Are these Ahrefs metrics any good?

I purchased a few links from sellers on this forum in the last 1-2 months and I'm wondering if these ahrefs metrics for domains are any good? DR, UR, Dt, Rd, Ld, Ext., Pt..

the stats themselves are bad, you can't have DR 70 without any RDs. That's just not possible, so either Ahrefs' metrics have gone astray, or there's something wrong somewhere else. We would have to check the domains in question, but don't make them public as you could be ruining someone's legitimate business

tazarbm said:

the stats themselves are bad, you can't have DR 70 without any RDs. That's just not possible, so either Ahrefs' metrics have gone astray, or there's something wrong somewhere else. We would have to check the domains in question, but don't make them public as you'd be ruining someone's legitimate business

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Thank you, I dont have experience with metrics etc so I wanted to ask.

LilMosey said:

Thank you, I dont have experience with metrics etc so I wanted to ask.

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asking is good, so no problem

Let's hope that someone can interpret these metrics better than me because I'm not an Ahrefs user so I might be wrong in my assumptions. But I do know for sure that you can't have such high authority (70 in this case) without having a single backlink, because Ahrefs calculate their DR score based on the number and quality of backlinks, so you can see why I'm so confused

EDIT: although, it's possible that these sites block Ahfrefs' crawler (a lot of PBN sellers do this), but if that's the case the DR should not be properly calculated either, which also makes no sense...

Also be aware that domain rating is not only useful. You could have 100 DR80+ links all in profiles within the page. A profile that is never gonna be visited and without a single link within the main page, so virtually the on-page rating is 0. So if OPR = 0 and DR = 100, say that 100 x 0 = 0 value.

In this case most of this links have almost 0 traffic, so they seem pretty useless except 1. A page little traffic, even 10, it's a good signal (not domain traffic)

SirLouen said:

Also be aware that domain rating is not only useful. You could have 100 DR80+ links all in profiles within the page. A profile that is never gonna be visited and without a single link within the main page, so virtually the on-page rating is 0. So if OPR = 0 and DR = 100, say that 100 x 0 = 0 value.

In this case most of this links have almost 0 traffic, so they seem pretty useless except 1. A page little traffic, even 10, it's a good signal (not domain traffic)

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Thanks for this. Would you recommend disallowing all of these except the one with 10 page traffic?

LilMosey said:

Thanks for this. Would you recommend disallowing all of these except the one with 10 page traffic?

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I apologize for intervening into your discussion with @SirLouen but I noticed a lot of people start disavowing links too fast, and that's not always good. Actually, it's not good most of the time, for 2 reasons:

1) google already has enough information about everyone, so don't give them even more by (indirectly) telling them "hey, look, I've built these links that don't help and now I'm disavowing them so that you can rank my site"

2) disavowing takes a lot of time for results to show up, and the results are not always guaranteed because google have their own internal workings by which they assess and decide what to do with every backlink. And it takes time for the effects of disavowing to kick in (sometimes 5-6 months or longer), by which time google will have already rolled out 1 or 2 major updates (like they've been doing over the last 2 years now) which will most likely impact the disavowed links in one way or another, at which point you'd have to disavow other links again, and so on.

It will be a never-ending battle that rarely results in meaningful results, so try to disavow as little as possible, and only in the absolute most critical of situations (like, for example, if you have very good rankings and you're the victim of negative SEO that really tanks your entire site, that's when you should disavow... although, truth being told, a lot of the old SEO tricks are making a comeback lately, so even if someone tries to negative SEO your site this might actually benefit you with the way google's working at the moment, so even in this case disavowing is not a smart idea

LilMosey said:

Thanks for this. Would you recommend disallowing all of these except the one with 10 page traffic?

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No need to disavow them. They are just not simply great, but probably not harmful.

Ahrefs is a popular SEO tool that provides metrics for analyzing websites and backlinks. However, no tool can provide a completely accurate picture of a website's SEO performance, and it's important to use multiple tools and methods to ensure a comprehensive evaluation. Additionally, be aware of potential manipulation and use discretion when interpreting metrics provided by any tool.

Let's talk about the Disavow Tool from Google. It's a pretty helpful feature that lets us manage our website's backlinks and prevent negative SEO effects. But here's the catch, it can be a double-edged sword if we don't use it correctly. Disavowing links by mistake can negatively impact your website's ranking. So, we need to be careful and only use it after trying all other option. (Lastly, Google's algorithm is always evolving and periodically cleans up spammy links on its own, so we should let it handle them whenever possible.)

tazarbm said:

asking is good, so no problem

Let's hope that someone can interpret these metrics better than me because I'm not an Ahrefs user so I might be wrong in my assumptions. But I do know for sure that you can't have such high authority (70 in this case) without having a single backlink, because Ahrefs calculate their DR score based on the number and quality of backlinks, so you can see why I'm so confused

EDIT: although, it's possible that these sites block Ahfrefs' crawler (a lot of PBN sellers do this), but if that's the case the DR should not be properly calculated either, which also makes no sense...

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The seller might have links from sites that hides themselves from Ahrefs crawlers. Otherwise it's impossible to have such DR and traffic with such RD. But then again it's definitely possible to alter the stats, but not easy.

SirLouen said:

No need to disavow them. They are just not simply great, but probably not harmful.

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That's my thought too. Google demotes useless links these days.

LilMosey said:

I purchased a few links from sellers on this forum in the last 1-2 months and I'm wondering if these ahrefs metrics for domains are any good? DR, UR, Dt, Rd, Ld, Ext., Pt..

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Something sounds off honestly about the stats. Something doesn't add up here! I am really curious to see the domains.

tazarbm said:

the stats themselves are bad, you can't have DR 70 without any RDs. ....

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Possible.

Maybe OP has analyzed an inner page (not the domain entirely). And the inner page has only 1 RD.

Domain has a DR 70.

And we don't know how many RD the domain has.

RAP said:

Possible.

Maybe OP has analyzed an inner page (not the domain entirely). And the inner page has only 1 RD.

Domain has a DR 70.

And we don't know how many RD the domain has.

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That was my thought initially but he mentioned "these ahrefs metrics for domains".

RAP said:

Maybe OP has analyzed an inner page (not the domain entirely). And the inner page has only 1 RD.

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good point, I didn't think about it

It's difficult to evaluate based on DR alone
A lot of link farms out there