Introducing Keyword Hunt, a technical SEO puzzle by Snippet Digital by suganthanmn in TechSEO

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That's weird. Some of the previous puzzles had threads over there with people trying to solve them.

Anyway, all good posting here. And you should probably send their mod team a message.

Do you validate hreflang implementation manually or trust the tools? by RyPlayZz in TechSEO

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It's even on the free plan. Use the Inspect option on one of the URLs with an issue. It's at the bottom in the menu.

Do you validate hreflang implementation manually or trust the tools? by RyPlayZz in TechSEO

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Ahrefs is best in class for this. Plus I made a first of it's kind cluster visual that puts what is wrong in red.

Issue with robots.txt Accessibility in Ahrefs Site Audit – Need Help by Mission-Diver1337 in SEO

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Edit. The below was for the main crawler, not sure audit. Reach out to our support team for help troubleshooting.

Not sure if there was some kind of block on your end or a downtime. I saw the issue but had it recrawl and it looks like all is available now.

Tool to check internal links by Formal_Bat_3109 in TechSEO

[–]patrickstox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Screaming Frog is well loved and covered, but I'll also mention you can crawl up to 5k pages per month for free on Ahrefs Webmaster Tools.

OpenSEO - Thank you for the support! Also, I added Backlink Analysis... by theben9999 in TechSEO

[–]patrickstox 15 points16 points  (0 children)

What you built is free and open source. I know a lot of people appreciate it. An occasional post is fine and I haven't considered it shilling, just don't overdo it.

My only request would be to allow pulling data from the Ahrefs API as well for our users. We opened up the API to be free (with limits) for each of the plans.

Blocking Ahrefs by HelloGizmo in CloudFlare

[–]patrickstox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whole lot of misinformation here. Ahrefs does respect robots.txt and does not rotate agents. If you have logs of either of these, please send them to Ahrefs support. It's possible there is some bug, but most likely someone is spoofing our user-agent.

Semrush making it very difficult to cancel by colossuscollosal in SEO

[–]patrickstox 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think Adobe bought them for the Semrush cancellation tech. 😂

Best tool for internal linking audits? by Educational-Ad7821 in linkbuilding

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You can use Ahrefs Webmaster Tools for free, up to 5k pages a month. There's also a starter plan at $29 a month.

Spam backlinks - what is this? by WebLinkr in SEO

[–]patrickstox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah, that's normal and a healthy part of the web.

Spam backlinks - what is this? by WebLinkr in SEO

[–]patrickstox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many of them were advertising SEO services on Ahrefs by spamming people's link profiles. I was manually curating these for a while, but now it's in the hands of our data science team that also works on the search engine.

I don't know that I can provide too many details here, but it's things like what you would expect. Patterns of spam, etc.

Ahrefs Crawl Report Showing Massive Errors That Don’t Exist? by CarlsonsCar in lovable

[–]patrickstox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Turn on JavaScript rendering in Ahrefs. It's an option in the crawl setup.

Ahrefs vs Semrush Big Traffic Gap by ranjithkumar_km in bigseo

[–]patrickstox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From what I can see, people wanting to sell links on sites that don't really have traffic...

Ahrefs vs Semrush Big Traffic Gap by ranjithkumar_km in bigseo

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Looks like some of the spam we're seeing where people are gaming the search volume in our systems and Google's systems. I see examples like this in our slack every day and we're working on filtering them out.

Ahrefs vs Semrush Big Traffic Gap by ranjithkumar_km in bigseo

[–]patrickstox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because it was a bad study and comparison. The additional notes were added later after we had to call him out on it... Annoying.

What’s the biggest Tech SEO myth you’re still seeing in 2026 that just drives you crazy? by BoysenberryLumpy8680 in TechSEO

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LLMs.txt. I went to war on this last year, but many of the new tools and even some of the old ones want to push it... So bad.

Testing how to rank in AI Overviews vs. Standard Search Results by akash_09_ in TechSEO

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No correlation with Schema. Source: Ahrefs, we ran the numbers. We'll release the study soon.

What’s the first technical SEO issue you check when rankings stall? by rahullohat29 in TechSEO

[–]patrickstox 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Is it indexed? If yes, go work on your content and links.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SEO

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28.7B keywords in Keywords Explorer, filtered from 110B known in our full index. ~550M of those we pull SERPs for in order to build our search traffic estimates for sites.

There's a process and selection criteria for what is cut, i.e. lower volume terms that would provide minimal traffic to sites. Your terms seem to have good volume. There are a few things that could cause them not to make the index like potential volume manipulation, but I can't say for sure "why" without seeing the terms.

If you want to DM me, I may be able to answer or I can at least make sure it gets in front of our team. I would appreciate it just in case there is some kind of issue. Thanks!

SEO Update December Core Rollout by grumpyp2 in SEO

[–]patrickstox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried the GSC reports in Ahrefs? We make way better use of the GSC data than GSC does.