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Batch AI in Site Audit, Competitive map in Report Builder, and more (Feb 2025)
This month’s highlights include traffic acquisition channels in Web Analytics, a chat function in AI Content Helper, competitive maps in Report Builder, a batch AI function in Site Audit, and more. Let’s get right into it. Group traffic sources by acquisition channel See which channels are bringing you the most traffic: Search, Direct, LLM, Email, Newsletter, and so on. The “Internal” channel refers to traffic coming from the target project itself.
Web Analytics additions, share of voice charts in Rank Tracker, and more (Jan 2025)
This month we’re introducing some powerful Web Analytics additions, SoV + SoTV metrics and charts in Rank Tracker, and more. Let’s get right into it. Google Search Console integration We’ve integrated Web Analytics with Google Search Console data. Just filter by Source: is Google to see the keywords that are actually getting you clicks under Traffic sources. Visitor languages The Languages widget shows you your visitors’ browser languages, so you can tweak your content strategy accordingly.
Web Analytics, Growth forecast and more (Dec 2024)
This month we’re introducing a bunch of exciting updates, from Web Analytics, our simple Google Analytics alternative, to a 12-month growth forecast in Keywords Explorer, AI-generated titles and meta descriptions directly in Site Audit, and more. Let’s get right into it. First up, we’ve launched Web Analytics. Web Analytics is a simple Google Analytics alternative – or, a better way to track website traffic. It’s privacy-friendly, cookie-free, and lightning-fast, and offers focused insights.
PDF custom reports, Patches, Ask AI in Content helper and more (Nov 2024)
This month we’re introducing PDF exports in Reports Builder, lots of new features in AI Content Helper, Patches in Site Audit, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbNNH61OuUQ&ab_channel=AhrefsProductUpdates AI recommendations We’ve added topic-specific AI recommendations. Just click on “Get recommendations” and our AI will: Analyze both your content and your competitors’ Show you how to address the content gap with specific examples.
AI overviews, search intents, and more (Oct 2024)
This month we’re introducing AI overviews in SERP Overview, search intents in Site Explorer and Keywords Explorer, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBqhpciLDw&ab_channel=AhrefsProductUpdates Compare specific dates in Overview We’ve added a new date picker in Overview. Before, you could only select from preset time periods like Last 24 hours, Last 7 days, and so on. But now, you can click on “Custom date” to select specific dates to see changes across then.
Right from X: All the best things about Ahrefs Evolve 2024
Hey all, I’m Rebekah and I am your Chosen One to “do a blog post for Ahrefs Evolve 2024”. What does that entail exactly? I don’t know. In fact, Sam Oh asked me yesterday what the title of this post would be. “Is it like…Ahrefs Evolve 2024: Recap of day 1 and day 2…?” Even as I nodded, I couldn’t get over how absolutely boring that sounded. So I’m going to do THIS instead: a curation of all the best things YOU loved about Ahrefs’ first conference, lifted directly from X.
Report builder, AI Content Helper, and more (Sept 2024)
This month we’re introducing our new AI Content Helper tool, customizable report building, filter presets in Keywords Explorer, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8m9i-liZiA&ab_channel=AhrefsProductUpdates Ahrefs’ AI Content Helper is now in beta! This tool lets you optimize your content by giving you competitor data to inform your own writing process, instead of focusing on keyword stuffing.
Get Ahrefs at group buy pricing - with zero risk
Let’s be honest: Ahrefs group buy accounts sound really tempting at first, especially with the low prices they tout for “full access” to our tools. But remember, the tradeoff is that they come with some serious baggage. Let’s take a look at some common issues. What you get with an Ahrefs group buy Lots of risks, really.
Compare page text changes in Site Audit and more (Aug 2024)
This month we’re introducing side-by-side page text comparison in Site Audit, no blinks mode in the Calendar report, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzCvAw6FDU No blinks mode in Calendar report We’ve added a no blinks mode in the Calendar report that reduces link noise. Just turn on this Show domain recurrences toggle to hide link recurrences, also known as link blinks, in your report. When hidden, only the first appearance of new domains or links is shown.
Ahrefs’ $29 Starter plan - what’s included and how it compares
If you haven’t heard yet, we’ve launched a new plan at Ahrefs. Meet our Starter plan: a $29/month offering that’s great for SEO beginners who are looking to go beyond the basics offered in our free Ahrefs Webmaster Tools plan. Here’s what you need to know. Who’s the Starter plan for? The Starter plan is perfect if you’re just starting out, or want to explore our platform without a big commitment.
Content changes on performance charts, and more (Jul 2024)
This month we’re introducing content changes on performance charts, a new Growth metric in Keywords Explorer, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkDikwqmSD4 Content changes in performance charts Now when you look at a page in Overview 2.0, you can enable “Content changes” to see when content was changed. This helps you to visualize if significant changes in traffic followed a change in content. The bigger the bubble, the bigger the content change.
