How To Find Your Competitor's Recurring Backlinks With Ahrefs Intersect Tool

Interested to find out how to use Ahrefs' Link Intersect tool (https://ahrefs.com/labs/intersect) to find your competitor's recurring backlinks sources? Keep watching (and see more at https://ahrefs.com/blog/find-backlinks)!

Before we go to Link Intersect tool, we will start with Ahrefs Site Explorer (https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer).

Step 1: Enter a competitor’s domain into Ahrefs Site Explorer and hit ‘Search’.

Step 2: From the overview page select Content - Top Content.

Step 3: Order the report by referring domains to put the most linked to content at the top.

Step 4: Copy the top ten results into Microsoft’s notepad (we’re looking for links to content, so we’ll ignore the root domain and grab the URLs for the top ten posts)

Step 4: Open up the ‘Intersect’ tool – found under the ‘Labs’ menu.

Step 5: Add each of the URLs you collected. By default there will be 3 boxes for you to enter URLs so just click the + button to add more.

Select ‘URL’ from the drop down list beside each of the boxes and select ‘Any of the below targets’ from the drop down list above the URLs.

Step 6: Leave the ‘But doesn’t link to’ box empty and hit ‘Show Link Opportunities’

Step 7: Ahrefs will generate a report showing sites which point to multiple URLs from our list – with the sites pointing to the most URLs at the top.

Step 8: Clicking on the arrows beside the link numbers will show actual URLs pointing to the content.

Step 9: You can click to open each URL in a new window/tab to analyse.

Step 10 (optional): You might want to export the report out into a spreadsheet (just click the export button).

That's it!

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