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Ahrefs

SEO report and backlink checker

4.9/5 (8 reviews)

Ahrefs Overview

Ahrefs provides intelligence data allowing users to improve their SEO (Search Engine Optimization), link building and content marketing strategies.

The Ahrefs web analysis toolset includes a site explorer and backlink checker, SEO reports, keyword and business name mentions tracker, batch URL analysis and domain comparison. Ahrefs’ SEO toolbar reports on URL and domain ratings, number of backlinks and referring domains, and social metrics for Google+, Facebook and Twitter.

The batch analysis tool allows comparison of up to several hundred URLs or domains, including data on URL and domain ratings, number of backlinks, referring domains, and number of links per type. Collected data is displayed on a single table, with sorting and export options.

Ahrefs has its own crawler to index pages, which updates every 15 minutes and has an index of 12 trillion known links.

Ahrefs Reviews

Overall rating
4.9
/5

Latest reviews

 A must-have tool for SEO agencies and consultants working on linkbuilding projects

Ahrefs is the best tool out there if you're serious about link building, analyzing competitors' backlink profiles and keeping a clean backlink profile for your site or your clients.

Ahrefs is always improving, they keep adding functionalities and improving the ones that already worked before, but what I like the most about Ahrefs is that they've improved its usability a lot. SEO agencies and freelancers need tools that are fast to use, and Ahrefs is not only the most powerful link analysis tool, but right now is the fastest and easiest to use too.

Plus, I love their company blog - lots of useful and actionable SEO stuff.

Reviewed on 16.01.2017 by
 Good and expensive
Reviewed on 08.09.2017 by

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Ahrefs Pricing

Starting from: $66.0/month

Pricing model: Subscription

Free Trial: Available

Lite, Standard and Advanced plans available for personal users. Agency packages are available for 3 to 25 users.

Monthly subscriptions starting at $79/month (personal) and $499/month (agency).

Annual subscriptions starting at $66/month (personal) and $416/month (agency).

Free 'Newbie' plan offers limited features and functionality.

Contact Ahrefs for custom builds, starting at $10000.

Ahrefs Features

  • API available by subscription
  • Adjustable reporting frequency
  • Backlink notifications
  • Batch analysis
  • Competitor backlink notifications
  • Competitors’ organic traffic
  • Competitors’ paid keywords
  • Country-specific keyword rankings
  • Desktop and mobile rank trackers
  • Disavow file creation
  • Duplicate link grouping
  • Filter backlinks by language
  • Link opportunity reports
  • Multi-language keyword rank tracking
  • Outreach targets
  • Position reports via email
  • Position tracking
  • Real time keyword mention alerts
  • SEO toolbar

Ahrefs Specifications

Intended Users
Freelancers, Mid Size Business, Small Business
Devices Supported
Web-based
Supported Countries
Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Germany, India, Japan, Latin America
Supported Languages
Chinese (Simplified), English, Japanese, Russian
Support Options
FAQs, Online Support, Phone Support

Ahrefs Benefits

Independent desktop and mobile rank trackers separate rankings on different devices, enabling users to devise platform-specific SEO strategies.

Users can view competitors’ paid keywords, ad copy and landing page URLs to identify the benefits of their advertising strategy, and use it to improve their own.

See popular content through the content explorer, and all the sites linking to it - allowing users to create a list of potential outreach targets.

Ahrefs’ link intersect tool helps users to avoid missing out on link opportunities by revealing who is linking to competitors and not to them.

Real time alerts on business name mentions, keywords, users’ own and competitors’ links and backlinks allows rapid strategy change.

Disavowed links are collated in a single file for each domain, to enable easy submission to Google Webmaster Tools.