How to Use Ahrefs for SEO and Competitor Research
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Learn how to use Ahrefs for SEO and to get more traffic to your website.
Try Ahrefs SEO tools ► ahrefs.com
Ahrefs provides premium SEO tools for keyword research, competitive analysis, website traffic, backlink checking, and more.
While these are some of the more “popular” things that our toolset is known for, there is a lot more to Ahrefs than this.
In this basic tutorial, you’ll learn 11 powerful ways to use Ahrefs effectively.
1. Find content opportunities based on your competitor’s pages that get the most search traffic.
How to Find Pages That Send Your Competitors Organic Search Traffic ► • How to Find Pages That...
2. Research the quality of your competitors backlinks and get an understanding of how they got them.
Backlink Analysis and Link Building Video Series ► • How to Do a Basic Back...
3. Find low competition topics with high traffic potential.
How to Find Guest Blogging Sites and Easy Keyword Targets with Content Explorer ► • How to Find Guest Blog...
4. Find keyword data from 10 different search engines.
How to Do Keyword Research in Ahrefs ► • How to Do Keyword Rese...
5. Find a ton of relevant guest blogging sites
Guest Posting at Scale: Get Tons of High Quality Backlinks ► • Guest Posting at Scale...
6. Find new link building opportunities on complete autopilot.
How to Find High Quality Backlink Opportunities (in Real Time) ► • How to Find High Quali...
7. How to do a content gap analysis
How to Do an Effective Content Gap Analysis for SEO ► • How to Do an Effective...
8. Preserve “link juice” from your broken pages.
9. Find broken link building opportunities from your competitors’ websites
Broken Link Building in Action (Strategies, Outreach Emails and Stats Revealed) ► • Broken Link Building i...
10. Perform a technical SEO audit on your website
SEO Audit: How to Fix Your Website’s Technical SEO Issues (Tutorial) ► • SEO Audit: How to Fix ...
11. Track your keyword rankings across 170+ countries
Ahrefs’ Rank Tracker Overview and Tutorial ► • Ahrefs’ Rank Tracker O...
Timestamps:
0:43 Find content opportunities from competitors’ pages with high traffic
2:01 Research your competitors’ high-quality backlinks
4:09 Find low-competition topics with high traffic potential
5:06 Find keyword data from 10 different search engines
5:42 Find a ton of relevant sites for guest blogging
7:17 Find new link building opportunities on autopilot
8:15 Perform a content gap analysis
9:44 Preserve “link juice” from your broken pages
10:24 Find broken-link building opportunities
10:55 Perform a technical SEO audit on your website
12:13 Track your keyword rankings across 170+ countries
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As someone who is doing research on various SEO tools, this video did a fantastic job showing the various features of Ahrefs as well as the layout for the program. Thank you for posting!
You're welcome! That's exactly what we made it for :) Thanks for watching, Jacob.
Commenting after a year you are now superstar of ahrefs academy amazing source to learn SEO step by step! Thank You Very Much Sam!
Good to hear from you again, Chirag. Hope things are going well.
I love using Ahrefs, and with your videos I learn new thing every time. Thanks Sam.
You're welcome, Bostjan!
I agree :-)
My favorite SEO video, teacher, and tool - thanks Sam and team 🎯🎯🎯🎯
Thank you!!!😍
0:00 - 0:06 has got to be the best intro that I’ve seen yet...gotta acknowledge that.
Thanks, Chris :)
I am a user of AHREFs, but then when i watched Your tutorial, i was in awe to see a lot of AHREFs features that i still dont know! You Rock! I subscribe today! I so Love the content you have! Very helpful and on point! I Will really study every features! Thank you so much!
Great to hear!
I have my first day tomorrow as SEO junior... I have 5 tabs of your videos ready to learn... Thank you!
You got this!
Thank you, Sam Oh and all at the Ahrefs team for an incredible product!
Our pleasure!🙏
-Helen
Such a great video guys! ahrefs is the gift that keeps on giving!
