seo spy glass or ahrefs???

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by abede

hello everybody i have seo spy glass free trial and i have account on ahrefs.com
the question.
when i paste url form any website seo spy glass is show my there are 9 backlink but ahrefs.com is show my there are 33 backlink.
Is the seo spy glass program in inaccurate result.

SEOspyglass isn't anymore inaccurate than ahrefs.

What you're seeing is no 3rd party in the world crawls the entire web because no 3rd party can afford to crawl 100% of the web. Each link checking business has it's own bots crawling the web. Keep in mind a lot of 3rd party link data is outdated because again, crawling the web is expensive and a resource hog on servers.

Get all the links you can from multiple sources & run them through something like Scrapebox removing duplicate URLs. Next run the links through a live link checker to verify the links still exist today.

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smallseotoolz

10 years ago

Ahrefs is best, so leave spy glass and try Ahrefs because is ahrefs is world's most popular and well known for backlinking tool all over the world.

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by smallseotoolz

Ahrefs is best, so leave spy glass and try Ahrefs because is ahrefs is world's most popular and well known for backlinking tool all over the world.

Fail.

Ahrefs doesn't check for live backlinks. Just because Ahrefs show links doesn't mean the links exist today.

Talking crazy about SEOspyglass is a fail. It's one source of links just like everything else including Ahrefs.

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MrMintyBluez

10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Fail.

Ahrefs doesn't check for live backlinks. Just because Ahrefs show links doesn't mean the links exist today.

Talking crazy about SEOspyglass is a fail. It's one source of links just like everything else including Ahrefs.

It seems like SEOSpyGlass takes FOREEEVVERRR to update links

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by MrMintyBluez

It seems like SEOSpyGlass takes FOREEEVVERRR to update links

Turn off all the things you don't need (social, etc...), then check the links.

In the top left menu:

Backlinks > Update factors for backlinks > Update factors for backlinks in workspace > Select None (on popup)

After everything is deselected on the options popup, select only Page factors.

Keep in mind what the software is doing is downloading the HTML source code for each backlink page in order to find the live backlink/s so your own personal internet speed makes a HUGE difference in how fast the software runs. Either way turning off all the fluff (social, etc...) should boost the speed for checking live links.

Also make sure you don't have anything else running on your PC that will hog bandwidth while you're trying to run SEOspyglass.

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MrMintyBluez

10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Turn off all the things you don't need (social, etc...), then check the links.

In the top left menu:

Backlinks > Update factors for backlinks > Update factors for backlinks in workspace > Select None (on popup)

After everything is deselected on the options popup, select only Page factors.

Keep in mind what the software is doing is downloading the HTML source code for each backlink page in order to find the live backlink/s so your own personal internet speed makes a HUGE difference in how fast the software runs. Either way turning off all the fluff (social, etc...) should boost the speed for checking live links.

Also make sure you don't have anything else running on your PC that will hog bandwidth while you're trying to run SEOspyglass.

Wow, this worked perfectly. THANK YOU

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BIBI15

10 years ago

ahrefs for sure, because they have fresh database...

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yukon Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by BIBI15

ahrefs for sure, because they have fresh database...

You'll be lucky If ahrefs or any 3rd party link source crawls the majority of links they show once a month. Their goal is mostly to acquire links, not re-scrape links.

That's why it's important to check which backlinks exist today, right now, not a month or however long ago the 3rd party found the link.
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MikeFriedman

10 years ago

To speed up SpyGlass, also make sure you turn it up to the maximum # of threads and dial down all the delay options.

If you are checking a huge batch of links, you can also set it to check only if the links are alive or not and then run it again to grab the data on the live links only. There is usually no point in grabbing the data of the dead links.

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

To speed up SpyGlass, also make sure you turn it up to the maximum # of threads and dial down all the delay options.

You can try increasing threads but I think folks get the wrong idea about how threads work. In fact too many threads can bottleneck a PC & bring everything to a crawl. Example an 8 core PC processor will smoke a dual core PC processor when it comes to running multiple threads (processes) at the same time. Like you said max out the threads on the software but work backwards to a lower number of threads If needed until you find the sweet spot.

You also have to factor in the software users personal ISP because you can only download webpages as fast as the ISP allows. SEOspyglass is downloading the HTML source code to prove a link still exist. Example, Verizon FiOS is way faster than 56K dial up internet services, yea, those poor folks are still out there (rural areas).

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MikeFriedman

10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

You can try increasing threads but I think folks get the wrong idea about how threads work. In fact too many threads can bottleneck a PC & bring everything to a crawl. Example an 8 core PC processor will smoke a dual core PC processor when it comes to running multiple threads (processes) at the same time. Like you said max out the threads on the software but work backwards to a lower number of threads If needed until you find the sweet spot.

You also have to factor in the software users personal ISP because you can only download webpages as fast as the ISP allows. SEOspyglass is downloading the HTML source code to prove a link still exist. Example, Verizon FiOS is way faster than 56K dial up internet services, yea, those poor folks are still out there (rural areas).

All true.

I know some people that have run it in the past and never looked at the threads. For most people, you should be able to bump it up at least a little bit from the default values and see an increase in speed.

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irawr

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

You can try increasing threads but I think folks get the wrong idea about how threads work. In fact too many threads can bottleneck a PC & bring everything to a crawl. Example an 8 core PC processor will smoke a dual core PC processor when it comes to running multiple threads (processes) at the same time. Like you said max out the threads on the software but work backwards to a lower number of threads If needed until you find the sweet spot.

You also have to factor in the software users personal ISP because you can only download webpages as fast as the ISP allows. SEOspyglass is downloading the HTML source code to prove a link still exist. Example, Verizon FiOS is way faster than 56K dial up internet services, yea, those poor folks are still out there (rural areas).

Protip: no matter how many cores your cpu has, at some point, a cheap consumer router will be your weakest link here. I used to be able to reboot my router using various "SEO tools" by setting the threads too high. If you have some junk router and are expecting to be able to run 500+ threads and are wondering why your internet connection seems insanely slow or drops out entirely, well your router wasn't designed to handle that many connections. Most of junk ones drop out below 100.

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by irawr

Protip: no matter how many cores your cpu has, at some point, a cheap consumer router will be your weakest link here. I used to be able to reboot my router using various "SEO tools" by setting the threads too high. If you have some junk router and are expecting to be able to run 500+ threads and are wondering why your internet connection seems insanely slow or drops out entirely, well your router wasn't designed to handle that many connections. Most of junk ones drop out below 100.

That's my point, each end user running the same software will never have the same speed.

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blog orbit

10 years ago

These both doesn't deserve to compare with each other. It doesn't make any sense! For me ahrefs is the best choice to check backlinks. Though you can use SEO Spy Glass to analyze backlinks or to make report on those links.

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sulbha

10 years ago

Ahrefs is by far the best. SEO Spyglass tends to be really slow

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PassiveIncomes

10 years ago

Ahrefs, read Matthew woodward blog for more info. He written a comparison of all backlinks checkers.

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yukon Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by PassiveIncomes

Ahrefs, read Matthew woodward blog for more info. He written a comparison of all backlinks checkers.

He's also the same guy telling people they don't need backlinks. So he's suggesting the best link checkers but he doesn't need links. Makes sense.
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bimasena25

10 years ago

i think ahrefs better more than one

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