Here's the dirty secret of every backlink index — coverage, not accuracy

Here's the dirty secret of every backlink index — coverage, not accuracy

Word is the "which tool is most accurate" debate misses the point. None of them see everything; they see different slices.

— Ahrefs has the biggest live crawler, strongest on fresh and mainstream donors.
— Majestic's historic index is deeper on old and obscure domains Ahrefs already dropped.
— Spotted: niche regional and non-English link networks show up in one index and not the other, depending on whose bots reach them.

The operators' rule — never declare a profile "clean" or "caught" from one index. A network invisible in Ahrefs can be fully mapped in Majestic's historic data, and vice versa. Coverage gaps are where the hidden links live. Triangulate or stay fooled. Watch this space.