Professional, Bespoke Link Audits
Get a professional link audit that identifies everything from link quality and velocity through to strategic guidance, a review of current efforts, spend & more. We provide a full professional assessment of your previous/current link building efforts as well as strategic guidance and more.
Every audit is bespoke, these are NOT like "traditional SEO audits".
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Link Audit
Professional Link Analysis
Link Audit
£999.99
Our link-building audits take the pain out of "guessing" - understand how your link profile is likely to look to search engines like Google - understand whether your investment into links is worth it - are you getting good quality links? are you paying the right money or earning links in the right way? Is your link velocity / acquisition rate sufficient? Anchor text balancing sufficient? External to internal distribution OK? Get the FULL low down on your link profile as well as recommendations / guidance on your forward link building strategy.
Category: Audits
Suitable For / Audit Features:
Timeframe for Delivery:
1-2 Weeks Average
What Our Clients Say
Hear from businesses who have transformed their link building strategy with our audits
Sarah Mitchell
Marketing Director, TechFlow Solutions
“The link audit revealed we were wasting £2,000/month on low-quality links. The recommendations helped us redirect our budget to high-impact strategies that actually moved the needle.”
1 month ago
James Rodriguez
CEO, Urban Fitness Co.
“After months of declining rankings, the link audit identified toxic links from a previous agency. Within 3 months of following their disavow recommendations, our rankings recovered.”
2 months ago
Lisa Chen
Head of SEO, Digital Dynamics
“The audit showed us our anchor text distribution was completely off. Their strategic guidance helped us rebalance and we saw a 40% increase in organic traffic within 6 months.”
3 months ago
Michael Thompson
Founder, GreenSpace Landscaping
“We thought our link profile was strong until this audit. They found link networks we didn’t know we were part of and helped us clean up before a major penalty. Saved our business.”
4 months ago
Amanda Foster
SEO Manager, CloudTech Innovations
“The detailed velocity analysis showed our link acquisition was too aggressive. Their pacing recommendations helped us build sustainable growth without risking penalties.”
5 months ago
David Park
Marketing Lead, Horizon Retail
“Best investment we made this year. The audit revealed our competitors were building better quality links for half the price. We completely changed our approach and saw immediate results.”
6 months ago
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Expert Analysis. Better Link Strategy. Zero Guesswork.
What You Get With The Link Audit When Booked.
The link audit is a comprehensive review of your website's backlink profile designed to identify toxic links, assess link quality, and provide strategic guidance on building a stronger, more authoritative link profile.
The link audit includes:
+100
SEO Spot Checks
+500
SEO Audits Delivered
7-14
Day Delivery Time
up to 100
Pages Audited
+97%
Client Satisfaction
+30
Countries Served
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For Websites With Toxic Links
Identifying and dealing with harmful backlinks that could be suppressing your rankings or putting your site at risk of penalties.
For Businesses After Google Penalties
Link-related penalty recovery through comprehensive toxic link identification, disavow file creation, and profile cleanup guidance.
For Competitive Link Analysis
Understanding competitor link strategies, identifying gaps in your profile, and surfacing opportunities to outperform rivals.
For Link Building Strategy
Building quality backlink profiles with data-driven guidance on where to invest, what types of links to pursue, and how to earn them.
How It Works
A simple 4-step process to get your comprehensive link audit.
If you have any questions about the booking process please contact us.
How It Works
Our straightforward process from order to delivery.
Purchase the audit, during checkout you will be given the opportunity to tell us if you want any specific issues covering.
Provide access to Google Search Console (if possible), we’ll confirm your booking over e-mail & if we have questions we’ll let you know.
Our expert team conducts a thorough manual analysis of your website’s link profile, backlink quality & any notes you provided.
We’ll deliver your link audit over e-mail along with any accompanying documents. We offer post audit consults and support.
What Makes Our Process Different?
Unlike automated SEO tools, every audit is manually crafted by experienced SEO professionals with 21+ years of expertise.
Post-Audit Support
We offer comprehensive SEO consultancy to help you understand and discuss the issues identified in your audit.
- One-on-one consultancy sessions
- Issue clarification & prioritization
- Implementation guidance
Implementation Services
Don't just get recommendations - let us implement them and drive real ranking, traffic and revenue growth.
- Technical SEO fixes
- Content optimization & creation
- Link building & indexing solutions
How Long Will It Take & After Support?
Once your link audit is complete and delivered we can provide SEO support. We offer an implementation service to fix identified SEO issues for you.
