backlink-audit

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SKILL.md

Backlink audit

Audit a domain's backlink profile and produce an evidence-labeled action plan. Answer four questions:

  1. What does the current backlink profile actually contain?
  2. Which links or patterns deserve human review?
  3. Which competitor referring domains are plausible opportunities?
  4. Which linked target pages may need restoration, updating, or redirection?

Do not call a backlink toxic, harmful, or safe from one metric. Do not recommend disavowal from an automated pattern alone.

Rule provenance

  • Semrush-supported guidance: evaluate relevance, authority, placement, anchor context, referring-domain diversity, link attributes, historical patterns, and competitor overlap together. Manual review is required for risk decisions.
  • MCP contract requirement: the public MCP exposes Backlink Analytics reports. It does not expose Backlink Audit Toxicity Score, toxic markers, removal lists, or disavow workflows in the tested contract.
  • Industry heuristic: risk labels, opportunity tiers, and outreach priority are analyst judgments unless the user adopts explicit criteria.
  • User-configurable default: competitor count, row limits, date windows, and weighting must fit the site's market and purpose. No Authority Score or link-count cutoff is universally valid.

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