Backlink / off-page SEO audit. Works WITHOUT a paid tool by default — it uses the Google Search Console Links report (your top linking sites, most-linked pages, and anchor text) plus any backlink export the user provides (Ahrefs / Semrush / Majestic / DataForSEO CSV). Analyzes referring-domain profile, anchor-text distribution (over-optimized / spammy patterns), most-linked pages vs. money pages (internal-linking opportunity), toxic/spam link signals, and link-building priorities. Use this skill when the user asks about backlinks, link building, off-page SEO, referring domains, anchor text, to
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Use backlink-audit to assess [site URL] from the GSC Links report or [backlink export CSV] and return a prioritized link-building and cleanup plan, clearly limiting conclusions to the available data and reserving disavow advice for genuine manual-action or negative-SEO situations.
Required inputs
[site URL]
[backlink export CSV]
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SKILL.md
name: backlink-auditargument-hint: "<site URL — optionally attach a backlink export CSV from GSC/Ahrefs/Semrush>"description: > Backlink / off-page SEO audit. Works WITHOUT a paid tool by default — it uses the Google Search Console Links report (your top linking sites, most-linked pages, and anchor text) plus any backlink export the user provides (Ahrefs / Semrush / Majestic / DataForSEO CSV). Analyzes referring-domain profile, anchor-text distribution (over-optimized / spammy patterns), most-linked pages vs. money pages (internal-linking opportunity), toxic/spam link signals, and link-building priorities. Use this skill when the user asks about backlinks, link building, off-page SEO, referring domains, anchor text, toxic/spam links, disavow, or their link profile. Trigger on: "backlinks", "backlink audit", "link building", "off- page SEO", "referring domains", "anchor text", "toxic links", "spam links", "disavow file", "who links to me", "link profile", "domain authority". NOTE: rich third-party metrics (DR/DA, full link index) require a paid data source; this skill is explicit about what it can and can't see without one.
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Read ../../seo/backlink-audit/WORKFLOW.md completely, then follow it as the active workflow. Resolve every relative reference from that file against ../../seo/backlink-audit/.