Request for Organic KW filtering (exclusions)
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Brian Gorman
First, I absolutely love Ahrefs. There is no other tool where I can get more actionable data in one place. Great job.
I have one suggestion that I think could improve user experience. When I run a domain through Site Explorer and click "organic keywords", there is of course a field where you can type in exclusions.
Next to this field is a drop-down titled "Keywords", which has "Keywords" and "URLs" checked by default.
I most often exclude branded terms with the exclude filter, but since most sites are "brand.com" in some form, I always have to uncheck "URLs" so it doesn't filter everything out.
Would you consider leaving "URLs" unchecked by default for a better UX?
Thank you for considering!
Fedor Fokin
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Tyler Knudtson đź’»đźŹ
+1 for this. our brand has become fairly recognizable in our corner of the internet, so separating out the org. traffic growth to our educational content vs. traffic from branded keywords is becoming more and more important!
SEMRush goes so far as to enabling filtering on 'keyword type' of branded/nonbranded/branded for other domain. This lets you see your (or another brand's) overall estimated branded/unbranded traffic. Here it is in action: https://cl.ly/d82e36
And here's how they figure out what's branded and what's not, since just broadly using include/exclude on a brand's name isn't very precise. https://www.semrush.com/kb/819-branded-vs-non-branded-keywords
Sam Underwood
Agree with this!
Nathan Veenstra
Sam Underwood: co-sign