How I wasted 3 years obsessing over Trust Flow before realizing clients pay for rankings, not metrics.
Here's the uncomfortable truth I wish someone told me in 2016: Majestic is a museum. A spectacular, meticulously organized museum of the internet's link history. But you can't build a business giving clients tours of a museum. Ahrefs is a weapon. It shows you where money flows, which content prints traffic, and exactly which competitors are vulnerable. Majestic tells you a site has 50,000 backlinks. Ahrefs tells you those links drive $0 in traffic value — meaning someone bought them from Fiverr. One tool impresses SEO nerds at conferences. The other closes $10k/month retainers. I use Majestic for exactly one scenario now: verifying a domain wasn't a casino spam farm before I buy it. Everything else? Ahrefs runs the show.
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I spent I spent [$47,000 on Majestic](/cost/seo-audit-pricing) over 8 years. over 8 years. Here's why I now use it for exactly one thing — and why why [Ahrefs](/comparison/seo-moz-alternative) runs my entire why Ahrefs runs my entire [authority-building operation](/comparison/onsite-vs-offsite-seo).. runs my entire authority-building operation.
2 wins for Majestic SEO • 2 wins for Ahrefs • 1 ties