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What Is Ahrefs?
Ahrefs is trusted by SEOs and marketers worldwide as the ultimate toolset for SEO, powered by industry-leading data. Boasting the #1 most active SEO crawler, Ahrefs crawls the web 24/7, stores vasts amount of data, and makes it easily accessible via its user-friendly user interface. This data is vital for every SEO task, including: keyword research, link building, content marketing, competitive research, website audits, and rank tracking. Designed by SEOs for SEOs, Ahrefs helps you boost any website's organic traffic efficiently, being a key asset for digital marketing success.
Who Uses Ahrefs?
Website owners, SEOs, marketers, agencies, in-house marketing teams, enterprises.
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The most feature-rich SEO tool
Comments: They have a solution for whatever need you might have. And if they don't have it yet, you can expect them to develop it soon. Ahrefs is the most powerful tool for SEOs who focus on backlinks, while it's more than enough for people who are trying to maintain their website, come up with new keywords to write about, and have an eye on the competition.
Pros:
It's an all-in-one solution for your website SEO. Apparently, they have the most active crawler among all SEO tools, and they cover everything you need from your site's technical performance to keywords, backlinks, etc. Ahrefs focus on educating the community is a big bonus. If you're keen on starting your SEO career, or improving your website SEO, Ahrefs is the only tool you need.
Cons:
Unlike some other competitors like Moz, they don't have solutions for local SEO. Also their new pricing is slightly less affordable. I wish they had a Lite package for SMBs too.
Ahrefs Response
2 years ago
Kudos, Hasan! Just recently we started recognizing Local Packs in SERP, which can help with your local SEO efforts (if you don't already count the Rank Tracker, which allows you to monitor keyword rankings on a location basis). Hope this helps!
A very comprehensive and user-friendly SEO toolkit
Comments: I have had a great experience with Ahrefs. The software is easy to use and the features are very helpful. The customer service is also great. I would definitely recommend Ahrefs to others.For example, the last day in the office, talking with a client that had a website that was not ranking well in Google for any relevant keywords. After conducting a keyword research, we found a set of keywords that had low competition and were relevant to the client's business. We then used Ahrefs to create a link-building campaign and improve the website's on-page SEO. After several months, the website was ranking on the first page of Google for all of the targeted keywords.
Pros:
he most appealing aspect of Ahrefs is its comprehensive and easy-to-use features. As a Seo Specialist, I find the Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer, and Content Explorer to be particularly useful in helping me understand my website's ranking and content performance. Additionally, the Ahrefs blog is a great resource for staying up-to-date on the latest industry news and trends.
Cons:
The price is the only thing I didn't like about Ahrefs. It's a bit pricey, but it's worth it for the features and data it provides.
Ahrefs Response
2 years ago
Sharing your client's success story with us is heart-warming, Manuel, thank you! Stay tuned for more awesome features that are currently being developed. And if you have any further suggestions, please drop us a line at [email protected]. We're open to feedback! :)
Are these reviews for real??
Comments:
The hits all come from 54.x.x.x and apparently have a fetish for using the bible in repetitive succession that just swamps our logs. Sometimes we just use iptables to get rid of the rogue site but aside from being a pest I see no other damage. The hits look like this: 54.x.x.x "Get /bible/18_028.HTM http/1.1" 404
However our associate that also gets hit by the rogue ahrefs site is being hit with non-biblical hits (go figure).
Don't bother getting messed up with ahrefs, it's just another bad affiliation that will come back to bite you sooner or later in my opinion.
Pros:
I like how ahrefs disregards a cease and desist notice.
Cons:
This is just another hacker site. They've been hitting our server for over 2 years now (and not just us).
Ahrefs Response
2 years ago
Hi Kenny! Apologize for the inconvenience caused. It looks like we hit a family of repetitive links to this site and we kept performing requests to URLs following the pattern /bible/${N}_${K}.HTM. Rules added to the robots.txt file could have avoided this. Our crawler has improved since then considerably. I invite you to write to our support team at [email protected] for any technical issues you might encounter.
Comprehensive SEO Powerhouse
Comments: Ahrefs offers incredible amounts of SEO data and analytics tools, which are essential for the planning and execution of our marketing strategy. You can get up-to-date health stats of your website, SEO optimisation suggestions, site audits of competitors, an extensive database of keywords and backlinks - all in one place.
Pros:
This is a highly comprehensive and powerful tool, providing access to data that is essential for establishing and improving your domain's SEO authority. It has an intuitive interface and allows you to quickly analyse websites, keywords and backlinks. They also have an informative YouTube channel, which can be useful to beginners.
Cons:
If you use Ahrefs very actively, as we do, costs stack up quickly. Some of the functionalities are behind extra paywalls, which is understandable, but every plan allows you only 500 credits per user for viewing any individual keyword, website audit, etc., regardless of your pricing plan. You have to pay separately to buy more credit packages.
Ahrefs Response
3 months ago
Hi Anastasia, Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review! We're so happy tohear you're getting a lot of value out of our tool suite. Re: credits, we hear you! In fact, the latest version of our plans come with no credits for Standard and above. If you'd like more information, please don't hesitate to reach out to support via live chat or [email protected]. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts, and thank you for choosing Ahrefs!
Best valued keyword research tool especially for backlink analysis.
Comments:
After years of using other tools and being frustrated by lack of data , Ahrefs solved this problem.
One of my client from MENA region (Middle east), its very hard to get enough data for keyword research, Ahrefs big data storage helps me to solve this issue.
For search engine optimization industry ,i have to say Ahrefs is indispensable tool, i can not able to think any other tool to replace in near future.
Seo audit, examining the competition and identifying quality backling improves the SEO planning.
Feels like it is over priced but it helps me too much.
Pros:
Ahref interface is user and beginner friendly, able to do keyword research of around 10 nos different search engine. My website pages backlinks can easily trackable. Content gap section provides good information,by assessing this section incan identify the content gap and work on it. Competitor analysis, backlink analysis, SEO audit is my problem area , Ahrefs solved this problem perfectly.
Cons:
I did not find any big issue, price is little overpriced. Last time it also reduces the quote. Every tools perfect tutorial can improve our user experience, for beginner its little bit confusing which tool to use.
Ahrefs Response
2 years ago
Thank you for the thorough feedback, Khan! We always giggle when we read about practical use cases from our customers. As for the pricing, I would like to point out that we have one of the most active web crawlers on the Internet according to CloudflareRadar (https://radar.cloudflare.com/verified-bots) and the largest index of live backlinks. We didn't mention the hardware and human costs of crawling and indexing the Internet since 2010, which might come off as hidden costs. Not to mention the features and improvements we're constantly making. That being said, our pricing helps us provide a sustainable business model that's based on actual data usage. Hope the pricing is more clear now! :) Andrei
