Ahrefs FAQs

    • Who is Ahrefs best for - their role(s) within what kind of companies.

      Ahrefs suits both junior marketers and SEO experts, helping them rank higher and get more traffic. Our target customers range from content marketers, bloggers, SEO agencies, SaaS companies, and Ecommerce stores.

    • How does Ahrefs benefit them?

      - Analyze your competitor's backlink profile and organic traffic
      - Find keywords your customers are searching for
      - Audit & optimize your website against 130 technical SEO issues
      - Track your ranking progress
      - Discover your industry's top-performing content with a database of 11 billion pages

    • How technical do users need to be to use Ahrefs's software?

      We provide tooltips to help newbies and seasoned SEOs get the most out of Ahrefs from the very beginning, as well as recommendations on how to fix issues in Site Audit.

    • What makes Ahrefs a leader in this space?

      1. Ahrefs has one of the most active crawlers according to CloudflareRadar (https://radar.cloudflare.com/verified-bots). Ahrefs Bot is on #6 and Ahrefs Site Audit on #27 (while SEMrush's bot is only on #82).

      2. Largest index of live backlinks - 30.68 trillion. Every minute we crawl 5 million pages.

    • Who are Ahrefs's biggest competitors (3-5 companies)?

      SEMrush, Moz, Yoast, Google Analytics, SE Ranking.

    • How/why is Ahrefs better than those competitors (or most others in their market)? What about Ahrefs is unique, stronger, easier, etc.?

      https://ahrefs.com/vs

    • Which popular or common software does Ahrefs integrate with?

      ScreamingFrog, BuzzStream, Linkody, Spamzilla, Netpeak Checker, SEO JET, Clusteric, URL Profiler, our own API (available for Enterprise users).

    • Software pricing can often be complex. If it's pretty straightforward, list tiers, pricing (per year, seat, etc) and limits for Ahrefs. If it's not simple, use broad estimates or ranges for typical setups.

      Ahrefs offers 4 paid plans: Lite ($99), Standard ($199), Advanced ($399), and Enterprise ($999).

      Each plan comes with a global limit of 500 report credits. Once you go over this limit, you will be charged $35 for each additional 500 report credits. These report credits can be limited on a user level to prevent any further overcharges.

      Users can be invited for free. They will remain free as long as they consume up to 5 report credits/month. Once they go over that limit, they become chargeable that month depending on their monthly report usage:

      Up to 100 report credits – Casual user ($20/mo)
      Up to 500 report credits – Power user ($50/mo)

      Pricing page: https://ahrefs.com/pricing

    • Does Ahrefs offer a trial or free download available?

      Ahrefs does not offer a trial.

      But it does have a free plan (Ahrefs Webmasters Tools), which allows you to use the Site Explorer and Site Audit tools for all your verified websites: https://ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools

      A series of free tools are also available on our free tools hub: https://ahrefs.com/free-seo-tools

    • Does Ahrefs offer any kind of training/education for their product?

      Help page: https://help.ahrefs.com/en/
      Ahrefs blog: https://ahrefs.com/blog/
      Ahrefs Academy: https://ahrefs.com/academy/
      YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AhrefsCom
      YouTube Product Updates channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGcAPjsNRj2BwCHM1xzFUeQ
      In-app + email support (24/7)

    • What are the Ahrefs support options? List all.

      In-app + email

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