Ahrefs MCP connector for Manus

Do keyword research, backlink checks and site audits with Ahrefs in Manus

Connect your own Ahrefs account and Manus can look up keyword, backlink, competitor, ranking and site audit data in Ahrefs, then turn it into an article list, a fix plan or a report. Requests use the API units on your Ahrefs plan.

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Keyword ideasstanding desk · USSample data

Find keywords our standing desk blog can rank for this month and pick the best ones to write about.

  • how tall should a standing desk be3,6009InformationalThis month
  • best standing desk for small spaces2,40018CommercialThis month
  • standing desk74,00081Commercial
  • standing desk vs sitting desk1,90012InformationalThis month
  • standing desk converter18,00046Commercial
  • standing desk exercises1,3004InformationalThis month
  • buy standing desk online70038Transactional

Manus · 4 picks for this month, all with a difficulty under 20. “standing desk” is at 81 and needs far more referring domains to rank, so I left it for later.

Ahrefs keyword research with AI, from ideas to a content plan

Start from a topic or a competitor’s site. Manus reads search volume, keyword difficulty and intent from Ahrefs, keeps the long-tail keywords you can rank for and turns them into this month’s articles.

Turn a topic into this month’s article list

Give a seed topic or a competitor’s URL. Manus pulls keyword ideas and related terms, filters them by difficulty and intent, and writes a plan with one target keyword per article.

From ideas to a shortlistSample data
  1. 11,240 keyword ideas for “standing desk”
  2. 2318 have a difficulty under 30
  3. 396 match informational or commercial intent
  4. 48 make this month’s plan
This month’s article plan8 articles
  • Week 1How tall should a standing desk be? A height chartTarget: how tall should a standing desk be9
  • Week 17 best standing desks for small spacesTarget: best standing desk for small spaces18
  • Week 2Standing desk vs sitting desk: what changes in a dayTarget: standing desk vs sitting desk12
  • Week 310 exercises you can do at a standing deskTarget: standing desk exercises4

Showing 4 of 8. Difficulty is Ahrefs’ score from 0 to 100.

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Ahrefs competitor analysis that finds your content gap

Compare your site with 2 or 3 competitors and get the Ahrefs content gap: keywords they rank for and you don’t, grouped into ideas for new pages.

List the keywords competitors rank for and you don’t

Manus finds the sites that share the most keywords with yours, compares positions keyword by keyword and keeps the ones where a competitor is in the top 10 and you don’t rank at all.

Organic competitorsSample data
  • deskly.exampleYour site4,820 organic keywords
  • standwell.example9,310 organic keywords · 2,140 shared with you
  • ergohaus.example6,050 organic keywords · 1,610 shared with you
Content gapCompetitors rank, you don’t
  • standing desk mat6,60021You–standwell#4ergohaus#9
  • l shaped standing desk8,10027You–standwell#7ergohaus–
  • standing desk height calculator2,90011You–standwell–ergohaus#3
  • best standing desk for small spaces2,40018You#6standwell#2ergohaus#5
  • standing desk cable management1,6008You–standwell#8ergohaus#6

Manus · 4 gaps worth a page. Start with “standing desk height calculator”: only one competitor ranks for it and its difficulty is 11.

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An Ahrefs backlink report with new and lost links

See how your referring domains changed over the year, which important links are new and which ones you lost, without exporting a report by hand.

Find the new and lost backlinks that matter

Manus reads your backlinks and referring domains over time, keeps the links from sites with the highest Domain Rating and flags lost ones worth asking back. To check a competitor instead, give their domain.

Referring domains, last 12 monthsSample data
Referring domains
1,286
New, last 30 days
+48
Lost, last 30 days
−17
NovJanMarMayJulSep
Links that matter this month
  • New linkhomeofficeweekly.exampleDR 71/blog/standing-desk-height
  • Lost linkworklifejournal.exampleDR 64/guides/desk-ergonomicsTheir article was updated and the link removed. Worth asking back.
  • New linktechgearreview.exampleDR 58/products/oak-standing-desk
  • Lost linkremoteworkhub.exampleDR 52/blog/best-standing-desksThe page that linked to you was deleted, so there’s no one to ask.
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Analyze Ahrefs Site Audit issues and get a fix plan

Manus reads the latest crawl from Ahrefs Site Audit, sorts the issues by how much they hurt and writes a fix note and an owner next to each one.

Turn the latest crawl into a prioritized fix list

Errors come first, since they’re what lower your Health Score. Within each level, Manus ranks issues by how many pages they affect, then says what to change and who should do it.

deskly.exampleSite Audit, latest crawlHealth Score78Sample data
  1. 1ErrorPage has links to broken page47 pagesManus: 39 of these come from one link in the blog sidebar. Fix it once in the template, then update the other 8 posts.Developer
  2. 2Error404 page18 pagesManus: Redirect the 12 old product URLs to their new pages and bring back the 6 that still have backlinks.Developer
  3. 3WarningMeta description tag missing or empty64 pagesManus: Write descriptions for the 20 pages with the most organic traffic first.Content team
  4. 4WarningSlow page9 pagesManus: All 9 load full-size hero images. Compress them and set a width and height.Developer
  5. 5NoticeRedirect chain23 pagesManus: Point internal links straight at the final URL.Content team
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Weekly Ahrefs rank tracking reports and plans in Notion

Get ranking changes and estimated traffic from Ahrefs Rank Tracker as a one-page report or slides, and keep the content plan where your team already works.

