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SEO toolset providing backlink analysis, keyword research, and site auditing for marketers and SEO professionals.

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About this data
This page reflects public online discussion, collected and scored by automated systems and summarized using AI. It is not a statement of fact, not an audit, and not our own opinion of the product. Automated analysis can be incomplete or wrong, and scores carry the limitations described in our methodology. Companies can respond with their own perspective. See how this is calculated.

Overall Pulse Score

50
Pulse Score

-3 over this period

A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 192 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 20 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.

Weekly Sentiment Trend

Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.

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Sentiment mix by week

How the tone of public discussion splits each week.

Most-discussed praise

Strong features57
AI quality11
Good integrations10
Easy to use8
Fair pricing6

Most-discussed complaints

Compared to rivals19
Missing features15
Pricing too high11
Bugs8
Reliability8

Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.

How Ahrefs compares

Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Marketing.

Where the mentions come from

Share of the 192 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.

Bluesky47% (90)
GitHub41% (79)
Hacker News10% (19)
YouTube2% (4)

Sample public mentions

Showing 5 of 192 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.

I recently shared this on reddit and it got 500 upvotes so I thought I’d share it here as well, hoping it helps more people.Every time I launch a new product, I go through the same annoying routine: Googling “SaaS directories,” digging up 5-year-old blog posts, and piecing togeth...

Hacker NewsMar 6, 2026

Hey all, I just shipped a new side-projectIt's called Domain-Rating.com and it’s a leaderboard of startups with their Domain RatingKinda like TrustMRR but for DRThe idea is simple:1. Check your domain rating in seconds 2. Add your website to the database 3. Compete with other fou...

Hacker NewsJun 11, 2026

Like many solo devs and indie hackers, I was paying $100+/mo for enterprise SEO tools (Ahrefs, Semrush) but only using about 5% of their features. I really just needed basic keyword research, SERP difficulty analysis, and simple rank tracking.I wanted to see what the actual floor...

Hacker NewsApr 5, 2026

@Stacknaut.com: * Improved Stacknaut checkout failure handling Common: * Built more script-first workflows around GSC, Ahrefs, IndexNow, and Gmail reports Others: * Kept improving AgentControl #buildinpublic 2/2

BlueskyMay 25, 2026

Por el momento, estoy corrigiendo las errores de los agentes AI. Me arrepiento de haberlos usado. Mi objetivo, inicialmente, era de no usar creditos en Ahrefs. Simplemente le agregué un "EcoScore".

Bluesky4 days ago

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Member perspectives

Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.

Data summary

Total mentions analyzed (all time)
278
Mentions in selected period
192
Weeks in range
20
vs Marketing average (44)
Above by 6
Pricing
From $129/mo
Sources
Bluesky (90), GitHub (79), Hacker News (19), YouTube (4)

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