Ahrefs

Rebekah

Yulia Pass

Tutorials, FAQs and best practices with our Site Explorer tool

Site Explorer

Find out what the modes mean on Ahrefs and how to effectively use them when adding a URL or domain.

What do the modes for analysis *.domain/*, domain/*, Prefix and URL mean?

Find out what the broken backlinks are and how you can fix them

What are broken backlinks?

Find out what Ahrefs Rank is and how it is calculated.

What is Ahrefs Rank (AR)?

Find out what broken links are and how to fix them.

What are broken links?

Find out what Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR) is and how it is calculated.

What is Domain Rating (DR)?

Find out what URL Rating (UR) is and how it is calculated

What is URL Rating (UR)?

What are organic keywords?

Find out what are Live, Recent and Historical links and the difference between them.

What are Live, Recent and Historical links?

Backlinks and referring domains are similar, but not exactly the same.

What’s the Difference Between Referring Domains and Backlinks?

Find out what the URL rating distribution is in Site Explorer.

What is the URL rating distribution graph?

Find out more about the Organic Traffic chart in the Organic Search section of Site Explorer Overview

What data is the Organic Traffic chart pulling?

Learn more about the organic and paid traffic value metrics in Site Explorer

What is Traffic value in Site Explorer?

Find out more about the Organic positions heatmap in the Organic Search section of Site Explorer Overview.

What data is the Organic positions heatmap chart pulling?

Find out what the Organic Traffic metric is and how accurate it is.

What is Organic Traffic in Ahrefs and how do we calculate it?

Learn more about the CTLDs Distribution map in the Overview section of Site Explorer

What does CTLDs Distribution stand for?

Find out what SERP features are, and discover all the SERP features that can be seen for keywords of your target site analysed at Ahrefs.

What are SERP features?

Find out what Linked Domains are in Site Explorer and Batch Analysis.

What are Linked Domains?

Find out what Page is not currently in our index" means.

What does "Page is not currently in our index" mean?

Find out what There are no results in our index for the specified domain/URL" means.

What does "There are no results in our index for the specified domain/URL" mean in Site Explorer?

Find out what the individual numbers mean for Twitter and Pinterest in Site Explorer (as well as Content Explorer)

What do the different social metrics stand for in the Top Content report in Site Explorer?

Ahrefs reports a backlink as dropped, but I can still see it on the page. Why?

What are "Dropped" links?

Why do I see backlinks in the New Backlinks report labelled as "Delayed"?

Discover how helpful Ahrefs Disavow Links integration can be.

What is Disavow functionality at Ahrefs used for?

Find out what canonical URLs are and how to find them in Ahrefs.

What are canonical URLs?

What are Redirect Chains?

Helen

Terminology

Find out how you can control AhrefsBot's behaviour on your website.

How do I control your Bot's crawling behaviour?

Find out what happens after you have blocked AhrefsBot in robots.txt

How long does it take for my site to be removed from Ahrefs?

I have gained a backlink some time ago, but Ahrefs hasn’t indexed it yet. When will I be able to see a new backlink in my backlink profile?

How long does it take for Ahrefs to find my new backlink?

What do "We don't currently have any pages for that target in our index" / No Data / No Results / "Page is not currently in our index" mean?

Why doesn't Ahrefs crawl or index my website fully?

Find out why the pages of your website are not crawled or indexed.

How do I enable Ahrefs' bot to crawl my website and index its pages?

Find out why it isn't possible to manually submit a URL or XML sitemap for an on-demand indexing of your site.

Can I submit links for Ahrefs to crawl or ping your service to get links indexed faster?

Find out if Ahrefs cleans its database of links.

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

Find out where to find the list of pages that have been added to Ahrefs' index.

How do I see all the pages that have been crawled by Ahrefs?

Crawling

Find out how to make a high-quality backlink.

What makes a high-quality backlink?

A quick walkthrough of the new features in the upgraded position history graph.

