Backlink Analyzer

Analyzes backlink profiles for quality, risk, competitive gaps, and link-building opportunities.

Quick Start

Analyze backlink profile for [domain]

Find link building opportunities by analyzing [competitor domains]

Skill Contract

Expected output: a backlink report or delta summary plus the standard handoff summary for memory/monitoring/.

• Reads: current metrics, baselines, alert thresholds, and reporting context from CLAUDE.md and the shared State Model when available.
• Writes: a user-facing monitoring deliverable and reusable summary.
• Promotes: significant changes, confirmed anomalies, and follow-up actions to memory/open-loops.md and memory/decisions.md.
• Primary next skill: domain-authority-auditor when toxicity or authority concerns need formal scoring.

Handoff Summary

Emit the standard shape from skill-contract.md §Handoff Summary Format.

Data Sources

All integrations optional (see CONNECTORS.md). With tools, pull backlink profiles from ~~link database and competitor data from ~~SEO tool. Without tools, ask for backlink CSVs, referring domains, competitor domains, and link changes. Respect robots.txt and TOS per SECURITY.md.

Instructions

When a user requests backlink analysis:

1. Generate Profile Overview — key metrics, link velocity, authority distribution, and profile health score.
2. Analyze Link Quality — top backlinks, link type mix, anchor text distribution, and geography.
3. Identify Toxic Links — risk indicators, links to review, and disavow recommendations.
4. Compare Against Competitors — profile comparison, link intersection, and top linked competitor content.
5. Find Link Building Opportunities — intersection prospects, broken links, unlinked mentions, resource pages, guest posts, and effort-vs-impact priorities.
6. Track Link Changes — new and lost links, net change, and recovery priorities.
7. Generate Backlink Report — executive summary, strengths, concerns, opportunities, competitive position, recommended actions, and KPIs.

Reference: See references/analysis-templates.md for the compact output templates used in all seven steps.

CITE Item Mapping

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

Example

Sample outcome: a link-intersection table, top immediate opportunities, and an estimated impact model. Keep the full structure in references/analysis-templates.md.

Tips for Success

Prioritize quality, monitor regularly, diversify anchors and link types, and disavow cautiously.

Link Quality and Strategy Reference

Reference: See references/link-quality-rubric.md for the scoring matrix, toxic-link criteria, benchmarks, and disavow guidance.

Reference: See references/outreach-templates.md for outreach frameworks, subject lines, response benchmarks, follow-up sequences, and templates.

Save Results

Ask "Save these results?" If yes, write memory/monitoring/YYYY-MM-DD-\x3Ctopic>.md with headline finding, actions, and open loops. If toxic ratio exceeds 15%, recommend domain-authority-auditor.

Reference Materials

• Link Quality Rubric — Quality and toxicity rubric
• Outreach Templates — Outreach frameworks and examples

Next Best Skill

Toxic ratio > 15% → domain-authority-auditor. Otherwise → Terminal. Visited-set rule applies per skill-contract.md.