A Forum Weighs in on Revamping With Ahrefs

In the worlds of search engine optimization and digital marketing, seasoned professionals stick by the "you get what you pay for" adage; however, there are certain exceptions to this rule. A company that has been dedicated to marketing local businesses on a national and regional level since the 1960s would be expected to deliver great results in order to justify high fees; nonetheless, and according to a recent story posted on a popular SEO forum, this is not what happened to a small business in the United Kingdom.

The SEO company in question is the same one that used to publish and deliver the old yellow phone books to homes and businesses in many countries. As can be expected, they pivoted to digital marketing, but their print expertise has not translated well to the internet. In this particular case, the company launched an aggressive Facebook ad campaign that ended up with the business page being blocked and penalized for months.

Understandably, the aggrieved business owner does not with to spend any more cash on digital marketing, so she instructed her website administrator to start over with an organic SEO strategy. The admin is wondering whether the free version of Ahrefs would be a good starting point, and this is the question he posed to the forum. The specific query was related to the reliability of using a free tool.

Most of the answers the website admin received were supportive of the idea of starting over with Ahrefs. Those who have used both the free and premium versions of the service explained that there is a marked difference between the two, particularly with regard to the amount of searches and analytical reports, but all of them agreed that is perfectly fine to start off with the free trial and stick with it until you get to the point when you feel that it does not tell you everything.

Other forum members recommended the free version of Moz over Ahrefs, particularly with regard to websites that are running on the WordPress platform, but they added that the free research given by Ahrefs is always solid. For more information click here https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/ndex2r/isthefreeahrefstoolsafehasanyonehad_any/.