Ahrefs Features

Helps users understand audience demographics and evaluate visitor behavior

Accurately measure total web traffic and display data logically.

Track user return rates and related metrics.

Gives users accurate reflection of how their search ratings compare with competitors.

Checks for grammar errors like misspellings, sentence run-on, etc.

Evaulates emotional tone of words written.

Ensures sentences are formatted properly.

Checks for instances of plagirism.

Evalutes that work has been done within the guildlines of a given writing style (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.).

Finds and formats citations for works mentioned.

Input different types of content and edit text formats, fonts, font sizes, and colors

Assists in the ideation process for creating new content, including themes, content types, titles and more

Generates sentences, paragraphs, or papers based on sample text or a topic.

Generates a form based on information presented.

Application is available as a standlone product.

Application is available as a plugin used with another document creation product.

Monitor and report on ranking in local search results

Report on local citations and distribute accurate listing data to directories and search engines

Optimize or automate content for Google My Business

Monitor online reviews and brand reputation

Integrate with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Provide insights and data visualizations from a comprehensive dashboard

Collect and analyze traffic data about website visitors

Measure return on ad spend by tracking the actions people take such as sign up or download after engaging with ads

Track the amount of clicks on individual products to measure campaign results

Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving

Manage advertising space and its sales within your network or publication

Create a collection of marketing actions to complete specific goals and plan and analyze campaign results

Monitoring and organizing references from a webpage to external sites and internal pages

Create, edit, and monitor product or property details displayed on listing websites (i.e. agency websites, third party listing sites)

Optimize and manage the search engine optimization efforts for a website or digital content

Track and monitor reviews of products or services

Provides a centralized platform for all competitive intelligence for teams to review and analyze.

Ability to capture changes your competitors make to their website to keep tabs on their features, plans, pricing, promotions, etc.

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Track and monitor a specific set of keywords

Tracks metrics that provide insight into how a user interacts with any interface or product

Provides benchmarking around search ads and display creatives against competitors to improve your paid marketing performance

Provide data around competitor's ad copy and can rank by popularity.

Ability to provide data around metrics such as market share, rank, ad spend, clicks, CTR, & CPC across all search engines.

Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of how competitors are acquiring customers through different channels.

Provides real-time alerts and sends notifications to users in-app or through email, text message or otherwise.

Ability to provide reporting and data exporting around paid search intelligence competitor data.

Ability to track the amount of traffic brought to competitors’ websites through PPC.

Provides data around which subdomains competitors are directing their paid traffic to most often.

Allows users to create a customizable dashboard to curate and highlight specific competitive data.

Provides competitive benchmarking and monitors growth and market share over time.

Allows users to manage data from a number of sources

Collect and analyze traffic data about website visitors

Delivers instantaneous notifications to alert users to significant issues or changes that could compromise a website's SEO health.

Evaluates a website's overall SEO health and recommends actions to correct potential issues or improve content.

Maintains a full record of changes to website content or infrastructure, and provides access to historical snapshots or backups.

Provides an SEO web crawler that consistently monitors and identifies technical issues within a website.

Tracks metrics that provide insight into how a user interacts with any interface or product

Provides tools for backlink analysis and identifies relevant link building opportunities.

Suggests related keywords for a given search term and provides metrics such as keyword volume, difficulty, and competition.

Tracks organic rank for targeted keywords and reports on current and historical metrics for average position, visibility, share of voice, traffic, etc.

Provides keyword ranking data based on geographic location and device type.

Offers tools to optimize SEO content such as long-tail keywords, audience insights, content intelligence, or an AI writing assistant.

A report showing what actions customers perform

Track the amount of clicks on individual products to measure campaign results

Log and store the source of contacts/leads

Track visitors and purpose of visits

Unique word that contains letters or numbers that identifies specific campaigns

Platforms that assist marketers in identifying relevant keywords for their content, websites, or advertising campaigns

Track and monitor a specific set of keywords

Monitor conversion rates and analyze effectiveness and profitability of marketing efforts

Provides competitor data on key metrics such as backlinks, SERP rankings, organic search traffic, domain strength. etc.

Displays rankings and key metrics visually, such as through charts or graphs

Enables users to build customized SEO reports

Receive data and information in real time

Review data from past periods to reveal recurring tendencies and predict future performance

Set a time to generate routine reports automatically

Monitors online media such as blogs, websites, and social media

Monitors media channels at the local level

Monitors media channels at the national level

Monitors international news coverage

Enables users to search media channels for specific keywords, brand mentions, or topics

Allows users to create custom feeds and/or receive real-time alerts for relevant media mentions

Allows users to build custom reports that can be shared with clients and stakeholders

Provides dashboards for quick visualizations of relevant media coverage and analytics

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Allows the user to monitor where and how often their brand appears in AI-generated search results and conversational AI platforms.

Provides users with the ability to analyze how AI platforms rank and surface their brand in AI-generated search results.

Provides users with the ability to identify incorrect or misleading AI-generated brand mentions that could impact perception.

Allows users to compare how frequently their competitors are mentioned in AI-generated search results relative to their own brand.

