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Does Ahrefs clean its database from spammy subdomains from time to time?
Does Ahrefs clean its database from spammy subdomains from time to time?

Find out if Ahrefs cleans its database of links.

Si Quan Ong avatar
Written by Si Quan Ong
Updated over a week ago

Our system is wired to identify spammy subdomains early in, so they don’t even get into our database in the first place.

For example, if a website has tons of subdomains, we will only download the top part of the list and stop as soon as the quality drops beyond a certain threshold. 

So basically, we don’t need to clean our database from spammy networks because we don’t even index them in the beginning.

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