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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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Ahrefs - Your One-Stop Shop for SEO Insights, Analysis, and Actionable Recommendations

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 4, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I have used Ahrefs for keyword research, SEO audits, and backlink monitoring. Ahrefs claims to have the biggest database for keywords to research and likely it is true. The pl...
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Nirav Sampat
Manager - Marketing
SEO Manager
CarWale
Ahrefs4 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Ahrefs - simple, faster, smarter SEO decision making

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 22, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We start every SEO project with Ahrefs. From analyzing the client's competition to discovering where to plant the authority flags, Ahrefs covers all of the bases an SEO team n...
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Kyle Börner
C-Level Executive - Marketing
Owner, Cofounder, and Chief Creative Marketer and Strategist
White Buffalo Creative
Ahrefs6 years of experience

Ahrefs has transformed my SEO strategy, boosting traffic and insights for The Digital Travel Expert Blog!

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 26, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Ahrefs has been an incredible SEO tool for The Digital Travel Expert Blog. helping me craft human-centric digital strategies and tips for travel and hospitality businesses. It...
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Verified user
Director
Ahrefs5 years of experience

Ahrefs; not a great name, but a great product

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 9, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I use it mainly as an SEO practitioner, a content creator, and as a client manager. It helps me track some overall, big-picture metrics for how different client websites are p...
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Alex Panagiotopoulos
Partner - Marketing
Co-Founder
Kingston Creative
Ahrefs4 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Great tool - must have for SEOs

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 26, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Ahrefs for SEO research - backlink discovery, keyword volume estimates, competitor tracking, etc. It's a very comprehensive tool and can help with almost all phases of ...
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Verified user
Partner
Ahrefs10 years of experience
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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

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YouTube

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How to Use Site Explorer in Ahrefs | Demo Video

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Features

SEO

Core features related to search engine optimization

7.6
Avg 7.7

SEO Channels

Features related to optimizing your website for specific channels

7.5
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

(379)

Reviews

(1-5 of 67)

If you are seeking deep website analysis (keyword research, backlinks, audits), use Ahrefs!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 31, 2020
SM
Sanjit Mandal
Digital Marketing Strategist, Founder
California SEO Professionals (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Ahrefs Site Explorer is great to dig deep into backlinks for all websites (new and lost), checking anchor texts, referring domains, you can do traffic research, keyword research, competitive research to see how the competition is going. There is also a paid traffic tool too, not one I use often, but you can research paid advertising too.
Pros
  • Keyword research
  • Backlink analysis
Cons
  • Sharing client projects
  • More than one user at the advanced plan
Likelihood to Recommend
The keyword and backlink research data is invaluable. You can look up detailed backlink data for any website out there, their top keywords, top landing pages, you get keyword volume data and it will all help to build powerful marketing strategies.
If a site needs to learn about their competition and figure out what kinds of content to write, they can use the keyword research tool.

Ahrefs does it all but not inexpensively

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 01, 2019
TC
Tim Colling
President
A Servant's Heart Web Design and Marketing - Online Marketing & SEO for Those Who Serve the Elderly (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Ahrefs for a wide variety of analytical purposes: client positioning and standings analysis, competitor analysis, keyword research and more. It contains a diverse set of powerful analytical tools for SEO and other online marketing tasks. For us, it replaced several competing products.
Pros
  • Backlinks reporting and analysis: does this at least as well as, and probably better than, Majestic.
  • Linking domains reporting and analysis: does this better than Majestic.
  • Keyword research: powerful and insightful tools for analyzing and selecting keywords for marketing campaigns.
Cons
  • Ahrefs does not have a feature similar to the Topical tagging in Majestic. Adding that would be a big improvement.
  • Pricing: Ahrefs is just plain *expensive* compared to competing products.
Likelihood to Recommend
It just does the most important tasks better than anyone else.

Ahrefs Site Explorer is great.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 07, 2018
EF
Erica Figueiredo
Inbound Marketing Specialist
EverythingBenefits (Human Resources, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Ahrefs on the marketing team to gain insights not only into our own site, but our competitors and other sites as well. They provide great insight into site traffic and backlinks. They also have an excellent tool for keyword research that we have utilized as well.
Pros
  • In-depth look into site traffic and analytics
  • Keyword research
  • Site audits
Cons
  • N/A
Likelihood to Recommend
I think this tool is appropriate for any scenario. Its a great business tool for anyone to learn more about how their site is performing (as well as compare to competitors) to see where improvements can be made.

Ahrefs Site Explorer, the best offsite SEO tool out there.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 14, 2018
DN
Dragan Nikolic
Senior Product Marketer
WPSerbia (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Ahrefs for link building and finding new content marketing opportunities. It is being used by the whole marketing department in various ways; some use it for finding new and valuable link prospects, while the content marketing team uses its keyword research tools for optimizing textual content.

Pros
  • Link auditing
  • Offsite marketing
  • Content marketing
Cons
  • Website auditing
  • Onsite SEO
  • PPC optimization
Likelihood to Recommend
Ahrefs is suitable for SMBs, but also marketing agencies. Their dashboard makes it very easy to track and see offsite positive or negative trends of the websites. Links are still the number one ranking factor, so it's good to have the number one SEO tools when it comes to the index vastness.

It is costly, but it takes SEO to another level, so it's good to have it at your disposal.

Ahrefs is the most efficient keyword planning & link tracking tool I've used

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 03, 2021
KG
Katie Goh
SEM/SEO Analyst
Healthgrades (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ahrefs
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Ahrefs primarily on the consumer marketing team, but also for our B2B team as well. We use it regularly to discover keyword opportunities and content gaps. The data and metrics used are the best I've seen. Once I used the Ahrefs database of keywords and links, I found myself using SEMRush and Moz less and less.
Pros
  • Click rate metrics for each keyword
  • Content gap analysis
  • Best link database I've used
  • Useful keyword and link filtering in all reports
Cons
  • URL rating distribution is a bit confusing and not as useful as Domain rating distribution would be. All sites I've reviewed with this tend to have a very poor distribution here.
  • New and lost referring domains links is a bit confusing as well. I've never seen any tool do this chart in a way that makes sense. Dramatic rises and loses tend to send people down the wrong path of investigation. A weighted version (based on DR) would likely be more useful.
Likelihood to Recommend
Ahrefs is perfectly suited for the average website to run a backlink review, track link building, and to discover keyword opportunities. There are several ways to track competitors progress as well.

Ahrefs has led me to make several recommendations for answer box featured content and other types of content as well. I get tons of ad-hoc requests for keywords and topics to review because my colleagues have found this information so useful to them. I rarely have to edit the exported reports because they are so clear, even to those with little SEO background.
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