Batch Analysis

Posted on January 6, 2012 by admin

Beta version of new tool from Ahrefs has been launched – Batch Analysis.
It allows to analyse batches of domains/links, find out total count of backlinks, referring domains and IPs for them.

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How Ahrefs plans to seize the world of backlinks

Posted on December 28, 2011 by admin

Our aim is to become #1 provider on backlinks info.

Having analysed main demands for such a service, we pointed out 3 main directions:
Quality of data (no garbage, doubles, old deleted links, etc)
Update frequency (how quickly changes get into index)
Index size

Please, consider the fact, that none of our competitors managed to unite these three directions.

Now market offers:
Large index with lots of garbage and absence of recent updates.
Medium index with less garbage with more regular updates.
Small index with good data quality but very rare updates.

We plan to unite quality, speed and large index. Much time and resources were needed to research, develop and optimize the system so that to get quality, speed and size in one single index.
You can easily check what we mean under speed. Take any article for today from some news sites like CNN or BBC and try to find links to it. Ahrefs.com is likely to be the only one to do this.
The only considerable drawback for now is the index size. But this is temporal inconvenience. Every day info from about 500mln new pages is added to our index. That is, approximately in a fortnight index will contain about 10billion pages. In a month we’ll be the best source of backlinks info by all parameters.

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Launch of SERPs Database

Posted on October 14, 2011 by admin

With the recent launch of SERP database, that adds a lot to backlinks database, Ahrefs has become “two in one” project. SERP’s database uses about 45 mln keywords. It contains 9 databases of keywords for different countries (US GB FR RU DE ES IT AU BR).
Only those keywords, which are searched for more than 30 times a month, are included into this database, thus only important info is given, without unnecessary garbage reports.

First 100 positions in a SERP are being analysed. This makes it possible to see popular keywords, by which site appears in SERPs and which don’t bring traffic so far, thus they couldn’t be observed by other means. And knowing these keywords it would be possible to get better position in SERPs with a wet finger. This option is really vital in doing SEO for a site.

The database is partially updated every day, full update cycle completes in 10 days. Thanks to that fact it is possible to observe dynamics of site ranking in search engines.

New “Daily Stats” report shows everyday changes for a site:

  1. number of new keywords by which site:
    • appeared in SERPs
    • disappeared from SERPs (top 100)
    • moved up in SERPs
    • moved down in SERPs
  2. number of positions lost by all keywords
  3. number of positions gained by all keywords
  4. ranking change (ranking or rating is the value of month search engines’ traffic)
  5. changes of this traffic price (rating*average bid in PPC).

Daily Stats enables observing all changes with the help of graphics. Directly from Daily Stats just with one click one can see new keywords, lost keywords, SERP positions up or down (!!!) Position Analysis shows by which keywords and at what place specified domain or URL is found. One can see data from 9 different countries.

Export to CSV is also enabled. Ads Analysis is another section, where one can see by which keywords specified site or URL has its ads in Google or Bing.

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Ahrefs forum

Posted on October 13, 2011 by admin

Ahrefs forum started its work. Join for more news from Ahrefs and other interesting stuff! Welcome and enjoy!

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The Affiliate program is started up

Posted on September 23, 2011 by admin

We started up the Affiliate program. If you become our Affiliate, it will give you:

  • 20% lifetime commission;
  • possibility to have your own profit from the most actively developing service, telling the world about it;
  • to earn money by means of our Affiliate program may be rather effective, because Ahrefs is a young (but already powerful!) tool with much potential audience in different countries.
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New service packages and pricing plans

Posted on September 22, 2011 by admin

New subscription plans will contain different packages for special aims. Owners of small sites will still have an opportunity of free analysis. For SEO professionals we are starting to sell expert packages for different professional goals. Now it is possible to choose subscription plan depending on the required data amount.

What comes different:

  • we tried to simplify new plans
  • new plans contain bonus API Units
  • new plans provide an option of working with SERP and ads base

Old packages are no longer sold. They will still function for those who bought them before till the end of covered period.

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Ahrefs has double-strengthened its calculating resources

Posted on September 22, 2011 by admin

20 new servers with two hexa-core processors each will be used for building new index of backlinks, taking into account users’ desires.

The new cluster aggregates 240 cores.

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The announcement of big changes

Posted on September 9, 2011 by admin

After the SERP database matures, Ahrefs is going to become serious two in one service: providing tools for both backlinks and SERPs. Accordingly, new subscription plans will arise. We plan to form the following service packages:

  • Professional program for SEO experts, filled with all the services for backlinks and SERPs;
  • Special package for agencies, providing access to the expanded dataset;
  • The widest plan for enterprises.

We’ll start up also the Affiliate Program for those experts and companies, who want to resell our data services. The concrete details of Affiliate Program will be announced soon.

The old package of subscriptions will continue functioning for existing subscribers until the paid time elapses. After that period subscribers should make a choice and switch to one of the new packages.

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The promising start:
SERP service of Ahrefs is starting up now!

Posted on September 7, 2011 by admin

Now the long-expected SERP service is beginning its work in testing mode. During this time new features will appear, problems will disappear, but you can already try it yourself. Feedback would be an asset.

SERP service is planned to be another important side of Ahrefs tools after the backlinks analysis features.

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The new API update: more information in results

Posted on September 7, 2011 by admin

Version 0.4 :

type=inlinks – results now indicate Ahrefs rating and IP address of source url.
type=pages – results indicate IP address for crawled pages.

Complete information about API you can find here .

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