Why Ahrefs SEO Analysis Tool Is the Worst for Backlink Tracking and Could Harm Your Site!

I’m sick and tired of these endless swarms of bots hammering my platform with mindless requests—it’s like fending off an unrelenting barrage of DDoS attacks masquerading as so-called SEO or backlink analysis… The biggest offender by far is Ahrefs.They flood my system nonstop, and I can’t help but think it’s all part of some sneaky, underhanded plot.  It’s infuriating how it keeps poking around, slowing things down, and messing with your SEO. It’s like the people behind it have no clue how real search crawlers work—genuine crawlers don’t get stuck in loops or hammer your site with repeated hits on the same junk over and over.

They blatantly ignore robots.txt (those polite instructions that bots are meant to follow)—so they just keep crawling without caring at all damage it maybe doing. Their complete disregard shows how invasive they are and how little they care about acting ethically. To make matters worse, they’ve unleashed a new sneaky bot called Babbar Eu to slip past any blocks you try to set up, so the relentless scanning just keeps going, no matter what you do. If they actually knew how to build a halfway decent crawler that didn’t bombard you with useless requests, I’d be fine with it. But here we are, stuck with this worthless, evil bot—one that seems more about pissing off small web businesses than anything else. Honestly, at this point, it might be time to call a lawyer, because nothing else seems to scare these assholes off.

For folks thinking about throwing money at their subscription services: don’t bother. It’s a damn waste. I actually think my current problems were caused by subscribing to a trial of their seo tool and inputting my site address, which then made me a target for their bots to attack my site.

You will just pay a ton of money and in return, these crawlers will "discover" your site, chew up your bandwidth and swirl around your site like a swarm of flies. Plus, any so-called “insights” they produce likely end up skewed, incomplete, and just plain off-base.

Anyway, that’s my rant for today. What do you think? Am I being too harsh or do you feel the same way?

Yeah, I had the same experience with Ahrefs/Babbar tech. I signed up for their crappy trial, realized the data was garbage, and then—boom—my site got hammered every damn day. It slowed everything to a crawl and messed with my conversions. I tried blocking them in robots.txt but those jerks just ignored all the rules. Then I moved on to a security plugin that tried to hold them back, but it still sucked up my hosting resources like crazy. Eventually I used Cpanel blocks which seemed to work better.

But hey, don’t give up. It took me time to tweak my settings, try out different blocks. Eventually, I got things under control, though it wasn’t simple. Hang in there. If you feel like your site is under siege, dont let them win. The more people who block these bastards, the better, as it will make their SEO tool more and more shit. It’s shit already, but it will mean they just become even shittier.