The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 19:54, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
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Non notable SEO company. (SEO is a profession known for extreme self promotion and circle jerking so sources need to be checked thoroughly, I'll list them here to show why they don't establish notability (source numbering according to this version)):
(3): A blog post on some corporate companies website.(4): Ahrefs website, non neutral
(5): Telegraph Connect, basically a blog, kinda like Forbes Contributers (see listing below WP:FORBES). Article by another SEO, Matt Wright. (6): Get Rich Quick book that mentions Ahrefs only one time, as part of a get rich quick from the internet scheme. (7): Has one paragraph about SEO tools, Ahrefs is mentioned along with another SEO website. (8): Potentially RS (Ukrainian website, so someone familiar with that area might want to comment) and in-depth but it's an interview so not independent. (9): SEO guide listing seven SEO websites, Ahrefs being one of them. (10): Blog, non RS. (11): Giant list of companies, mentions Ahrefs once. (12) and (13): Anothor SEO website, non RS.That leaves (1) and (2) that might be suitable. Note that 1 is a book written by some SEO professional Eric Enge and published by O'Reilly Media. Also, one might want to look into this, specially considering the history of the editor who accepted the draft. TryKid dubious – discuss 22:57, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Keep – Ahrefs is a well-known SEO company in the industry. It's no less notable than SEMrush, SimilarWeb, or Yoast SEO. The SEO tools provided by Ahrefs alone should warrant enough notability to keep the page. See
this,
this recommendation in a list of best SEO tools, other mentions amongst the likes of Moz and Google Keyword Planner, a
detailed review on PCMag, and
this inclusion in an SEO market report.
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The Imperva article (3) is a corporate site but it is 3rd party research that shows the amount of crawling that ahrefs does. I'm not saying that any SEO company deserves inclusion by default but the scope of crawling the web that they are doing is impressive among SEO vendors. I am biased as a customer but they have won our vendor selection process for multiple years in a row. -- Themshow ( talk) 17:48, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
Delete – Ahrefs is a big fish in a small pond. Heavily self promoted by bloggers and affiliates of the company who often cross promote each other. However outside of this small circle it is not a noteworthy company and fails the requirements of WP:ORG simoncroftuk ( talk) 16:08, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
Keep – Author of the AfC here. I disclosed COI from the beginning and there was no one else involved during the creation process. There's no UPE as was raised here due to the Twitter thread of Ahrefs CMO if you read it through. Ahrefs also has no affiliate program so there's really no motivation for industry blogs and reviews to promote the product. There are indeed some sources that don't qualify as RS but I don't see a reason to disqualify industry-leading news sites or blogs. And lastly, you might want to consider the language used here by OP (e.g. circle jerking) that clearly indicates a bias against Ahrefs or SEO companies in general. Mpecan ( talk) 21:10, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 ( talk) 19:54, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
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Non notable SEO company. (SEO is a profession known for extreme self promotion and circle jerking so sources need to be checked thoroughly, I'll list them here to show why they don't establish notability (source numbering according to this version)):
(3): A blog post on some corporate companies website.(4): Ahrefs website, non neutral
(5): Telegraph Connect, basically a blog, kinda like Forbes Contributers (see listing below WP:FORBES). Article by another SEO, Matt Wright. (6): Get Rich Quick book that mentions Ahrefs only one time, as part of a get rich quick from the internet scheme. (7): Has one paragraph about SEO tools, Ahrefs is mentioned along with another SEO website. (8): Potentially RS (Ukrainian website, so someone familiar with that area might want to comment) and in-depth but it's an interview so not independent. (9): SEO guide listing seven SEO websites, Ahrefs being one of them. (10): Blog, non RS. (11): Giant list of companies, mentions Ahrefs once. (12) and (13): Anothor SEO website, non RS.That leaves (1) and (2) that might be suitable. Note that 1 is a book written by some SEO professional Eric Enge and published by O'Reilly Media. Also, one might want to look into this, specially considering the history of the editor who accepted the draft. TryKid dubious – discuss 22:57, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Keep – Ahrefs is a well-known SEO company in the industry. It's no less notable than SEMrush, SimilarWeb, or Yoast SEO. The SEO tools provided by Ahrefs alone should warrant enough notability to keep the page. See
this,
this recommendation in a list of best SEO tools, other mentions amongst the likes of Moz and Google Keyword Planner, a
detailed review on PCMag, and
this inclusion in an SEO market report.
Greenminecraftdude —
Greenminecraftdude (
talk •
contribs) has made
few or no other edits outside this topic.
The Imperva article (3) is a corporate site but it is 3rd party research that shows the amount of crawling that ahrefs does. I'm not saying that any SEO company deserves inclusion by default but the scope of crawling the web that they are doing is impressive among SEO vendors. I am biased as a customer but they have won our vendor selection process for multiple years in a row. -- Themshow ( talk) 17:48, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
Delete – Ahrefs is a big fish in a small pond. Heavily self promoted by bloggers and affiliates of the company who often cross promote each other. However outside of this small circle it is not a noteworthy company and fails the requirements of WP:ORG simoncroftuk ( talk) 16:08, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
Keep – Author of the AfC here. I disclosed COI from the beginning and there was no one else involved during the creation process. There's no UPE as was raised here due to the Twitter thread of Ahrefs CMO if you read it through. Ahrefs also has no affiliate program so there's really no motivation for industry blogs and reviews to promote the product. There are indeed some sources that don't qualify as RS but I don't see a reason to disqualify industry-leading news sites or blogs. And lastly, you might want to consider the language used here by OP (e.g. circle jerking) that clearly indicates a bias against Ahrefs or SEO companies in general. Mpecan ( talk) 21:10, 23 July 2020 (UTC)