Why agencies move

Ahrefs tells you about search. Your client is also paying for ads, a Google Business Profile, social and email — and expects one report that covers all of it, with your name on the front.

01

Everything Ahrefs reports on, plus everything it doesn't

Rankings, Search Console, audits and backlinks are all here — next to paid, local, social, email, CRM, e-commerce and AI search, for the same client, in the same PDF.

02

The report goes out with your name on it

Not a branded export from someone else's tool. Your logo and colours, your domain on the live link, your address in the From field — set per organisation, so resellers get their own.

03

You stop assembling reports on the last Friday of the month

Build the layout once per client, pick a cadence, and it writes and sends itself — and refuses to send if the numbers behind it are missing or stale.

Side by side
on the work you actually do.

Ad spend, social, email and store revenue in the same report
With AhrefsPulled by hand from four other tabs, then pasted in beside the Ahrefs export.
With Agency DashboardAlready there — 17 connected accounts, synced nightly and on demand.
Google Business Profile calls, directions, reviews and grid rank
With AhrefsSomewhere else entirely, if you track it at all.
With Agency DashboardA section in the same report, per location.
Whose brand the client sees
With AhrefsYours only once you have rebuilt the Ahrefs output in your own deck.
With Agency DashboardYours from the start — logo, colours, your domain, your sending address.
Sub-agencies and resellers
With AhrefsOne account, one identity.
With Agency DashboardEach organisation carries its own branding, on top of yours.
Getting it to the client
With AhrefsExport, assemble, attach, send. Every client, every month.
With Agency DashboardComposes and sends itself on a cadence, and files a copy.
When the data is missing or stale
With AhrefsIt exports anyway. You find out when the client does.
With Agency DashboardThe send is held, the sync is re-run, and it goes out an hour later.
What the client can check without emailing you
With AhrefsNothing — the seat is yours.
With Agency DashboardA read-only portal scoped to their own projects.

Every row describes the work left on your desk, not Ahrefs's feature list — their product changes without telling us, and we would rather compare on the job than on a matrix that goes stale.

Leaving Ahrefs
— what actually changes.

Do I still get rank tracking, audits and backlinks?

All of it. Daily positions on desktop and mobile per location and language, SERP features and AI Overview presence, Search Console clicks and impressions, site audits with a health score and issues by severity, and a backlink profile with new and lost links. They are report sections like any other — the difference is they sit beside every other channel instead of on their own.

What does Agency Dashboard do that Ahrefs cannot?

Put your client's ad spend, Google Business Profile calls, social engagement, email revenue and store orders into the same branded report as the SEO — pulled from their own connected accounts, sent on a schedule, at no extra cost per channel.

How hard is it to move across?

Migration is free and onboarding is included. You connect each client's accounts once; the history backfills from the platforms themselves rather than being re-keyed.