Site Explorer
Tutorials, FAQs and best practices with our Site Explorer tool
By Andrei and 9 others10 authors93 articles
- 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’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 data is the Organic positions heatmap chart pulling?
- 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 does "There are no results in our index for the specified domain/URL" mean 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 do I control your Bot's crawling behaviour?
- How long does it take for my site to be removed from Ahrefs?
- 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 to use Position history graph and Ad position history graph?
- Monthly search volume vs Average search volume
- 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
- Why do I see different amount of new/lost backlinks on the same day with corresponding reports of Site Explorer?
- Does Ahrefs provide an accurate way to detect toxic or manipulative backlinks?
- How the "Platform" filter in Site Explorer works
- How to use filters in Site Explorer > Backlinks reports
- How to check if a website is ranking for "SERP features"
- How to see inbound and outbound links for your site
- Understanding "link lost" reasons
- How to monitor daily changes in organic keywords, pages and referring domains in Site Explorer
- How to check pages for their HTTP status codes
- How to find the backlinks to my website on the referring page itself
- What are all the things I can do in SERP Overview?
- How to check referring IPs to a website in Site Explorer?
- What filters to use to only see backlinks that have the label "SPAM"?
- Why did my Ahrefs Rank drop if I haven’t lost any links?
- My website is gaining organic keywords, but losing search traffic. How come?
- Why has there been a drop in my Domain Rating (DR) recently? Did your crawl algorithm change?
- Why Ahrefs is showing title and data from another website for my site?
- My competitor doesn't have links from high-DR sites, so why are his DR and Ahrefs Rank higher than mine?
- Is there a way to see the change in my website’s Domain Rating?
- Why is a page's UR higher than the DR?
- Does a low DR mean that the website is spammy?
- How do SEO spiders crawl the web?
- Why is the UR (URL Rating) for a URL with and without slash ("/") different?
- 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?
- Why do I see different results for www.domain.com and domain.com?
- Is Organic Traffic a monthly figure (based on past 30 days)?
- Why can't I see the organic keywords sites like YouTube/Amazon/Reddit are ranking for?
- Does Ahrefs have a spam score, or something similar?
- Why is my backlink marked as "Broken redirect" if it works?
- Can I see the ranking history of a given keyword?
- Why do links from LinkedIn, Slideshare, Quora and PDF files not appear in Ahrefs' backlinks report?
- Why am I getting slightly different results in Ahrefs vs the exported file for large sites?
- Why is the number of referring domains on my dashboard different from the Site Explorer Overview?
- Why don't the ranking positions in Site Explorer match those I see in Google?
- Why does a website have more referring IPs than referring domains?
- Why is a 'Captcha' title tag shown in my Site Explorer?
- My keywords are ranking but it shows as 'Lost' in the Movements report
- For some keywords, I see the Positions in Organic Keywords have not been updated for a long time. Can they be updated more often?
- Why does Ahrefs report a backlink as “Lost” if I still see it on a page?
- How come the sum of all anchors percentage in Anchors is >100%
- Why can't I export my Ahrefs data out to CSV?
- 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 are some anchors missing in my report?
- Why are some keywords not shown on your paid keywords (PPC) report?
- 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?
- How to change what data is shown by default in Site Explorer
- How can I check organic search traffic of sites I don't own?
- Do search engines use domain authority/domain rating as a ranking factor?
- Noreferrer / noopener / nofollow attributes
- How do I find out what keywords a website is ranking for?
- Where can I quickly find opportunities to improve my website's SEO?
- How to do Paid Search Analysis using Ahrefs?