Likelihood to Recommend It gives the best report to us which helps us to find the opportunity to build backlinks. Another main feature that makes Ahrefs a safe and sound approach to SEO is that it provides information about duplicate content, URLs, redirects along with other errors that can be dangerous to the website.
Read full review SEOGadget is ideal when using vendors like
Moz and Majestic for analysis of your backlinks. It is not the tool to use if you need to gain more backlinks or want to increase your backlink. It can help you edit your backlink profile and understand where the links come from. It is probably ideal for in-house teams studying larger sites with lots of links and trying to understand their link partners, or an agency/freelancer that needs to import data from multiple sources to help clients with link profiles. It is not the tool to target new link opportunities, but with some ingenuity you could probably use it for this if you an access your competitor data. It's also good for anchor analysis which is something few teams really look into.
Read full review Pros Backlink data: Ahrefs continues to provide the best backlink data in the industry when compared to other tools. Other players are playing catching up, but as a first mover, Ahrefs is ahead of the game by far. Keyword data: Ahrefs provides extremely valuable keyword data. Though I rank them second in this category, the data that they provide is comparable to the first ranked player. Content Explorer: I don't think other industry tools (SEO specific) has a content explorer as useful as Ahrefs. Their content explorer works great for identifying top content and trends for multiple industries. Rank Tracker: This rank tracker is better than the average tracker and Ahrefs provides a large limit for tracked keywords. Though they have moved away from daily updates, the rank tracker is great for bench marking progress. Read full review Authentication is simple and requires no real in-depth knowledge Importing of data into Excel saves time and saves us an extra step which is really important Working with the data we need to see is much easier and faster Collects multiple sources and saves time logging in Data analysis is simple and straight forward Read full review Cons Anchor text alert notifications for a specific domain would be nice to have. Would also be nice to set a specific client domain and then be able to pick 5 competitor sites to compare it to instead of entering in the client site and then 4 competitors to compare. Adding emails to forward the exports to from running a report would be good too. Read full review More flexibility in creating tables would be easier, as not all tables were able to be created this might be user error in some cases More data imports would be nice this could be more of a one-and-done package, right now it only imports links Added functionality to analyze data would be nice Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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
Read full review Usability 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.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Kenny King Web Production Manager Responsible for SEO, Web Design, & Social Media Marketing
Read full review Alternatives Considered I think when it comes to keyword tracking, Ahrefs is not as good
BrightEdge , but Ahrefs Site Explorer trumps
BrightEdge when it comes to anything backlink related. I would use Ahrefs Site Explorer for backlink analysis, identifying 404 error pages, examining anchor texts, and exploring top content. However, I would utilze
BrightEdge for keyword and ranking information
Read full review This includes more data and makes backlink analysis easier because you don't have to build sheets and tables from scratch. While it doesn't directly compare (it uses some of these services) it is better suited for the custom analysis of data and that is a big help when you do a lot of data manipulation. It's easier and more streamlined than Knime, and Knime does not allow you to import directly from
Moz or Majestic so a step is saved here. It can't do as much as Knime but most of the things you want to do it can do, and you can do them faster.
Read full review Return on Investment Identify the most effective keywords for content creation and optimizing existing content, which can help to increase organic traffic to your website. Track backlinks, monitor the competition, and identify potential link building opportunities, which can help to improve your search engine rankings. Analyze the top-performing pages on any website, which can help to optimize your own content and improve user experience. Read full review It is hard to quantify this realistically but it does save time and that is big Importing data is a time suck, so the only real advantage here is the ability to do two or three imports instantly without downloading and visiting three sites, this could be expanded for even more ROI We haven't had any negative impacts as this is mainly a time saver Read full review ScreenShots