What Do I Get with a Backlink Analysis?
After you order a backlink analysis, all you need to do is provide the domain you want analyzed and your most valuable keywords. We take it from there, and after five business days, you’ll receive your report ready to download in your account dashboard.
Within the report, we’ll provide a list of all the site’s referring domains and their relevant metrics, such as DA and trust flow. You’ll get a similar breakdown for your top keywords’ competitors. From there, the real analysis begins.
You’ll find out which backlinks are helping you, hurting you, and how. The analysis will include detailed recommendations for your future linkbuilding plans, such as suggestions for anchor text types and formulations to focus on and what pages to direct those links to. We’ll let you know what metrics to focus on building up, as well as how to improve each.
The backlink analysis will also include detailed information on what links are holding your site back, why they’re a problem, and whether they can be improved. Otherwise, these will be the backlinks you’ll want to get removed if possible, or at least disavowed.
Backlink Analysis FAQ
+ How long is the backlink analysis?
This entirely depends on how many referring domains your site has and the quality of those links. In a nutshell, the backlink analysis is as long as it needs to be. We’ll look at each referring domain and provide you with detailed information and recommendations based on what’s there.
+ If I follow all the recommendations in the analysis, am I guaranteed positive results in my rankings?
As with all things SEO, nothing can be guaranteed; there are just too many individual ranking factors and the backlink analysis will only evaluate the factors pertaining to backlinks. However, all of the recommendations included in the analysis will be rock-solid information personally provided by one of our SEO experts.
+ What if the backlink analysis doesn’t discover anything actionable?
This is incredibly unlikely. Even with a strong backlink profile, there is nearly always room for improvement. This becomes especially evident once you compare your site to the competition and find out what’s working for them.
+ If the analysis discovers a bunch of backlinks hurting my site, how do I get them removed?
This can be one of the hardest parts of improving your backlink profile. If the negative backlinks aren’t under your control, then you will likely need to reach out to the website owner and ask to have the links removed. If that doesn’t work, your best remaining option is Google’s somewhat controversial disavowal tool.
+ If my competitors have hundreds of referring domains and I’m starting at zero, does that mean I can’t outrank them until I catch up?
Not necessarily. While number of referring domains is a potent ranking factor, it isn’t the only ranking factor. Depending on what your competition is doing you might be able to rapidly close the gap by focusing on different factors, such as precisely crafted anchor text or high DA. Our analysis will make clear where you need to close the gaps to make the quickest gains.
