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Ahrefs Research Studies
Index-scale studies published on the Ahrefs blog using its own web crawl and keyword databases, covering topics such as link decay, traffic distribution and AI search citations.
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Index-scale studies published on the Ahrefs blog using its own web crawl and keyword databases, covering topics such as link decay, traffic distribution and AI search citations.
Ahrefs Research Studies publishes irregular in English, from Singapore, and has been running since 2011. It is published by Ahrefs Pte Ltd. Content is freely accessible.
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