Introducing the new position history graph in Organic Keywords 2.0

Please, read on to find out what the difference is and what data is used by default in Ahrefs reports

Monthly search volume vs Average search volume

Find out how and where to see SERPs dating back in time.

How do I see historical SERPs?

Learn how  to check broken outbound links of the website.

How can I check broken outbound links of my website?

Find out how "group similar links" filter within the Backlinks report in Site Explorer works.

How the "Group similar links" filter in the Backlinks report works

If you happened to get different number of new/lost backlinks reported for the same day using different filtering options, here's why.

Why do I see different amount of new/lost backlinks on the same day with corresponding reports of Site Explorer?

Find out if there is an accurate way to detect spammy backlinks.

Is there an accurate way to detect spammy backlinks?

Find out how to use the "Platform" filter and what each Platform mean in Site Explorer's 'Backlinks' and 'Best by Links' reports

How the "Platform" filter in Site Explorer works

Find out how to use the "Link Type" filter and what each Link Type mean in Site Explorer's 'Backlinks' report

How the "Link type" filter in Site Explorer works

Find out how Ahrefs' "SERP features" filter work in Site Explorer and Rank Tracker.

How the "SERP features" filter work

See links pointing to your site and links from your site pointing to other sites

How to see inbound and outbound links for your site

Find out the reasons behind links that are reported "lost" on your "lost links" report (and how to get them back)

Understanding "link lost" reasons

Find out how to see if your site is ranking in any SERP features.

How to check if your domain is ranking in any SERP features

Find out how to see your backlinks history in the New/Lost/Broken report.

How to see a site's backlinks history beyond the predefined 60 days

Monitor recent ranking changes in Movements Report

How to monitor recent ranking changes in Site Explorer

Find out how to upload disavowed links onto Site Explorer.

How to upload a disavowed links file in Ahrefs Site Explorer

Where to look for pages' http response codes in Site Explorer

How to check pages for HTTP status codes in Site Explorer

Find out how you can check whether backlinks found by Ahrefs is on a website.

How to find the backlinks identified by Ahrefs on the target page

Find out how to create reports from Ahrefs Site Explorer.

How to create a Site Explorer report in PDF format

Tutorials

Find out why there was a drop in your Ahrefs Rank.

Why did my Ahrefs Rank drop if I haven’t lost any links?

Read on to find any possible reasons for losing traffic keeping the same or higher amount of organic keywords

My website is gaining organic keywords, but losing search traffic. How come?

Find out the reasons behind a drop in your website's Domain Rating (DR).

Why has there been a drop in my Domain Rating (DR) recently? Did your crawl algorithm change?

Find out what to do if you see a wrong title for your website in Site Explorer

Why Ahrefs is showing title and data from another website for my site?

Find out why your competitor has a higher DR than you.

My competitor doesn't have links from high-DR sites, so why are his DR and Ahrefs Rank higher than mine?

Find out how to check the change in your DR

Is there a way to see the change in my website’s Domain Rating?

Find out why you can have a page that has a high UR but low DR

Why is a page's UR higher than the DR?

Find out if you can determine if a site is spammy from its DR.

Does a low DR mean that the website is spammy?

How do SEO spiders crawl the web?

Find out why the UR differs for URLs with slash and without slash.

Why is the UR (URL Rating) for a URL with and without slash ("/") different?

Find out why we show a numerical value for DR/UR even though the domain has 0 referring domains or backlinks.

Why does my domain show a number for UR and DR despite having 0 backlinks or referring domains?

Find out why results differ for URLs with www and non-www.

Why do I see different results for www.domain.com and domain.com?

Find out about the model we use to estimate CTR in the calculation of search traffic.

How does Ahrefs estimate CTR when calculating search traffic?

Find out why there may be a drop in referring pages even though the number of referring domains have increased.

Why do I see a decrease in my Referring pages graph despite an increase in my Referring Domains graph?

Find out whether Organic Traffic is a monthly figure (based on past 30 days) or an average monthly figure (based on the last 12 months)?

