While Ahrefs doesn’t have a free option like some backlink checkers, you certainly get what you pay for with this service.Īdditionally, we want to point out the Ahrefs guide on 301 redirects and how they affect your backlink strategy and ranking. Additionally, you can get daily, weekly, or monthly notifications on gained and lost backlinks so that you can manage your position in SERPS effectively and efficiently. You can see lost backlinks as well as how they intersect with each other, so that you can reach out to other sites that might be able to provide a link or two, as well. You get both a live index for your backlinks, plus recent and historical indeces. From their site, you can “see the exact keywords for which your competitors rank in organic search, and the amount of traffic driven by each of them.” That gives you data for SEO, but the real power of Ahrefs comes in it’s Site Explorer tools. Premium from the get-go (you pay $7 for a 7-day trial, and then you move into your paid subscription), Ahrefs gives you what you pay for.

Ahrefs is a top-tier backlink checker if there ever was one.

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