Use this guide to connect your Ahrefs data to Supermetrics.
If you need to connect this data source to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our data warehouse and cloud storage setup guides.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Ahrefs, you need:
- An Ahrefs paid plan subscription with the Lite package or more. Learn more about all pricing plans in Ahrefs’ documentation.
- An Admin or Owner user role level. To learn how to add member roles and access levels, and how to add a new user to your account.
Multiple user accounts
It's not possible to add multiple user accounts in the same login for Ahrefs. To log in with a different user account, you need to log out from all other Ahrefs accounts in Supermetrics.
Target URL
We support HTTP, HTTPS, and WWW for the Target URL field.
Instructions
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
- Click Create new query.
- Under Data source, select Ahrefs.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials and click Log in.
- Navigate to Report configuration.
- Select a query type, and add the Target URL.
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Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
- Navigate to Ahrefs and click Start free trial.
- You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
- Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Ahrefs requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials and click Log in.
- Select a query type, and add the Target URL.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
- In the pane's top right, click Connect.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
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Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Ahrefs.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials and click Log in.
- Navigate to Report configuration.
- Select a query type, and add the Target URL.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Excel.