Ahrefs

“So one of the things, for instance, that I use is we've got, ah, Ahrefs for SEO and AI tracking, and I've connected that to Claude And I'll have Claude, again, it's great at analyzing data. I'll have it go in there and analyze all of the tools. There's multipl…”

“Take a big idea that's already generating hundreds of millions of dollars. You recreate it very quickly. With a very niche spoke focus.”

“It's about a 110 K at the moment. It was, at its peak, it was around about 300 K.”

“Like 80 or 90, like they're in the hundred million dollar range and it's bootstrapped.”

“So that alone, like if you want to do like manual keyword research and you're not like a super, you know, search or SEO or digital marketing professional, that could take you 20, 30, 40 hours to go into a tool, to analyze the keywords, to look at the competito…”

“My sweet spot is actually around 30 to a 100,000 monthly searches.”

“Dog park near me. This is one that I found using that exact same method and get 73,000 monthly visitors or searches, I should say, and not too difficult at 27 out of a hundred in terms of keyword difficulty.”

“I think anything under 20 is pretty easy, in my opinion. I think keyword difficulty is a little bit misleading too, because there are some very low keyword difficulty niches. And I'll give you a quick example. It says that, you know, fast food near me is a key…”

“Like, randomly Indonesia, for example, is like the top search volume.”

“Fun fact, we grew, I'll show you the numbers in a minute, we're over a hundred million dollars. We basically used word of mouth, blogs, and YouTube. We didn't have a sales team till we hit about a hundred million dollars.”

“Bootstrapped from about 300,000 dollars in personal funds. Our owner Dimitri, 2010.”

“Twenty-fifteen, about 15 people. We finally hired a marketing person. I think, what was the revenue then? About seven million already. Finally got a marketer.”

“Users, I don't think, will ever give you the next unicorn idea, the next great product idea. They're always like, this is what the other tools are doing. Give me that, basically. Like, I want this use case. The best ideas, in my opinion, come from your own tea…”

“We saved like four hundred million in three years by not going to the cloud. We built our own data centers. It's a little painful. We had some down times. We got some flack for it, but like it was the right decision in the end. We scale so much data. This numb…”

“So a lot of content doesn't get any traffic. This is from one of our own studies. On the, on 96 and a half percent, no traffic.”

“We get a lot of traffic, about three and a half million or so right now was recently as high as six. We had like a pre-rendering issue, a technical issue, dropped some, but that will come back.”

“Think about two out of every five blogs that we publish now are just updates of other blogs.”

“Translate successful content. If you work in international markets, look, over half a million uplift just translating our content.”

“About half of our traffic right now is for free tools.”

“We're a 125 people. And that actually includes all the people that work on our search engine as well. So, a 125 people, well over a hundred million in revenue”

“Ahrefs is entirely bootstrapped, never Fundraise. They're well over a hundred million in revenue as well.”

“When it comes to like the SEO and content side of things, generally what I would recommend is you get a tool like a refs where you can look for keywords, use a tool like clear scope to make sure that you're actually writing really, really good content.”

“Literally from scratch, we went from zero to a million visitors a year in two years. We, if folks are aware of Ahrefs here we had a DR of 84 in Ahrefs, which is well regarded. And a global rank, which is out of hundreds of millions of websites in the world, ou…”

“The more you actually refresh, the more bang for buck you're gonna get.”

“And often times, when you look at the keyword volumes for these, on these SEO tools, whether it's Ubers.js or Ahrefs, they're often incorrect.”

“Our niche was highly competitive, so we were to compete with Ahrefs, SEMrush, HubSpot, big domains, big players, so if that's the case, you will need to wait for results for a long time, like a year or so, and you'll need to invest a lot of money, and if you a…”

“Ones that do pre due diligence. Cause there's a lot of ways to, You know, look at website traffic with tools like Ahrefs or SEMrush or just looking up your Twitter page and any mentions from happy customers, stuff like that, using the product. I think those ar…”

“Keep on typing in keywords of things that you might be interested in until you find a collection of keywords that has a keyword difficulty under 10, which means you should be able to go to the first page of Google. Build a product around that, that could be au…”

“I'll put the domain in, I'll look at the total traffic and I'll want to see at least I would say 1000 visits a day, roughly for non SEO. At least you have five visits that that that's very little. And then the second thing I'll look at is the number of referri…”

“Currently we're about 260 K of value of from our organic traffic, that's about twice the value, you know, using, you know, tools like Ahrefs, it's about twice the value of our nearest competitor.”

“We are comparable to, we're almost comparable to Airtress and SEMrush, judging by the reviews that I get by the customers themselves. We compare our data with Airtress and SEMrush.”

“That just isn't that exciting because no one, no one's going to believe the fact that, oh, a single guy has better data than ahrefs or semrefs, which just passed a hundred million dollars in revenue, can afford to spend money on a hundred engineers.”

“I want to beat them. I want to be them. Then I'm going to beat them.”

“Like these tools are focused more on keyword research and on backlinks analysis, while we are more like a data-driven tool that gathers a lot of information from pages that are ranking the top 10 to tell you whether you are missing something or overusing when …”

“Well, you know, both of those tools are just estimates and one can be way off from the other. It's interesting how different they can be on some sites. So we really have to use both of them.”

“And where those platforms fall short is they focus exclusively on how your website or your own domain is performing, which is just like one of many ways that a customer may find you.”

“Ahrefs is much better for link indexing. SMRush is much better for content, keywords, tracking, competitors.”

“So another good example, like you look at matter mark or a H refs, all these companies that provide data, especially the ones that offer an export option. You see this all the time. Login, sign up for the premium plan. They export all the data they need, then …”