How Long Does It Take?
SEO audit delivery timelines vary depending on when you book, typical delivery timeframes are 7-14 days.
We will e-mail you over a PDF/google slide of the audit when complete.
Yes we can implement the fixes on all CMS types from wordpress to wix, shopify to squarespace.
Yes we can, as part of the link audit we’ll include competitor link profile analysis and benchmarking.
You can checkout and buy through the website, alternatively if you would like to pay by invoice please contact us.
The Value You Don't Know You Have
Your link profile has hidden value. And you're missing it.
Whether you are spending £1000 a month on link building or £10,000 - it's always good to understand whether the investment is working and whether the work being done is enough. Your competitors may already know. You do not.
You’ll save money
Clear direction without wasting budget. Know exactly where to invest for maximum ROI. Stop paying for link building that isn’t delivering results.
You’ll save time
Focus on what actually matters. No more guessing which link building tasks to prioritise. Get a clear roadmap of actions ranked by impact.
You’ll get a clear view of strategy
Understand which link building efforts drive results and which don’t. See the full picture of your backlink profile across quality, relevance and authority.
You’ll know whether to change strategy
Professional insights from 21+ years experience. Your link building approach might need a completely different direction. We’ll tell you honestly.
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Say Goodbye to Poor Quality SEO Audits
Here at SEO-Audits.io, we wanted to redefine what an SEO audit really is.
Now it's your time to see just how a proper audit can help you save time and money.
GET YOUR SEO AUDITWho is this Audit for?
This SEO audit is suitable for:
“A very thorough link building audit that gave us true insights into what we were paying for.”
We had used SEO agencies in the past for link building - but the amount being spent vs the volume being delivered was questionable.
The link building audit highlighted that most of our links were low-quality niche edits - many of which came from poor quality websites with spun content or artificially inflated domain ratings.
The audit was VERY thorough and has helped us to reposition our link building efforts entirely. I would highly recommend to any business/website owners who want a much better view of what they are paying for when it comes to SEO / link building.
Kemley Sellars
Hometree - www.hometree.co.uk
Why a Backlink Audit Is Essential for SEO Performance
Backlinks remain one of the most influential ranking signals in search engine algorithms. They function as external endorsements of your content, telling search engines that other websites consider your pages valuable enough to reference. But not all backlinks are created equal, and in many cases, the wrong links can do more harm than good.
A backlink audit is the process of systematically reviewing every link pointing to your website to assess its quality, relevance, and impact on your search performance. It is the only reliable way to understand whether your link profile is helping you rank or quietly holding you back.
Many businesses invest heavily in link building, digital PR, or SEO services without ever scrutinising what they are actually getting in return.
The Risk of Ignoring Your Links
Sites with links from PBNs, link farms, or irrelevant directories often cannot rank for competitive terms – even when on-page SEO and content are strong.
The Opportunity
A properly conducted audit surfaces gaps in competitor strategies, high-authority sites you should earn links from, and content assets naturally attracting links.
Budget Transparency
Without analysing where links come from, whether linking pages carry real traffic, and whether content context is relevant, you have no way of knowing if your investment is delivering value.
How We Conduct Your Backlink Audit
A rigorous 6-step process built on multiple data sources and expert analysis
Data Collection & Cross-Referencing
We pull backlink data from Ahrefs, Semrush, Google Search Console, and Majestic – then cross-reference and deduplicate for the most comprehensive view.
Link Quality Scoring
Every referring domain assessed using traffic-based metrics. We check real organic traffic, topical relevance, and whether the domain shows signs of being a PBN or spam site.
Anchor Text & Link Type Analysis
We map your entire anchor text distribution and categorise links by type – editorial, guest post, directory, sidebar, footer – because placement directly influences equity.
Competitor Gap Analysis
Compare link profiles across total referring domains, quality distribution, anchor strategies, content types, and link velocity to show where you’re winning and falling behind.
Risk & Opportunity Assessment
Flag toxic links for disavow, identify deindexed pages, surface broken backlinks for reclamation, and highlight your strongest links to double down on.
Report & Recommendations
Detailed written report with prioritised actions – what to fix, what to disavow, where to invest, and how your profile should evolve over 6–12 months. Includes a walkthrough call.
Every Dimension of Your Link Profile, Scrutinised
Click each category to explore what we analyse in detail
Backlinks in the Age of AI Search
The role of backlinks is evolving. In traditional Google search, backlinks have functioned as the primary off-page ranking signal for over two decades. That has not changed.
