Ahrefs—Part 2

Continue learning how to use the most powerful SEO optimization tools and features of Ahref to strengthen your website's online presence.

Site Explorer

When working on a site’s SEO, we’ll often want to know how well our website, a subdomain, a subfolder, or a specific webpage is performing in organic and paid search results. All this information is available in the different reports of Ahrefs' Site Explorer.

Overview

The first report we will find in the tool is the Overview report. It gives us a high-level view of the searched URL’s performance. As shown in the image below, it shows us the URL Rating, Domain Rating, backlinks, and some other metrics related to the searched URL.

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Showcasing the overview report from: https://ahrefs.com/academy/how-to-use-ahrefs/site-explorer/
Showcasing the overview report from: https://ahrefs.com/academy/how-to-use-ahrefs/site-explorer/

Other than our site’s performance, we can also use the same tool to track our competitors’ performance and generate some actionable insights with the data we find. For example, we can see how our competitor’s performance is changing over time, filter the traffic volume by country, the top keywords that send them ...

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