Ahrefs MCP for full SEO research and rank tracking

Ahrefs MCP connects your Ahrefs workspace to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible AI clients through Markifact. It exposes SEO research, Site Audit, Rank Tracker, and project-management tools in the same conversation as the rest of your marketing stack.

Yes. Markifact currently exposes 33 Ahrefs tools. Most retrieve SEO data, while write tools can create, update, or delete projects and manage tracked keywords or competitors. Every write waits for explicit approval.

It can retrieve domain metrics, organic keywords, top and paid pages, organic competitors, keyword ideas and metrics, SERP overviews, backlinks, referring domains, anchors, metric history, country metrics, Rank Tracker data, Site Audit health, issues and pages, page content, outgoing links, and API usage.

Yes. The domain overview tool accepts a list of domains or URLs and returns selected authority, backlink, organic, and paid metrics for each target. Larger lists are automatically divided into supported request sizes.

Yes. Domain Rating, Ahrefs Rank, URL Rating, backlink counts, referring-domain counts, organic keywords, organic traffic, traffic value, paid keywords, paid traffic, and other supported metrics can be selected.

Yes. Use keyword overview, keyword ideas, volume history, organic-keyword, and SERP-overview tools to assess demand, difficulty, traffic potential, ranking pages, and result features by country.

Yes. Retrieve backlinks, referring domains, anchors, pages by links, and outgoing links with filters for link status and type. Your AI assistant can then summarize authority gains, risky losses, and link-reclamation opportunities.

Yes. Retrieve Site Audit health, issues, and affected pages for a project. You can select a crawl date or compare two crawls to see new, removed, and changed issues.

Yes. Create a project with its target, mode, protocol, access, owner, and folder; update supported project settings; or delete a project after reviewing and approving the exact action.

Yes. Add or remove keywords, append or replace tags, remove tags, and choose the tracking country, city or region, and language. The operation shows its inputs and waits for approval.

Yes. Add, update, or remove competitors from an Ahrefs Rank Tracker project with an approval gate before the change is sent.

Yes. Retrieve Ahrefs locations and languages, then use a country, city, or region when adding tracked keywords where supported by the project.

Yes. Domain overview can optionally include links and cited pages found across supported AI answer products, alongside the domain's search and backlink metrics.

Markifact displays the proposed project, keyword, tag, location, or competitor change and waits for your approval. Read operations do not change your Ahrefs workspace.

No. Connect Ahrefs to Markifact, then add Markifact's hosted MCP endpoint to your AI client. Markifact handles the server, authentication flow, tool schemas, and ongoing operation updates.

Any compatible remote MCP client can use the hosted Markifact server, including Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and other clients that support authenticated MCP connections.

No. Ahrefs and its API are Ahrefs products. Markifact is a third-party hosted MCP server that exposes authorized Ahrefs operations inside compatible AI clients and marketing workflows.