SEO Analysis
Backlink and Data Research
Ahrefs
An online SEO toolkit built on its own web crawl, strong at showing who links to you and your competitors.
- Category
- SEO Analysis
- Stack role
- Analytics
- Tool type
- SaaS
- Best suited for
- Competitor and Link Research
- Hosting model
- Cloud-Hosted
- Software price
- $129 - $449+ / month
- Made by
- Ahrefs
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What is Ahrefs?
Ahrefs, in plain English.
Ahrefs is an online SEO platform for researching how sites are found on Google. SEO is the work of earning visibility in search. Ahrefs shows what keywords a site ranks for, which pages bring it traffic, and which other sites link to it. Those links are called backlinks.
Backlinks matter because Google treats them as votes of trust. Owners and marketers use Ahrefs to see where a competitor earns those votes, find keyword ideas, track rankings and audit a site for technical problems. It also tracks how a brand appears in AI search answers.
It is a paid subscription service used in a web browser, so nothing is installed on your site. It is bootstrapped, meaning it was built without outside investors, and its data comes from its own index of the web.
In our stack
Why we use Ahrefs.
We use Ahrefs alongside Semrush for research on client projects. Its link data is especially useful when we study who is winning in your market, and the two tools together catch things neither shows alone.
See Who Links Where
Find the sites that point to your competitors, and win your own.
Fresh Keyword Ideas
Discover phrases customers search that your site does not cover yet.
Site Health Checks
Spot technical problems that may be holding your pages back.
Where we use it
Services built with Ahrefs.
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