How To Get Ahrefs to Crawl Site

Quick summary

Ahrefs Site Audit lets you crawl your website to detect technical SEO issues, broken links, and on-page errors. Setting up a new crawl project takes just a few minutes and can be scheduled to run automatically at a custom frequency.

Steps

1. Go to Ahrefs and click on Site Audit in the top navigation.
2. Click New Project to begin creating a crawl project.
3. Import data using Google Search Console to enrich the crawl with existing performance data.
4. If you lack Search Console access, click Add manually to enter your site details directly.
5. Enter your website URL, give the project an appropriate Project name, then hit Continue.
6. Click Continue to skip the Search Console data step if it was not completed in the previous step.
7. Toggle the Frequency setting to schedule how often future crawls will run automatically.
8. Ensure Run first crawl now is turned ON, then click Continue to start the initial crawl.
9. The website crawl will begin — note that this is a lengthy process that can take up to an hour or more to complete.
10. Once the crawl finishes, open your project in Site Audit to review all detected issues.