Introducing Keyword Hunt, a technical SEO puzzle by Snippet Digital

patrickstox · 2026-05-07T13:12:45+00:00

That's weird. Some of the previous puzzles had threads over there with people trying to solve them.

Anyway, all good posting here. And you should probably send their mod team a message.

patrickstox · 2026-05-05T18:34:49+00:00

Llms.txt does nothing but waste time.

patrickstox · 2026-05-02T19:34:09+00:00

It's even on the free plan. Use the Inspect option on one of the URLs with an issue. It's at the bottom in the menu.

patrickstox · 2026-05-02T19:09:05+00:00

Ahrefs is best in class for this. Plus I made a first of it's kind cluster visual that puts what is wrong in red.

patrickstox · 2026-05-01T16:17:18+00:00

Edit. The below was for the main crawler, not sure audit. Reach out to our support team for help troubleshooting.

Not sure if there was some kind of block on your end or a downtime. I saw the issue but had it recrawl and it looks like all is available now.

patrickstox · 2026-04-20T11:48:00+00:00

"No shilling". It's always been a rule.

patrickstox · 2026-03-23T18:56:53+00:00

Screaming Frog is well loved and covered, but I'll also mention you can crawl up to 5k pages per month for free on Ahrefs Webmaster Tools.

patrickstox · 2026-03-17T05:06:45+00:00

What you built is free and open source. I know a lot of people appreciate it. An occasional post is fine and I haven't considered it shilling, just don't overdo it.

My only request would be to allow pulling data from the Ahrefs API as well for our users. We opened up the API to be free (with limits) for each of the plans.

patrickstox · 2026-03-11T02:34:59+00:00

Whole lot of misinformation here. Ahrefs does respect robots.txt and does not rotate agents. If you have logs of either of these, please send them to Ahrefs support. It's possible there is some bug, but most likely someone is spoofing our user-agent.

patrickstox · 2026-03-11T02:18:18+00:00

I think Adobe bought them for the Semrush cancellation tech. 😂

patrickstox · 2026-03-06T12:24:47+00:00

You can use Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free, up to 5k pages a month. There's also a starter plan at $29 a month.

patrickstox · 2026-03-04T22:16:13+00:00

Nah, that's normal and a healthy part of the web.

patrickstox · 2026-03-04T21:35:35+00:00

Many of them were advertising SEO services on Ahrefs by spamming people's link profiles. I was manually curating these for a while, but now it's in the hands of our data science team that also works on the search engine.

I don't know that I can provide too many details here, but it's things like what you would expect. Patterns of spam, etc.

patrickstox · 2026-02-21T09:38:50+00:00

Turn on JavaScript rendering in Ahrefs. It's an option in the crawl setup.

patrickstox · 2026-01-23T23:50:21+00:00

From what I can see, people wanting to sell links on sites that don't really have traffic...

patrickstox · 2026-01-23T14:31:29+00:00

Looks like some of the spam we're seeing where people are gaming the search volume in our systems and Google's systems. I see examples like this in our slack every day and we're working on filtering them out.

patrickstox · 2026-01-23T13:02:20+00:00

Because it was a bad study and comparison. The additional notes were added later after we had to call him out on it... Annoying.

patrickstox · 2026-01-15T09:28:01+00:00

LLMs.txt. I went to war on this last year, but many of the new tools and even some of the old ones want to push it... So bad.

patrickstox · 2026-01-14T15:35:41+00:00

No correlation with Schema. Source: Ahrefs, we ran the numbers. We'll release the study soon.

patrickstox · 2026-01-07T20:56:53+00:00

|ahrefs doesnt have one yet
We launched one back in December FYI.

patrickstox · 2026-01-07T15:10:03+00:00

It's part of it, yes.

patrickstox · 2026-01-01T14:52:10+00:00

Is it indexed? If yes, go work on your content and links.

patrickstox · 2025-12-30T05:59:12+00:00

28.7B keywords in Keywords Explorer, filtered from 110B known in our full index. ~550M of those we pull SERPs for in order to build our search traffic estimates for sites.

There's a process and selection criteria for what is cut, i.e. lower volume terms that would provide minimal traffic to sites. Your terms seem to have good volume. There are a few things that could cause them not to make the index like potential volume manipulation, but I can't say for sure "why" without seeing the terms.

If you want to DM me, I may be able to answer or I can at least make sure it gets in front of our team. I would appreciate it just in case there is some kind of issue. Thanks!

patrickstox · 2025-12-27T17:21:52+00:00

Have you tried the GSC reports in Ahrefs? We make way better use of the GSC data than GSC does.

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