Allows users to adapt their content to align with the way AI platforms interpret and categorize information.

Offers users insights on how to refine messaging and content structure to improve AI-driven discoverability.

Enables users to receive instant notifications when their brand is referenced in AI-generated responses.

Provides users with detailed reports on AI-generated brand mentions, rankings, and sentiment analysis.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Integrate with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Manage and support multiple languages

Integrate with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Integration with Google Analytics to track and report website traffic

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Identify and map entities within content to improve semantic understanding by AI systems

Connect content to entities and knowledge graph relationships to strengthen contextual signals

Evaluate content context, topic coverage, and meaning to improve semantic discoverability

Strengthen topical authority signals so AI systems recognize content as a credible source

Find prompts where competitors appear but your brand does not.

Categorize emotions expressed in written text or images and identify if they are positive, negative or neutral

See where your brand appears in AI-generated answers.

Review data from past periods to reveal recurring tendencies and predict future performance

Connect data to tools like GA4, Looker Studio, Tableau, and more

Connect data to tools like GA4, Looker Studio, Tableau, and more

Structure content into retrievable passages optimized for AI search and retrieval pipelines

Optimize content structure and clarity to increase the likelihood of AI-generated citation

Analyze whether content is technically and structurally ready for AI retrieval systems

Evaluate how well content aligns with natural language prompts used in AI search environments

Assess how AI engines classify and represent the brand as an entity.

Track references and citations of organizational content within AI answer engines

Monitor when and how content appears within AI-generated responses

Analyze visibility and performance across AI-powered search and answer environments

Monitor brand visibility across regions and languages.

Measure brand prominence in AI-generated answers to specific queries.

Track which AI bots visit and index your site.

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Structure digital content so AI-powered search engines and answer systems can interpret and retrieve information accurately

Enhance content with structured data and schema markup to improve machine-readable meaning

Format headings, passages, and metadata to improve how AI systems parse and extract information

Prepare content for retrieval and citation within large language model search and answer systems

Receive data and information in real time

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

Track and interpret campaign performance metrics

Alter the layout and content of reports

Record customer information, purchase history, and other notes

Create a collection of marketing actions to complete specific goals and plan and analyze campaign results

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Notifications via mobile devices

Review data from past periods to reveal recurring tendencies and predict future performance

Graphical representation of data

Form predictions based on past and present data/trends

Compare key metrics for the business against prominent players in the industry

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Process of dividing customers into groups based on common characteristics

Attach digital tags to documents and assets for identification, search, or monitoring purposes

Import and export data to and from software applications

Optimize and manage the search engine optimization efforts for a website or digital content

A set of indicators that tracks the performance of networks, applications, systems, teams, etc.

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Integrate with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Evaluating strengths and weaknesses of companies with the same target audience

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Track activity on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Analyze and gain insights into data in real-time

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Categorize emotions expressed in written text or images and identify if they are positive, negative or neutral

Analyze and calculate business costs

Create custom predefined rules for prices for products and services

Track products that are for sale at a reduced price or part of coupon promotions

Evaluate the degree to which business operations bring monetary gains

AI-driven algorithms that allow for automatic repricing in real-time

Develop potential scenarios to identify risks and opportunities

Real-time price adjustment for a product or service to reflect changing market conditions, geolocation, customer behavior, etc.

At a high level, visualize a preferred outcome, define goals and identify specific steps to achieve them

Manage and handle various international currencies

Collect & analyze data from multiple sources to get insights into competing products, customer behavior, pricing & marketing strategies

Capture, organize and track product-specific data and information in a centralized location

Track and analyze key pricing metrics for reports, intelligence dashboards, historical data tracking, trend analysis, etc.

Present a catalog of inventory that customers can view

Design, communicate, and distribute incentives to perform a specific action

Create and manage price lists for products, customer segments, and geographic locations.

Making price adjustments to comparable property

Use simulation models and scenario planning to predict and compare strategy outcomes for prices and promotions

Track activity of your competitors

Adding retargeting pixels to track users who click a link and show them targeted ads

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Manage user accounts, profiles, roles, permissions, and other details across applications, devices or networks

Track and analyze information regarding website visitors

Online tool that takes a longer URL and condenses the link to optimize sharing through copy and paste techniques

Track activity on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Create branded link campaigns or short links with one or multiple custom domains.

Interact with data visualization elements, such as charts and graphs, to drill down into data

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Add customized logos and colors to align with company branding

Collect and analyze traffic data about website visitors

Used by marketers and advertisers

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Optimize and manage the search engine optimization efforts for a website or digital content

Securely stores data to prevent data loss or breaches

Analyze and gain insights into data in real-time

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Create a collection of marketing actions to complete specific goals and plan and analyze campaign results

Geographic location of visitors determines behavior of the software

Change or redirect the destination URL of a short link

Modifying a website's URL to enhance readability, branding, or campaign alignment

Import and export data to and from software applications

Track, analyze and report on click-through rates from URLs

Coordinate marketing efforts across channels (email, landing pages, social media, etc.)

