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Should I sign up to ahrefs.com?

Discussion in 'SEO Search Engine Optimisation' started by alex, Jun 21, 2012.

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  1. alex

    alex Active Member

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    I'm thinking about signing up to ahrefs.com (backlinks analysis tool). Does anyone have any experience and would recommend or should I use something else?
     
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    I love ahrefs. it's one of my favourite tools.

    It's not 100% accurate, but then none of them are :/
     
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    It rocks

    However as Blossom said - not always accurate (or is it?) when comparing to OSE/MJ

    For competition checking / analysis it's great and very easy/quick to use
     
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    Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear some positive reviews. Just read through the article too Ash, thanks for the info.

    I’ve tended to make use of freebies before, but need the more in-depth info and higher volumes. From what I’ve seen here I’m looking at the following packages based on price/features:

    Ahrefs Professional Package @ $790 per year
    Majestic SEO Silver package @ £360 per year (inc VAT)

    I’m tempted to maybe subscribe for a month on both and compare.
     
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    I've never found Majestic very useful for anything other than a lazy way to do graphs for my reports, but I still have a subscription.

    Ahrefs is great if you're buying a site and want to check it's legit, and of course for checking own rankings.

    I use an OSE/Ahrefs combo and that does everything I need along with a rankings spreadsheet (macro set up in Excel). I believe there's another service that's popular (and cheaper) that gets mentioned quite a bit on here too, but can't remember the name!
     
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    It really depends on the intended purpose. Majestic does most of what we need it for. Once you learn to use it properly, we find it to be a much more of a powerful tool. The new citation/flow tools are brilliant and save us sooo much time when analysing domains. I can tell, to almost 100% accuracy, which domains have good quality links, which have low quality directory links and even spot porn links just from looking at the graph. If you are looking for innovative and clever data, Majestic, imho, is the way to go but spend the time learning how to use it properly.
     
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    Ahref's is FAR FAR FAR better than Majestic in my PERSONAL opinion.
     
  10. alex

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    Thank you for the info. I subscribed to ahrefs yesterday which is doing pretty much what I wanted from it. I'll probably also subscribe to majestic and compare data to see what I come up with.

    Funnily enough, ahrefs hasn't picked up the links in my acorn signature, but all the other backlinks I previously knew about (and more) are there.
     
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    You might be referring to Traffic Travis?
     
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