best rd checker?
- Thread starter wizeman
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- Oct 28, 2020
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no idea why there is such a difference (I have wondered this myself) but regarding accuracy.... if a tool detects more backlinks than others then it's the most accurate one, is it not? So, in this case, Ahrefs would be more accurate than Majestic, but even Ahrefs doesn't detect all backlinks, so...
- Jul 5, 2016
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Out of them, Ahrefs detects the RD count most accurately but then again, it is a tool and it cannot detect 100% of the RD. Hope that helps!
- May 10, 2012
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Well the difference between Majestic and Ahrefs is obvious. And don't even get me started with Moz.
Both are separate companies, both use different crawlers and both will have different results.
Ahrefs is definitely the most effective, but as was already mentioned above, it still won't show you everything.
Majestic for example filters out those spammy Blogspot links that Ahrefs still shows.
If you want a full backlink profile, then get reports from both Majestic and Ahrefs and ideally, even GSC. Merge those together, remove duplicates and you are as close to the reality as possible.
Both are separate companies, both use different crawlers and both will have different results.
Ahrefs is definitely the most effective, but as was already mentioned above, it still won't show you everything.
Majestic for example filters out those spammy Blogspot links that Ahrefs still shows.
If you want a full backlink profile, then get reports from both Majestic and Ahrefs and ideally, even GSC. Merge those together, remove duplicates and you are as close to the reality as possible.
- Jan 17, 2015
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There have been conducted hundreds of analysis of this exact topic you are commenting on.
As already have been mentioned, these are crawlers, like Google, that exactly try to replicate Google behaviour (except for the caching and ranking on sites based on content).
Tools like SERPstat have proven to be really awesome, even comparing with Majestic and SEMrush at certain stages. They keep improving their crawling algo and since the web is ever changing and many sites go obsolete every day, while thousands are born every day, data is constantly being transformed.
Ahrefs is always known to be in the top of algos. But if you want to do your own research, for every site, just pick all the sites in the linking profile and put them on excel and do your own comparison:
1. Are there duplicates? (for example similar sites with different query vars)
2. Are there much garbage in the crawling (for example those kind of sites that are dead or spammy sites)
3. Are there many pages from different domain, or do they repeat too much for certain crawler?
4. Are the links updated or lost time ago?
You will probably notice, that Ahrefs is the one with more right hits, and semrush is really poor accompanied by Moz (moz tend to be less updated). Majestic somewhere in the middle, but in the last year 2020 was completely wrong 90% of the time so I stopped my subscription (also since I have domdetailer for checking TF and CF I did not need the specific stats from them anymore), but maybe in 2021 they have significantly improved I may check it some point during this year.
As already have been mentioned, these are crawlers, like Google, that exactly try to replicate Google behaviour (except for the caching and ranking on sites based on content).
Tools like SERPstat have proven to be really awesome, even comparing with Majestic and SEMrush at certain stages. They keep improving their crawling algo and since the web is ever changing and many sites go obsolete every day, while thousands are born every day, data is constantly being transformed.
Ahrefs is always known to be in the top of algos. But if you want to do your own research, for every site, just pick all the sites in the linking profile and put them on excel and do your own comparison:
1. Are there duplicates? (for example similar sites with different query vars)
2. Are there much garbage in the crawling (for example those kind of sites that are dead or spammy sites)
3. Are there many pages from different domain, or do they repeat too much for certain crawler?
4. Are the links updated or lost time ago?
You will probably notice, that Ahrefs is the one with more right hits, and semrush is really poor accompanied by Moz (moz tend to be less updated). Majestic somewhere in the middle, but in the last year 2020 was completely wrong 90% of the time so I stopped my subscription (also since I have domdetailer for checking TF and CF I did not need the specific stats from them anymore), but maybe in 2021 they have significantly improved I may check it some point during this year.
- Jan 22, 2011
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As many voted for Ahref above, Myself also add my opinion on Ahref.
When it comes, whether ahref or Majestic, Ahref wins as it is more updated and accurate to near
When it comes, whether ahref or Majestic, Ahref wins as it is more updated and accurate to near
- Jan 21, 2021
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Ahrefs has the biggest database of links. For links, I prefer using ahrefs. But to get the most accurate data, you can export links from Ahrefs and Majestic, combine and remove duplicates.
Jack Jericho
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Moz is cheaper but Ahref's better.
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I used MOZ is best and cheap.