Ahrefs vs Majestic SEO: 1 Million Domains Analyzed

[omgyams]

Great read here:
Update #2: Ahrefs vs Majestic SEO - The 1 Million Domain Showdown - Matthew Woodward

Highlights:

• 1 million domains analyzed - Ahrefs is the clear winner for number of backlinks reported
• Company responses from Ahrefs & Majestic
• Potential drama with IM ninjas/Anne Smarty posting a link to a Majestic blog post via the Ahrefs twitter account
• Ahrefs fixes bugs reported by Majestic and responds like a boss
• The original post was sponsored by SEO Spyglass, which came in dead last lol

Great Monday morning read. If you utilize link intelligence tools on a daily to weekly basis and didn't know Ahrefs has a larger index of links you're doing something wrong.

 

[golan]

I like Ahrefs more. But what amazes me is that almost every time I check some domain, Majestic gives me more backlinks.

 

[JulianTrueFlynn]

 

[Andrew Scherer]

Excellent case study and read, thanks for posting this

 

[golan]

BTW his tool doesnt open today. I mean OSE.

 

[flaw3d]

I had majestic but honestly it blows. Ahrefs is the shit.

 

[chigga102]

I had majestic but honestly it blows. Ahrefs is the shit.

If you say you like Ahrefs More than majestic 3 times in a row. The CEO of majestic will appear and roundhouse kick you in the face!

 

[Zaino]

Remember when people used to build backlinks....

 

[ToddW]

Remember when people used to build real websites....

fixd :drinkup:

 

[igl00]

im all in for ahrefs - always and forever!

 

[taktikz]

Majestic tends to give me more backlinks than Ahrefs.

 

[o3_az]

nice analysis

 

[eliquid]

Ahrefs has a huge bug right now that they havent fixed in long time.

dont try to do raw exports over 250k URLs.

 

[omnipotent$]

Ahrefs is where its at. I used to use majesticseo but I switched over to Ahrefs.

 

[-Matt-]

Nice comparison. "Update 2" with ahrefs' response was worth reading.

 

[Sevenhelmets]

For those that keep saying that Majestic finds more links than Ahrefs - have you actually run a live check on those links? Majestic tends to leave in the dead links, so although they report higher numbers, actual live links are a LOT less, and therefore are more on par with what Ahrefs reports.