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What do the modes for analysis *.domain/*, domain/*, Prefix and URL mean?
What are broken backlinks?
What is Ahrefs Rank (AR)?
What are broken links?
What is Domain Rating (DR)?
What is URL Rating (UR)?
What are organic keywords?
What are Live, Recent and Historical links?
What’s the Difference Between Referring Domains and Backlinks?
What is the URL rating distribution graph?
What is Traffic value and Paid traffic cost in Site Explorer?
What is Organic Traffic in Ahrefs and how do we calculate it?
What does CTLDs Distribution stand for?
What are SERP features?
What are Linked Domains?
What does "Page is not currently in our index" mean?
What do the different social metrics stand for in the Top Content report in Site Explorer?
What are "Dropped" links?
What are canonical URLs?
What are Redirect Chains?
What is Share of Traffic Value (SoTV), and how is it calculated?
What is Impressions, and how is it calculated in Ahrefs?
What is Paid traffic in Ahrefs and how do we calculate it?
How long does it take for Ahrefs to find my new backlink?
Why doesn't Ahrefs crawl or index my website fully?
How do I enable Ahrefs' bot to crawl my website and index its pages?
Can I submit links for Ahrefs to crawl or ping your service to get pages indexed faster?
Does Ahrefs clean its database from spammy subdomains from time to time?
How do I see all the pages that have been crawled by Ahrefs?
What makes a high-quality backlink?
How do I see historical SERPs?
How can I check broken outbound links / external links of a website?
How the "Group similar links" filter in the Backlinks report works
Does Ahrefs provide an accurate way to detect toxic or manipulative backlinks?
Understanding "link lost" reasons
What are all the things I can do in SERP Overview?
How to check referring IPs to a website in Site Explorer?
Is there a way to see the change in my website’s Domain Rating?
Does a low DR mean that the website is spammy?
Why does my domain show a number for UR and DR despite having 0 backlinks or referring domains?
How does Ahrefs estimate CTR when calculating search traffic?
Is Organic Traffic a monthly figure (based on past 30 days)?
Why am I getting slightly different results in Ahrefs vs the exported file for large sites?
Why does Ahrefs report a backlink as “Lost” if I still see it on a page?
Why is there a 'spike' in Referring Domains in 2013?
When exporting a file, why is the "Full export" option greyed out?
Why don't the organic traffic numbers reported by Ahrefs match those I see in Google Analytics or GSC?
Why does organic traffic exist on the graph for my website when it is not in existence before Dec 2016?
Why do the numbers under the "Platform" filter not add up?
I can't seem to locate the "Hide disavowed links" button. How do I enable it?
What is the relationship between paid keywords and paid traffic cost?
Why do I see an [Empty Title] in Alert emails, or results in Site Explorer?
What do the colored graphs in the “Competing Domains”/”Competing pages” reports mean?