Coming soon: Patches in Site Audit
Patches lets you fix simple issues on your website with one click, right in Site Audit. We handle all the backend stuff so you can focus on the big picture. What are Patches? Patches are fixes for your website that you can create and make directly in Site Audit issue reports. Did your pages get flagged for having too-short meta descriptions? Click on “Patch it”, enter new meta descriptions, and hit publish to fix them on your website – no developers needed.
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Ahrefs Alternatives
What are the best alternative SEO tools, besides Ahrefs? Here’s our take. A foreword: we’d really prefer not to further perpetuate the “SaaS tool slugfest” where both sides cherry-pick the product features they offer that the other doesn’t, then design tables and one-pagers to support their bias. So we thought we’d go slightly bigger picture here. Why should you go with Ahrefs, and not any alternative tool offering the same function that you’re looking for?
AI translations, IndexNow in Site Audit, and more (Jun 2024)
This month we’re introducing AI translations, IndexNow in Site Audit, Share of Voice and Traffic value carts, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibpRzdyPrHk&ab_channel=AhrefsProductUpdates Impressions metric We’ve added a new metric called Impressions in the General and Organic search views in Overview. Impressions shows you the number of searches that your target receives for keywords that it ranks for in the top 10.
What’s new at Ahrefs? (May 2024)
This month we’re introducing a Calendar view in Page Inspect, the ability to compare any two Site Audit crawls, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPqPj8t-lWY&ab_channel=AhrefsProductUpdates Calendar view in Page inspect This new calendar view in Page inspect shows you the history of page changes over time. The darker the color, the more content changes were made on a page that day. For example, this square on Jan 8 is a deep green.
What’s new at Ahrefs? (April 2024)
This month we’re introducing the Backlinks Calendar report, mobile vs desktop distribution stats, Tags 2.0 in Rank Tracker, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv_3HzhIjfw&ab_channel=AhrefsProductUpdates Backlinks Calendar report We’ve released the Backlinks calendar report, which shows you all the day-to-day changes for new and lost backlinks.
What’s new at Ahrefs? (Mar 2024)
This month we’re introducing Pages 2.0 in Rank Tracker, an experimental AI Content Grader tool for Enterprise plans, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udgpyj_X3n8&ab_channel=AhrefsProductUpdates Redirect chains in export files We’ve added redirect chains to export files. So now when you export a backlinks report, you’ll see redirect chain URLs in your files.
What’s new at Ahrefs? (Feb 2024)
This month we’re introducing the new Linking authors report, comparing search intent between SERPs with the help of AI, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPQSx3Vb7k8&ab_channel=AhrefsProductUpdates Linking authors report This new Linking authors report shows you authors who are linking to your target.
What’s new at Ahrefs? (Jan 2024)
This month we’re introducing a new AI feature to identify search intent, the “best links” filter in Overview 2.0, mobile usability issues in Site Audit and more. Let’s get right into it. “Best links” filter in Overview 2.0 The Best links filter is now also in Overview 2.0. Using the filter here affects all backlink-related counts and historical charts, which lets you filter out link noise from all widgets.
What’s new at Ahrefs? (Dec 2023)
This month we’re introducing Rank Tracker’s Overview 2.0, the ability to filter by “best links” in Site Explorer, and more. Let’s get right into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm33Ncax0jI&ab_channel=AhrefsProductUpdates “Best links” filter in 2.0 reports This addition lets you filter for so-called “good” links. The filter is based on a predefined set of parameters, which by default includes referring domains that have a DR of at least 30, traffic of 500 or more, and so on.
Ahrefs Changelog: Running List of New Features
This is the Ahrefs changelog, a simple list of all our newest features for you to browse and try out. Here you’ll find a running list of the recently added product updates and launches at Ahrefs, in a super easy-to-digest text format. If you prefer video, you might want to head over to our product update YouTube channel. Otherwise, the navigation on the left jumps you to a specific tool, and you can click in to see a screenshot of each feature in the Ahrefs UI.
What’s new at Ahrefs? (Nov 2023)
This month we’re introducing Link Intersect 2.0, our first AI feature that lets you generate seed keywords in Keywords Explorer, and more. Let’s get right into it. Link Intersect 2.0 Meet Link Intersect 2.0, our latest release in Competitive Analysis. This tool shows you who’s linking to one or more targets, but not others. For example, to see who’s linking to competitors but not to us, select referring domains and enter our domain in the top section.
Ahrefs’ SEO Metrics: A Glossary
Want to make sure that you have the right understanding of the SEO metrics in our tools? Here’s a centralized glossary of Ahrefs metrics and how they’re calculated, along with some other popular metrics in our toolset.
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