seo-backlink-audit
Audit a backlink profile using Ahrefs MCP data: profile health, anchor text distribution, toxic link identification, lost link reclamation, and gap analysis against competitors. Use this skill when reviewing backlink health, scoping a disavow project, recovering from a manual action, planning link building, or doing M&A due diligence on a property's link equity. Triggers on backlink audit, link profile, toxic links, disavow, anchor text analysis, lost links, link reclamation, referring domains, link gap. Also triggers when traffic decline correlates with link loss or when an unnatural link war
Profile →npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill seo-backlink-audit --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# SEO Backlink Audit Audit a backlink profile using data pulled from the Ahrefs MCP. Stack-agnostic. Produces a profile health assessment, a toxic link list (if needed), a reclamation list, and a gap analysis against competitors. --- ## When to use - Periodic backlink health check (quarterly or biannual) - Recovering from a Google manual action or unnatural link warning - Scoping a disavow file - Pre-acquisition due diligence on link equity - Planning a link building campaign (need a baseline) - Investigating ranking drops correlated with link loss - Recovering lost links after a migration or replatform ## When NOT to use - Building new links (use `seo-offpage`) - General SEO audits (use `seo-audit-orchestration`) - Keyword opportunity analysis (use `seo-keyword-gap-audit`) - Technical issues unrelated to links (use `seo-site-health-audit`) --- ## Required inputs - Target property (root domain, subdomain, or URL prefix) - Competitor set (3-5 properties with comparable strategies) - Time window (typically last 12-24 months) - Confirmation Ahrefs MCP is connected and has access to the property - Search Console manual action status (if any) - Recent SEO history (migrations, link campa
- When to use
- When NOT to use
- Required inputs
- The framework: 5 dimensions of a backlink profile
- Dimension 1: Referring domain quality
- Dimension 2: Link velocity
- Dimension 3: Anchor text distribution
- Dimension 4: Link types
- Dimension 5: Competitive gap
- Workflow
- Failure patterns
- Output format
- Reference files
What does the seo-backlink-audit skill do?
Audit a backlink profile using Ahrefs MCP data: profile health, anchor text distribution, toxic link identification, lost link reclamation, and gap analysis against competitors. Use this skill when reviewing backlink health, scoping a disavow project, recovering from a manual action, planning link building, or doing M&A due diligence on a property's link equity. Triggers on backlink audit, link profile, toxic links, disavow, anchor text analysis, lost links, link reclamation, referring domains, link gap. Also triggers when traffic decline correlates with link loss or when an unnatural link war
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill seo-backlink-audit --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From rampstackco/claude-skills, a repository with 515 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.