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Website and e-commerce owners who want to grow their businesses should strive to achieve high rankings in the most popular search engines. This isn't an easy task, but there are SEO tools available on the market that provide valuable data crucial to the success of the entire process.

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It's worth mentioning Google Keyword Planner (keyword planner) or the Google Trends app, which can be used completely free of charge. One of the most important tools in the SEO industry, however, is Ahrefs . It provides a wealth of valuable information essential for choosing the right SEO strategy. Ahrefs allows you to analyze your website (including keywords) and analyze its link profile and competition. Domain comparison, the ability to monitor keywords, and link analysis are key features of this tool.

Let's take a closer look at the possibilities Ahrefs offers.

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How does Ahrefs help with competitive analysis and website positioning?

Here is a list of Ahrefs features, an SEO tool worth knowing.

Ahrefs and Google Ranking Tracking

The Rank Tracker option allows you to monitor your Google ranking on mobile and desktop devices . This provides a quick and in-depth analysis of your competitors and their activities. Simply enter a list of keywords and fill in the following details: country and URL of the website being analyzed. Ahrefs will track this data in real time and allow you to analyze visibility, keyword analysis, average position, and traffic for your website. This will allow you to determine which keywords and pages require more SEO attention . These changes will help you achieve higher Google rankings and thus attract more potential customers.

Example metrics in the Rank Tracker tab

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Keyword Research with Ahrefs

The Keyword Explorer functionality, similar to Google Keyword Planner, allows us to easily analyze keywords on websites relevant to our business activities. Top SEO tools, including Ahrefs, will allow us to discover many unique keywords for which we can rank. The previously mentioned, completely free tool, Google Trends, will also prove useful.

Simply enter one or more initial keywords into the search box and SEO tools will help you obtain thousands of additional suggestions. By analyzing the proposed keyword list in Ahrefs, you can apply various filters for various metrics such as search volume, keyword difficulty, potential traffic, clicks, and so on. Using this data, you can find keywords with high search volume but relatively low difficulty. Furthermore, it's a good way to find long-tail keywords. Following these suggestions can bring significant traffic to your website or online store.

  • Keywords Explorer feature
Example indicators in the Keywords Explorer tab

ahrefs tool and analysis and optimization of our website

Site Explorer is a quick way to gain insight into three strategic SEO areas . First, we'll discover which keywords our competitors are ranking for (content gap) and which pages generate the most traffic in Google. Second, we'll conduct a link analysis. We'll see which pages link to our competitors and analyze their backlink profile (Ahrefs Backlinks report). We'll also learn, based on the Domain Rating metric, the quality of links on a given website pointing to a given domain compared to other domains in the database.

Third, we'll verify whether our competitors are advertising in paid search results and, if so, where they're sending their paid traffic. Our Site Audit feature will also aid in our SEO analysis . It will crawl all pages on our site and then provide an overall site health score, providing insight into any issues and recommendations on how to fix them.

Example metrics - Domain Rating, backlinks, referring domains

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Trend Overview – Analysis from Ahrefs

The Content Explorer functionality allows us to discover the most popular content, crucial for SEO , by analyzing our website's backlinks, organic traffic, and social media shares . We also learn who and where posts on selected topics or containing specific keywords are being published. The Alerts feature is also useful for monitoring content.

Simply select relevant keywords, such as those related to a given industry, person, or company, and the frequency of notifications, and you'll receive information about trends in search results. Content Explorer and Alerts help copywriters and content marketers monitor the popularity of specific content online and provide valuable content ideas. The free Answer the Public tool can also be used for this purpose, suggesting information that is relevant to our users.

Content Explorer tab

Who will benefit most from Ahrefs?

Ahrefs is a paid tool whose features allow you to monitor SEO activities on a website, track competitors, and track their Google rankings. It's therefore essential for SEO specialists' daily work, but considering how much of its functionality relies on content analysis, marketing specialists will also find it helpful in achieving peak results.

Ahrefs FAQs

Ahrefs is one of the most popular and advanced SEO tools on the market. It is primarily used for comprehensive website optimization, Google position monitoring, in-depth competitive analysis, and backlink profile analysis.

Ahrefs is based on several key modules. The most important are: Rank Tracker (tracking keyword positions), Keyword Explorer (searching for keywords), Site Explorer (analyzing individual domains and links), and Content Explorer (finding trends and the most popular content).

With Site Explorer, you can easily "screen" your rivals' sites. You'll learn, among other things, what keywords they rank for (the Content Gap), what sites they're getting links from, their Domain Rating, and even whether they're currently running paid search engine campaigns.

Keyword Explorer works similarly to the free Google Keyword Planner, but provides unique data. By entering a seed phrase, you receive thousands of new suggestions, along with difficulty and search volume indicators. This helps you identify keywords with high traffic potential and lower competition (e.g., valuable long-tail keywords).

Yes, in addition to competitor research, the Site Audit feature allows you to crawl (index) all pages on your own website. This tool will generate an overall site health score and highlight technical SEO errors, along with recommendations on how to effectively fix them.

Summary

The above article covers the following topics:

  • Ahrefs offers Google position monitoring, keyword research, competition and backlink analysis, website auditing, and tracking content trends and popularity.
  • Ahrefs is a paid tool designed primarily for SEO specialists and marketers to monitor positioning activities, analyze competitors and content.