What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you understand a website’s backlink profile by identifying referring domains, anchor-text patterns, competitor link gaps, and potential toxic-link risks so you can improve rankings and reduce manual penalty exposure.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Backlink profile analysis: Computes referring-domain coverage, follow ratio, and domain/rank signals from available sources (DataForSEO, Moz, Bing Webmaster, Common Crawl) and verifies link status when possible.
- Anchor distribution & over-optimization detection: Breaks down branded, naked, generic, and exact/partial-match anchors to flag Penguin-like over-optimization risks.
- Toxic link detection & disavow guidance: Flags high- and medium-risk backlink patterns (e.g., PBN signals, directory/link-farm patterns, paid-link patterns) and supports verification checks.
- Competitor gap analysis: Identifies domains that link to competitors but not the target, plus the most valuable link-building opportunities.
- New/lost backlink reporting (extension-dependent): Produces link velocity insights when DataForSEO is available.
Quick Start
Ask the AI to run a full backlink audit for example.com by using: /seo backlinks example.com