Building more and better internal links should be an ongoing activity for a growing website or blog. It’s helpful for site users and also for SEO.

Unfortunately, it’s also one of those website tasks that’s easy to put off, postpone, or ignore until problems arise.

But with a little planning, discipline, and sometimes a few helpful tools, it’s not too hard to get much better at internal linking. Your users and website SEO will both benefit from it.

Learn more about internal link-building, including strategies, tips, and tools to make it easier and more effective.

You may not know it yet, but there’s a pretty good chance that some of your important website pages and posts are actually what’s called ‘orphan content’ in the SEO world.

This orphan content, which has no incoming internal links, can result in a number of problems that hurt your website’s organic search visibility and SEO performance.

Fortunately, there are several fairly straightforward ways to find, fix, and prevent orphan content problems.

Let’s take a closer look below at what orphan content is, how it can happen (often very unintentionally), plus how to identify, fix, and prevent it.

Dealing with content that is falling in organic search rankings and traffic is common in SEO.

There can be many reasons for such declines, and the goal is usually to find and fix these problems to restore rankings and website traffic.

This post covers what’s known as SEO content decay, including ways to identify, correct, and even prevent these organic search ranking and traffic drops before they happen.

Content briefs, especially for longer web articles, blog posts, and other long-form content, are all the rage these days.

And SEO content briefs are especially important since they are designed intentionally to boost the target content’s visibility in organic search results. Hence the term ‘SEO’ in the name.

This post covers the topic of SEO content briefs and also introduces a few software tools designed to help build them better, faster, and with organic search optimization at the heart of the mission.

As a complete and widely-respected SEO software platform, Ahrefs has earned its reputation as a go-to SEO toolkit.

So, why doesn’t everyone use it? And what are some of the viable Ahrefs alternatives available for those looking?

This post introduces several options to consider as good alternatives to Ahrefs, from other premium SEO suites to more budget-friendly SEO solutions.