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Audit your own website and inspect its backlinks and organic keywords.

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What you can use it for

Audit your own website and inspect its backlinks and organic keywords.

  • Recurring technical-audit allowance for each verified project.
  • Backlink and organic-keyword reports for websites you control.
Workflow coverage and comparison notes

Replace ChatSEO’s own-site technical-audit, backlink and organic-keyword investigation. Not unrestricted competitor research, recurring AI article production, conversational multi-agent work or automated CMS publishing. Additional comparison: Replace own-site technical SEO, backlink and organic-keyword investigation only. Verified sites, 5,000 crawl credits per project/month and limited Site Explorer reports. No unrestricted competitor database, daily cross-channel growth plan, community lead discovery, checked contact emails or outreach drafting. Hosted free tools need no server or paid AI API; upgrades cost extra.

Before you switch

Account and website ownership verification required. The current free documentation limits visible Site Explorer backlinks/keywords to 1,000 at once; this is not unrestricted competitor or Keywords Explorer access. AI Content Helper is only one document/month, so ongoing AI writing is not the qualifying free workflow. Hosted tools need no server or paid model key; your own website hosting is separate. Upgraded Ahrefs tools, limits and optional external AI integrations can cost extra.

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