ahrefs for sale



I could see selling their brand and software for $25k, maybe even $50k to the right person, but to start the bidding at $200k with no stats, that's just a fucking joke.

Also, I am a subscriber, so thanks OP for letting me know these guys might be going out of business soon. Them server costs they listed aint cheap.
 
Could this just be a marketing ploy? An easy way to let other webmasters and those interested in buying websites know about ahrefs?
 
they probably ate quite a bit of costs over the last year given their rig and scraping/bandwidth needs. Seem like they're great developers (their scraper is in fucking c++) but have no marketing going on whatsoever so they can't cover their costs.
 
They need to just lay low until yahoo finally shuts down siteexplorer then come out with a better pricing structure and whore that shit out on all the forums. They'll have no problem getting premium members then.
 
Pretty sure I could clone it in 3 months spending something less than $30k.

The monthly recurring server's cost and bandwidth is going to be a bitch though.
 
Look at the server spec requirements.

Overall servers cluster for data storage should have:
at least 200Tb HDD
at least 240Gb RAM
quick connection between servers
500Tb traffic per month
4- or 6-core processors, at least 20 processors
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If my calc's are correct they're averaging about 580 pages/second per server. Which on the crawl/parse/etc stage isn't bad but I wonder if they have crawl only servers and a few parsers, and then a few DB's. That would explain a lot more.

But yeah, 200K is a tad much. I'd say the brand is worth 30-50K tops after seeing the number of users/signups/freebies they have (as in I would need to see, not I already know) pending no/low revenue.
 
I bet the costs to run that motherfucker are intense, I bet they're almost borderline bankrupt and struggling to keep out the red.

Inb4 the site disappears.
 
I've been using it for a month or so and I like it. Who are their closest competitors with as much information and timeliness of information?
 
davidb said:
I've been using it for a month or so and I like it. Who are their closest competitors with as much information and timeliness of information?
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Just Majestic SEO. seoMOZ, YSE etc don't even compare, IMHO. I bet if they wait it out in 6 months they'll receive as much traffic as Majestic, with proper pricing they can def. make it profitable and sell it for twice as much. I really like what they've done with the service, the SERP analysis feature was pretty neat.

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I've been telling their API team to come up with a free API so that software developers have a reason to link to them and they keep saying No. It's like they'd rather go bankrupt than have people use their data for free.
 
clyde said:
Just Majestic SEO. seoMOZ, YSE etc don't even compare, IMHO. I bet if they wait it out in 6 months they'll receive as much traffic as Majestic, with proper pricing they can def. make it profitable and sell it for twice as much. I really like what they've done with the service, the SERP analysis feature was pretty neat.

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I've been telling their API team to come up with a free API so that software developers have a reason to link to them and they keep saying No. It's like they'd rather go bankrupt than have people use their data for free.
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How about just an api model that isnt a fuckin scam.

Shit, we're probably going to end up having to build our own to save money with the way all these shitty ass site explorer folks mangle there terms of service or api costs.
 
secretagentdad said:
How about just an api model that isnt a fuckin scam.

Shit, we're probably going to end up having to build our own to save money with the way all these shitty ass site explorer folks mangle there terms of service or api costs.
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It's because it costs them a lot of money to crawl the internet accurately and quickly enough to keep up with growth. To have a good index of backlinks, you have to have ridiculous, Google level reach and speed. That costs a fuck ton of money to do.
 
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