Thanks, Ben :) Appreciate your support.
Sam Oh keeps blowing everyone's mind with EXCELLENT TIPS on using Ahrefs. My fav tips #3, #9. AHREFS is #1 IN MY BOOK!!!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I hate seo community because just complement each other content without any reasonable critic. Like a infomercial or something.
You will be the authority in the SEO industry.
*You deserve more larger audience, and we deserve better content like this.
Well f'n done! FINALLY a tech company with SOLID tutorial videos.
Glad you liked it! Thank you!
-Helen
1] 0:45 comp hi traffic pages 2] 2:00 comp best BL 3] 4:00 low comp hi traffic 4] 5:03 keyword explorer 5] 5:42 guest posts 6] 7:20 back links alerts 7] 8:15 content gap 8] 9:45 your sites broken links 9] 10:29 broken link building 10] 10:50 your technical SEO issues 11] 12:12 rank tracker
Awesome index - thanks!
Thanks for detailed timestamps 😊
- Max
@@AhrefsCom NP - you folks are rocking it!
excellent video Sam. You are a great teacher.
Thanks, Peter. I appreciate it :)
Great insights Sam, and its all fresh and refreshed ideas for SEO strategies I really need to have in making quality contents
You are welcome, glad you enjoyed the video =)
Feel free to check our playlist o keyword research for some nice topic ideas - ua-cam.com/play/PLvJ_dXFSpd2u5JCtiYWfvnSvAkoPwg5VY.html
- Max
Ahrefs is the weapon of a true Jedi. Very powerful stuff 👍🏻Crush or BE crushed 😆 thanks for the video Sam. I never knew Ahrefs was that deadly!
Thanks, James! We haven't even scratched the surface :)
Am new to SEO stuff but I can say ahref makes everything look super easy. Can't wait to be an SEO expert 🙏🙏
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Best thumbnail ever.
We try 😎
Thank you for amazing content and wonderful information on these important topics.
You are welcome!
Thanks for sharing this strategy of competitor analysis.
You're welcome!
thanks, much needed video to a very comprehensive albeit hard to master tool
There are lots of other detailed videos with practical use-cases on specific Ahrefs' tools, might be worth checking😉
i mostly use your "backlinks" and "keywords explorer" and the reason that i love ahrefs is, "filters" 😀.. yeah, because of filters, time gets saved for researching and exploring..
100% agree! Filters are a huge time saver :)
I love your tutorials, I wished Ahrefs cheaper even for beginner and recent & history index included in all plans. Ahrefs is great tool to have even for non SEO agencies.
Thanks! Glad to hear that you love both the tools and tutorials :)
@@AhrefsCom Yeah.. any future offer for smaller plan but have include recent/history index. I think these feature is a must. :)
The Feature I use MOST is the Keyword Explorer but I NEED to better optimize The Content Gap Tool. Thank you for your help
You're welcome! Content Gap is one of my favorite tools :)
Can't wait to sign up! Awesome features!
Can't wait to see you on board =)
- Max
I like how knowledgeable and articulate your training videos are, but to some of us who are beginners and a rookies in learning SEO, it's really difficult to catch up and understand certain things especially when you say a lot of computer related/internet jargons.
Try watching with subtitles, this should help to improve understanding.
- Max
From last one month I am watching AHREF video & and the content is HIGHLY INFORMATIVE and RECOMMEND.
It is TOP NOTCH CONTENT in DIGITAL MARKETING INDUSTRY.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy our videos =)
- Max
Great easy to follow and lots of information. :)
Glad it was helpful!
Appreciate the passed knowledge Brother 📚
No problem 👍
awesome video. just purchased ahrefs and excited to dive in
Have fun!
Very informative . I Need to learn Ahrefs from scratch to high level with hand practice.
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Great opening! A coder would never say "ay" "H" refs. :)
😂
Dang.... Ahrefs (my favourite tool) is a bad-ass beast!