Is Organic Traffic a monthly figure (based on past 30 days)?

Find out if Ahrefs has a spam score, and how you can check your backlinks for spam

Does Ahrefs have a spam score, or something similar?

Find out the reason why your link can be lost as "broken redirect" while being fully functional.

Why is my backlink marked as "broken redirect" if it works?

Find out how you can see the ranking history of the keywords important to you

Can I see the ranking history of a given keyword?

Find out why Ahrefs does not index links from LinkedIn, Slideshare, Quora and PDF files.

Why do links from LinkedIn, Slideshare, Quora and PDF files not appear in Ahrefs' backlinks report?

Find out why results may differ for Ahrefs and the exported file.

Why am I getting slightly different results in Ahrefs vs the exported file for large sites?

Find out why the number of referring domains differs from your dashboard and your referring domains report

Why is the number of referring domains on my dashboard different from the Site Explorer Overview?

Find out why some pages are missing from the “Top Content” report in Site Explorer.

Why is a page not in the "Top Content" report in Site Explorer?

Find out why there is a discrepancy between what you see in Google SERPs and Site Explorer.

Why don't the ranking positions in Site Explorer match those I see in Google?

Fixing common issues with uploading disavow files

Why is my disavow file not displaying correctly?

Find out why a website can have more referring IPs than domains.

Why does a website have more referring IPs than referring domains?

Find out why a Captcha message is shown instead of your title tag.

Why is a 'Captcha' title tag shown in my Site Explorer?

Find out why some keywords are not updated as frequently.

For some keywords, I see the Positions in Organic Keywords have not  been updated for a long time. Can they be updated more often?

Find out why a link is "lost" even though it's still on the page.

Why does Ahrefs report a backlink as “Lost” if I still see it on a page?

Find out why there is a spike in RDs in 2013.

Why is there a 'spike' in Referring Domains in 2013?

Read on to learn how anchors percentage is calculated.

How come the sum of all anchors percentage in Anchors is >100%

Find out how many backlinks/domains you can export

When exporting a file, why is the "Full export" option greyed out?

Find out why there is a discrepancy between what you see in Ahrefs and Google Analytics.

Why don't the organic traffic numbers reported by Ahrefs match those I see in Google Analytics?

Find out the reason why the organic traffic graph reflects traffic before Dec 2016, even if your website was not in existence yet.

Why does organic traffic exist on the graph for my website when it is not in existence before Dec 2016?

Find out why some graphs of Referring Pages on the Overview of Site Explorer exhibit jagged lines.

Why are there jagged lines in the Referring Pages graph?

Find out the reason why the numbers under the "Platforms" categories in Backlinks report of Site Explorer do not add up.

Why do the numbers under the "Platform" filter not add up?

Find out the plan required for using the disavow function and how to enable it on Ahrefs.

I can't seem to locate the "Hide disavowed links" button. How do I enable it?

Find out what actions you need to take after disavowing spam domains in Ahrefs.

Do I still need to do something with Google Webmaster Tools even after I disavow spam domains in Ahrefs?

Find out what the number of disavowed links shown on Dashboard mean

Why is there a discrepancy between the number of disavowed links shown on the Dashboard and the Disavow Links page?

You are doing a manual check and see that a certain anchor is missing from Ahrefs report? Find out what may be causing this

Why are some anchors missing in my report?

Find out why certain paid keywords are not shown on our paid keywords (PPC) report.

Why are some keywords not shown on your paid keywords (PPC) report?

Find out the difference between paid keywords and paid traffic value

What is the relationship between paid keywords and paid traffic value?

Understand the possible reasons for [Empty Title] in the Best by links report in Site Explorer

Why do I see an [Empty Title] in the Best by links growth report?

Tim Soulo [Ahrefs]

Anna

Dania

FAQs & Troubleshooting

Find out how to use Link Intersect to compare a few websites to see Referring Domains.

Site Explorer

Terminology

Crawling

Tutorials

FAQs & Troubleshooting

Best Practices