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Overview

What is Ahrefs?

Ahrefs is an SEO tool providers. Ahrefs Site Explorer provides a suite of tools including a component for backlink & on-page SEO analysis, online brand mentions tracking, and domain comparison tool for competitor analysis, etc. They refer to themselves as…

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Pricing

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Lite

$99.00

Cloud
per month

Standard

$179.00

Cloud
per month

Advanced

$399.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://ahrefs.com/plans-pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Demo Khóa Học Thành Thạo Ahrefs Trong 5 Giờ

YouTube

Demo Google Search Console, Goole Analytics, Ahrefs

YouTube

Ranktracker Reviews: Appsumo Lifetime Deal & Demo Tutorial | is it best Ahrefs Alternative?

YouTube

Keysearch Review Demo Bonus - A Much Cheaper Alternative to Ahrefs and Semrush

YouTube

How to Use Site Explorer in Ahrefs | Demo Video

YouTube

Demo chỉ số gg analytics, gg scs, ahrefs

YouTube
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Features

SEO

Core features related to search engine optimization

7.7
Avg 7.7

SEO Channels

Features related to optimizing your website for specific channels

7.6
Avg 7.6

SEO Platform & Account Management

Features related to scalability and integration of the SEO platform

8.6
Avg 8.5
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Product Details

What is Ahrefs?

Ahrefs is a software company that develops online SEO tools and free educational materials for marketing professionals.

Ahrefs all-in-one SEO toolset can help users with:
  • Competitor research: unveil competitor's organic keywords, backlink strategies and PPC keywords
  • Link Building: find the strongest backlink opportunities in a niche
  • Keyword Research: get maximum relevant keyword ideas and see how hard it would be to rank
  • Website Audit: find what SEO issues a website has and learn how to fix them
    Content Research: discover the most popular content on any topic and find the best ideas for content
  • Rank Tracking: track search rankings along with competitors'
  • Mentions Monitoring: get email alerts every time a brand is mentioned online.
The vendor states the Ahrefs database has 8 billion keywords and 421 billion indexed pages, and that this enables Ahrefs is able to provide maximum data and accuracy to its users.

Ahrefs Features

SEO Features

  • Supported: Keyword analysis
  • Supported: Backlink management
  • Supported: SERP ranking tracking
  • Supported: Page grader
  • Supported: Competitive analysis
  • Supported: Site audit / diagnostics
  • Supported: Site recommendations
  • Supported: Task management

SEO Channels Features

  • Supported: Local SEO
  • Supported: Social SEO
  • Supported: Mobile SEO
  • Supported: Global SEO

SEO Platform & Account Management Features

  • Supported: Multi-domain support

Ahrefs Screenshots

Screenshot of Analyze backlinks and keywords of any website to find opportunities for your organic traffic growthScreenshot of Check your website for 100+ pre-defined SEO issuesScreenshot of Get relevant keyword ideas supported by accurate SEO metricsScreenshot of Find the most shared and linked-to content on any topicScreenshot of Track your and your competitors' search rankings

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Ahrefs Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, German, Turkish, Swedish, Polish

Frequently Asked Questions

Ahrefs is an SEO tool providers. Ahrefs Site Explorer provides a suite of tools including a component for backlink & on-page SEO analysis, online brand mentions tracking, and domain comparison tool for competitor analysis, etc. They refer to themselves as “the largest index of live backlinks.”

Semrush, Moz Pro, and BrightEdge are common alternatives for Ahrefs.

Reviewers rate Keyword analysis highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Ahrefs are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

(381)

Reviews

(1-5 of 75)

Ahrefs - The Most Up To Date Link Database You'll Use

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 30, 2018
JT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
6 years of experience
We use Ahrefs to identify backlink opportunities, compare competitor metrics and we also use it to get an understand of the links gained/lost over a certain period of time. It allows us to quickly identify issues and action items when going over quick metrics on sales calls. Typically only the outreach/social media department uses Ahrefs, however should a penalty be suspected our technical SEOs will run a few reports.
  • Their backlink database is still one of the most up to date we've seen when compared to similar tools.
  • The user interface is very intuitive and easy to learn.
  • They provide you with a lot of great information and the ability to set a date range can really help you narrow things down.
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.
This is a very comprehensive tool in terms of ability and information it provides. While it won't give you every link a site has, it will give you most of them and will provide you with the most up to date link information for any site compared to all of the other link crawl providers.

Ahrefs makes SEO easier

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 25, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
1 year of experience
We use Ahrefs on a daily basis, to keep track of all our rankings, to create product descriptions that are SEO friendly and as a general guide for all our search engine optimization data. It is also very useful to optimize blog articles and to target specific keywords that have traffic volume.
  • The UR and DR Index are great to measure how the SEO efforts are playing out on a per page (or product) basis.
  • The keywords movement report is very useful as it helps to understand areas that need improvement.
Cons
  • I wish they included more than just the first 20 keyword rank positions in their basic monthly plan.
Ahrefs is a great tool to have a vision into what is happening and what can be done to improve the SEO rankings. I have tried other tools like SEMRush, but I find Ahrefs a lot easier to use and to make sense of the data. The SEO Toolbar is a wonderful tool as it allows a quickview into any webpage or search as I browse.

I enjoy using Ahrefs

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 11, 2022
ML
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
1 year of experience
I really enjoy using Ahrefs. I can explore more features than on the other services. However, traffic is not always accurate
  • Site audit
  • Content explorer
Cons
  • better results with web traffic
It is easy to check your competitor, howerer I can see that the datas are different for my site and the data i have from google analysis

Much easy, and straightforward UX

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 23, 2017
kh
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
4 years of experience
Ahrefs site explorer was absolutely brilliant for analysing my company's website. They had me working on the research and marketing department, and I could report the progress of the website quite clearly. While watching the website's analytics, I was able to deduce just how many websites were linking back again to me, how many domains were referring the website, and exactly how much of the total traffic had been organic. That allowed much ease as the results were fairly accurate and leading effective marketing campaigns was then possible.
  • Showing the backlinks
  • Showing the daily, monthly, yearly traffic
  • Showing about the competition
  • Discussing the competition to our business
Cons
  • It could become cheaper
  • Customer support could become more active
Whenever you're looking for analytics, I suppose none beats Ahrefs, that is only when you're looking for a well-established business as it's relatively expensive.

Couldn't go a day without Ahrefs

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 23, 2014
CD
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
4 years of experience
We use Ahrefs to help with and monitor backlinks/anchor text on client/competitor sites. Our seo department generally is the heaviest user of the platform. It helps with a better understanding of how we are stacking up against clients and can sometimes help come up with new ideas based on backlinks. We love that is updated by the day, it really helps us create some strong ideas.
  • Backlink analysis
  • Anchor text distribution
  • Competitive analysis
Cons
  • Dashboard could be easier to follow
  • Exports can take forever
  • Social reporting would be awesome
None, in my mind it is the best out there for what it can do!
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