Backlink monitoring
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Manny Estanislao
A cool feature to have would be to enable the user to upload a list of backlinks and have Ahrefs monitor the status (404'd, nofollowed, removed, etc.). I understand that it's a backlink checker already but some backlinks might not be crawled by your bot. It'll also help add these pages to your database, as well as giving the user the option to monitor links they specifically built separately.
Mark Sceats
This is an option with SE Ranker where you can upload a specific list of URLs linking to your site and it monitors if these are still linking. Ahrefs should have had this in place a long time ago.
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Leonard Paass
Yes, please! We need that feature desperately.
Robert Siegers
Also looking for this function. It says [PLANNED] for 5 - 6 years now. Any updates on that function?
PAWAN KUMAR GUPTA
Best of Regard
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Karl Johan
Any update on this? It seems like there's a lot of interest in this. Is it in development? If so, what's the ETA?
Robert Siegers
Karl Johan: still waiting lol, it's been a couple years
Dutch Powerhouse
I want this so bad! Google Search Console shows me twice as many backlinks as Ahrefs does. Those links are not picked up by Ahrefs over time.
I understand you can not crawl every webiste out there. But if we could only add those links manually so your bot can then visit the page and add the backlink to our backlinks profile.
It would give a much higher credibility to the Ahrefs backlinkprofile.
Give it some restrictions like add only 10-50 links per user/month to prevent any data/crawl budget problems.
Please!
Tim Soulo
Tim Soulo
Merged in a post:
Monitor links
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Ability to track and monitor links.
Would be awesome to be able to create a project where you can create your own widgets and monitor links.
Some links you don't want to monitor some you want. If they are live if it's still dofollow etc.
Would also be nice to be able to tick links to monitor after a bulk upload of URLs. This dashboard should then also create new link velocity, amount of ref. Domains anchor text distribution based on these links.
Big brands receive a lot of affiliate and other links that just mess up the data. If you build links, you still want to keep that one clean and have a safe/natural distribution. This to not get fooled that all other links make it natural for you. Safety first!
There is a lot of sweet features (auto-detect the links anchor/link URL since you specified the domain in the project), you can apply to this, and I think it should be a separated section for users.
It should specify lost, anchor changed, couldn't fetch URL or 404 or what not. This is possible with a feature for ahrefs, yes but it's irrelevant and inefficient for big brands. You want to monitor what you want to monitor. Not check what you might be monitoring.
Right now you have to subscribe to another service or built this into your own tool to monitor links.
Tim Soulo
Merged in a post:
Monitoring tool for own links
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david carralon
Most SEOs that actively do link building keep a list of all links acquired in a spreadsheet. There are services out there that allow you to upload your own list of links and alert you when any of them gets broken or lost. This allows you to get back to the source site and ask why the link has been removed or whatever. It'd be great to have this feature added on Ahrefs
Elena
Indeed.
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