Complete Link Audit

Why settle for less? LRT lets you do complete audit.

Don’t miss out on all the benefits that come with a significant organic traffic increase after a complete audit.

• Analyze your complete backlink profile
• Keep your link profile free from toxic links
• Increase your organic traffic with clean links

You need to perform a completelink audit as a basis for using the link simulator. LRT recommends at least one complete crawl per year.

LRT has no competitors when it comes to link data quality

When doing a link audit, you want to make sure that you don’t miss a single toxic link.

The truth is that the complete picture of your backlink profile is hard to find. Every link database shows you only a piece of the world’s link graph. Even Google.

You can maximize your chance of improving your Google rankings by combining them. Can you afford to miss out on this opportunity?

Since we added the 25th link source to LinkResearchTools in 2017, many people ask where are all these links coming from. If you don’t see these links in other tools, it does not mean that they don’t exist.

LRT shows you the full picture of your backlink profile, and when you do a backlink audit, the full picture is everything that counts.

We don’t only look at the fresh link index; we also look at the old links and the deleted links.

Are you wondering if the deleted links matter? Yes, of course, they do. Deleted links have their value and interpretation, and they are meaningful for a backlink audit.

Learn more about the fresh and historical link index from the Podcast interview we had with Dixon Jones from Majestic.

Just think about this: when you visit the dentist, do you ask for a full check up or do you ask the dentist to check only a specific tooth that you think causes the pain?

What if you don’t know what the problem is? Doesn't if feel better to get everything checked?

Or does it make sense to take your car to a mechanic for a general check and then tell him that it’s ok if he only checks one tire? That’s quite risky, don’t you think?

You get it, don’t you?

The same goes for Link Audits.

If you don’t audit your full backlink profile, you take a risk.

When it comes to link audits, you cannot look at a sample of links and assume the rest will have a similar risk.

You cannot analyze a small sample of your links and then assume that the remainder will follow the same trend.

If you did this, the sample could give you a false sense of security because you only see the fraction that you cleaned up.

LRT does not recommend partial link audits.

It is all or nothing.

Remember, Google takes all your backlinks into account

If you still have a lot of old, spammy links in your backlink profile, your website will never rank well.

Take the time to look at your full backlink profile. You don’t want to miss out on all the benefits that come with a significant increase in organic traffic, do you?

You’ll have more leads, and you’ll have more sales. It’s up to you and your commitment to doing your backlink audit the right way.

If you want to keep your website out of trouble, you need to disavow links proactively. That means doing link audits on an ongoing basis.

Now that Google Penguin 4.0 is part of Google’s algorithm, we recommend that you do a link audit every week if you want to stay out of trouble.

If you’re wondering why you have to do a link audit in the first place, then you might want to ask yourself the following questions:

• Did you ever pay someone to build links for you?
• Did you hire a poorly qualified worker to take care of your website’s SEO?
• Did you buy some links without checking them?
• Do you know anything about negative SEO? Someone can send toxic links to your site anytime, and your rankings will drop.

That means that you will lose business.

Even 100% of your traffic.

IMPORTANT THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:

• Continuously monitoring the risk of your backlink profile is no longer optional.
• Dealing with the fallout of a manual or algorithmic penalty is a lot more difficult and time-consuming than doing weekly link audits and constant link monitoring.
• You can choose to adapt, or you can stand by and watch your organic traffic disappear.
• You can’t afford to be blind to the risks.

Cheap and partial audit work will end up costing you more than you saved.

It’s not about saving maybe hundreds of EUR in software fees or thousands in service fees.

It’s about recovering and protecting your business from Google penalties.

Falling for cheap offers is the same trap as you fell for with the cheap link offers.

Note: screenshots and comparisons were created at the time of writing and may change over time.

When you pay for backlink audits, you pay to increase your organic traffic significantly. You invest money to make money. Business doesn’t work otherwise.

Christoph C. Cemper – founder of LinkResearchTools (LRT)