Glad you're finding our tools helpful, Ray!
Excellente vidéo !!
Thank you!
great information sam. love you from Bangladesh
Thanks!
This is useful for new user like me.
I just signed up for the 7days trial last week. Seems like there is no report I can pull by countries. Being in asia and in a regional role, I want to be able to easily compare all my asia countries instead of using the drop down button to filter by country every time
Unfortunately, we don't have a report for regions yet.
- SQ
amazingly helpful
Glad to hear!
Keywords explorer, backlink checker, top content, ...... ahrefs is a software so good
Thank you! Glad you're finding our tools helpful. :)
I’d probably want to use Site Audit. I have an upcoming project which needs me to find reasons behind underperformance in a client site. I’m not currently an Hrefs account holder.
Thanks for sharing, Paul! Hope to have you join us :) Site Audit is a great way to do an internal SEO audit and Site Explorer is a good way to find issues that Site Audit might not catch (ie. broken pages that have links from external sites, but no internal links).
Thank you for information your giving us ,am a beginner and i like the training video,thank you
You are very welcome :)
-Helen
I love Ahrefs Keyword Explorer tool but i am forced to use a different tool at the same time to find historical monthly search volume as opposed to the average monthly volume that ahrefs provide.
Sorry to hear. Hopefully we'll have you back again :)
More than Ahrefs, I love Sam!!
Thank you!
You are really a teacher
Thanks!
Is there any deep look into how to start rank our website by using Ahrefs? I need more details and if there is any case study along with the video, that would be helpful.
That would be pretty much all of our videos 😂Unfortunately, "ranking" isn't exactly linear. So my recommendation is to look through them piece by piece. ie. keyword research, link building, technical SEO, etc.
If you want kind of an "all-in-one" tutorial, I recommend watching both of these videos:
Intermediate ► ua-cam.com/video/mz0NGqjkx7Y/v-deo.html
Beginner level ► ua-cam.com/video/DvwS7cV9GmQ/v-deo.html
Sam , good content bro.
Glad you enjoyed!
I love ahrefs. it's great. I would like to have a feature that tells me how many words an actual article has. I know that this feature is available in the Content Explorer...but I would like to have that in the keyword explorer as well. thenI could search for something like keywords with Keyword Difficulty 0-5 AND that have less than 500 written words per article. Something like that would be incredibly useful.
Something like this? ahrefs.canny.io/keywords-explorer/p/word-count-on-serp-overview
Feel free to give it an upvote!
- SQ
that thumbnail earned a like mate!
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i love content gap analysis .this is amazing tool to analysis
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sir i am student from bangladesh . please make a cheap rate for student .so we will be happy
Check out: ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools
MUY BUENA EXPLICACION
Gracias
-Helen
The content gap feature only shows 50 of a possible 1100 keywords on the $179 a month plan. It says I have to upgrade my plan to get more. Which plan shows all the keywords available and how much is that going to be?
sir this is very helpul video to use ahrefs
Glad to hear that!
really helpfull
Glad you found it helpful!
Question: I used Ahrefs for a week, thinking of switching from MOZ. Is it possible to have a call with your staff to go over the tools?
We don't have a call center, but we have live chat :) Just click the icon in the bottom right corner of our website and we'd be happy to help :)
哥们 verygood 学习了 流量搞起来
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do you guys have a newer video set for these topics? I am trying to follow along but it seems like the current version of ahrefs looks a bit different. for example when I go to a competitors top pages it's not showing me the RD column.
We have a 'How to use Ahrefs' course here: ahrefs.com/academy/how-to-use-ahrefs Hope it helps 🙏
-Helen
A fellow blogger just introduced me to this content platform with an AI, INK, would be cool to read a review of INK for All from your perspective. Thanks.
Might be a topic for a future video. Thank you.
- Max
thank you so much
You're welcome!
i love you ! this video is so amazing ! waw ! you helped me so much ! waw waw waw ! im tired of corses ! you are the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeest
Glad it helped!