But AI search engines – Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini – are surfacing content in ways that do not follow the same rules. Research shows that when ChatGPT includes webpage citations, approximately 90% of those pages rank below position 20 in traditional Google results.
Links from sites that function as citation-worthy sources carry disproportionate weight in AI search. Links from low-quality directories and PBNs provide zero signal to AI models.
What This Means for Your Audit
Our audits include an AI search readiness assessment. We evaluate whether your backlinks come from sources that AI models treat as authoritative – sites with real editorial standards, genuine traffic, topical relevance, and content depth.
Research suggests earned media signals can increase AI citations by up to 325%
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Third-Party Metrics (DA/DR/TF)
- × Proprietary – not used by Google
- × Easily manipulated by PBN operators
- × DR 60 site could have zero real traffic
- × Each tool calculates differently
Traffic-Based Assessment (Our Approach)
- Real organic visitors = genuine authority
- Harder to fake than any score
- DR 25 with 50K visitors > DR 70 with 200
- Traffic trends reveal penalised domains
Why DA and DR Are Not Reliable Quality Metrics
Domain Authority (DA) by Moz and Domain Rating (DR) by Ahrefs are widely used but they are not Google metrics. Google does not use DA, DR, or TF in its ranking algorithm.
It is trivially easy to inflate a domain's DR by building links from high-DR sites – which is exactly what PBN operators do. A site with a DR of 60 could have zero organic traffic and exist purely to sell links.
We prioritise traffic-based assessment. If a referring domain has real, sustained organic traffic, it is a far stronger signal of genuine authority than any third-party score. We map the traffic distribution across your entire backlink profile.
Editorial Coverage
Links from industry publications, news outlets, and authoritative blogs come with editorial endorsement.
Content-Led Earning
We identify content assets naturally attracting links and the types of stories and data that resonate in your industry.
Competitor PR Analysis
Which publications link to competitors? What content formats attract coverage? Are they producing original research?
Algorithm Resistant
Earned links are hardest to replicate, most resistant to algorithm changes, and most likely to influence AI search.
Digital PR, Link Earning & Why Outreach Still Matters
The most durable backlink strategies are built on earning links through genuine value– not buying placements or manipulating link schemes.
Links earned through digital PR come with editorial endorsement. They are placed in context, surrounded by relevant content, and read by real audiences. These links carry weight that no directory submission, guest post exchange, or paid link can match.
Our audits assess how much of your existing link profile comes from earned media versus manufactured links, and directly inform a practical strategy based on what is already working.
Are Your Money Pages Getting Links?
Many businesses find the vast majority of their backlinks point to their homepage or blog posts, while revenue-driving pages have almost no external links.
If your key commercial pages are not receiving links directly, they rely entirely on internal link equity – which is rarely sufficient for competitive terms.
We also assess deep link ratios compared to competitors. If they have strong profiles pointing at service pages while yours are concentrated on blog content, that gap needs addressing.
Typical Link Distribution Problem
Revenue pages only receiving 8% of link equity – a common problem we fix
Competitor Comparison
Referring Domains
You: 320
Competitor: 890
High-Quality Links
You: 45
Competitor: 210
Digital PR Links
You: 12
Competitor: 67
Deep Page Links
You: 28
Competitor: 145
Example data for illustration purposes
Understanding What Your Competitors Are Doing
You cannot build an effective link strategy without understanding the competitive landscape. What it takes to rank depends entirely on what the current top-ranking sites have built.
Our audit includes a detailed competitor analysis covering up to five organic competitors– comparing referring domains, quality distribution, anchor strategies, content types, digital PR coverage, and link velocity.
This provides realistic benchmarking and surfaces specific opportunities: publications linking to competitors but not you, content formats earning links in your niche, and strategic gaps you can exploit.
Real Results. Real Businesses.
See how our SEO audits have helped businesses achieve measurable, lasting growth.
85% Traffic Recovery in < 6 Months
We performed a ranking & traffic recovery audit, we addressed an algorithmic loss, helped the client to identify + fix all site issues, the website has gone on to make a full recovery.
220% Traffic Growth in 12 Months
We performed an audit & SEO strategy for future audiophile, we helped to identify issues with the site, content & E-E-A-T. We performed a full audit and helped the client with post audit execution leading to significant click gains.
500% Traffic Growth in 12 Months
We worked with the modern dentist to perform an initial audit, SEO strategy and subsequently ongoing SEO support. The client is seeing steady click growth for commercial queries.
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Link Audit — £999.99