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		thar327 on June 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO sc... How does ahrefs.com get the information of any websites backlinks? This is more interesting than the original article itself

aembleton on June 8, 2021 [–]

With web crawlers. They index the web to give you this information: https://ahrefs.com/big-data

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