Ahrefs

Ahrefs is an all-in-one SEO toolset. With a paid account, it allows us to audit our website, pinpoint optimizations that can bring the site up in search results, analyze our competitors, learn which keywords our audience is searching for, track our ranking in search results, and lots more. It also offers a range of free SEO tools to get us started before we’re ready for a paid plan.

To use a tool to its maximum potential, we need to learn how to use it. So, let’s learn how to use Ahrefs.

The Dashboard

With any paid plan, the central hub where we’ll access most of the important metrics regarding our projects is the Dashboard. When we log in to our account for the first time, this is what we’ll see.

Here we can add the domain or URL we want to start tracking. We can create projects for multiple domains or URLs. Each of the projects we add to the dashboard will occupy an individual bar on our dashboard, showing all the important data associated with it.

The projects we add here will also automatically add to the other tools we need, including Site Audit and Rank Tracker. The Dashboard condenses information from other tools, including Site Explorer, Site Audit, and Rank Tracker, to display it on a single screen so we can get a quick overview of how our projects are doing.

Overview

The default tab that opens when we go to the Dashboard is the Overview tab. We can see on the top left of the page that this is the selected tab. ...