How to Find Low-Quality Backlinks in Ahrefs
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Low-quality backlinks can hurt your site's search rankings. Ahrefs makes it easy to find these links using the Site Explorer backlink filters. This guide walks you through filtering for low-quality dofollow links, sorting by Domain Rating, and exporting the results for a disavow file or outreach.
Here's how to find low-quality backlinks in Ahrefs
- Open Ahrefs and navigate to 'Site Explorer'
- Search your domain name
- Select 'Backlinks' under the 'Backlink Profile'
- Press the 'Best links' dropdown and choose 'Low-quality links only'
- Select 'Dofollow'
- Click 'Show results'
- Sort by DR column to get the lowest rated links first
- Click 'Export' to download your backlinks report
- Click 'Export' to confirm
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Frequently Asked Questions
A low-quality backlink is a link from a website with low authority, spammy content, or irrelevant topic. These links can negatively impact your search rankings if they make up a large portion of your backlink profile.
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