Word is the link gap tool you pick changes which competitors you even see

Word is the link gap tool you pick changes which competitors you even see

Running a gap analysis? Ahrefs Link Intersect and Semrush Backlink Gap give different target lists from the same competitor set. That's not a bug — it's their crawl bias.

— Ahrefs Intersect favors domains linking to 2+ of your rivals but not you — clean, but it misses thin-footprint placements.
— Semrush's gap leans on its own index, which over-indexes some directories and event sites Ahrefs treats as noise.
— The play: run both, take the overlap as your A-list, treat the discrepancy as your B-list to verify manually.

Multiple teams report the overlap is barely 60%. Pick one tool and you're literally blind to 40% of the gap. Watch this space.