New to SEO? Let us help. — email screenshot from Ahrefs
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New to SEO? Let us help.

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January 10, 2025

About this email

This email from Ahrefs is an educational onboarding message targeted at new users, introducing them to basic SEO concepts through curated resources. The structure is straightforward, listing three helpful tools including a video course, an online beginner's guide, and a physical SEO book, supported by relevant links and images. The tone is friendly and encouraging, designed to make SEO accessible even for complete beginners and to promote user engagement with Ahrefs' learning materials.

Ahrefs journey

Emails in library 28
Journey span About 7 months
Avg. send gap ~8 days
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Why this works

**Why this works.** The subject line frames Ahrefs as a helper, not a vendor - "Let us help" signals guidance rather than a sales pitch, which lowers resistance from users who feel overwhelmed by SEO complexity. The pattern here is "offer the feeling, not the feature"; you can lift it for any onboard paid user email where the buyer's real fear is incompetence, not missing a tool.