5 Free SEO Tools by Ahrefs to Improve SEO
Did you know that Ahrefs has free SEO tools. I’m, going to show you five of their best free SEO tools and how you can use them together to actually improve SEO for your site.
It’s called Ahrefs Webmaster Tools or AWT. AWT also includes two other core tools and will work for any website that we will explain later in this article.
Ahrefs Webmaster Tools or AWT
1. Site audit
2. Overview report
3. Backlink Checker
4. Keyword Generator
5. SEO Toolbar
These free SEO tools will help you keep your site in good health.
The first tool is Site audit, which will scan your website for over 100 technical and on-page SEO issues and organize them into digestible reports. A great feature in Site Audit is that you can set up scheduled audits on a weekly basis and this allows you to monitor changes that are happening on your site in real time.
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The second tool in AWT is Site Explorer, which gives you the backlink and search traffic data which will bring you to the Overview Page. On this page, you can see top-level metrics for your website like Domain Rating (DR) total backlinks total referring domains which are just unique websites that link to you and the number of keywords your site ranks for and the estimated weekly/monthly search traffic to your website.
You will find an interactive graph that shows how fast you’re acquiring backlinks from unique websites which is a good indicator of your website popularity on the web. Site Explorer also allows you to see the keywords your website ranks for. Just go to the Organic Keywords report and you will see the keywords you’re ranking for and their search volumes, keyword difficulty scores and the positions.
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The third tool is Ahrefs Keyword Generator. This tool lets you find keyword ideas for search engines like Google, Bing, YouTube and Amazon. Just select your search engine and enter a broad keyword related to your niche along with search volumes and keyword difficulty scores for the top 10 keywords.
Now, if you are looking for blog post keywords then click the Questions tab which will show keywords that contain your targeted keyword phrases as a question. There you will look for a low Key Density and high search volume.
The fourth tool is Serp Checker. SERP Checker shows you the top 10 rankings plus the SEO metrics for the top 3 pages in your related niche and beyond metrics.
The fifth tool is Ahrefs SEO Toolbar. If you’re familiar with this tool then you know that people with a premium plan can see cool things like keyword metrics and SEO metrics right within Google Search.
You can watch Brian Dean’s video for better understanding about SEO tools and how to use them.
Thanks for reading
Sammy
