Excellent backlink analysis for campaigns, competitors and even potential sales!
February 18, 2020

Excellent backlink analysis for campaigns, competitors and even potential sales!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Ahrefs Site Explorer

Ahrefs Site Explorer is used by the SEO area to find info about backlink profile, backlink strength, etc. for clients, potential clients (sales prospects), and competing sites. We use it for competitor analysis. We use it to see the state of sites' backlink profiles at a glance. We use it to find potential opportunities to get backlinks for our clients.

Pros

  • Backlink finding
  • Analysis of competing sites' backlinks

Cons

  • Backlink profile thoroughness
  • Wish it was a tad cheaper
  • We can help sales by providing them with info on potential sites' areas that need boosting.
  • We can help sales by providing them with info on competing sites and how they are beating our potential client, and how we can help them.
Moz's backlink, at least a few years ago, PALED in comparison. It was very unthorough and lacking in many backlinks that Aherfs Site Explorer would pull up. Aherfs Site Explorer would pull up way more. It also has way more info than Moz backlink tool did a few years ago - Aherfs Site Explorer has thorough stuff, such as organic keywords they rank for, ways to organize data based on pages with the most recent growth of backlinks, etc. How many .edus, how many .govs, how many powerful backlinks vs. weak ones (classified in an easy to understand way).
I have not had to use their support for anything, so I can't speak to it either positively or negatively. I'll put eight as a reasonably average answer. The fact that I've never needed it is a great sign, though!

Do you think Ahrefs delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Ahrefs's feature set?

Yes

Did Ahrefs live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Ahrefs go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Ahrefs again?

Yes

  • Ahrefs Site Explorer is very well suited for looking at a competing ranking website and finding: what is their backlink strength? What backlinks do they have? Are there some backlink opportunities we can capitalize on? Do they have more powerful backlinks than us? What are some organic keywords they rank for that we could take up? What is their estimated organic traffic?
  • It's not as good for finding super fresh news backlinks - doesn't pick those up as fast as I'd like.

Ahrefs Feature Ratings

9.0
Keyword analysis
7
Backlink management
10
SERP ranking tracking
Not Rated
Page grader
Not Rated
Competitive analysis
10
Site audit / diagnostics
Not Rated
Site recommendations
Not Rated
Task management
Not Rated
Not Rated
Local SEO
Not Rated
Social SEO
Not Rated
Mobile SEO
Not Rated
Global SEO
Not Rated
Multi-domain support
Not Rated
Integration with web analytics tools
Not Rated

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