@@AhrefsCom
Hey sam!! can you make a video on how to increase DR using ahrefs.
That would be primarily through link building. Check out these two playlists
Backlink analysis and link building series - ua-cam.com/video/Io4ugroDedo/v-deo.html
General link building tutorials - ua-cam.com/video/Ovu2ZYWgOJQ/v-deo.html
Good Day Sam... Please give me YOUR video links on the following
1. SEO for Images: How to Use Alt Text, Image Title, and File Name
2. For SEO reasons; Is it best to have 100 products on a single page or perhaps divide those products into several few pages ? And what are pro's & cons ?
1. No video for that, but you may want to check our blog post - ahrefs.com/blog/image-seo/
2. I guess it is better to have a unique page for each product, that way each page will target specific keywords related to each product.
Ecommerce video - ua-cam.com/video/tDanA-9wi6Q/v-deo.html
- Max
@@AhrefsComOf course there are product pages... I was asking about category pages...
I love your content sam! Is it possible to buy one of those awesome Ahrefs T-shirts? You should really open upp a fan base merchandise store for your brand.
If you've been a customer for a long time with Ahrefs, then feel free to contact support and ask. No promises :)
-Sam
What you said make a lot of sense, but when I look at my competitors pages, backlinks is very poor, but they rating very high. I can't even hack any of them.
It will vary from niche to niche. If you're looking at competitor's backlinks, I recommend watching this series on backlink analysis and link building - ua-cam.com/video/Io4ugroDedo/v-deo.html
Recently, 50 backlinks were actually created, but only a few of them are recorded in the new backlinks of ahrefs. Does it take long to be reflected?
help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/907670-how-long-does-it-take-for-ahrefs-to-find-my-new-backlink
I actually really want that coffee cup.
😂
Awesome..
Thanks!
I really like using keyword explorer with Ahrefs
🙌
I want that mug! Link to buy?
No ecommerce shop for Ahrefs yet 😂
@Ahrefs why would the traffic:RD ratio indicate a topic's competition level? Is the assumption higher competitive topics tend to return backlinks from more referring domains?
David, according to our numerous studies - the more referring domains a website has, the higher chances to rank on Google it has. So usually traffic goes to domains with higher DR, cause these have stronger backlink profile. As for sample in this video, if you can find a topic where pages with pretty weak backlink profile still can get good traffic and rank high - this is the point. Such topic have relatively low competition and even websites with weak backlink profile can rank for it.
Hope that helps.
- Max
@@AhrefsCom Yes, now it makes sense. I forgot the sample mentioned was looking at a set of competitor's pages, not its own. Thanks Max.
;)
Hi, can someone help me? For your content explorer example, I typed in the exact phrase you used, "backpacks" with the same filters 0-0 referring domains, organic traffic from 1K and nothing came up at all (no pages found). I have also been typing this in for other keywords and zero results come up for any key word when I put those filters in. Even when I reduce the required organic traffic to 500 or 200, still nothing comes up. Can you explain why this is happening?
A couple of things come to mind:
1) We rebuilt our Content Explorer index. There are actually ~3X more pages than when this video was created. The pages however may not be the same.
2) Pages that used to have 0 referring domains could have earned/built some since the video was made.
Try loosening up the referring domains filter. With "backpacks" set as my query, RD set for 0-5 and organic traffic from 1k - max, I'm seeing 375 results. Hope that helps.
-Sam
Hello sir how r u .I have a question .I want to start my niche on men's hair care but I find the site mostly they cover overall different angles .so how do I analyize the competetitor
Then you should try and find sites that are similar to what you want to cover. Not all sites that rank in the SERPs are your competitors.
- SQ
@@AhrefsCom thank u sir .how many competetitor should I rely on .one question again .if I my niche is about guitar then if the site which has covered overall guitar niche then is it my direct competitor or not
I don’t understand how you would get back links from AHREFS to my website. Would i buy a high ranking domain and then just put a “follow URL” from that website to my own somewhere on the page?
