FAQs & Troubleshooting
By Tim and 7 others8 authors36 articles
- 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