SEO DigestAbout Ahrefs.com
Ahrefs.com provides different services based on backlinks and SERPs analysis.
Why are backlinks important to understand site value?
Backlinks (incoming links to a website or page) show real situation: who is paying attention to the page you are interested in. The quantity and quality of backlinks are significant indicators of site popularity.
We show all backlinks, without exceptions, so you can see real situation of site value.
First of all this information is useful for SEO specialists.
Site owners can also find this information useful:
to be aware of who mentions site in the web, be proud of significant sites appreciation of you or make collection of your steps of glory...
With the launch of SERP base, Ahrefs has become "two in one" project. SERP's base uses about 45'000'000 keywords. It contains 9 language bases of keywords for different countries (US GB FR RU DE ES IT AU BR). Only those keywords, which are used for search not less than 30 times per month are included into this base, thus only important info is given.
With our services you can:
- analyze your own sites (for free!)
- analyze any other sites of your choice;
- visually compare several sites
- get quick summary for any url (limited free access)
- create detailed reports and export them in CSV for further analysis
- analyze SERPs of any domain/URL
Our technology
- Own bot - crawling billions of pages every day;
- Own index - info on trillion website connections is stored;
- Flow rating - depending not only on links quantity, but also on quality (who links);
- Intelligent crawling - new pages are visited according to their rating, that's why the most significant links enter database first
- Smart reindexing - more important pages are revisited more often;
- Almost real-time data availability - information is presented to you in 30 minutes after being discovered by our bot (no more waiting for monthly/weekly index updates);
- Simple and clear rating calculated as an evaluation of direct and indirect search traffic;
- Index update each 30 minutes.
Our tools and features
Ahrefs Site Explorer:
- Statistics of backlinks for given URL, path, domain, domain hierarchy (with subdomains);
- Total quantity of links found, and also separate counts for no-follow links, links with images, links with anchor text;
- HTTP status codes (including 301 and 302);
- Information about frames and forms, from which action leads to domain you are interested in;
- Pages tab with highest-rated pages;
- Backlinks tab with most important external links;
- Referring Domains tab with domains giving the largest number of links;
- Referring Subnets tab with class C nets giving the largest number of links;
- Visual representation of links discovery speed
SERP analysis:
- 9 language bases;
- About 50'000'000 keywords;
- Update each 30 minutes.
Complete update on all keywords within 15 days; - Observing dynamics of keywords changes for the chosen period of time;
- Graphical data presentation;
- CSV Export;
- Google traffic evaluation.
Reports
Own Domain Report may be built for free after you prove you are an owner.
Standard Report gives complete info on a specified domain needed for detailed SEO analysis (is much more detailed if compared to Site Explorer review).
Standard report additionally enables various filters to slice the data if necessary.
Raw Export Report gives wide base for further SEO analysis.
Labs
Ahrefs Top 1M (1'000'000) - domains by number of backlinks with an option of searching through the list to find specific domain position;
Domain Comparison shows the increase of links to a domain and compares several domains.
Affiliate program
Ahrefs has also started its affiliate program, which offers 20% lifetime commission from each subscription.
Stay tuned
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