See the historical referring domain trend around competitors
Make backlink growth or decline easier to review by bringing historical referring domain data into a recurring competitor check.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Retrieve site explorer referring domains history
Retrieves historical data on domains linking to a website.
Why this helps
Competitor backlink changes are easy to miss when researchers only revisit the data during one-off diligence.
- Retrieve historical referring domain data for selected competitors.
- Add a long-term link profile view to regular research.
- Summarize trends without manually opening each chart.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Affinity and Ahrefs once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and give it a clear name.
- 3Tell Notis to retrieve Ahrefs referring domain history for the selected competitor domains in Affinity and summarize the available data over time.
- 4Choose a recurring schedule trigger and select where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real competitor domain and check the history summary.
Questions about this workflow
Can the workflow claim that a competitor gained domains since the previous run?
Only if you supply or store a prior baseline. The action retrieves historical referring domain data, which can support summaries of the returned time range.
Does Affinity provide a competitor list trigger?
No Affinity event trigger is listed. A Notis schedule starts the workflow, using the selected domains described in its instruction.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Affinity to Ahrefs. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Affinity triggers
Ahrefs actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
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