Set campaign schedules by selecting start, pause, and end dates

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

What You See Is What You Get is a no-code tool that allows users to create and edit content using a visual interface

Improving user journey to boost the percentage of visitors who take a desired action (sign-ups or purchases)

Test multiple versions of emails, forms, content, or other campaign elements to gauge effectiveness

Adapt content to display differently based on viewer location

Manage and support multiple locations

Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Notifications that are delivered to users as soon as an event occurs

Assembly of graphs and charts for visualizing and tracking statistics/metrics

Create landing pages or online forms designed to capture new leads and prospects

Monitoring and organizing references from a webpage to external sites and internal pages

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

Receive system updates as soon as any changes are made

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

Plan, schedule, and execute organization's accounts and assets to ensure compliance with policies and laws

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Track and interpret campaign performance metrics

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Manage multiple campaigns in one system

Create and send email blasts/campaigns

Built-in website builder or integration with third-party site

Organize and manage the accomplishments and development of employees or performance of applications or systems

Discover the total number of backlinks, referring domains, and referring IPs going to a domain

A set of indicators that tracks the performance of networks, applications, systems, teams, etc.

Manage advertising space and its sales within your network or publication

Personalize delivered content based on characteristics, preferences, behavior or other data across the network

Identify and respond to unexpected problems or failures (ie. "negative events")

A visual display that uses a color spectrum to show how visitors interact with areas of a web page

Highlighting or otherwise flagging areas that require review or change

An extended application or connector that enables users to perform additional services with their current set of tools

Create many versions of emails, forms, or actions and gauge which is most effective

Track and analyze user behavior within a system or network

Identify a particular segment of population based on specific criteria and customize your efforts to attract their attention

Active reporting of data and metrics

Process of dividing customers into groups based on common characteristics

Product suggestions provided to users based on past behavior and relevant data, such as browsing and purchasing history

Record active support and chat sessions for auditing and training

Measures how easily users can access, read, and navigate the site on mobile devices

Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Discover the ranking of business based on location-specific keywords at the zip level

Create landing pages or online forms designed to capture new leads and prospects

Adapt content to display differently based on viewer location

Report on email bounce rate statistics

Platforms that assist marketers in identifying relevant keywords for their content, websites, or advertising campaigns

Identifying problems across various website data points that can prevent the site from ranking on Google and other search engines

Track and interpret campaign performance metrics

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Discover the total number of backlinks, referring domains, and referring IPs going to a domain

Review data from past periods to reveal recurring tendencies and predict future performance

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Manage and support multiple languages

Addition of necessary external data, applications, tools, or features

A set of indicators that tracks the performance of networks, applications, systems, teams, etc.

Evaluating strengths and weaknesses of companies with the same target audience

Manage and support multiple locations

Track overall brand presence in AI with a unified metric.

Measure brand presence as a percentage of AI-generated conversations.

Audit and rate content for AI citation readiness.

Attribute web sessions and conversions to AI platforms.

Cluster queries by topic for clearer analysis.

Identify and rank cited domains to inform content strategy.

Check if key pages are accessible to AI crawlers.

Ability that lets users rebrand the software to make it look like their own

Preview content changes’ impact on AI responses before publishing.

Review and enhance schema for better AI comprehension.

Create and manage llms.txt files for AI crawler guidance.

Track brand visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude, and more.

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Generate AI-ready articles and FAQs within the platform.

Access curated or suggested prompts for coverage.

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Filter visibility data by buyer persona or job role.

Manage multiple brands with separate dashboards.

Optimize and manage the search engine optimization efforts for a website or digital content

Alert teams to AI-generated brand inaccuracies or errors.

Access authentic user queries sent to AI platforms.

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Compare brand frequency and position versus competitors in AI content.

Track what was updated, who made the changes, compare two revisions, and revert or perform another revision

Utilizes artificial intelligence to provide content suggestions to users as they type

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Sample files or documents that could be customized as needed or used as is

Search and/or filter for items using names, keywords, descriptions, tags, metadata, etc.

Choose the desired tone for content to be generated

Manage and support multiple languages

Attach digital tags to documents and assets for identification, search, or monitoring purposes

Autocompletion of a word or phrase that the user is typing

Export content in multiple document formats such as .pdf, .txt, .doc, .xls, and more based on requirements

Dictionary/Thesaurus

Create and save approved content for re-use across the team or business

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

Rules followed by the software/AI can be configured by users to suit their specific needs

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Automatic correction of spelling and/or grammatical mistakes

Process and analyze human language in text or audio form

Identify different languages

Platforms that assist marketers in identifying relevant keywords for their content, websites, or advertising campaigns

Edit text as needed

Automatically saves entered text/data

Provides centralized location and shareable capabilities for storage, distribution, and editing of brand guidelines

Coordinate marketing efforts across channels (email, landing pages, social media, etc.)

Manage the process of evaluating documents or requests submitted for approval

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Graphical representation of data

Receive data and information in real time

Centralized repository to store content and assets

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

Multiple channels (email, web link, or social media) to distribute products, services, or surveys to customers

Import and export data to and from software applications

Track activity on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

Monitoring brand mentions, clicks, backlinks, and engagement of distributed content like blogs, press releases, or social media posts.

Automatic update of information / software

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users