Ahrefs is an SEO software that offers competitive analysis, provides keyword suggestions, shows keyword difficulty, and generates new keyword ideas from a single platform. Simply enter your URL and Ahrefs can check the quality of all of its backlink profiles. It’ll show what keywords are being targeted and which landing pages are delivering the most traffic. You also have the option to input your competitor’s URL to see the keywords that they are ranking for and how much traffic their target keywords bring them. Ahrefs claims to have the fastest backlink crawler in the world with a live backlink index of over 14 trillion links.
Ahrefs is also often used as SEO of choice in SEO and Marketing tech stacks.
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Although Ahref has multiple SEO Tools, but I frequently use its Backlink Checker tool to check the backlinks of my & my competitor's websites, and I like the backlink checker tool the most as it provides me accurate & recent data of backlinks.
I don't know anything that I don't like about using Ahref SEO Tools, but some features can be improved e.g., the Keywords Explorer tool can include search volume data for the search terms used in Google Play Store / App Store.
I use Ahref tool to find spam backlinks pointing to my website and remove those backlinks along with finding potential backlinking opportunities where my competitors are building backlinks.
It probably has the largest directory in the industry. If you're starting your SEO career, or working on your own website, they have a ton of educating content that sets you up real fast.
Like any other SEO platform, they focus a lot on the backlink strength. The Overview 2.0 is much much better and maybe they should use it as the default report for each project.
The crawl finds some problems every single time, and helps you to maintain the website. Unlike GSC that keeps 16month of data, Ahrefs keeps all the historical data which is great. The batch analysis is a real time saver too.
Ahrefs has superb backlinking insight. We use it to find guest blogging opportunities and other linking opportunities. We also use it to compare competitor backlinks and backlink gaps.
Ahrefs often sends automated emails to me with the latest results from crawls. However, when I click on links to show me the details of issues that are flagged, it always displays a 'page cant be found' error.
In addition to the backlinking strategy, we also use Ahrefs for site auditing. I love the ability to create custom rules for the audits, which allows me to tailor it specifically for our site.
Ahrefs is a multi-purpose tool which can be useful for doing: - Easy to do domain analysis - Performs backlink audit - Competitor SEO analysis - Content idea generation
The accuracy of the tool is not 100%. The traffic numbers for website is very much different from the actual numbers. Also, the tool does not have the capabilites to help you with non-organic traffic numbers (mostly from Google ads)
The USP of the tool remains in performing backlink analysis. We leverage this capability to search competitor backlinks and turn this opportunity to build links for our platform.
Do user interface is great. It's very simple to use. There's a ton of information but it's all laid out and the easiest way possible
I think the price is high. It would be much more appealing at a lower price point. It's difficult to justify for a single user. It seems like it's priced more for agencies.
I'm able to follow and track my back links and my out reach efforts. There are many ways to search and learn how to get new backlinks. You can reverse engineer a competitors backlink profile very easily.
Ahrefs is very much useful for companies looking for building links.
The pricing of Ahrefs is very expensive. We cannot afford to buy the same for the entire year. We buy the tool once every quarter.
We monitor the links that our competitors built and later use this database to build links for our website. The tool give exhausative database.
The content explorer feature is beneficial for a smaller company like us wherein we do not have experts to help us with content ideas daily. Also, the UX/UI is very user-friendly.
The support staff is very rude. They will be very blunt and will not care about the customer.
We achieve our weekly content planning using the tool. It helps us generate fresh and trending ideas regularly.
Ahrefs' backlink data and organic keyword research opportunities are my favorite features.
It's pretty expensive software, especially if you choose one of their higher monthly plans.
The tool helps you with SEO...at every step!
Ahref is an all in one SEO Tool. I can optimize my website using site audit, analyze my compatitors using site explorer, find keywords using the keywords explorer, find top performing content using content explorer and track organic rankings using Rank Tracker.
I don't like the UI/UX of Ahref, it could be better.
Using Ahref tool, I can find toxic backlinks and disavow them to improve my website's visibility in organic search.
It is very easy for us to check our homepage for errors. By the automatic analysis we see always immediately if a link does not function any more and besides we see the number of the backlinks exactly.
