Backlinks on SemRush/Ahrefs etc - Why the difference?

[OrdoAbChao]

So I check the backlinks of a URL in my Semrush account and it shows 35 links. If I check on Ahrefs, it shows over 4,000.
I'm curious as to the difference. Is Semrush only counting links with Dmoz directory submission or something?

 

[Beastman]

Neither of them will find all the links that are pointing at your site. Ahrefs finds more links than SEMRush is what you can take away from the comparison.

 

[ja1myn]

SEM Rush sucks at finding backlinks. Ahrefs.com is where it's at. Why SEM Rush never finds as many backlinks is beyond me.

 

[JasonS]

Because both sites has their own crawlers to detect. But Ahrefs is a lot more faster than any other available solutions. As, I've tried almost all majestic, ahrefs, semrush, moz, openlinkprofiler etc..

 

[accelerator_dd]

SEMRush's crawler is not its strong side. They specialize in scraping Google and reporting on that data. Ahrefs only cares about links.

 

[hdwla]

They have different crawlers. Ahrefs and majestics are more reliable to find backlinks

 

[anafsp1]

People already answered correctly. For backlinks use ahrefs, for keyword research use SEMrush, and for something between try MOZ. Theres also majestic for link analize but I never quite understood their tools.

 

[OrdoAbChao]

I see, another monthly expense. Yaay!

Thanks folks.

 

[Dakarois]

I see, another monthly expense. Yaay!

Thanks folks.

You can get into some groupbuys for those tools and save some money

 

[kolanut]

You can get into some groupbuys for those tools and save some money

I'm quite interested in the "groupbuy" any pointers on how/where to find them?

 

[clevelandslim]

Ahref is used for backlink process and rank analyses. SEMrush is used for keyword research. Both of them are very useful for SEO.

 

[tomberkowitz03]

SEMrush is a joke.