A Complete SEO Audit Template + How to Use It
Use our free SEO audit template and follow our in-depth guide to get your site in shape.
Semrush Blog | SEO, SEM, AI Search, & Content Strategy
11 Best Market Research Tools: Features & Pricing
Get better insights into your industry, competitors, and target audience with these market research tools.
What Are Website Demographics? [Explained]
Website demographics describe the characteristics of the people who visit your website.
Competitive matrix: what it is + how to make one (with templates)
Use this strategic tool to compare your company‘s offerings against competitors’ in a visual format. See how.
What Is a Meta Description? (+ Examples & Tips)
A meta description is what you‘re reading right now—a page description that can appear in search results.
How to Create Your Buyer Personas: the What, the Why, and the How
Read this buyer persona creation guide to take a step towards making better business, product, and marketing decisions and investments.
Editors' Choice
What Are Backlinks in SEO & How Do I Get Them?
Backlinks are links pointing to your website from other sites and can improve your website’s visibility.
7 Free SEO Tools to Boost Rankings & Traffic
The best free SEO tools include Keyword Magic Tool, Position Tracking, and Ubersuggest.
Link Building for SEO: A Guide to the Basics
Link building can give you the SEO edge you need to get more Google traffic. Here‘s your quick-start guide.
What is competitive analysis? How to do one (+ template)
Competitive analysis is the process of analyzing competitors’ products, marketing, and AI visibility to improve your strategy.
SEO
What is SEO? A complete guide to search engine optimization
SEO is how you earn visibility in search results and AI answers. Learn how to start in this guide.
What is competitive analysis? How to do one (+ template)
Competitive analysis is the process of analyzing competitors’ products, marketing, and AI visibility to improve your strategy.
Marketing
What is AI sentiment analysis? A marketer’s guide
AI sentiment analysis tells you what AI platforms are saying about your brand, whether it‘s accurate, and how to fix it when it isn‘t.
Google Analytics for beginners: the complete GA4 guide
A practical Google Analytics for beginners guide: how to set up GA4, link Search Console and Google Ads, and turn each report into a marketing decision.
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News & Research
AI Overviews are expanding across commercial intent search [Study]
Google’s move to extend AI Overviews into a wider variety of SERPs is disrupting not only informational searches, but also searches with commercial intent and advertising value.
10 Small Business Trends for 2025
Learn the top small business trends for 2025 to stay ahead of the competition and keep employees happy.
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.
Average CPM for Display Ads: Benchmarks by Industry [Study]
If you‘re looking for CPM benchmarks for digital ads in your industry, this study is for you.
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.
Top YouTube Searches
We‘ve compiled the top YouTube searches of 2022. Get the YouTube search insights you‘re looking for.