Each local area page used to take us half a day to create and optimize.
With SEOmatic, we can create hundreds of pages in the same time, which helps our clients make the best use of their budget.
It's transformed how we deliver scalable SEO solutions.
Will Hawkins
Marketing Director, Digi-Business UK
Agents read your Search Console data, do the work, and prove what actually moved. You decide what ships.
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The #1 Ahrefs Alternative
Nobody doubts Ahrefs' data; it is the gold standard for backlinks and keywords. The doubt is the backlog: another export, another audit, and the fixes still waiting on someone's calendar. SEOmatic's supervised agents do the fixing: they diagnose from your Search Console data, edit your CMS with your approval, and prove the lift.
Ahrefs answers what to rank for. SEOmatic answers who does the work. Here is how the two compare on execution.
Minh Pham, Founder @SEOmatic
Last updated on September 7, 2026
Agent Diagnosis & Ranked Action Plan
Agents read the whole site and your Search Console data, then rank every fix by what it is worth. You get a short list and 40 executable task types, not a 200-row audit.
Approval Workflow & One-Click Rollback
Nothing goes live until you press Approve, unless you choose more autonomy. Any change an agent made can be undone in one click, on one page or across a whole campaign.
Holdout Testing & Proof Reports
Your worked pages are compared against matched pages left untouched on purpose, so the report shows what the work actually earned. Losses included.
AI Citation Tracking
See the exact pages AI cites when it answers your buyers, in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, then build the content that earns citations.
CMS Integrations
Connect the site you already have. Pages get published and edited in place across WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, HubSpot and 10 more, so the work stays yours.
Weekly Replanning
Every week the plan is judged against real results, then rewritten. The agent learns what works on your site, so it gets sharper every week it runs.
Ahrefs has the deepest data in the industry. Here is why teams still add or switch to supervised agents for the doing.
Run order, enforced
Ahrefs is an intelligence platform: it surfaces opportunities and leaves the fixing to you. SEOmatic's agents read your Google Search Console data, diagnose the site, and execute 40 types of SEO tasks on your real pages, from titles and internal links to schema and content refreshes. The plan is re-ranked every Monday so the next most valuable task is always at the top. The research seat stays open, the backlog finally moves.
SEOmatic edits existing pages directly in WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, HubSpot and 10 more platforms. Nothing goes live until you approve it, unless you choose assisted or auto mode within a daily cap, and money pages are locked in code. Every change stores the previous version, so one click undoes any edit. That is a level of control Ahrefs never needs because Ahrefs never touches your site.
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RevertWe will be honest: Ahrefs has the largest backlink index online and a deeper keyword database than anyone. Many teams keep it, and Scale+ plans let you bring your own Ahrefs API key so its data feeds the agents. What SEOmatic adds is the part no dashboard gives you: every task is measured against a holdout of untouched pages, losses included, so you can show exactly what the work earned.
"SEOmatic is a fully bootstrapped company. We're proud to say that we haven't accepted any VC funding. Instead, every dollar we earn is reinvested into improving our product. We're proudly self-sustained, profitable and committed to staying that way, ensuring we're here for the long run."
— Minh Pham, Founder @SEOmatic
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