AccuRanker vs. Ahrefs

Well suited:

• for an agency or SEO company
• for marketing dep. of ecommerce
• if you are a freelancer that doing inhouse SEO for yourself or your customers.

Not for you:

• if youre new to SEO (too many jargon, new words and shortcuts)
• if you just need to monitor your SEO company (use Google Search Console instead, it is simpler)

Incentivized

Ahrefs is a must have in the SEO toolbox. It is one of the leading tools in the industry for serious SEO research. It can do almost everything you need on the non-technical side of SEO. In my opinion, it is not great if you need a detailed technical tool that identifies errors and helps with fix suggestions. In that instance, I think there are better tools on the market. But - for content and keyword related tasks, I think it's must have.

Incentivized

• competition tracking
• keyword tracking with tagging and historical rankings positions
• SoV (share of voice) metrics that helps to understand traffic opportunities
• Grump ;) (their Tiger that shows you current Google algo behavior)
• keyword discovery - they can show you where you have some opportunities to get more traffic with your current content
• more data and reports when you integrate GSC and GA

Incentivized

• I have been using this platform in my organization to develop several SEO tools to help to grow our website much.
• It has all the main features which include competitor research, keyword research, website audit, content research, and rank tracking.
• I have been using all these functions in the organization for several purposes. It provides complete information and complete performance details of the SEO.
• It provides us the detailed keyword research with volume, CPC, and other information.

Incentivized

• action dashboard - with commands what to do today, what should I focus on first place, to create targets and a way how to reach them
• email reports - should be embeded into message, not added as pdf attachement. Just like Google Search Console is doing it.
• add Google Places as a separate report/tool

Incentivized

• Can't export graphs: some graphs within the tool would be useful as an export. Unfortunately, exporting them is not an option.
• No "blanket" reporting options: though Ahrefs is excellent for gathering and exporting intel/data, there are no blanket SEO reports provided. Exporting data is great, but simple report exporting would make it better.

Incentivized

Their index is too vast to ignore when looking at a complete backlink profile. We find links in Ahrefs that do not appear in any other link detection tool. For this reason, it's a must for our agency to use for the foreseeable future. Plus, it's very affordable considering the data you get

Ahrefs is very easy to use - you can jump right in and understand most of the assets. Overall, the dashboard snapshots give a very good picture of inbound link activity. For deeper analysis of historical trends, the system can become cumbersome, making it hard to do full work without exporting and reformatting the data.

Ahrefs has always been responsive when there's been a technical issue with the site. There are usually very little problems, but if there are, they announce it on their social media accounts which keeps its customers informed. Email support is prompt and the customer service people are very helpful, knowledgable and friendly.

Incentivized

• allows to group keywords (by tags) and reports tags as a bunch of kws
• competition reporting (with keywords positions and rank tracking in time)
• SoV - share of voice - metric, that allows you to see true potential of your keywords
• search intent - identifies informational/navigational/commercial/transactional keywords (even in Polish!)
• integration with Google Analytics and Google Search Console gives more and more data that you may analyze

Incentivized

Majestic and Ahrefs are really close in terms of tool. Ahrefs does offer competitive comparison and they do have a more up to date data base. Majestic however has a more comprehensive historical view of sites which is also extremely valuable. Majestic also offers a link velocity chart that is missing on Ahrefs. Ahrefs makes up for this with their links gained/lost calendar which Majestic is missing.

Incentivized

• + it was easier to see what competition is doing - you may see their "backstage"
• + easy way to monitor group of keywords (tagging) so no need to focus on particular keyword
• - takes some time to analyze whole domain
• - no whitelabel reports (it would save a lot of time)

Incentivized

• Ahrefs Site Explorer has helped with any comprehensive backlink analysis and backlink profile management we've had.
• Ahrefs Site Explorer has helped tremendously in getting manual penalties lifted for certain sites.
• Aherfs Site Explorer has been helpful in identifying 404 error pages.

Incentivized