--- name: backlink-analyzer version: "4.0.0" description: 'Analyze backlink profiles to assess link authority, identify toxic links, discover link building opportunities, and monitor competitors. Use when the user asks to "analyze backlinks", "check link profile", "find toxic links", "link building opportunities", "who links to me", "how do I get more backlinks", "disavow links", or "off-page SEO". For internal link analysis, see internal-linking-optimizer. For competitor link profiles, see competitor-analysis.' license: Apache-2.0 compatibility: "Claude Code ≥1.0, skills.sh marketplace, ClawHub marketplace, Vercel Labs skills ecosystem. No system packages required. Optional: MCP network access for SEO tool integrations." homepage: "https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/seo-geo-claude-skills" metadata: author: aaron-he-zhu version: "4.0.0" geo-relevance: "low" tags: - seo - backlinks - link building - link profile - toxic links - off-page seo - link authority - domain authority - link acquisition - link-building - backlink-profile - toxic-links - link-audit - referring-domains - domain-rating - link-outreach - disavow - dr-score - link-quality - lost-backlinks triggers: - "analyze backlinks" - "check link profile" - "find toxic links" - "link building opportunities" - "off-page SEO" - "backlink audit" - "link quality" - "who links to me" - "I have spammy links" - "how do I get more backlinks" - "disavow links" ---

Backlink Analyzer

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Cross-cutting · content-quality-auditor · domain-authority-auditor · entity-optimizer · memory-management

Analyzes, monitors, and optimizes backlink profiles. Identifies link quality, discovers opportunities, and tracks competitor link building activities.

When to Use This Skill

• Auditing your current backlink profile
• Identifying toxic or harmful links
• Discovering link building opportunities
• Analyzing competitor backlink strategies
• Monitoring new and lost links
• Evaluating link quality for outreach
• Preparing for link disavow

What This Skill Does

1. Profile Analysis: Comprehensive backlink profile overview
2. Quality Assessment: Evaluates link authority and relevance
3. Toxic Link Detection: Identifies harmful links
4. Competitor Analysis: Compares link profiles across competitors
5. Opportunity Discovery: Finds link building prospects
6. Trend Monitoring: Tracks link acquisition over time
7. Disavow Guidance: Helps create disavow files

How to Use

Analyze Your Profile

Analyze backlink profile for [domain]

Find Opportunities

Find link building opportunities by analyzing [competitor domains]

Detect Issues

Check for toxic backlinks on [domain]

Compare Profiles

Compare backlink profiles: [your domain] vs [competitor domains]

Data Sources

> Note: All integrations are optional. This skill works without any API keys — users provide data manually when no tools are connected.

> See CONNECTORS.md for tool category placeholders.

With ~~link database + ~~SEO tool connected: Automatically pull comprehensive backlink profiles including referring domains, anchor text distribution, link quality metrics (DA/DR), link velocity, and toxic link detection from ~~link database. Competitor backlink data from ~~SEO tool for gap analysis.

With manual data only: Ask the user to provide:

1. Backlink export CSV (with source domains, anchor text, link type)
2. Referring domains list with authority metrics
3. Competitor domains for comparison
4. Recent link gains/losses if tracking changes
5. Any known toxic or spammy links

Proceed with the full analysis using provided data. Note in the output which metrics are from automated collection vs. user-provided data.

Instructions

When a user requests backlink analysis:

1. Generate Profile Overview -- Key metrics (total backlinks, referring domains, DA/DR, dofollow ratio), link velocity (30d/90d/year), authority distribution chart, profile health score.

1. Analyze Link Quality -- Top quality backlinks table, link type distribution, anchor text analysis (brand/exact/partial/URL/generic), geographic distribution.

1. Identify Toxic Links -- Toxic score, risk indicators by type (spam, PBN, link farms, irrelevant), high-risk links to review, disavow recommendations (domain-level and URL-level).

1. Compare Against Competitors -- Profile comparison table (referring domains, DA/DR, velocity, avg link DA), unique referring domains, link intersection analysis, competitor content attracting most links.

1. Find Link Building Opportunities -- Link intersection prospects, broken link opportunities, unlinked mentions, resource page opportunities, guest post prospects, priority matrix (effort vs impact).

1. Track Link Changes -- New and lost links for last 30 days with DA, type, anchor, dates. Net change and links to recover.

1. Generate Backlink Report -- Executive summary, strengths, concerns, opportunities, competitive position, recommended actions (immediate/short-term/long-term), KPIs to track.

> Reference: See references/analysis-templates.md for complete output templates for all 7 steps above.

CITE Item Mapping

When running domain-authority-auditor after this analysis, the following data feeds directly into CITE scoring:

| Backlink Metric | CITE Item | Dimension | |----------------|-----------|-----------| | Referring domains count | C01 (Referring Domain Volume) | Citation | | Authority distribution (DA breakdown) | C02 (Referring Domains Quality) | Citation | | Link velocity | C04 (Link Velocity) | Citation | | Geographic distribution | C10 (Link Source Diversity) | Citation | | Dofollow/Nofollow ratio | T02 (Dofollow Ratio Normality) | Trust | | Toxic link analysis | T01 (Link Profile Naturalness), T03 (Link-Traffic Coherence) | Trust | | Competitive link intersection | T05 (Profile Uniqueness) | Trust |

Validation Checkpoints

Input Validation

• [ ] Target domain backlink data is complete and current
• [ ] Competitor domains specified for comparison analysis
• [ ] Backlink data includes necessary fields (source domain, anchor text, link type)
• [ ] Authority metrics available (DA/DR or equivalent)

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