Manage Ahrefs Account Settings and API Usage: Admin Tools
Behind-the-scenes stuff. Not glamorous, but necessary.
The Admin MCP server bundle gives you 4 MCP tools for checking API usage, managing rank tracking locations, doing batch analysis, and accessing API documentation. It's the small stuff that keeps everything running smoothly.
What This Bundle Does
Account management answers the questions that matter. How much API usage do you have left? What are your API limits and quotas? How do you configure rank tracking locations? Can you analyze multiple URLs or domains at once? Where do you find API documentation?
This bundle answers all of it.
Checking Your API Usage
You need to monitor API usage to avoid hitting limits and optimize your API calls.
The MCP tools show your current API usage statistics. Current usage, remaining quota, limits—everything you need to know. Check this before running large batch operations to make sure you don't exceed limits.
Workflow: check API usage before running batch operations, see current usage, check remaining quota, plan batch operations to stay within limits, then monitor usage after operations.
Here's the thing—API limits are real. Hit them and you're stuck until your quota resets. Check usage first, especially before big operations.
Setting Up Rank Tracking Locations
Rank tracking requires configuring geographic locations. You need to manage these locations for accurate tracking.
The MCP tools list all configured rank tracking locations. Add or update locations for different countries and devices. This ensures rank tracking uses the correct geographic and device settings.
Set up rank tracking for multiple markets. See current locations, add locations for US, UK, Canada, configure device settings (desktop vs. mobile), then verify location setup.
Ask to see your locations and the AI lists them. Ask to add or update locations and it configures them correctly.
Doing Batch Analysis
Analyzing multiple URLs or domains individually is slow. Batch analysis lets you process many targets at once.
The MCP tools analyze multiple URLs or domains in one operation. Process many targets simultaneously and save API calls compared to individual requests.
When this matters: analyze 50 competitor pages, process all URLs in one operation, get results for all targets, save API calls versus individual requests.
This is more efficient than making individual API calls and helps you stay within usage limits. When you've got a lot of URLs to analyze, batch is the way to go.
Finding API Documentation
You need to understand tool parameters, schemas, and usage examples.
The MCP tools give you full API documentation for any tool. Input schemas, parameter descriptions, examples, best practices—everything you need to use Ahrefs tools correctly.
Workflow: need to use a new tool, get documentation, see input schema and parameters, understand required vs. optional fields, get usage examples.
This is essential when you're learning a new tool or trying to figure out why something isn't working. The docs tell you exactly what parameters you need and how to use them.
How AI Uses This Bundle
When you ask "Check my API usage," the AI loads the Admin bundle, gets current usage, shows usage statistics and remaining quota, then provides recommendations for optimization.
Ask "Analyze these 50 URLs" and it processes all URLs, checks usage first to ensure quota, processes efficiently in batches, then provides results for all URLs.
Need help with a tool? Ask "How do I use the keywords-explorer tool?" and the AI gets documentation, shows input schema and parameters, provides usage examples, then explains required vs. optional fields.
Getting Started
Enable the Admin MCP server bundle in your MCPBundles account. Connect your Ahrefs account (OAuth2, one-time setup). Check your API usage to understand limits, configure locations for rank tracking if needed, then start using batch operations to optimize API usage.
Best practices: monitor usage regularly, check usage before large operations, plan batch operations to stay within limits, optimize API calls to maximize quota. Process multiple targets efficiently, reduce individual API calls, process efficiently in batches. Set up locations for rank tracking, configure geographic and device settings, verify location setup before tracking. Get documentation to understand new tools, check input schemas before using tools, follow best practices from documentation.
Want more? Check out the Rank Tracking Bundle which uses rank tracking locations, or the Main Ahrefs Bundle for all Ahrefs MCP tools.
Enable the Admin MCP server bundle and start managing your account efficiently.