on the video, but I'm not sure if it's true or not.

In any case, the explosion is utterly terrifying.
And this is the city of Kherson, under massive rocket bombing:
Ukrainian media keeps the spirits high and shares lots of content with our wins in many battles.

I see some infographics with Russian losses (planes, tanks, soldiers, etc).

But what bothers me is that our own losses are not being announced.

I understand that it's for the sake of keeping us calm and focused on the task at hand.

But I won't be surprised if our losses were just as big.

Which is terrifying.

#StopRussia #StopWarInUkraine #StopPutin
Putin tells his soldiers that Ukrainians are under severe oppression and are waiting to be saved and protected by the Russian army.

Hopefully these new road signs will plant a tiny seed of doubt in their heads.
It's not a comedy show, even though it surely looks like it.

It's how Russians are intimidated by their police.
A Ukrainian lady is trying to explain to Russian soldiers (in plain Russian) that there's no oppression of Russian-speaking people in Ukraine and they don't need to be saved or freed from anyone.

Russian solders only bring death and terror to Ukraine. Not peace.
Putin supplied his soldiers with food packs that expired in 2015.

The guy clearly doesn't give a flying f#ck about the well-being of his army.

Sure, why waste money feeding the cannon fodder?
The beautiful city of Odessa.

Once this war is over and Ukraine wins, please make sure to put Odessa on your list of places to visit. It's absolutely gorgeous in summer. You'll love it.
Heart-breaking...
Russian propaganda will keep saying that they only shell military objects...
Kharkiv, Freedom square, state administration building
...& the consequences:
HUGE explosion in Kharkiv region.

What kind of weapons of mass destruction have those freaking Russians started using? 🤬

#UkraineUnderAttack #StopWarInUkraine #StopRussia #StopPutin
Having two of my own children at home in Singapore safe and sound, these photos break my heart.

Every day I'm donating money to various Ukrainian charities (global and individual) to alleviate the suffering of my people at least a tiny little bit.
Another shell hitting right into the residential building!

This time it's Kherson (70 kilometers from my own hometown).

#UkraineUnderAttack
More Kherson :(

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How do you create "OG images" for your blog?

- Grab a random image from an article?
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Here at @ahrefs we just switched from custom design to auto-generating them.🙂 Image
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Check it out here:
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Since the topic of traffic estimations is top of mind again, let me throw my 2 cents in.

"How accurate are the traffic estimates in @ahrefs ?"

It depends 🤷‍♂️

Does the website get lots of traffic from:
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^ each of these types of search queries have their own caveats.

@ahrefs might not have enough long tails, or underreport the branded searches or lag behind some seasonal trends...

Those things might seem straightforward, but in reality they're super challenging to get right.
That is why the accuracy of organic search traffic estimations in Ahrefs can differ quite substantially for different kinds of websites.

[see the attached graph]

For some websites, we are off by less than 5%. For others, we can be off by more than 500%.
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^ they seem like one of the latest hot trends in SEO.

But I honestly don't get what all the hype is about. 🙂
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Then you rank for it and look it up in GSC..

And there's actually a bunch more clicks than Ahrefs has promised.

So..? :)
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Keyword Difficulty...

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- How is it even calculated?
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^ I answred all of these questions (& more) in my latest article on the Ahrefs Blog:

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TL;DR thread below 👇 Image
Let's start from the last Q:

"Is KD metric enough for gauging your chances to rank?"

NO!

Ask any professional SEO to MANUALLY gauge your chances to rank for a given keyword & I'm sure they will refrain from making any specific promises (if they're a true professional ofc).
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Like 42.
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That is obviously not possible.
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