Get a one-page ranking report every Monday

Manus compares this week’s positions with last week’s, lists the biggest gains and drops with estimated traffic and adds a short note on what changed. Set it up once as a scheduled task.

Weekly ranking reportSample data
Keywords in the top 10
37+5
Estimated traffic
12.4K+9%
Moved up / down
23 / 9
Biggest moves this week
  • standing desk exercises#14 → #6+420
  • how tall should a standing desk be#9 → #4+310
  • standing desk converter#7 → #12−260
See how scheduled tasks work

Save the content plan to Notion

Connect Notion too and Manus can add this month’s plan to a database, one page per article, with the target keyword, difficulty and due date filled in.

Content calendar8 pages added
  • How tall should a standing desk be? A height chartWritingWeek 19
  • 7 best standing desks for small spacesNot startedWeek 118
  • Standing desk vs sitting desk: what changes in a dayNot startedWeek 212
  • 10 exercises you can do at a standing deskNot startedWeek 34
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Connect the Ahrefs MCP server in Manus

There’s no Ahrefs MCP integration to set up by hand. Ahrefs is already in Manus Connectors: you approve access on Ahrefs’ own screen, and Ahrefs creates the API key for you.

  1. Open Connectors

    In Manus, open Connectors, find Ahrefs and select Connect.

  2. Approve access in Ahrefs

    Sign in to Ahrefs if asked and approve the consent screen. Ahrefs adds a dedicated API key for this connection to your account.

  3. Ask in a task

    Name a domain, keyword or project and say what you need. Each request uses API units from your Ahrefs plan.

What Manus can read in Ahrefs
  • Keywords ExplorerSearch volume, difficulty, intent and keyword ideas
  • Site ExplorerBacklinks, referring domains, organic keywords and competitors
  • Rank TrackerPositions and traffic for your tracked keywords
  • Site AuditHealth Score, issues and crawled pages
  • Limits and usageAPI units used and left this month

Requests use API units from your Ahrefs plan, the same as direct API use, and bigger reports use more. Ahrefs decides which plans include MCP access and how many units you get.

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Questions about the Ahrefs MCP connector

Does Manus use the official Ahrefs MCP server?

Yes. Manus connects to the MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that Ahrefs hosts at api.ahrefs.com/mcp/mcp, which reads your data through the Ahrefs API v3. It’s already in Manus Connectors, so there’s nothing to install or host.

How do I connect Ahrefs to Manus?

Open Connectors in Manus, find Ahrefs and select Connect. Sign in to Ahrefs if asked and approve the consent screen. This Ahrefs integration needs no setup on your side. Ahrefs’ own guide also shows how to add it as a custom MCP server with an MCP key, which you only need if you want to manage the key yourself.

Do I need an Ahrefs API key?

No. When you approve access, Ahrefs creates a dedicated API key for the connection, tagged with the MCP scope. It has a monthly API unit limit, and workspace admins can change or remove that limit in the API keys report in your Ahrefs account.

Is there an extra Ahrefs MCP cost?

Ahrefs MCP is available on paid Ahrefs plans. Each request uses API units from your plan’s monthly allowance, the same way direct Ahrefs API use does. Ahrefs sets which plans include it and their limits, and you can see what you’ve used under Limits and usage in your account settings.

Where do the numbers come from?

From your Ahrefs account. Search volume, keyword difficulty, backlinks, rankings and audit issues are Ahrefs’ own data, returned by its API. Manus doesn’t make up its own estimates; it sorts, compares and explains the numbers Ahrefs returns.

Can Manus send me an Ahrefs report every week?

Yes. Ask for the report once, then set it up as a scheduled task, for example every Monday at 9am. Manus pulls fresh rank tracking or backlink data from Ahrefs each time and sends you the result.

What are good Ahrefs MCP use cases?

Common Ahrefs MCP use cases in Manus are planning articles from keyword research, finding a content gap against competitors, checking new and lost backlinks, turning a Site Audit crawl into a fix list and sending a weekly rank tracking report. You can ask for the result as a table, a document or slides.

Is this the same as Ahrefs AI?

No. Ahrefs’ own AI writing tools and AI Content Helper are Ahrefs products that work inside Ahrefs. Here, Manus is the AI agent: it reads your Ahrefs data through the MCP server and turns it into plans, fix lists and reports. You can keep using Ahrefs’ own tools alongside it.

Do I need Claude or ChatGPT to use Ahrefs MCP?

No. Guides for an “Ahrefs MCP Claude” or “Ahrefs MCP ChatGPT” setup show how to add Ahrefs’ server to those apps. In Manus, Ahrefs is already in Connectors: approve access once, ask in a chat and the task runs in the cloud.

Is this the same server as the Ahrefs Claude integration?

Yes. The Ahrefs Claude connector and the Ahrefs ChatGPT integration link those apps to the same Ahrefs MCP server, and Manus links to it from its own Connectors. The data and the API units come from the same Ahrefs account.

Can I disconnect Ahrefs later?

Yes. Open Connectors in Manus, select Ahrefs and choose Disconnect. The API key for this connection is listed in the API keys report in your Ahrefs account, where workspace admins manage keys.

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