1) 90.63% of pages get no organic search traffic from Google.
That's based on our study of >1B pages in Ahrefs' Content Explorer index.
2) The top-ranking page gets the most search traffic only 49% of the time.
3) Only 5.7% of pages will rank in the top 10 search results within a year of publication.
4) According to our title tags study, 7.4% of top-ranking pages don’t have a title tag:
5) Google rewrites title tags 33.4% of the time.
6) Google is now 33% more likely to rewrite title tags.
7) When Google ignores the title tag, it uses the H1 tag 50.76% of the time instead.
8) Google is 57% more likely to rewrite title tags that are too long.
9) 25.02% of top-ranking pages don’t have meta descriptions.
10) 40.61% of pages have meta descriptions that truncate.
11) Google shows meta descriptions in search results only 37.22% of the time. That rises to 40.35% for fat-head keyword—and drops to 34.38% for long-tails.
12) The average top-ranking page also ranks in the top 10 search results for nearly 1,000 other relevant keywords.
13) The average page in the top 10 on Google is 2+ years old.
14) 33% of websites pass the Core Web Vitals threshold.
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10 (free!) keyword research tools that *aren't* Google Keyword Planner 🔑
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1. Google Trends
Use Google Trends to visualize the relative search popularity of a keyword over time—and to avoid targeting the wrong keywords.
Looking at the below, which would you choose to create content for?
If your answer's the Apple Watch Series 3, think again. 🤔
1. Google Trends (continued)
Search volumes are averages taken over many months or years.
Looking at data for the past 12 months in Google Trends, you'll notice searches for "apple watch series 5" overtook "apple watch series 3"—so prioritizing the former would make more sense.
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2. Google Search Console
This free service helps you monitor + troubleshoot your website’s appearance in the search results, and has the most accurate data on Google's search-related products.
Price: Free
Alternative: None—but Ahrefs Webmaster Tools (free!) complements it.