The limit for daily checks of domains is unfortunately a bit low with 15 pages per day - this could be increased.
With this tool we can always check if our homepage is optimized for seo purposes. The functions for searching keywords are also good. So we can get a higher traffic on our homepage.
"The interface for the dash board is easy to navigate allowing my team to gather information easily. Ahref also value visual data improving the user's experience when trying to find relevant data."
Accuracy of the data is sometimes underwhelming and doesn't match other prominent sites. This makes it difficult to believe which data sets are correct, however AHREFs data set likes to deviate from the norm.
Client competitor information is mainly our team's main goal to monitor
I can analyze all keywords in the dashboard and see all related and relevant, similar keywords. The domain analysis is also good.
Not all parameters are calculated exactly in the domain analysis. The speedrank is not taken into account.
We can use the tool to regularly analyze our homepage and find relevant keywords for our content.
In this tool I can check all our settings and analyses at a glance. The tool allows us to do a seo search and find the most suitable seo keywords.
I can view each report individually but unfortunately I cannot see a comparison of all 3 activated homepages.
The tool helps us to increase our customer numbers. We can be found better on search engines and our homepage appears on the first search page.
Needless to say, the keyword research part of Ahref's is super sool, especially the fact that we can see country-wise keyword volumes. But more importantly I love that I can do backlink research so easily and check what the competition is doing.
It can become expensive if I want to conduct an SEO audit on more than one website.
Oh where do I even start! It's because of Ahref's that I've been able to rank most of my blog posts and generate backlinks for them. Not to mention, the whole complex process of finding good keywords has been made super simple by the tool. I also find the tooltips/resources they share inside the product extremely useful.
Great possibilities to analyze the traffic on our homepage and wide functions to control the reachability of our posts. We manage here also our traffic for the advertising campaigns, and we can see which single page of our website has more or less views and interactions.
The automatically keyword reader gives us the recommendation to use this words and text for our content, however this information are not clear and doesn't bring us a higher performance.
Reaching faster and easier a higher rating on search engines - analyzing the incoming traffic and try to reach generally more people. We can spend less money for our marketing.
One place solution to cater to all the off page SEO need for a digital marketing team. Right from keyword research, finding great and relevant content, google featured snippet like PAA etc. everything can be catered using AHREFs
Price of the tool is very expensive. It is not suitable for a small team size.
Off page SEO research and strategy devicing.
The app is a complete package and all in all. It includes SEO based features with quick results. Users do not need to wait for a long period of time. The users also avail the facility of websites analysis and comparison. This comparison with the sites of the competitors help in making decisions for the businesses.
Although the app is a complete package but it is very much expensive. There are several apps of same nature that are helping the clients with very little cost. The price of the app should be decreased or some more features should be added to the app to make price reasonable.
If you need one SEO analysis tool then Ahtefs is the best choice. It includes all the relevant tools and features that are required while making an SEO based analysis. You can make complete keyword research via using keyword explorer. All the necessary works can be done via using this tool.
The platform has a ton of valuable information and it's relatively easy to use once you get familiar with it.
It's not a cheap product but I guess that is valid for all SEO tools, not just Ahrefs.
We use Ahrefs for competitive research, keyword research, link-building and tracking our SEO improvement over time. We've been using the product since November 2018 and so far we grew our monthly organic traffic by 84% (from 25,524 in Sept 2018 to 47,011 in the last 30 days - Jan-Feb 2019).
I've used a couple of SEO software programs over the last 4 years. Moz, Serpstat, SEM Rush and now Ahrefs. Since the bulk of my focus is actually building links, I think Ahrefs has the most reliable results. For example, if you checked the backlink profile of 10-20 websites on Ahrefs and compared to another SEO software provider, I bet that you would average at least 10-15% more results with Ahrefs. That can be a lot more opportunities! Their keyword phrase tracker seems to work pretty quickly and seems to be accurate.
I think the price is a bit high compared to some of the other providers. Nearly $200 per month currently and feel there could but better value for the cost.
Finding link opportunities, tracking positions in search results, analyzing websites.
it makes keyword management painless. and has helped drastically with keyword suggestions
the ux can often be difficult and they lack analytics
We use Ahrefs for backlink indexing to improve our seo and get more traffic