Ahrefs Pros and Cons

I have been using ahref for a long time and I use it almost everyday for one or the other kind of search I need to do. ahrefs is a comprehensive and user-friendly SEO toolset that provides accurate data and powerful analytics to improve website's rankings. I use it's backlink analysis, keyword research and audit tool the most. Overall the interface is quit easy to use and understand and provide complete analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ahrefs is a feature-rich SEO tool, but it's relatively expensive compared to other tools and the free version is limited Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how fast and easy to use it is. It can take a week for a novice user to understand the features of Ahrefs. Although one needs to be familiar with the SEO basics to comprehend anything at all.

I would suggest Ahrefs strongly for the bloggers. It's easy to find the relevant primary keywords along with the secondary and LSI keywords. Apart from that, it also comes with content gap features, which can help bloggers find informational gaps or missing subheadings in their blog.

All in all, it's a great tool. The keywords difficulty and search volumes mostly stands accurate. Plus, it also suggests the number of backlinks you will need to create to rank your blog or page highers in the SERPs.

Note: I use paid Ahrefs only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The time it takes to update the ranking of a specific page takes too long. Sometimes over a week.

So, if you're someone who constantly checks the ranks of your pages to see how they are performing, you may need to be patient. It can take ahrefs to update the data of your page from 1 to 10 days, sometimes even more.

Next, the ranking status of both ahrefs and search engine result page (SERP) sometimes differ. In ahrefs, you may see your page ranking at the 1st position, but in SERPs, it may be ranking at 2nd position.

However, this problem solves when your page's ranking remain constant without fluctuation and then after a fews both ahrefs and SERP displays the same ranking status. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plethora of SEO tools and capabilities for executives and account managers to support SEOs to form and execute on strategies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Areas such as technical aren't the strongest, paid ad cost estimates may also not be as accurate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like it's backlink audit and site audit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel that they should give content checker feature as well as. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a okey software, data is not very reliable but still better than nothing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They made the Lite Plan totally useless. The keyword clustering was available but suddenly disabled without announcement.

Now that page shows giant embedded tweet of their CMO, seriously? At least inform your customers when you take a feature away? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is straightforward to use and it comes with all self-explanatory help articles. The updates of the app are always visible on the home page. The site audit reports are always reliable. It is easy to set-up and start using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features like content gap analysis are only available on higher plans. This feature could be available on lite plan as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keyword analysis and traffic analysis is better than anyone else Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When compared to pricing with other competitor this pricing is more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to get set up with when first starting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overpriced, complex pricing structure with credits + subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ahrefs provides many ways to analyse a website from domain authority scores to link evaluations and competitive analysis, it has it all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are so many different ways to use Ahrefs, it can be daunting to understand all of its uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've used it daily for more than eight years. I like the rich data they provide. It has excellent UI and functionality. Setting up and integrating with the website, GA, and other tools is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only issue I had was the old plan and that I couldn't migrate to a new one and save the previous data. Support and AM couldn't help me with that. This also led to the issue of adding new users to the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.