Ahrefs

“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 …”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”

“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…”

“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”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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…”

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

“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.”

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