Our toolset doesn't help you get backlinks, it just shows you all the backlinks that are currently pointing at yours (and your competitors') site.
- SQ
How do you search for a competitor on a free plan? I have gone over to site explorer and pasted a link in its asking me to verify the ownership of the domain.
Competitor research is not available in the free plan. It's only available in our premium plans.
- SQ
Too much information to digest at once. I must watch this again and again :p
No problem at all. Keep watching until you get it.
- SQ
Can u explain how a Business is ranking high on Google local without even having a website?
Tough to say without seeing the SERP :)
@@AhrefsCom its just unreal that I have worked hard to create links and reviews and optimize my website and get outranked by someone without a website.
Is this outdated? I'm trying to follow along but the pages here don't look like the ones I see. I don't see the RD...where is Overview 2.0? Bunch of little things. Can't really learn and follow if it doesn't look the same or not updated :(
It's better to use our "How to" articles inside the dashboard or Ahrefs course here: ahrefs.com/academy/certification-course
And I also suggest you to follow our Product channel where you can see new changes: www.youtube.com/@ahrefsupdates
-Helen
@ 4:37 is "Organic traffic" now "Page traffic?
We have split it into "Page traffic" and "Website traffic", depending on what you want to see :)
- SQ
I don't see the RD column
I mostly use site explorer to find competitors link
Awesome!
Can you tell me the minimum number of blog posts required to get a 10k visitors every month.
The minimum is 1
There is no minimum or maximum :) I recommend looking at the search traffic potential to get a good understanding of how much traffic a topic can generate :)
@@wtfisgoingontodayhuh How funny you are!!!!
What s outgoing links .linked domain
Outgoing links is the links your site (or the site you're analysing) is linking to.
- SQ
I dont see organic traffic filter on my Ahrefs
Which part of the tool are you looking at?
- SQ
Man, can I pleaseeeeeeee get a discount on ahrefs!? it's way too expensive for me right now.
you can buy through filkover
Ahref is showing 40k traffic on my website while analytics showing only 3k why is this happening??
Ahrefs traffic numbers are estimates, learn more here: help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/1863206-what-is-organic-traffic-in-ahrefs-and-how-do-we-calculate-it
For such big discrepancy, try contacting our support @ahrefs.com 🙏
-Helen
I have a new site Dr is 20 there are 5 article on this blog. No one rank in top 100
There's more into ranking than Domain Rating (DR) :) try implementing some of the tutorials from our videos (series are good) and blog, and see if you're able to get some results :)
Nice video. But too fast. I had to see it several times to keep the sequence
Thanks for your feedback. Our latest videos should be at a better pace. If you find the videos to be a bit too quick, you can slow down the speed in UA-cam's playbar (0.75x).
-Sam
H-refs!
Indians call it Arif
No matter what you call it, we still have the same great SEO tools 😎
Pakistani too call it Arif ;)
I want to slect this domain name. Is it good as SEO prospective "headphones4u.com"
site explorer
Wikipedia links
The hardest part is to measure thousands of keywords with hundreds of pages, ahrefs does not have this features
Can you expand on "measuring?" Are you referring to keyword difficulty, traffic, or which?
Thumbnail 😂
😉
Sam, you go too fast! I have to stop, back up, an replay over and over and over. There's got to be an easier way to learn how to use ahrefs
There's an option to slow the video down within UA-cam. Try and see if it helps :)
- SQ
Жаль нет видео на русском языке.
I DON'T belive you have a clue what you're talking about... you claim to generate 9 figure revenue, but yet you cannot afford tech support. This SEO "so called" is a fake. Could not get my account set up just at the beginning. I own a plumbing company in Maryland. This is crap work. Unless I get an expert on the phone I can't even set up my account in the first place. Waste of money.
Have you tried to contact support @ ahrefs.com for help?
-Helen
Very helpful and on point!
Thank you!
-Helen