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SEO analysis with Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading SEO toolset for analyzing websites, tracking rankings, monitoring backlinks, and researching keywords. It provides detailed insights into your own website as well as your competitors, helping you make data-driven decisions to improve your search visibility.

With the Ahrefs integration in Sim, you can:

  • Analyze Domain Rating & Authority: Instantly check the Domain Rating (DR) and Ahrefs Rank of any website to gauge its authority.
  • Fetch Backlinks: Retrieve a list of backlinks pointing to a site or specific URL, with details like anchor text, referring page DR, and more.
  • Get Backlink Statistics: Access metrics on backlink types (dofollow, nofollow, text, image, redirect, etc.) for a domain or URL.
  • Explore Organic Keywords (planned): View keywords a domain ranks for and their positions in Google search results.
  • Discover Top Pages (planned): Identify the highest-performing pages by organic traffic and links.

These tools let your agents automate SEO research, monitor competitors, and generate reports—all as part of your workflow automations. To use the Ahrefs integration, you’ll need an Ahrefs Enterprise subscription with API access.

Usage Instructions

Integrate Ahrefs SEO tools into your workflow. Analyze domain ratings, backlinks, organic keywords, top pages, and more. Requires an Ahrefs Enterprise plan with API access.

Tools

ahrefs_domain_rating

Get the Domain Rating (DR) and Ahrefs Rank for a target domain. Domain Rating shows the strength of a website

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
targetstringYesThe target domain to analyze (e.g., example.com)
datestringNoDate for historical data in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to today)
apiKeystringYesAhrefs API Key

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
domainRatingnumberDomain Rating score (0-100)
ahrefsRanknumberAhrefs Rank - global ranking based on backlink profile strength

Get a list of backlinks pointing to a target domain or URL. Returns details about each backlink including source URL, anchor text, and domain rating.

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
targetstringYesThe target domain or URL to analyze
modestringNoAnalysis mode: domain (entire domain), prefix (URL prefix), subdomains (include all subdomains), exact (exact URL match)
datestringNoDate for historical data in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to today)
limitnumberNoMaximum number of results to return (default: 100)
offsetnumberNoNumber of results to skip for pagination
apiKeystringYesAhrefs API Key

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
backlinksarrayList of backlinks pointing to the target

Get backlink statistics for a target domain or URL. Returns totals for different backlink types including dofollow, nofollow, text, image, and redirect links.

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
targetstringYesThe target domain or URL to analyze
modestringNoAnalysis mode: domain (entire domain), prefix (URL prefix), subdomains (include all subdomains), exact (exact URL match)
datestringNoDate for historical data in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to today)
apiKeystringYesAhrefs API Key

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
statsobjectBacklink statistics summary

ahrefs_referring_domains

Get a list of domains that link to a target domain or URL. Returns unique referring domains with their domain rating, backlink counts, and discovery dates.

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
targetstringYesThe target domain or URL to analyze
modestringNoAnalysis mode: domain (entire domain), prefix (URL prefix), subdomains (include all subdomains), exact (exact URL match)
datestringNoDate for historical data in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to today)
limitnumberNoMaximum number of results to return (default: 100)
offsetnumberNoNumber of results to skip for pagination
apiKeystringYesAhrefs API Key

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
referringDomainsarrayList of domains linking to the target

ahrefs_organic_keywords

Get organic keywords that a target domain or URL ranks for in Google search results. Returns keyword details including search volume, ranking position, and estimated traffic.

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
targetstringYesThe target domain or URL to analyze
countrystringNoCountry code for search results (e.g., us, gb, de). Default: us
modestringNoAnalysis mode: domain (entire domain), prefix (URL prefix), subdomains (include all subdomains), exact (exact URL match)
datestringNoDate for historical data in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to today)
limitnumberNoMaximum number of results to return (default: 100)
offsetnumberNoNumber of results to skip for pagination
apiKeystringYesAhrefs API Key

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
keywordsarrayList of organic keywords the target ranks for

ahrefs_top_pages

Get the top pages of a target domain sorted by organic traffic. Returns page URLs with their traffic, keyword counts, and estimated traffic value.

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
targetstringYesThe target domain to analyze
countrystringNoCountry code for traffic data (e.g., us, gb, de). Default: us
modestringNoAnalysis mode: domain (entire domain), prefix (URL prefix), subdomains (include all subdomains)
datestringNoDate for historical data in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to today)
limitnumberNoMaximum number of results to return (default: 100)
offsetnumberNoNumber of results to skip for pagination
selectstringNoComma-separated list of fields to return (e.g., url,traffic,keywords,top_keyword,value). Default: url,traffic,keywords,top_keyword,value
apiKeystringYesAhrefs API Key

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
pagesarrayList of top pages by organic traffic

ahrefs_keyword_overview

Get detailed metrics for a keyword including search volume, keyword difficulty, CPC, clicks, and traffic potential.

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
keywordstringYesThe keyword to analyze
countrystringNoCountry code for keyword data (e.g., us, gb, de). Default: us
apiKeystringYesAhrefs API Key

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
overviewobjectKeyword metrics overview

Get a list of broken backlinks pointing to a target domain or URL. Useful for identifying link reclamation opportunities.

Input

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
targetstringYesThe target domain or URL to analyze
modestringNoAnalysis mode: domain (entire domain), prefix (URL prefix), subdomains (include all subdomains), exact (exact URL match)
datestringNoDate for historical data in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to today)
limitnumberNoMaximum number of results to return (default: 100)
offsetnumberNoNumber of results to skip for pagination
apiKeystringYesAhrefs API Key

Output

ParameterTypeDescription
brokenBacklinksarrayList of broken backlinks

Notes

  • Category: tools
  • Type: ahrefs
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